The Lyceum Theatre, with the stage boxed in, and the platform brought forward to the front of the orchestra, makes certainly an admirable concert ro the general effect, when the stage is farther decorated with lowers and greenery, is very pret y, while the acoustics are excellent. A large audience assembled, on Tuesday night to the te concert given by the Shanghai Philharmonic Society, and they appreciated the endeavour that the Society had made, by the liberal use of curtains at every opening, to keep the hu ure warm. As further permanent improvement to the boxes and dress circle, which are still the cruising ground of innumerable cold draughts, we would recommend the trustees of the Thestre to carry the partition at the back of the boxes to the ceiling, and put green baize swinging doors at the top of the staircase to the boxes, and at the ends of the passage behind the boxes. For the Lyceum, w! summer and antum up in ite overcoats is not the ep~ctacle that it would be if the theatre were warmer. The orchestra on Tuesday night was, as it is always is indeed, a very commendable one in size, as well as in quality, for a small town like Shanghai, compri it did, 7 first violins, 6 second. vi altos,'5 cellos, 1 double bass, 2 flu clarionets, 2 ubves, 2 c-mets, 2 baritones, and 1 timbale, th"' whole directed by the able and energetic conductor of the Society, M. Vela. The following was the programme
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