Obituary: Ernest Bristow FarrarSource: The Musical Times, Vol. 59, No. 909 (Nov. 1, 1918), p. 503Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/908716 .

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THE MUSICAL TIMES.-NOVEMBER I, 1918. 503

ORGAN RECITALS.

Mr. J. A. Meale, Wesleyan Central Hall, Westminster (five recitals)-Concerto No. 2, Handel; Overture, 'Mid- summer Night's Dream'; Choral Song and Fugue, Wesley ; Grand Chceur alla Handel, Guilmant; Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, and Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Bach; Serenade, Pierne; Suite Gothique, Boellmann; Caprice H&oieque, Bonnet.

Mr. John Pullein, St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow-Medita- tion in F sharp minor, Gzilmant; Sonata in C, Rheinberger; Benediction Nuptiale, Saint-Saiins; Homage March, Wagner.

Mr. W. C. Williams, St. Mary's, Tenby-Sonata No. 5, Guilmant; Larghetto in E flat, Rea; Reverie,

Ellin.gford; 'The Storm,' Lemmens. Mr. Herbert Westerby, Christ Church, Erith-Allegro

Marziale, Best; Barcarolle, Lemare; ' The Storm,' Lenmmens.

Mr. Norman F. Demuth, St. Margaret's, Uxbridge- Fantasia, Boely; Cantilkne, Mailly; Reverie dramatique, Vodorinsky; Postlude, Demuth.

Mr. Bertram Hollins, Beckenham Congregational Church- Sonata No. I, MAendelssohn; Evening Song, Baihstow; Toccata in D minor, W. G. Wood.

Mr. F. Gostelow, Luton Parish Church-Fantasia in E flat, Faiulkes; March in E flat, Ljzbuie- Wily ; Rhapsodie No. 2, Quef; Finale from Sonata No. I, Guilmant.

Driver C. E. Blyton Dobson, Central Mission, Nottingham (three recitals)-Concert Fantasia, Stewart; Prayer and Cradle Song, Guilmant; Theme with Variations, Faulkes; Sonata in G, Hiles; Siciliano, Haigh; Triumphal March, Grieg; Allegro from Sonata No. I, Harwood.

Mr. Herbert Hodge, St. Nicholas Cole Abbey (five recitals)- ' Panis Angelicus,' Pranck; Three Impromptus, Coleridge- Taylor; Allegretto in E, Lyon; Basso ostinato, Arensky ; Choral Song and Fugue, Wesley; Offertoire in D, Batiste ; Choral with Variations, Festive March, and Air with Variations and Fugato, Smart; Cantilkne in A flat and Allegretto in E flat, Wols/enholme.

Corporal Leonard Brown, Central Mission, Nottingham (two recitals)-Grand Chceur, Fazulkes; Pastorale, Guihnant; Fantaisie Symphonique, Gostelow; Festival March on 'St. George,' Fletcher ; Salut d'Amour, Elgar.

Mr. Henry Riding, St. Mary Abchurch-Requiem -Eternam, Harwood; Gothic March, Salome; Pastorale, Drffeld. St. Mary, Aldermanbury (three recitals)-Concerto in G minor, Camidge; Serenade, Cuthbert Nunn; Postlude, F. E. Gladstone ; Animato, Ferrari; Canzone, Wolstenholmne; Marcia Popolare, Ireland.

Mr. William Faulkes, St. George's, Everton - Allegro Cantabile and Toccata (Symphony No. 5), Widor; Theme and Variations, Guilmant; Cantilene, kVolstenhomze. St. Anne's, Stanley-Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Bachk; Scherzo Symphonique, Lemmens; Rhapsody on old French carols, Faulkes; Toccata, Gigoztt; March in F sharp, Widor.

APPOI NTMENTS.

Mr. Basil S. Maine (late organ scholar of Queen's College, Cambridge) has been appcinted assistant-organist of Durham Cathedral.

Mr. Edmund Miller, organist and choirmaster, St. Judes', Southwark.

Miss Louisa A. Williams, organist and choirmaster, Crickhowell, South Wales.

Mr. Edwin Stephenson has commenced a series ot recitals at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Saturdays at 2.30. The programmes will include a good selection of English works, and some interesting and unhackneyed examples of the modern French School.

Repairing the Pianoforte. [Musical Opinion Office, 35, Shoe Lane, E.C. 4.] This anonymously-written booklet should be welcomed

by professional tuners who are generally forced by the exigencies of their work to be able to effect at least slight, but indispensable, repairs upon the instruments of all sorts and kinds they tune. Amateurs possessing tools and mechanical skill will also find the book a useful one. The author, who evidently knows his subject thoroughly and who writes very cleverly, gives ample directions for dealing with the numerous illnesses to which pianofortes are subject. There are also chapters upon regulating, tuning, polishing, case-repairing, &c.

Fourth Symphony for Organ. By Louis Vierne. Op. 32. [Schirmer.]

Although not as a whole so fine as the second and third of Vierne's Symphonies, this work contains some very fine music. There are five movements-Prelude, Allegro Risoluto, Menuet, Romance, and Final. Of these, we find the Prelude and the Romance the least satisfactory. The former is rather too continuously chromatic, and the latter is spoilt by some very harsh auxiliary notes. The Allegro Risoluto is a splendidly vigorous affair, and the Menuet piquant and uncommon. The finest movement, however, is the last, a kind of glorified jig, in which daring harmony, skilful counterpoint, and high spirits combine to produce an unqualified success. The Symphony is difficult, but less so than Nos. 2 and 3, we think.

Form o? Design of the Pianojorte pieces in the Senior Division of the Local Examinations of the Trinity College of Music. By Charles Vincent.

[Winthrop Rogers.] A booklet of thirty-five pages giving concise and helpful

analyses of the forty-eight pieces in the syllabus.

Valse Arabesque. For pianoforte solo. By Percy E. Fletcher.

[Novello & Co., Ltd.] Mr. Fletcher here gives us an admirable example of salon-

music, only moderately difficult, and excellent for solo or teaching purposes.

bituar.t ,

We regret to record the following deaths: ERNEST BRISTOW FARRAR, killed in action on

September 18, 1918. The elder son of the Rev. C. W. Farrar, Vicar of Micklefield, near Leeds, he was born at Blackheath in 1885. His parents soon after removed to Yorkshire, and he received his early education at Leeds Grammar School. He studied with Mr. Bernard Johnson, and in 1905 won an open scholarship for composition at the Royal College of Music. Here he was a pupil of Sir Charles Stanford for composition, and of Sir Walter Parratt for organ. He was awarded the Arthur Sullivan Prize for composition in 19o6, and was elected Grove Scholar in 1907. On leaving the College he was for a short time organist of the English Church at Dresden. He was appointed to St. Hilda's, South Shields, in 19Io, and in 1912 became organist of Christ Church, Harrogate. In his songs, orchestral, pianoforte and organ pieces he displayed creative gifts of a high order. His setting of ' The Blessed Damozel,' written while still a student at the Royal College of Music was, considering his youth, remarkably successful m conveying the mystical atmosphere of Rossetti's poem. His last completed work was a set of Choral Preludes for organ written a few weeks before his death. He was a musician of the highest ideals, and was devoted to the art he served so faithfully. His many friends and admirers sincerely mourn his loss.

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