The second concert for children at the Town Hull on Thursday devoted special attention to the wind band, the desire being to fix in the mind the different wood and brass wind instruments, all of which were explained and illustrated at last meath's concert. A number of charming compositions had been dug possible quarter by. duets for oboes, for English horns, for clarinets and bassoons; a trio for flute, English horn and harp; a duct for trombones; and so forth. It upsets many preconceived ideas and the basis of much conventional comic poetry, to find what s ft full rich notes the trombone can produce when played as it was yesterday. Further, without derogation to the players, how amazingly "dated" and "dodo-[ike" "are composers our fathers loved. Halévy and Bellini are me comparably more old-fashioned than composers half x century their prodecessors. There was a solo by tha zither, on which the player plucks the melody with a plectrum on the thumb, the accompaniment being played meanwhile by the fingers and frets being provided for the five melody strings for operation by the left hand. The zither has a pretty tone and the player's dexterity was wonderful but of course the voice is rather small for a barn of a place like the Town Hall. The ever popular xylophone appeared again and the programme wound up with a full orchestra, Tt was a delightful. afternoon's musi, much ° appreciated a, Tat idience of' young and old."
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