The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-04
PIANO RECITAL A
 BRILLIANT AFFAIR
HUTCHEsON's PERFORMANCE AR- TISTIC TRIUMPH-A RARE PRO- .1 GRAMME PLAYED AS ONLY A MASTER COULD PLAY IT

Many great pianists have been heard in Birmingham, but none perhaps was l ever more cordially received than Ernest | Hutcheson, who appeared here yesterday lafternoon for the first time. Musicians were familiar with this artists high standing as concert player, but out side of professional circles he was not so well known as some of the other noted performers. He had scarcely started. however, when discriminating listeners discovered that great pianist sat at the instrument. And never before
 had a Birmingham audience been treated to so rare programme, It contained several works which are essayed only by the greatest of vrtuosos and not a single piece was trivial or without higf artistic value. It was the same characte:
 of programme that MT. Hutcheson pre- sents in New York or that would be heard in Berlin, Paris or London. It was as follows:
 Fantasia and Fugue in G minor | (Bach -Liszt).
 | Sonata in c minor. opus III (Bee- thoven). .., .rssA | Maestoso Allegro con brio ed appas. sionata, arietta.
 Scherzo from the Midsummer Nights Dream (Mendelssohn). Du bist die Ruh,' (Schubert -Liszt). valse in A flat, opus AZ (Chopin). | Fantasia, opus 49 Chopin.
 Etude, moto perpetua, (Alkan- Mac DowelD.
 Etude de concert, F minor, (Liszt) | Rhapsody in r sharp minor, opus II No. (DohnanyD.
 Ride of the yalkyries (Wagner- | Hutcheson). a4 | A musicians programme, truly. And could 1t be followed and enjoyed by the large audience, made up for the mos' | part of music lovers, rather than per sons of high musical culture? Assured | ly, yes. Never was a more eager throne | of concert goers assembled in the Jeffer- | son theatre than that of yesterday, and more freely uttered at the close of any recital than were heard on this occasion | MT. Hutcheson, besides possessing those requisites that go, as a matter of course, with all virtuosity, is a poet player. While his reading is in high ldcgree educative, one thinks first of all
 of the beauty of his tone and then of his charming individuality. For poetic insight, exquisite taste and masterful re- pose MT. Hutcheson is unsurpassed.
 Hense, he made such severely classical works as Bact's Fantasia and Fugue and Beethovens Sonanta No. Ill as delight fully musical as any of the smaller pieces.
 Among the numbers especially interest ing as adaptations for piano were the jMendelssohn Scherzo, delightfully."- embel- llished by Mir. Hutcheson, and the per formers arrangement of Wagner's stir ring Ride of the valkyries' of orchestral color. From beginning to end Mir Hutcheson was in great form and his playing combined to make the entire bill alike pleasing to all.
 At the end the audience remained
 seated and, by loud and persistent ap- plause insisted on an encore MT
 Hutcheson responded with the Schu- bert-Tausig Marche -Militaire. Yesterdays recital was the first of Aldrich, Jr., and this lady was praised in enthusiastic terms by all who were so fortunate as to be present. The next concert of the series will be given by Liza Lehman. December 22 and the last by Maud Powell, Febru- larv 22 w R.