Organ Recital: 4th

“Mr. S. P. Warren, the skilled organist of Grace Church, gave his fourth organ recital at Association Hall yesterday afternoon. The programme, representative of Bach, Martini, Handel, Dussek, Volckmar, and Best, and including in its scope two centuries, was of genuine historical interest, and was, as we need hardly say, admirably interpreted. Valuable vocal assistance was rendered by Miss Maria Brainerd.”

“Mr. George William Warren began yesterday afternoon, at the Christian Association Hall, a second series of his excellent ‘organ recitals.’ Nothing, we suppose, but a genuine love of art would induce Mr. Warren to engage in an enterprise like this wherein art must be its own sole reward. Those who love and appreciate organ music are few enough at best, and those who love the severely classical school, to which Mr. Warren devotes himself, are the fewest of the few. He had but a handful of listeners yesterday. Most of them were young ladies, who, though pretty and well-dressed, seemed to have an imperfect comprehension of Bach, and less appetite for Handel and Padre Martini than for gum-drops. The merit of such concerts, however, is not to be gauged by the number of listeners. Mr. Warren should feel more highly complimented by the intelligent approbation of the few musicians who understood and applauded his performance of the Handel fugue, for instance, in E minor, the gavotte of Martini’s, and the andante movement of Dussek’s, than if he had taken five or six hundred dollars at the door. Miss Brainerd took part in the concert, singing very sweetly Mozart’s Non temer, amato bene.”