ORPHEUS GLEE CLUB.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 957, 4 July 1890, Page 28

ORPHEUS GLEE CLUB.

SMOKE CONCERT,

The third public concert by the Orpheoi Glee Club was given in the Exchange Hall on Saturday evening, Mr Robert Parker conducting, and himself, with Mr Tallii Lrimweu, supplying the piano sccomnani. meniß where required. It is to be* regretted there was comparatively only t limited audience, as, undoubtedly, the entertainment, as an educational factor in the matter of higher-class music, was in- ] structive as well as enjoyable. What was j lacking in point of numbers, however, wm| made up for in appreciation, and lrai for] Mr Parker’s well-known rnle, many an item] on the programme would have been en-1 cored. The unaccompanied Vjcal numbenj were the glees: •'Soldier’s cborin-j (Werner) ; “Lend an ear” (Abt); “Banish,! oh, maiden” (Lorenz) ; and “ The millet'll daughter” fHartel . All these were renderelj in admirable time and tune, light and shade| being punctiliously observed, and with fiiti effect. Gerard Cobb’s “If Doughty Deeds,"* with piano accompaniment, effective!, 'j played by Mr Tallis Trimnelt, was plev-j ingly given, but scarcely so Buccessfuliy'ii§ the unaccompanied glees. In “ Hybiiaj the Cretan” (Elliot), Mr W. Widdopsaj heard to great advantage. The vocal iteoil in the first part were relieved by a violins solo, “ I’Lombardi ” (Singaleo), played b|| Mr A. Herman, who, we believe, on thill occasion made his debftt before a Wellington! audience. In the second part the sanug gentleman played, without music, a very* pretty cavatina; Mr Robert Parker companied with his usual ability andtsikS on each occasion. Mr Herman playl <*l cellently for so young a performer, and will! his second solo quite oarried away bW audienoe. His stopping is accurate, pression very fine, bow work g<M|j and general instrumentation refined clever. He was more happy in his seoMJ piece than in his first, apparently notbeingsg; much at home in it as he was in the c*v*Mg| Mr Herman distinctly made a good ✓Ap l ’ a i sion, and is an acquisition to We'vggJ musioal circles. A duet, “ The magiCi* l1 * Jj (Pinsuti), sung by Messrs C. A. Hiob» ), j| and F. V. Waters, and Co wen BWB “The old and the young Marie,’’ ni#'ljg interpreted by Mr E. P. Mountfort, very favourably reoUved, Wo most omit to mention that, by special the unaccompanied gem ‘ ‘Thuringian Volvp lied ” was repeate-i, though not on TH programme, and was vociferously applsofejlj The Club renders this beautiful coucerKjj

piece almost faultlessly. Tho concsi brought to a cio.ie with the choral

“Song of the little Baltung ” (Alios Smith), Mr Tallis Trimnell plj the extremely florid accompaoi with splendid judgment. Mr FW aters took the principal solo i and is to be complim-.nted on bis sucoet indeed, are th* Club as a whole, for capital product!-a of a somewhat Is® cantata, It in pp-niir music, much ccmmonplnc- mot. .in other parts fine indeed, hut si; I it in keeping lhe; theme. Like nnsny o'hor pieces 1 kind, o e wnma to lia-n it more than to adequately judge of it, but it must si to say toatits general clfect was goot that it was very warmly a-.pl»udeu I close. We hopo toon to again b»v( pleasure of an evening’s smoko With Orpheus Chib