'Sunday's Symphony' Concert yeetum Theatre was exceptionally well played under the baton of Prot. Foa, The programme was opened. by the Rimsky-Korsakow Overture ba Grand music is. frankly treatment but the themes are much more than that the feeling of traditional ints and supplications running fat back into antiquity.. The solos were beautifully phrased and shaded, The symphony was the Tschaikowsky "Fifth" which Mr. Foa conducted without score. The tone quality was tne fullest and richest heard for some time, and the balance between melodic and accompanying figures was pactlcularly well controlled and sustained, 'The second part of the programme wag entirely operatic. Lillian Fait child Jesse, the American Coloratura Soprano, sang two arias—"Recitative and Polonaise" from "Mignon" by Thomas, and. "Gilda's Aria" from "Rigoletto" by Verdi. Miss Josso's singing is clean and accurate but the voice is small and the style Is more suited to chamber music than opera arias, There is a great deal of sweetness in her singing which was particularly evident in the first aria and "Villenelie" by Del Aqua whicti she used as an encore, Between the arias the orchestra played the Prelude to the Third Act of, "La Traviata" by Verdi and the "Menuet de Cendrillion" by" Mas sener. The first was very well pli ed and the second not so clean as the rest of the programme had beet They closed with the "Don Jum Overture by Mozart which was excellent ly done ea,
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