THE CITY HAIL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXX, Issue 5412, 28 December 1874, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE CITY HAIL.

Miss Christian's coucerfc was a most gratifying -wcces*, the audience being largo and appreciative, and the entertainment of the most sterling and attractive character. In the first place Miss Christian has thoroughly established the incontrovertible fact th.it she is one of the moat finished and ciptiTatiiilj ballad siugeis that has ever Bung s mth of the Equator. With, a voico of uunv ailed mellow ness and richness she sings m the pure sweet style that rendered Lady Don so great a favoante in Australia, and we venture to aay that Miss Christian will have a triumphant career in iNew Zealand, and will be a3 great a favourite here as she has beeu in Melbourne, where for a long time past no grand concertwas considered complete without her. Ou Saturday night Miss Christian selected for her opening qong a beautiful composition by Macfarrcn, ' The beating of my own Heart,' which she sang with cx([insite pathos. On being encored, she substituted a ballad by B*lfe, ' Oh, take mo to thy Heart again.' A brilliant duct, ' TV1 rammenti,' by Oauipana, and sun^ by Mi&a Christian and Mrs. iSmythe, tcnnuiattd the iirst part of the concert This was al&o cncoied, and the fair vociliscs t^ave as a supplementary item, ' Wiiat's a' the steur kunnier.' Mrs. Smythe was in excellent voice, and sang, 'Thee only 1 love,' liy Abfc, in a most excellent nuiuiur, and was warmly applauded. Jn tho ae«mid p»it, Miss Chusti.m ga\e, ' Once a 40,111, ' a lovely plaintive ballad, by Arthui Sullivan, .and in lesponso to tlie movitablo ie-dcuiaml, " l'he cold winds of Autumn." Miy. .Smythe favored the audience with the cavatiua, by Willn lm Ganz, "hing sweet bud," a duet by li'-llim, arranged from "Beatrice do I'endi," in conjunction witiiiMr. .Skinner, and with Alias Chnstian, and Meistn. Runford and Skinner, <i quartutfco. by Muicadente, " Sweeb >s tho hour of lest " >» r. Itamfoid \\\\s in excellent voice, and in tho com se of the evc'iiiiig aaug liiiiiinauuul'u tin-j scena, "This Deai'it," in splendid style. Hun. Doehler pUyud two solos in his incomparable miniiiM-, one tho "Caruivale," by lirnsb, and the other a fantasia, by Haumann Mr. Skinner contributed Biuhou'd " Pilgrim ot Ij »vf, ' a'ul Mr. Harcouit Ljo, ia addition to acting as accompanyist, played a fine desciipnvo solo on the pianoforte, entitled "The Band passes." Theie will be an entiio chau^o m tU« programme this Miea

C.mstnn will siug -he " Lane J_> ■ > by tlio River," .uvl, as a specialty, rov Ir '• <» t> ie old sea balla.I "Poor Jack H'o.mi,' one en her greatest aucoesses in Melbourne.