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Percy Grainger's Recital
| _ Transfixes, His Audience
ide Glevers qeclinoune Country i
/ Gardens’ Enthralls Listeners |
Eo By RAY A. MOWERS : : H
- Gransfixed is the word for it. | |
Nothing. else: English will adequately deseribe -the ‘awed attention’|
| accorded’ Perey Grainger. in his récital last. night at Chancellors Hail.)
‘With the’ determizied’ stride of ay British workman approaching. a |)
| particularly: eneiging: labor, the’ slender, bushiy-haired piatist'.strode||
upon the stage about 8:40 and for¢-— -
the. succeeding hour and a half he
held. his audience enthralled by
| sheer virtuosity.
-Of course, this’ is nothing ‘new for |
Percy. Grainger. He does. it) every- ||
time'-he’ appears before. an. Albany |)
audience... But:that.is the astound- |)
!-ing'thing: about it—the fact’ that’ be!) !
| never fails.”
1 It. was. not until. he’ “announced |
ihe “title ‘of what proved: to be his,
| final encore, ‘however, that a cone)
| cetted “Ah” ‘of ‘expectancy and Ap-'|
| proval swept upward from the|:
‘seated ‘throng before him.’ He had)|
merely” said, “TH. play» ‘Country]
for’ you,”. but “that: was;
enough." It was, what many had|
come to Hear, and they would have!
felt" well: satisfied! had they heard)
nothing ‘else. _. I
‘The number: is ‘coupled in the )
yusands -with..the name |
Kreisler, Eke “Mother: Machree”|!
-anid. -John’-MeCormack,. like “Stars |
and. Stripes ' Forever” and John)
Philip: Sous2.
Yes, Grainger” Played. “Country!
Gardens” and he played “Molly ‘on!
the Shore” and he’ played Guion’s |
“Old iddler’s Breskdown’ to. the |
any “of these ‘that’ he!
Hight to.a. place among,
at ‘at ‘the keyboard. |
id. that very definitely and!
with a.gnality ‘that’ left, absolutely)
no ‘room -for argument in: His very!
first -number—the’ Liszt’ arrange-)
ment for piano:of ‘Bach's powerful:
pipe organ Fantasia and Fugue in|
G Minor.’ Seldom .. will. it -be “the |
| privilege of” Albany - musicians. to]
hear’ that~ supreme. creation: played
as'it was.heard. last-night. . Words,
to describe it are futile. / i
After ‘an’ interlude of “Brahms, |
Grainger "climbed: . the artistic |
heights to, dizzy - pinnacles. ‘again
‘with Grieg. It was:superb. He. was
to-do if again before the Tecit
jended-with his own paraphrase: on
| TSchaikowsicy’s “Fl Walt: {
