Except in the gallery, the Lyceum was crowded again on Monday by a very appre-dative and enthusiastic audience, the occasion being the third concert of the Deutscher Konzert-Verein, The programme was an unusually attractive one, Miss Murkens and. Miss Merrylees having promised their assistance, and the favourite orchestra of the Third Marines having come down from Tsingtao yesterday afternoon. In the first part Miss Murkens played to perfection the Faust-Phantasie by Sarasate; she was, of course, most heartily recalled, and proceeded to give, with orchestral accompaniment, the andante of a Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn, being obliged unfortunately, to omit the finale owing to the band parts having gone astray. But the andante-was delightful. In the first part, the orchestra also played Mendelssohn's Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and the LEpithalame from Wagner's " Parsifal," a remarkable piece of music admirably rendered under the scholarly and vigorous direction of Herr O. K. Wille. A couple of songs by a male quartet made up the first part of the concert.
In the second part, Miss Murkens, accompanied by Miss Merrylees, repeated Vieuxtemps' Reverie, and gave such a brilliant and artistic rendering that she was obliged to come back and play once' again, and the audience wanted to hear her yet again. The Male Quartet again sang, this time three songs, and Miss Merrylees played two pieces in the piano, displaying the firmness of touch, the fine execution, and the -expression. which marked her playing at the Masonic Hall. The orchestra gave Weber's Jubelouverture, which winds up with a splendid presentation of the air which we know as "God Save the King!" and a gloriously melodious composition by Smetana, which brought to a close as_ delightful a concert as the German Concert Society has ever given us.
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