Show THE CHORALS WORK i They Entertain the Visitors in Grand Style THE GUESTS ARE ASTONISHED Stephens Provides a Menu That the Strangers Will Lon Remember Grand Programme When the visit of the Irrigation congress is all over and the members are settled back in their homes nothing in the whole memorable occasion will have as green a spot In the memory of the delegates as the complimentary concert tendered by the Choral society at the tabernacle last evening It is doubtful if one of the visitors was missing from his place when the great glare from the electric lights and gas jets it up the magnificent auditorium There were 1150 complimentary tickets out and there were probably another 1000 to 1200 people who paid the admission fee The audience was nearly equally divided above and below It was a rare sight when the 300 singers arose in answer to a signal from Stephens and prepared to open the concert The ladies were all in bright colors and presented the appearance of one huge bank or roses The gentlemen dressed in unifbrm black looked scarcely less striking Nothing better could have been selected to open the concert than the grand selec tion Damascus one of the prominent hits of the June festival It is a selection in which the great organ and the 300 voices are pitted against each other and each thunders forth a volume of harmony seemingly independent of the other but both blending and uniting in a glorious whole The number roused the echoes and the enthusiasm would have been more pronounced still had it not been for the evident doubt of many of the visitors as to whether applause the building were the proper thing or not Mr and Mrs Met calls duet followed and by that time the audience had found that applause was permitted and the duet got a rousing encore Mr and Mrs Metcalf have a store of songs which are selected and executed with the same taste feeling and skill and though we confess that we think we have heard them render pieces more tender than those of last evening even-ing it would be hard to exceed their artistic art-istic manner of rendering anything As an encore they sang Abts When I know tbou art near me Professor Radcliffo played last night almost beyond his own high standard The visitors were spellbound spell-bound by the powers of the great organ as thej told out in the Schiller march This was immensely applauded and being recalled re-called Radcliffe played what made the German geologistswho were seated near the front almost rise out of their seats with enthusiasmthe Evening Star song from Tannauser Nothing could be mor exquisite than the combination the professor profes-sor brought into play in this selection The Chorals favorite number the Welsh glee The summer went oven better than at tho festival it that were possible A great burst of applause followed it and the audience au-dience insisted on a repetition It was all most admirably rendered in time shading and spirit The ovation of the nteht was given the tenor Mr Easton and the way the audience acted over him was more demonstrative than any thing wo are accustomed accus-tomed to see in the somewhat phlegmatic gatherings that are wont to assemolein the tabernacle He first gave Youll Remember Remem-ber Me instead of the number for which he was put down This was uproariously encored and he gave a verso of Bonnie Doon as only a Scotsman with voice like Easton knows how to give it Then he went back to his seat and two or three voices in different parts of the house echoed TUE HEUALDS wish and called out Annie Laurie This was taken up by the entire en-tire audience and when Stephens sat down to the piano aud reeled off the familiar strains of the tender old Scotch ballad the enthusiasm broke quite beyond bounds Easton sang one verse in his own way and we think that way in that particular song cannot be excelled by any singer in this broad lanaamateur or professional Another triumph was scored by Miss Lily Snyder in the Bel Raggio1 selection accompanied ac-companied by tbo ladies of the chorus The high notes and the florid work wore executed with a brilliancy that caught the house immensely For an encore Miss Snyder gave two verses of Comintr Through the Rye very charmingly and when the audience again insisted on her appearing she sang a verse of Row Row My Bark The thousand strangers within our gates craned their necks in astonishment as-tonishment and those in the side galleries stood up and leaned curiously over when the Young Ladies Guitar and Mandolin club in their attractive costumes filed into the aisles and took their places Of course I they got a huge encore for their waltz which they played very well We suggest that that solitary male violinist bo expunged ex-punged forthwith If no lady violinist is available leave the fiddle out altogether alto-gether and dont mar the beauty of that bouquet of roses by the introduction intro-duction of that solitary thorn He is a good performer doubtless but he reminded us in that group of the I Lone Fisherman Miss Fannie Lincolns I pure and liquid notes were beautifully heard in the Ernani Involami selection Her voice is not the strongest but it is wonderfully pure She was encored and pave a verse of an odd pretty solo which however might have been improved on as an encore The beautiful voices of Mrs Lizzie Thomas Edward and Miss Viola Pratt blended exquisitely in the Stabat mater duett and the eligioso effect they gave the fervent selection was excellent They were loudly recallod and gave the Norma duett in good style though hardly up to FMr V < i the first selection One of the gems of the night the Inflammatus selection with solo by Mrs Druce Pugsley lost something of its grand effect by coming last on the programme but it was a magnificent piece of work and Mrs Pugsleys brilliant high C above the 300 voices was electrifying The audience broke up with a prolonged and warm buzz of enthusiasm for tho chorals grand effort and the universal verdict ver-dict was that Stephens had covered himself him-self wiih another big instalment of glory |