The Musical Society's Concert.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5217, 11 May 1888, Page 3

The Musical Society's Concert.

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' . "gm Everyone must allow that the Musical Society deserves much praise for its persistent efforts to rai«u public tnste to the altitude at which alono the selections made for its concerts can be appreciated. The Napier Musical Society is immortal; it can never die. It may change its name, as it has changed it from time to time, as loss of members, an unaympathetio < public, or pecuniary difficulties may have dictated; but still ' the elements have always remained, like M. Paeteur's microbes, or the germs of typhoid, to -spring ™to a fresh State of existence on the first favorable opportunity. But whether it goes by the name of the Harmonic, the Philharmonic, the Choral, or tho Musical Sonety, its object is the samc-the elevation of taste in matters of harmony. Last night's concert was no exception to the rule. There was a full muster ot TocaKs and of instrumentalists, and there was almost an empty theatre. For weeks ■ past the membprs of the Society have been Suously practising the items of a programme replete with misery and «1 iz/lrfZkthSo^r Iμ undertaken to obtain such a result! Tfthink that for three weeks or a mouth the members have retired to rest with tho mo ß r melancholy drones ringing in their am that fhe highest class musical composers can evolve from disordered brains ou£ to m"etSh the reward of empty benches ! X would have been some consolation ii hZj could have made a £70 house as miserable as they themsoves must have been But it was not bo. i lnieo Sund ten's worth of sombre and wdnto "souls alone came to be -made fetched, nor is it likely that there will Tver bo much more than tiiat amount Life is too Tort, times .are too bad, to deepen L depression incidental to / redolent of bankruptcy and debts. V' Even the popular prices of 3s, 2s, and Is, went to listen to the harmony provided And it says something' for the wr of Nanier resfdents, that only three pound ten were represented! It does not come withm my province to criticise the performance as "performance; but I trust I shal not bo roSSaorod rude if I protest against the SaWe dirges that are put fcrih M ■Jβ highest flights of musical