Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-31
10 not any more at variance with Legitimate
organ standards than is the style in which
they have been played.

| 10 not any more at variance with legitimate
| organ standards than is the style in which
they have been played
Other Parts Of the Programme.
tits obviously impossible to go into de-
tail as to the other parts of these pro
The meat OF the question is the portion de-
tailed fully above. No matter how the bal.
ance OF the programmes was made up, II
| that was all the actual organ music and such
| Its quality and such the style Of its perform
| ance, those entertainments are not properly
Out of the 376 numbers 145, about two
| hfths, were given by variety of assisting
| performers. Many of these were desirable
and appropriate. But this cannot be said Of
the "A recitations, comic and otherwise, OF
| the "chalk talks" the mandolin clubs, the
'Jubilee singers" and the brass band. And
two parts OF assistance to three parts Of
organ playing is not. at any rate, good
formula for an "organ recital"
The 23l programme numbers played by
by the organist are open to further crit.
tcisin as containing at all such unmitigated
rubbish as the owls PATROL" "Darkies'
Dream" etc, and pieces go unsuited to the
organ as the adaptations of Liszt's Second
Rhapsodie, Gillet's "Loin du Ball." Weber's
'Invitation to the Dance" etc. They include
deal OF sentimental stuff like Jungmann's
"Heimweh" and BIessner's "Swiss
pieces written for brass band and good for
nothing else.
There are a good many standard pianoforte
and operate 3t selections which If properly
in reasonable number. But q very
s were by ss these e. writer's; Jungmann Bless
Pncher. Nesvadba, Isenmann, Moor, Koze-
luck, Boehm. Behr, Magdeburg. Bonheur,
Brandt. Beaumont. Gungl, Fahrbach, ]. Gro,
Michaelis. Gilmore, Schmelz, Gobbaerts and
Bella.
That list of composers would of itself be
enough to settle the character OF the pre-
sumed "organ recitals'' for which that fine
used.
What Was Played Yesterday.
prog ramme considerably above the
average of the 81 above described was pre-
sented at yesterdays recital by Miss Agnes
NJ. Liddell. organist or the Park Avenue
Presbyterian Church, assisted by Miss Tillie
Mcintosh. soprano; Mr.. Joseph G. Breil;
tenor, and Mr.. Louis Doeblin, violiuist. 1t
reads thus:
Organ overture.Maritans. s................;;. Wallace
sorgsnSSASdagio from op. si......... Beethoven
variations on Scotch melody DuO0''
y,,,,. Dudley Buck Buck
''0nS MT ro Louis Boebiin, accompanied by Mr..
Ed Harris.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. .6lr St. bennett
Song-''When the Heart Is Young" .......D. Buck
Miss Mcintosh.
Organ-March h............................ .Wely
The matter of these free organ recitals Is
of nature and Importance that outweighs
the more general subjects open to comment
this week.
In local circles there is very little to speak
about. Miss Margaret Newell has returned
from protracted course of vocal study in
New York and will sing at the Fourth Ave-
nue. Baptist Church to-day. Miss Lois Belle
Cory, of Cleveland, will be heard at Belle
field Presbyterian Church this morning.
But the burning questions are: Do those
81 programmes really constitute 81 organ
recitals? If not, what business have they
TO be perpetuated7 Are the people content,
even If Mr. Rreil ISL C.. W. 8.