Organ Concert: 27th

Includes program; also included two unidentified short pieces in the French style by Saint-Saens and Guilmant.

“There was a remarkably good attendance yesterday afternoon at the organ concert in Dr. Tyng’s church, in Madison avenue. Mr. S. P. Warren played some elaborate pieces in an artistic style, and Miss Clementine Lasar sang two songs very successfully, making a marked impression with the first, ‘Hear ye Israel,’ by Mendelssohn.” 

“Mr. Warren’s programme on Wednesday afternoon was of unusual interest, on account of both the magnitude and the variety of the numbers composing it. The most remarkable of these was Reubke’s Sonata in C minor, an illustration of the 94^th Psalm, one of the greatest works yet produced at these concerts, at which so many of the masterpieces of the great organ composers have been given. It did not far exceed in interest, however, a Concert Piece of Thiele’s (No. 3), written originallyfor two performers on the organ, but afterwards arranged for one performer by Haupt, the well-known writer for the organ, and friend of the composer. The rapid pedal passages and extraordinary technical difficulties both of this piece and the Sonata showed the perfect mastery over his instrument which has been gained by Mr. Warren, who played throughout unusually well. The remaining pieces were a Prelude of Bach’s, scarcely inferior in point of interest and beauty to any other, an arrangement of the Andante from Mozart’s great E flat Symphony, a Rhapsodie by Saint Saens, and Berthold Tours’s Allegretto Grazioso in D, and a march by Guilmant. Miss Clementine Lasar sang ‘Come unto Me.’”