by Sir C.Hubert H. PARRY
(1848-1918)
JOHN ARMSTRONG (Tenor) KEITH FALKNER (Baritone) THE WIRELESS SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
(Conducted by STANFORD
ROBINSON)
ONE of the things which has kept a good deal of the late
Sir Hubert Parry 's music from winning the place in our affections to which it is richly entitled, was the self-denying rule which he laid down during his regime at the Royal College that no work of his own was to be performed there. In that way he missed opportunities of winning adherents such as few composers would have been modest enough to pass by, and to this day his music is comparatively little known to the concert-goer, though when chances are offered of hearing it, it makes its effect very surely, though almost always by the simplest means. It inclines, more than most modern music, to a rather strict shapeliness in design, but is, none the less, rich in beauty of an eminently sand and wholesome order. It has breadth and bigness, too, as well as a sturdy sense of humour ; if its qualities had to be summed up in one word, ' English.'jwould probably be the most satisfactory description.
CHORUS and ORCHESTRA
Blest pair of Sirens (At a solemn music) Ode by Milton
ORCHESTRA
Symphonic Variations
KEITH FALKNER
Songs (with Pianoforte accompaniment)
JOHN ARMSTRONG , KEITH FALKNER , Chorus and Orchestra
The Pied Piper of Hamelin ..(Robert Browning )