The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-29

WELL PLAYED
Good Audience Delighted With
Concert on Sunday
Afternoon.

1t seems evident that Honolulu does
not realize what fine body of highly
trained musicians there is in it's midst
Judging from its work yesterday after
noon the Symphony Society deserves
the warmest encouragement and the
most loyal support. There is a great
deal said nowadays of art for art IS
sake, but public recognition is a won
derfnl incentive to excellence There
was good audience, filing the Elks
hall comfortably. It was good audi
enee in more senses than one. being al
most wholly made up of real lovers of
music who sat quietly, thoroughly at
tentive, manlfesting their approval in
| generous applause. The program had
been carefully selected, displaying the
qualities of the musicians both in en-
semble work and in the quartet, which
was SO beautifully rendered, and in the
violin solo, the Prize Song from 1.-THE
Der, "Honor and Arms from Samson,
sung by Mr.. Frederick Hastings, show
ed the training of true artist and
one for whom nature had done much,
endowing him with a voice in which
power and great sweetness were re-
markably united.
The first number, Beethoven's Sym
phony No. 5, evinced thorough and la
borous practice, in the perfection with
which it was rendered throughout, each
succeeding movement seeming more and
still more perfect. The greatness of
the great composition was given such
an Interpretation as Honolulu will have
few opportunities to hear. The fami-
liar wedding march of Mendelssohn was
also rendered as one rarely ever hears
it. 81
The poetieal and somewhat melan-
choly "Italian Symphony with its
violins and flutes, has been aptly de-
scribed as "a perfect lyric embodiment
of a phase of italian poetry as it ap-
pears to the German mind i
all melody, like the verses of ballad
telling it's story without reflection or
overfowing emotion
The accompanies, Mrs. Howard |
Hitchcock and Mrs. W. L. Whitney, |
acquitted themselves excellently, as
they always do.
For the success of the concert, how
ever, the highest praise is due the
conductor, Mr.. r. Rudland Bode. Dur
ing the entire program his watchful
ness and his painstaking efforts as a
leader were apparent. He made it
evident that he had brought the So
ciety to it's high standard of excel
lence, through the knowledge which his
position demands and by sheer love of
the work itself. He has placed the
music lovers of the community under
great obligations, and if they are not
aware of this now, they will realize it
in the future The following was the
program, as it was given in its en-
irety:
Allegro con brio and andante con
moto-Symphony No. s.. Beethoven
Song Honor and Arms from
Mr. Frederick Hastings.
Moderate, Op. Is.
No. 4. Beethoven {
Messrs W. A. Love, DR.. o. E. Wall, B. {
L. Marx, DR.. Carl Ramus.
Violin So1o-Prize Song from "The
Meistersinger. =. .Wagner-WIlheim Q
Mr.. w. A. Love
March ......... Mende1ssohn v
Andante con moto and con moto
Moderato-'' Italian Symphony t
... ...... MendeIssohnI a
uite Egyptien Luigini a
Accompanies:
frs. Howard Hitchcock, Mrs. ". L. a
Whitney. IL
Mr.. R. Rudland Bode, Conductor. n