II. Fantasia upon the Plain-song Melody "Ad cœnam Agni" 12. Allegretto in A flat Edward Elgar Myles B. Foster Alexandre Guilmant H. Hofmann H. Hofmann Alfred Hollins Edward J. Horsman Edwin H. Lemare Franz Liszt Theo. Wendt W. Wolstenholme W. Wolstenholme PIECES. Edward C. Bairstow .. .. S. Coleridge-Taylor H. Hofmann Alfred Hollins Edwin H. Lemare S. Rachmaninoff A. Strelezki P. Tschaikowsky R. Wagner John E. West Healey Willan W. Wolstenholme "Novello's Organ Album No. 3 is remarkably good value. For the modest sum of three and sixpence, you get twelve pieces of varying excellence. As a rule, such albums are a kind of musical dust-heap, in which the purchaser delves (not too successfully) for his moneysworth. You need have no anxiety in this case."-Musical Opinion, June, 1912. Price Three Shillings and Sixpence each; London: Novello and Company, Limited. NEW FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS. PIANOFORTE MUSIC. ALLEN, R.-Attirance. Valse for Pianoforte Solo AUBERT, L.-Op. 6. 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This Supplement is part also of the November issue of THE SCHOOL MUSIC REVIEW, and can be obtained with the REVIEW, price 1d. The Competition Festival Record No. 52. THE BLACKPOOL MUSICAL FESTIVAL. OCTOBER 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. SUMMARY OF RESULTS. Again we have to record the marvellous success of Mr. Isidor Cohn, Mr. Isidore de Solla, Mr. F. this great event. As we have on previous occasions Bonavia, Mr. C. H. Fogg, and Mr. Walter S. remarked, the working of the competition Festival Nesbitt. movement in all its phases can be studied with better advantage here than anywhere else in the country. The extraordinary zeal and ability, the evident desire not merely to compete and win but to learn something by contact and comparison, are the striking and encouraging features. No argument for the competition ideal can equal in appositeness the competition itself. Inasmuch as the reports of the Festival in former years have filled a large book, we cannot do more here than give chief results and summary criticisms of the performances in the chief classes. It was computed that in all there were between six and seven thousand competitors. But it is not merely the number of competitors, or the size of audiences (there were over six thousand persons present on the last night) that gives real importance to the event. It is the character of the music selected as tests, and the fact that artistic performance is the ideal. That some of the choral tests were very severealthough they were not much more so than some of those used in previous years-led to criticism as to the wisdom of their being chosen. The fact is, it is infinitely easier to be sage and wise in laying down general principles in this matter than it is to give them application. Modern composers are choosing to write their unaccompanied choral music in a style that ignores possible difficulty-that is not their affair. We may presume that they conceive it in their brains as being perfectly performed, although we sometimes harbour a thought that some concoctions are purely experimental. All that Blackpool can do is to choose the best that is available from the best-known composers, and the choirs have got to live up to the demands of the music. It may be that in the end our composers will find their way to a simpler idiom-a consummation devoutly to be wished. The solo-singing in the adult classes brought forward nearly 600 competitors. When the character of the tests in these classes is considered, it will be seen that to induce this large number of singers to study such music is alone a great achievement. There are many points in connection with this colossal event that can be discussed with profit to all concerned in the movement. These matters we must reserve for a future occasion, when our Record is not crowded with lists and results. The adjudicators were: Dr. W. G. McNaught, Mr. Percy Pitt, Mr. Frederic Austin, Dr. E. C. Bairstow, Mme. Edith Hands, Mr. Hermann Klein, ADULT VOCAL SOLOS. As will be seen by the list below, these were divided into eight classes, each category of voice having a lyric section and a dramatic section. The process of hearing all the 600 took nearly the whole of two days. The singing revealed much talent. At the end of the second day the eight winners competed among themselves for a Rose Bowl. This drew an immense audience. The Rose Bowl fell to Miss Alice Brookes, who, although not gifted with much voice, displayed remarkable temperament and insight into the mysteries of Mr. Bantock's song. Soprano (81 entries).-Maude A. Warde. Test: The Angel's Song' (Elgar). Dramatic Contralto (44 entries).—Alice Brookes. Test: 'Geistliches Wiegenlied' (Brahms). Test: Liebestreu' (Brahms). Tenor (53 entries).-Edgar W. Priestley. Test: The Eagle' (Bantock). Dramatic Tenor (46 entries).—Norman Dransfield. Test: Walter before the Masters' Guild' (Wagner). Baritone (68 entries).