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Show CELEBRATED ORGANIST iS HEARD Gatty Sellars, the celebrated English Eng-lish orcanlst and composer, was greeted by a very small but delightod audience nt the Methodist church last eenlng. The artist's program was made up of famous masterpieces, in-tersporsed in-tersporsed with some of his own compositions, com-positions, plaed to excellent advantage. advan-tage. As a performer on the pipe organ, or-gan, Seilars Is easily one of tho most gifted and accomplished musicianu that ever has been hoard In Ogden His opening number was Mendelssohn's Mendels-sohn's "Sonata In F Minor," whicn was rendered with fine effect, and was followed by a tuneful melody of Sellars own composition, entitled "Repose " Then came "The Pilgrims Chorus" from Tannhauser, with its weird intermingling of themes and the stately, solemn rythm which has made it one of the world's masterpieces. master-pieces. "At Twilight" was the next number one of Sellars' own and it also provod popular with the audience, being be-ing more pretentious than "Repose" and of a heavier style. The rendition rendi-tion of Stone's "Church Theme. Impromptu," Im-promptu," was given In a masterly manner, the chimes emuelishment adding much to Its success In tho festal offering portion the performer gave his first exhibition of the wonderful won-derful technique that he possesses, and, again, in the "Storm," the tremendous tre-mendous peals of thunder which he produced from the Instrument fairly shook the house and In the crash of lightning intermingled with the sound of rain descending in torrents and the shrieking wind, the effect was most thrilling. The "Russian Patrol" was another descrlpthe piece which called forth enthusiastic applause from the audience. audi-ence. The bugle calls and sound of the mounted troops approaching in the dlstanco grew rapidly louder until un-til the full power of tho great organ was expended in representing tho dash of horsemen and the peculiar strains of Russian music intermingled with bugle calls. One could fairly hear the clank of sabros and equipment equip-ment ns the detachment swept b; with a rush and roar that shook the walls. Then as tho volume de-ci de-ci eased the music could again Jie heard with distant bugles echoing back and forth, dying down to a mero whisper in the finale. The last number consisted of selections se-lections from the Coronation music composed for the crowning ceremonies ceremo-nies of King George In Westminster abbey. oo |