Successful Musical Club Concert

The third annual concert of the Musical Club was given last evening in the Fogg Lecture Hall before a large and deservedly enthusiastic audience. The excellent program was well contrasted and skilfully diversified in a way that sustained the listeners' interest from first to last. Inasmuch as the concert-givers are still students it would be hypercritical and unjust as well, to apply the more on less inflexible professional standard to their performance or to their original compositions. Yet in many respects both were of so high and thorough-going a standard as to compel both admiration and astonishment.

The ensemble in the Saint-Saens Variations was in the main admirable, the character of the variations was clearly differentiated, and the climax at the end of the fugato was skilfully prepared. The Brahms Hungarian Dances brought the concert to a spirited and brilliant close. Tschaikowsky's elegaic trio was given a serious and earnest interpretation, and the playing of P. G. Clapp '09 of the difficult piano part is especially worthy of praise. C. L. Tittmann 2L. has a sonorous voice of large compass; his performance of "The Two Grenadiers" was especially impressive. "Le Cor" was given with discreet imagination, and Clapp's "The Swimmer" with considerable dramatic effect.

Of the original compositions, the Sonata movements of E. Ballantine '07 showed a piano style of unusualy polyphony; the capricious "Apriltide," while trifling, was undeniable pleasing. Clapp's song "The Swimmer" showed the greatest individuality of style, the surest grasp of technique, and greatest power to sustain word.

Taken as a whole the concert gave evident pleasure to the audience, while the ability of the performers, and the striking quality of the original compositions played, should reflect with the highest credit not only upon the men concerned and the esprit de corps of the Musical Club, but upon the resourcefulness and efficiency of the Musical Department as well.