THE SHEFFIELD CHOIR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1153, 14 June 1911, Page 9

THE SHEFFIELD CHOIR.

"lIOW THEY DID SI.VG!" The first concert of tho present four cf the Sheffield Choir was given at St. John's, New Brunswick, and owing to the lato arrival of the steamer did not commence until 9.30 p.m. Of this concert the St. 'ohn's "Standard" savs:— "It is unfortunate that the superlative degree through frequent uso has to some extent lost its effect, for certainly the adjectives of present day newspaper'. English fail to fittingly describe tho wondrous beauties of this superb instrument of human vocalisation.- Perhaps' tae secret of success is found in the fact that the Sheffield Choir has learned the lcss'on of implicit obedience. Musicians though the members all are, they recognise the outstanding ability of* their loader, and there has developed between the singers and Dr. Jlenry Coward, tho conductor, an artistic sympathy which perhaps more than anything else has placed this organisation in-tho unassailable position it now occupies. "And how they did sing! From the triumphant majesty of. Bach's deathless \c To Tho Lord,' to' the. fiendish jeering of tho Demons' Chorus, from (jciontius; from the patriotic, reverence of the National Anthem to the bubbling humour of several part songs and from the quaint sweetness of the Cruiskcen {?m vn „ ~ . Pieturesquo vocalisation of Iho Bells of St. Michael's Tower,' and ' V I' ranklynno's Dogge,' the choir ran the whole gamut of human sentiment. Every number was a gem in itself, every member of the chorus a soloist, and every soloist an important unit in the creation of a sentient human instrument, responsive to tho slightest touch of the master. - "