EDWARD CRESSY , Great Canals of the World-(4) The Suez Canal'

LISZT was a great lover of the music of the gypsies of Hungary, and made a number of their tunes into Rhapsodies-a term he used, so he said, because he felt that it best expressed the epic element in the gypsies' performances. In his book, The Gypsies and their Music in Hungary, he gives a stirring account of such performances. Most of his twenty Rhapsodies were composed on his return in 1839 from a tour abroad, on which occasion a sword of honour was presented to him by Hungarian nobles. The pieces were composed as Piano solos, and Liszt later arranged some for Piano duet, and orchestrated a few. They are full of quick changes of mood, and of florid decoration (which reminds us of the gypsies' Oriental origin). In the main they ' follow this plan-first a slow section, corresponding to the native Lassan, and then one or more lively, excitable ones, like the Friskas of the gypsies.
The Eighth Rhapsody has a good deal of free declamatory matter to start with, then a slow portion, with many ornaments and pauses, that has the indication ' in a melancholy manner.' A quicker, graceful section leads to the Finale, Aery fast and flamboyantly gay.

Mrs. Dora Newton, ' Cranford —Then and Now '

A Little Group of Dr. Arne's Songs.

Song of the Mountain Shepherd (Schumann).

The Little Screech Owl.

The Angel Artist - A Flemish Logend

from the Hotel Majestic, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea.
Musical Director, Gerald W. Bright

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FRANK MERRICK (Pianoforte) and CARL FUCHS
('Cello)
Sonata in F, Op. 99
In four movements : with vivacity ; slow and expressive ; quick and impassioned; very quick

Spinning Ropos and Yarns