Madame Patey and her concert party gave their fourth concert at the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday night. The dress circle was well filled but the stalls were comparatively empty and the house on the whole could hardly be called " one, 03 while the theatre was, as usual, disagreeably cold. As on the occasion of the second concert, cue of the party was incapacitated by illness. Miss Bertha Rossow, who was down on the programme for three solos and a duet, broke down after singing a few notes of the recitative to Angels ever bright and fair, and wisely left the stage. Mr. Patey immediately announced that Miss Rossow had been attacked with cold that day and that her voice had entirely left her, as the audience had heard. The gays in the programme were to some slight extent made up for by Mr. Lemuone, who played wu extra flute solo at the end of the first part, Madame Patey sung O rest in the Lord with inimitable skill, and repeated the air in response to enthusiastic applause Subsequently the great contralto Kocked in the Cradle of the Deep, The Bailif's Daughter of Istirgtou, Scots Wha Hue, avd a Scotch ballad, rendering all these different compositions as only a great singer can. Mr. Lemmone's three flute aolua were wuch enjoyed. Mr. Patey san Heurts of Oul: and Largo ul Pactotum, with Down among the Dead Men as an encore. Mr. Hermann Morris's contributions were Schubert's Impromptu in A flat, and three of Schumann's short pieces. their fifth concert on Monday night at the Madame Patey and her colleagues gave
Lyceum to @ very pourly filled house, for it is dificult tu tind any adequate except that the great contralto is tuo good for Shanybai. Madame Patey, who was in excellent voice, sang the lovely aria Quando a te Liete from Gounod's Fawt during the frst part of the concert, which was rapturously applauded. Later on Madame Patey sang Auld Robin Gray with the deepest pathos, An encore was loudly demanded, to which Madame Patey re-ended with The Minstre! Boy, overle ing the fact that this sung was set down in the billas the third item for the great cantatrice, so that its place on the programme had tobe taken by The Banksof Allan Water. All these were listened to with pleased attention by most of the audience and loudly applauded; but there were some people in the theatre who varied the proceedings by talking in an audible tone, to the annoyance of those who sat near to them, Miss Bertha Rossow was cuffering from cold, and for this reason was unable to sing the songs set down iv the programme, but, considering the difficulty she laboured under, was extremely successful with It "as a dream, How can I leave thee, Scenes that ave brightest, and she finally joined Mr. Patey in Mozart's duet Crudel percha. Mr. Patey favoured the audience with Non pin androl and Down amongst the dead men, and Mr. Lemmone gave three flute solos, Doppler's Hu-garian Rhapsody, Reichert's Polk de Concert and Barrett's Turantelle in £ minor in his own inimitable style. Mr. Hermann Morris contributed two piano solos, completing a capital programme which deserved a far better attendance,
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