With the skilled assistance which Mr. Crompton had at his disposal the success of his last concert was certain. The Philharmonic Society provided a most efficient orchestra, which played two selections from La Fen besides the incidental music to the excerpt from Carmen. 'The Cathedral Choir and the Choral Society, maki combined chorus of more than thirty voices, kung tive ulees of which the second, Smart's Gord night, than glorious Sun' was by far hiye better both in parts and performance. The voices were well balanced, fairly well tog ther, but somewhat given on the soprano si 4¢ to indulgence in certain graces hich boce, 2¢ the soloist only.
The secon @ number on the programme was an ext: emely pretty little song, Spring, by ': esthy, which suited Mrs, Crompton's sym, pathetic voice admirably. We thought mus, less of Mr. Maitland's Tetter, and insisting" recal were well performance, but t te audience knew him repaid by a very pleasrar and artistic rendering of the encore song.
In her solo (a) Melunea% Field, (b) Bervense, Godard, Miss Macle: 4 sustained the high reputation she has em Yed as one of cur very best performers on t be violin, Playing entirely from memory she charmed her hearers with the purity of to Ue the light and shade, and the character which she threw into her rendering, and of ec 'USE was rapturously encored.
Madame Rémusat's song by Chaminad Si j'etais Jardinier, met no more than it: desert in the enthusiastic recall which greeted it, but thie fair singer merely bow cher acknowledgments. With Mr. Frank' monologue "A Fallen Star" we are disposed to quarrel a little. Had it been a "Shooting Star" we should have known why Mr. Frank indulges so constantly in certain set cadences, for meteors naturally follow similar trajectories, but clever though the representation was, Mr. Frank is anything but a ' fallen" star.
The second part of the programme was devoted to the representation of part of the 2nd Act of the opera of Carmen, which was thus stated on the programme Sce:
Prencpe—Daxct, Caxzoser Bowrmias—
Recinarive asp Carts, axp THE Toreavor's So: Escamille Mr. G. Spencer. anita J. James. Carmen Madame de L'Anphi Frasquita Miss E. Weatherby.
Cuonts oF Grrsizs asp Peasasts.
This was a novel departure fom the ordinary concert programme, but it was tified the audience. The chorus of gypsies and peasants was fairly good and the num-rous bright dresses formed " very pretty scene. The dance into-duced was graceful and pleasing, and was loudly" applauded. Madatne de Anphier was a most en: Carmen, and though a. slight was noticeable in the earlier portion of the chorus work, superlative excellence in the succeeding part eradicated all trace of disappointment. Mr. G. Spencer was unable te appear owing to indisposition, but the part of Escumil en Mr. V. de Maire, who sang superbly, and at the same time noted well, which is more creditable to him because he had to take the part.at so very short notice. Miss E. Weatherhy played up well as Frasquita, and both she and Mr. James did all they could with the music that fell to their Tot. The orchestral accompaniment under the lead of Miss Jansen was most effective. The curtain fell only to be raised again to rounds of applause, an expression of the grest_ satisfaction felt by the audience at so admirable a performance.
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