More Orchestral Music.

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Things are certainly improving with us in York when we get two concerts in a fortnight, but this is the case, for following the fine concert of the York Musical Society last week, we have the York Symphony Orchestra, under Mr. H. A. Bennett, giving their first concert of the season next Stiuday night, in St. George's Hall, Castlegate. The Dean of York, who is president of the society, expressed the wish that the concert should commence at an hour which would not necessitate absence from evening services, and for this reason it has been fixed for 8.15 p.m.
There is a certain risk involved in making the experiment of holding the concert on Sunday instead of on a week night, but the object in doing so is to provide an opportunitv to many who are only free on this evening, of hearing some really good orchestral music. The programme for this first concert is most attractive, and I will mention some of 'the works to be given. We have a complete symphony of Mozart, Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture, Quilter's "Three English Dances," Purcell's suite, " The Gordian Knot," arranged by Holst, Elgar's "Dream Children," and, what will be most interesting, Debussy "Sacred and Profane Dances," for harp solo and strings. The harpist is Mr. C. Collier, of the Halle Orchestra, who will play other solos. Mr. Raymond Hartlev, tenor, who will sing, is already an established favourite here through his singing at the B.M.S. concerts, and also at the Minster, in Bach's "Passion" music. It cannot be denied that this is a well selected and varied programme, and the hall, which, by the way, is admirably adapted for this kind of concert, should be full, as an appreciation of the enterprise of the society in affording this excellent music.