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Show old-world music revived Connoisseurs Welcome With Delight tho Return to Instrument Belonging Belong-ing to the Past. Tor tho musical connoisseur a now and delightful experience during tho last season has been tho nppcaranco of tlio Russian musician, M. Votitchon- ko, nnd tlio Old-world Instrument, known as tho tympauon, upon which ho plays, tho London Chronlclo states. This saventoentli century luotru-ment luotru-ment "of tho dulcimer family, a musical mu-sical ancestor of tho clarocln, has been rescued from oblivion by M. Vot-itchonko, Vot-itchonko, under whoso Angora It. has attained a high degreo of artistic ox prcsslon. At a concert hold in aid of funds for tho wounded tho young RussiUn plaver delighted his hearers with a number of seventeenth and eighteenth century pieces, somo of them adapted from muslo originally played on tho Instrument In Louis XIVs tlmo, and othors arranged from Russian folk tunus. In tho caso of tho latter tho.musio seems to havo a certain alllnlty for tho Instrument, which ns a matter of fact, has boon In Russia for several generations in M. Votitchenko's family. fam-ily. Thoso "Old Memories of Littlo Russia" nnd a "Rhapsody of Volga Songs" both proved vory oxqulslto and delightful, as did also a fantasy on old French tunes, and sorao other pieces. Much of tho charm ot each, It neod haidly bo Bald, lay In tho vory beautiful beauti-ful and sympathetic way In which tho' artist handled the instrument. |