9.—Song—" Oh, that I might retrace the Way" ww... Brahms, Mr. George Siaitiaad, 10,—Valse Brillante for 2 Pianos... M Moschowshi, Messrs Sternberg, Goerlt, Vinay, and Beeston. the last time in the closing number, again with the assistance of the same three ani tours, a composition with plenty of fire, spiritedly as well as accurately played.
Of the five vocal numbers Mrs, Timm undertook the first, singing very artistically {the beautiful air by Buna which she had chosen, and so delighting her audience that she had to return, giving a very ann, T Pear." She won followed by bright and pretty composition by Hart-
Dr. Betz, who has a very powerful and well-trained baritone voice which is perhaps still more suited to declamatory music than to the famous songs of Schumann which he gave to such general satisfaction on Tuesday, the Wanderlied, and Ich grille nicht," the latter as an encore. Mrs, Lanphier's really beautiful high soprano voice was heard to splendid effect in the lovely air from Thomas's Mignon, ' Connais-tu lo pays?" which can never be listened to too often, Again the applause was most enthusiastic, and in response to the imperative demand for an encore, Mrs. Lanphier sang most charmingly a pretty little song by Corbett, Butterfiies. The charm of Mrs. Little's voice is in its exceptional sweetness, and her rendering of Rubinstein's Good Night was very greatly enjoyed, though she was evidently somewhat nervous. The audience were determined to hear her again, and she repeated the Inst verse. Mr. George Muitland's singing of the two ye high-class. songs by J. Brahms, "Oh, that I might retrace the way," and, encore, Like a blossoming lilac my love is fair," was thoroughly artistic, and gave very great enjoyment as his excellent voice and method u"lways do. One thing was to he specially remarked of the audience on Tuesday, which itself testifies to the quality of the music; there was not asound to be heard in the house while the performance was going on, and the applause at the end of each number was as unanimous as it was vociferous. It was undoubtedly to all lovers of music a thoroughly youd concert and those who were kept away Ly its coming the night after the Mihholoong Bull Tost a treat.
Noone who attended the Concert given by Professor Sternbergfon Tuesday, and it was attended by a very large number of genuine lovers of music, could doubt the Professor's ability as a' pianist. He apeared altogether in five numbers. The rst was Nicolai's Orerture to his opera The Merry Wives of Windsor, " really 66,828.79 mag cent piece of music, full of melody and done full justice to by the Professor J and the three amateurs on tivo grand pir ther, the other by Rachals, the former Leing one of the finest instruments in Shanghai. The Overture had been well rehearsal and was admirably rendered, evoking storms of applause. The next instrumental number consisted of two selections, Chopin's Marche Funébre, sympathetically and exquisitely given by the Professor, and 66,619.74 the well-known Mazurka by Godard, of which the Professor gave a really unique 4,893.88 rendering. There must hare been many pianists in the theatre to whom this Mazurka is familiar, and they cannot but have gained new lights on it from the way it was played on Tuesday. The Professor nas enthusiastically encored, and responded by playing with consummate taste a Romance by Rubinstein. The Professor opened the second part of the concert with the piece of the evening, Liszt's Fantasie Hougroise, a remarkable and extremely dificult pot pourri of melodies of all kinds, executed ina really masterly way. Again an encore was insisted on, the Professor adding a Preludium by Chopin-Milousky, equally splendidly played and with really wonderful expression. In the eighth number directors. the Professor was heard again in a piano solo, in which his perfect execution achieved another great success, and he appeared for
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