-Charles Francis Till. Test: Life' (E. Austin). 3rd. 2nd. Ist. PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. Brougham Street School, Skipton. PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. (Not having won a prize in the Challenge Banner Class in 1909-10-11.) Tests: The Shepherd' (Walker). 2nd. 2nd. Revoe C.S., Blackpool (The Misses Garner). Adelaide Street C.S. B,' Blackpool (Mr. J. B. 3rd. Tomlinson). 3rd. Ist. St. Stephen's Mixed School, Preston (Miss Tomlinson and Mr. J. Hartley). ACTION-SONG (Open). (Open to children of 9 years of age and under.) Revoe C.S., Blackpool (The Misses Garner). 2nd. Adelaide Street C.S., Blackpool (Miss I. A. Robinson). Ist. Sefton Street (Boys), Southport (Mr. W. T. Barnett). Bradford Heaton Church Day School (Mr. J. Harvey Wilkinson). St. Stephen's Mixed School, Preston (Mr. John Hartley). Walverden C.S., Nelson (Mr. Harry Whitaker). South Shore C.S. (Thames Road) Blackpool (Mr. James F. Hulme). All Saints' (Poulton Road) School, Southport (Mr. G. B. Cooper). Magdala Street C.S., Heywood (Mr. W. T. Poole). Gorse Hill, C.S. (Boys), Stretford (Mr. J. Corlett). Skipton (Brougham Street) School (Mr. A. Townsend). Offerton Industrial School, Stockport (Mr. G. W. Cleaver). THE SCHOOL MUSIC REVIEW-NOVEMBER 1, 1912. PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. (Challenge Banner Class.) Test: Winds gently whisper' (Whittaker). 3 Tests: Whether I find thee' (Elgar). 3rd. All Saints' (Poulton Road) School, Southport (Mr. G. B. Cooper). 3rd. Ist. The Challenge Banner for the choir gaining the highest aggregate marks in the sight-reading class, cantata class, and the above class, was won by Devonshire Road. ADULT CHORAL CLASSES. Tests: June roses' (Schumann). 3rd. 2nd. Ist. Young love' (Bantock). St. Edmund's College Choir (Mr. Johann Leopold). Devonshire Road School Reunion Choir, Blackpool (Mr. J. J. Barlow). 'Zeus, lord of heaven' (Bantock). Blackpool (Mr. J. S. Warburton). The O. M.'s, St. Helens (Dr. S. B. Siddall). Blackpool Glee and Madrigal Society (Mr. H. Whittaker). Blackpool Orpheus Glee Society (Mr. Clifford Higgin). South Shore (Mr. J. T. Schofield). Excelsior (Mr. A. Jones). Blackburn Lyric (Mr. J. Thompson). C. W.S., Manchester (Mr. Lewis Evans). Preston Lyric (Mr. Joseph Smith). MALE-VOICE Choirs. (Alto Lead, Open.) Canton Girls' Choir, Cardiff (Mr. G. Thomas Williams). Ancoats Girls Institute (Intermediate) (Miss Say FEMALE-VOICE CHOIRS (Local). (Accompaniment for two horns and a harp.) This composition provided one of the sensations of the Festival. The committee, in their anxiety to do things completely, engaged two of the best horn-players of the day, Messrs. F. Paersch and F. W. Siddell, and a very competent harpist, Miss Winifred Cockerill. Several of the performances reached a very high grade, but it was reserved for Mr. Clifford Higgin's Choir to give an interpretation that seemed perfect in taste and technique, and that greatly moved the audience, including the adjudicators, Dr. McNaught and Dr. Bairstow. Brierfield Wesleyan Male-Voice Choir (Mr. George Walmsley). (a) 88, (b)86 Wyke Glee Union (Mr. Tom Sykes). 174 Knight Hill Glee Union, Padiham (Mr. Lamartine Lucas). Wednesbury and District Society of Gleemen (Mr. West Ardsley Orpheus Glee Society (Mr. Fred Holme Valley Male-Voice Choir (Mr. Irving MALE-VOICE CHOIRS. The two tests in this class provided the hardest of nuts to crack. Kubla Khan' was difficult, but the Max Reger piece was even more difficult. It must be presumed to be possible; but there were some doubts expressed. In both The Nelson pieces there are some magnificent moments. Choir, under its able conductor, Mr. Lawrence Berry, deserved great praise for their approach to perfection in both pieces. The Stourbridge Choir gave a wonderfully good performance of Kubla Khan.' In this they were credited with one more mark than was gained by Nelson. It was no doubt the formidable nature of these tests that led to the entries in this important class being smaller than usual. The 3rd. Ist. This is a piece with a peculiar atmosphere. accompaniment must be carefully adjusted to the choral balance, and be regarded as quite as important as the vocal part. It was not understood by all the choirs, but Mr. Aldous contrived to see through its meaning and to give an adequate performance. Ist. The Southport Choir (Mr. William Tattersall). South Shore Ladies' Choir (Mr. J. T. Schofield). 2nd. Birmingham Victoria Male Choir (Mr. W. E. Douglas Male Choristers (Mr. J. E. Kelly). CHURCH CHOIRS. (Men and boys.) Tests Psalm xxi. to Havergal in E. = Anthem, 'Grant, we beseech Thee' (Dodds). 171 New Hey Choral Union, Rochdale (Mr. Edgar Quarmby). Ist. 3rd. Barrow St. James's Ladies' Choir (Mrs. Bourne). Blackpool Orpheus Ladies' Choir (Mr. Clifford Higgin). CHURCH CHOIRS (Mixed). Mrs. Rushworth's Ladies' Choir, Douglas (Mrs. Rushworth). Tests: 'O Everlasting Light' (John E. West). 'God liveth still' (Bach). 2nd. Rawcliffe Street Wesley Church, Blackpool (Mr. J. T. Schofield). |