This largo hall was well filled on Friday evening, the only drawback to it as Concert Hall being that the lighting iso bad, though there are plenty of gas lamps alight. By some mischance the audience were not provided with any programmes, and under these circumstances it might have been unusual but it would not have been inconvenient if some-one had announced each number before it was given. Phe entertainment began with Mozart's: Trio in @ Major, for violin (Misx Macleod), viola (Mr. Yunker), and piano (Mrs. Adler). Mr. Yunker must be very heartily congratulated on the excellencd of the amateur assistance he had succeeded in securing and it is a recognition of his own powers that he was able to secure his assistance: from among the very best amateur talent in Shanghai. 'This' was seen in the very first number; Mrs. Adler is a really admirable pianist, Miss Macleod is a charming violinist whom it is an unmixed delight to listen to, while Mr. Yunker fully "maintained the reputation he has cained at the private reunions at which he has been heard. Miss Macleod unfortanately made her only appenranco in the: opening trio; but Mrs. Adler had also a number to herself, in which she gave two: morceanz, En Chavtant by Godard, and Chanson de Mui by Thorne, both played so perfectly that the audience would not be contented without an encore. In the second part, too, Mrs. Adler took the no part in a' Sonata for piano: and violin by Rubinstein, which was splendidly played by herself and Mr. Yunker. The Professor gave also in the first part do Boriot's Violin Concerto, No. 9, n well-known piece, excellently rendered; and in the second part an Andante Cantabile and Gondoliera from the G major suite by Ries, anda Romance by Rubinstein,.and: very engaging Gavolte by Holm, in which he was admirably accompanied' on the piano Jansen. Mr. Yunker plays good sic with accuracy, delicxey, and force, and throughout the evening "his playing. gave unfeigned delight to his audience, The vocal music was decidedly of a hile character. The second number on: the programme was Tosti's "Stay with me," sung by Mr. J. C. Johnston, who was heartily applauded. Mrs. Johnston accompanied him, and then herself sang the fourth number, Gerard Cobb's Life's Lullaby, a very taking song wlmirably given. In Part I, Mrs. Alford snug the second number, "Mendelssohn's ever-delightful "By Gelin's Arbour," and Massenet's "<Quere tes yex biens." Mrs. Alford tas in very good voice, and her singing was. very much enjoyed. She was accompanied by M. Vitiay. "The fourth number in the second part was Reis' song, Am Rhein und bairn Wem," sung with great power: and expression by Mr. Wedemeyer, accompanied on the plane with equal power and expression by Professor Yunker.
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