New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
FINAL MUSICALE
 FILLS BURR|TT
TW0-PiaDO Performances Fea-
 lure Club Effort

l The last free public concert of the season in the series presented at the Burritt ballroom by the New Britain Musical club took place yesterday afternoon an audience that occupied all available space. The auditorium was virtually filled long before the start of the concert.
 President Herbert s. Woods Of the club took occasion to thank the public for it's remarkable manifes- tation of interest in the Sunday afternoon musicales. which have been the most successful events ever sponsored by the organization, and he also asked the public to re- member that the hotel management was entitled to due appreciation for providing convenient place in which to tender this musical service to citizens.
 | Two piano playing was q feature of the program, there being two groups and two sets of players in this department of the musical art. Theron w. Hart and Walter J. Ar | bour at the opening and Mir. Hart and Rosenberg at the close. It was the first public appearance together of the latter two piansts.
 Herbert r.. Anderson, violinist, assisted by Charles A. Johnson at the piano. contributed movement from concerto and a group of miscellany, while Mrs. Jane Sartori 1 Futile, contralto, assisted by Walter L. Magnuson at the piano, sang an aria and a group of songs.
 Although the brilliant perfor- nance of Messrs. Hart and Rosen- berg created widespread public inter- est, the excellent performance upon the same instruments om Messrs. Ar bour and Hart should not suffer toe much by comparison. Young Mir. Arbour really provided a most cred ible performance, far superior to anything he has done in the past There now can be no question that he is climbing and has obtained a firm grip upon the clements of key board art
 The first composition of Messrs | Arbour and Hart, variations on q theme by Beethoven. by Saint Saens. although trife lengthy contained many exalted moments. as when the two players engaged in r robust fugue-to hear what a req fugue should sound like let two pi. amos thunder the themcs!-and when delicate arpeggios inter twined between the two pianos.
 A delightfully."- soft and tender Siciliene by Bach served as variety for the concluding number of this group, Gavotte and Musettc by Raff. Possessing rhythmic appeal as we'll as sterling melodic qualities few could wish for more. Hours of daily toll at the keyboard and the confidence in public that such in dustry provides is beginning to tel in young MT. Arbour's'' efforts.
 The first movement of the Men. delssohn concerto was the choice 0. Messrs. Anderson and Johnson. This movement in one of the greatest ot violin Concertos is distinguished by the Mendelssohn method of combin- ing melodic phrases with vitality. lt also is the movement containing the cadenza, which gives a violinist op- portunity to show all he has, and to advertise what he hasn't if some thing should slip. But there were no slips.
 MT. Anderson gave noteworthy technical performance of the diff cult number, and Mir, Johnson also had quite a task cut out for him. Later, in the presentation of pieces by Albeniz, Hubay and Kreisler, the violinist gave an equally satisfactory exhibit, the kreisler Caprice Chinois being especially attractive.
 Mrs. Futile had recourse 10 Verdi for an aria of charm, the o Don Fatale from Don Carlos. Mrs. Tut tie consistently puts "soul and ex- pression" in her singing, and her vibrant organ was rarely heard to better advantage. Later she sang a group of songs by NIilligan, Homer and Buzzi-Peccia, all being greeted by that spontaneous appreciation which fingers in a singers memory. Mir. Magnuson at the keyboard fur nished the ideal assistance.
 Finally came the two-piano dis play of Messrs. Hart and Rosenberg The pair selected the Espana Rhap- sody by Chabrier and the Scherzo Op. S7, by Saint-Saens. Both com positions were the ultimate in or nateness. What the public would want to hear in first appearance ot | these players, went the reasoning was keyboard supremacy and vim Anyone acquainted with the re- 1 sounding measures of the Espana would have expected exactly what happened-a performance hair-ris- ing in it's spirited Reclamation and ornamentation of the tunes of sunny Spain.
 The Saint -Saens Scherzo. although moments, and also contained more variety in its smaller moments. Both pianists, applying all the technlc they possessed, gave a remarkable performance. Modernistic chord structures came to the surface in subtle passages, and the unique end ing, depending upon hair-trieger teamwork for it's effect, naturally aroused enthusiasm.
 The Musicayl club this season has nothing left to worry about except several house meetings and being host to tho state convention of the State Federation of Music clubs dur ing the latter part of May.-G H.
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