It is not every performance that could draw a considerable number of people from the cheerful comfort of a warm room with its cosy ease and brightness on such a night as that of Wesdnesday last, and the fact that there was such a number at the Cathedral tends to prove, what is often disputed, that Shanghai, or at any rate a section of it, is musical in the best sense of the word.
true that Mr. Crompton's programme though classical, was not severely 50, most of the numbers being well-known and favourite pieces. The Fantasia on Mendelssohn's Athalie by Dr. Stegall has not within our recollection been performed here before, and the magnificent ending of the chorus in it, "Heaven and the earth di play," was almost appropriate finale. Another new piece was a charmingly brett little movement by King Hall, With sud by desire, Chopin's Funeral March," favourites as Guilmaut's Pastorale, played
know that my Redeemer live th,"" and "The Lost Chord," a Shanghai audience was sure to have been more than satisfied, Mee. Wedemeyer contributed two vocal pieces; Recitative and Air, "The Trumpet shall sound", and Gounod's "Glory to thee my God this night." The former taxed his powers to the utmost, but in the latter he was-more at home. and his singing was quite up to his usual high standard,
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