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Schubert Club Gives Winter ConcertWith Irene Gedney as Guest ArtistI,c11citeu•iei-•yts.11ley.b-.t-elatr.eratidBy ARTHURThe Schubert Club of Schenectady gave its second concert of the season in the Memorial Chapel last night, Er. Elmer A. Tidmarsh conducted a program of music by Peri, Schubert, Hensehel, Gibbs, Wagner, Clokey, Andrews, and Stoughton. The guest 'artist was Irene Gedney, pianist. Miss Gedney played the Busoni transcription of the tremendously difficult Bach Chaconne, four pieces by Chopin, Rachmaninoff’s G minor prelude, Ravers Pa vane, and an etude by Laapounow,Dr. Tidmarsh undertook what might be termed a gargantuan task for his chorus. He set them through the paces of the knights’ feast of the Holy Gi'ail music from Richard Wagner's Parsifal. This is no routined work even for the trained chorus of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Rarely do they get through the music with enough enthusiasm and inspiration to deter the audience from boredom. Not that the score of the great Richard fails to measure up to his bettor known passage. Far from it.But the master of Bayeruth studded this passage with such immense vocal demands that seldom can the artists acquit themselveswith honor. Thus it is a feat in it-W. HEPNERself that the Schubert Club sustained an intensity and a sense of drama which kept the audience enrapt in the music.d.nCCFbcThe Club was assisted, and very capably at that, by a quartet of women’s voices for the Parsifal music. Mr, Kenneth G, Kelly played the organ, James Early, the piano, and Edgar Moulton ’7 played the chimes. The effect of the em-meshment of all of these parts, together with the dimmed auditorium befitted the religious score approximately.Miss Gedney, it is reported, is just recuperating from injuries sustained in a recent automobile accident. This might account for her unimpressive reading of Bach’s magnificent Chaconne. She did not project the majesty of Bach’s music. The weight, the big solid tone, so integral a part of this music, was noticeably absent. Whenever Miss Gedney attempted to develop power her left hand and unintelligent peddling interfered with the result that strident bass tones were evoked from the piano instead of firm, weighty, sonorous tones. In the variations which called for delicate shading Miss Gedney was able to achieve better results.rfC\r
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Schenectady Concordiensis
Schenectady, New York, US
Fri, Feb 21, 1936
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