The amateur performance of Haydn's masterpiece, "The Creation," was given at the Masonic Hall on Friday night, before an audience not so numerous as the magnitude of the undertaking, coupled with the object it was devised to assist, might have been expected to draw together. The hall had been prepared for the reception of about 400 persons, but scarcely 300 seats were occupied. The organ has been removed from its former out-of-the-way place in the loft, which, by the erection of a flight of seats, was converted
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