'AUSTRIAN SUFFERERS, The concert in aid of the funda for the relief of th sufferers by the recent floods in Germany and Austria took place at the Masonic Hall on. Monday evening. The hall was crowded, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather. An excellent programme was provided, and each item waa listened to must attentively by an admiring, bul not very demoustrative, audience. with an overture chestra composed of two lst vit one 2nd violin, viola, cello, contrebasse, flute and piano.' It was faultlessly played by our leading professional and amateur instrumentalists, tainly one of the best ord ral pieces that has been heard in Shang "since the days of the first Philharmoui ciety, with whom this overture especial favorite. It was followed by one of Mendelssohn's part songs, given by some twenty-six members of the German Lieder-tael, entitled "Wem Gott will recite Gunst erweisen." 1¢ was sung in perfect time and tune throughout, but scarcely sufi-attention was paid by the Ist and 2ud tenors to the soft passages; it was neverthe-leas an excellent performance, and met with the applause which it deserved. Then came the piece de resistance of the evening, the Andante convariazioni and Finale of Beethoven's Op. 47, better known as the Kroutzer Sonata, for piano and violin, by Messrs. Fentum and Iburg. This was moat beautifully played by both gentlemen, and but for its extreme length would probably have been re-demanded. Mr. Hoy next came forward and sang, very correctly, " Liebes-Fesea. It did not, however, voice quite as well as which we The first part of the programme was brought to a clot with an Octuor for pianoforte four handi and strings, the first movement of delssoln's
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