The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23

T7f1 HE Birmingham Music Study club
 will present Percy Graingcr, pianist and composer, next Thurs day evening at the Jefferson theatre at S.S0 o'clock
 Mir. Grainger will appear in pro- gramme which created such a furore at Carnegie hall, New York; recently. of which Mir Henry T. Finck of the New York Evening Post says:
 Percy Grainger had a grand time in Carnegie hall yesterday afternoon, and so did his large audience. For Grainger is, as that excellent philosopher and critic, Charles L. Buchanan. has re- marked, an incarnation of the hustle, che activity, the cheeky, breezy, informal quality of the young lands and new pee ples. His personality is sort of bub- bling, golden effervescence. When ne comes upon the stage he seems to bring clear, keen, sunny atmosphere with him. He is the best antidote to the cos- mic gloom following the war.
 This was shown in his opening piece. Bach's organ Toccata and E'ugue III D minor as translated for piano by Tausig and Buscni, in a most refreshing man Ter. Bach's fugues are commonly sup posed to be dull things and stuffed with learning. When Granger plays one 1t becomes as lively and human as his own | quently played composition in the Eng- lish concert halls of today Bernard ! Boekelmann made an ingenious and H. Illuminating edition of Bach's fugueS m which the several voices are printed In different coors to make it easier to fol- low the pattern of the musical embroid- cry. When Grainger plays one of these fugues the co.ors are in the music itselt. He makes them so clear that they seem to be written in words of one syllable. "Greg's plaintive Ballade, which Grain ger played as only he can play 1t, ana Chopins Barcarolle, in which one coald hear the strokes and feel the rise and fall of the Venetian gondola at high tlde' This piece was followed by what was | really the biggest treat of the whole re- cital. Graingcrs own Austrian Colonial Song, which he played with marvellous depth of feeling. It is autobiographin heart music as moving as Fritz kreis- Iers Viennese pieces. On the encores II is not necessary to dwell. The demand for them had to be checked by turning clown the lights
 Following is the programme for Thurs day evening;
 1'occata and Fuguc for organ m Y minor .............,,,........- .-.,.'''' .pa.t' ta) HandeIan Rhapsody .,... Cyril Scotp tBorn Oxton, Cheshire England, 1Sss.1
 The Scott rhapsody is named Han delian' because of the robust major key'' quality of so much of it's musi- cal material
 fb) .Moonlight on the Lake" fron, the suite Where the Rainbow Ends
 Roger Quiltel
 (Born Brighton, England, 1S77o
 Roger Quilter, the most outstand- ing of living English song composers, is also the author of many notable works for piano. orchestra and chorus.
 tc) "Brds at Dawn" op 20, No. 2.....
 Fannie Dillor
 (Born Denver, Colo
 Fannie Diilon's Birds at Dawn IS a description Gin canon style) or ths bird .'ensemble" to be heard at ear Hest dawn, any morning of the spring time, in the highest attitudes of the Sierre Madre Mountains of California. td) ..Turkey in the Straw" Cowboys
 and "Old Ffddlers' Breakdown, set by .............-..--.--... -........i1nsiu N'a'S
 (Born Ballinger, Tex, 1S96.)