This will be the first occasion on which choral excerpts from either Parry's "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day" or Beethoven's "Ruins of Athens" will be rendered in Shanghai.
Sir Hubert Parry was born in Bournemouth in 1848 and away in 1918. Amongst the lovers of his own motion his music has been very highly regarded and appreciated. In Pope's dignified ode, Sir Hubert Parry has found a congenial theme for the employment of broad polyphonic effects, the possibilities of which have seldom been shown to such advantage. The choral writing is in the highest degree inspiring in the smooth yet independent movement of its parts.
Beethoven's "Ruins of Athens" was first written for the opening of a theatre in Pesth in 1812. The music in its present form has been arranged as a cantata and consists chiefly of choruses marked by the vigour and directness typical of the composer's vocal writing.
This afternoon's programme closes with an excerpt (for orchestra and chorus) from Mascagnis "Hymn to the "Sun", being in the prelude of his opera "Iris."
The programme is as follows:—
Public Asked to Support Effort to Raise Funds The first annual Christmas sale of anti-tuberculosis stamps, sponsored by the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association, is about to begin shortly, according to information obtained at the Associations headquarters. The Association supports a group of 109 tubercular patients now housed in 37B Brenan Road. Owing to the great need of hospital treatment for tubercular patients in Shanghai, efforts have been made to make the care of these tubercular patients permanent feature. The National Anti-tuberculosis Association felt it was too hard hit by the war to undertake this work. So, in sympathy ith this national organization, a local Shanghai Anti-tuberculosis Association has been recently organized With the hope of becoming a local chapter of the national organization. The new organization, under the leadership of Dr. Sao-Ko Alfred Sze, former Ambassador to Washington and London, is dependent upon membership fees, grants and donations to carry out its activities. Among other things, it has decided on an annual sale of anti-tuberculosis Christmas stam) as a source of revenue.
Christmas anti-tuberculosis stamp sales are common in other lands and the proceeds are everywhere used to combat the spread of tuberculosis. A large number of public-spirited men and women of the world are behind this movement which has now practically embraced the world in its influence. A similar group of men in Shanghai have volunteered their services to tackle the problem of tuberculosis control in the form of both prevention and treatment, The Tuberculosis Hospital of this Association at 37B Brenan Road is the first link of the chain of health activities this Association is undertaking in connection with the fight against the white plague which claims each year, it is said, no less than 16,000 persons in China.
By the annual sale of the antituberculosis stamps the Association hopes to meet part of its expenses for the support of the 100 refugee patients it now has on its hands, and the number will be increased as rapidly as the funds come in. In undertaking the care of these tubercular patients the Association is carrying on an extensive preventive work by taking these patients from the healthy refugees in the camps and homes, isolating them and caring for them. Not a few of them heve in the past ten months been allowed to return home symptom free, It is hoped that the public will buy the anti-tuberculosis Christmas stamps gladly, and by their use, aid the cause of prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in Shangha Gala Performance for
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