Such an excellent programme, ts only fault being i length, was provided by Madnme Vela her concert on Frid: that the Masonic Hall was Gilled, audience had the pleasure of he turned out to be, on the whole, one of the Dest concerts ever given in Shanghai, in which nearly all the execut amateurs, There were twal the programme and five ut them were cored, and this made the concert too and how oppreeetve feom the crow considering how hot the
gas, th towards the close, ao that the later singers laboured under great disadvantages, Madame Vela f excellent voice in everything she how the cout conquer a tendency to produce with almost singing would give u for her mezzo voce and notes are di large share in th opened the concert with del Sol, mie dolce amor, from Tu the third umber amateur in singing Ro duettino, Mira la bianca luna, and in response to at enthusiastic encore aang with the same lady Campaua's Guarda la bianca luna, brought ti t prt of the concert to close with a dust, with " gentleman amateur, from Flotow's Marta, It tuo sguardo dolce tonto, introducing and sing-most sympathetically the vir of the Rose of Summer," which has made Marta always a welcome apers li Engand. In the second part she sang, with a chorus of the beat voices in Shanghai at the wing, the m cent air Madre Pietosa Vergine from Verdi's Forza del Destino, and this was undoubtedly the gem of the evening, and, Into as it was getting, the latter half of it had to be repeated before the'audience would be satisfied. Finally she wound up the concert with a Spanish song by Alvarez, Adios de mi Patria, as brilliant and original as' Spanish music so often is, and in which she showed no more signs of wearites than coviint for, Of the two vocal debutantes; we may' say at once that both made a most favourable impression, although their voices wore affected by nervousness, The lady who sang the duet from Rossini with Madi Vela has x sweet and true voice that wi further cultivate still improve. In the well-known It Bacio of Arditi in the second part she was a little husky, for which nervousness and the heat may. well is at welcome addition of Shanghai, The 5, Viens o Bella, by, has a remarkably sweet and pretty voice, hardly strong enough as for a large but unwontedly and abe has an amount of which it is rare to Gnd in an amateur before a large audience. As an encore she sang Gounod's Ave Maria, and sang it even better and with more express sion than the former morceat. The only in-Strumental debutante mas Bliss Rodigues, daughter of the Span iter, a little Indy of some nine years, a joined BIN. Valu inn caprice for four hands bj Marques, It was uncommonly well played, and delighted the audience so much, that the mer had to climb up on the ry by Chopin, that was given by another lady at Mr, Iburg's recent concert, It was a marvel of execution, but the piano terribly metallic, nud the best execut cannot play Chopin so as to give pleasure without something of the poetic fire that animated the composer. However, it seemed to delight the who demanded an encore, and were rewarded with a nocturne by Chopin, Of the gontlewho'assisted Mme, Vela perfect order, but the singing was atill far above the average. Mr. Ghisi took the tenor part in the dust with Madame Vela from Marta, ud acquitted himself very credita-With more practice and more coufihis voice promises to be a very Tt was unfortunate f was, and the audience was well pioused with him, Allitele party of attinge, twovioli alto, and a violoncello, gave the Allegro ma non tonto movement from Boothoven's Hi'vae a good idea to give only one mnovequartette, op. 18, the time being excellent,
mont, which made it pleas t change and to the gentlemen who formed the chorus, Woe heartily congratulate Madame Vela on the success of her concert. Opinions differ, naturally, on the merits of particular nuimare agree: that it was a delight
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