Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — FAMOUS ORGANIST IS COMING [ARTICLE]

FAMOUS ORGANIST IS COMING

Speaking of a performance of Gatty Sellars, the world-famed organist, who plays here on Wednesday next at the Presbyterian church, a European critic writes: With a full remembrance of visits paid by organists pf national repute, we have no hesitation in saying we have never listened locally to a greater executant than Gatty Sellars. One knew not whether the most to admire the phenomenal facility of his rendering—for movements whose techni-. cal subtleties would have appalled the more ordinary executant were rendered with unvarying smoothness and beauty of phrase—or the consummately artistic spirit with which he imbued them. Bach’s D Major Fugue was finely executed, demonstrating his splendid pedaling, but there was something narrowly "approximating dlsablere In his “Variations and Fugato Finale on an Old English Aid.’’ With elaborate iplayed absolutely allegro furloso, it was indeed wonderful that ' such perfect phrasing should have been produced.—Western Mercury. —Advt.