Show AMU 1 With an unusually large audience of enthusiastic music lovers to approve the Orpheus club gave its first concert this season at the Theatre last Jast evening pre presenting presenting Mme IY LYdIa la Sterling contralto and Glenn Hall tenor as the soloists Arthur Shepherd accompanying The was opened by the club in Sullivans The Long LonS Day Closes a rather sombre number sung welt welL but offering little opportunity for effects in choral cheral melody such as are uSUally most popular for introductory work It showed a well balanced organization under good control with voices for the most part of smooth quality and excellent volume The hypercritical 1 ll might have detected a little raggedness In the work of one or two tenors and a tendency to overdo the heavy passages but taken altogether this and the succeeding numbers sus tamed fully the high reputation tIme tho club has established for thorough scholarly work The second number by Mme Sterling was lImo Ster lings hags voice Is sweet str strong ng and of good compass and pleasing but one may he be pardoned for noting a lack Jack of the lade Inde Indefinable finable last touch of charm Which maIms a voice great and a per irre irr in stage presence Her singing won encores and she was evidently in f with the audience Her other nurn num numbers bers the Mignon aria with Ye Banks and Braes for an encore proved popular mr lar Mr Hall made his entree with the se cc selection lection 0 Vision Entrancing from Esmeralda His ap appearance appearance was greeted with every evidence of pleasure Mr Hall has appeared with the club before and the audience recalled the impressIon he made at that time Al Almost Almost most with the tho first note nate hi his hearers were at his command Few concert slug er em possess a tone of such clearness and purity ari and l none could have more perfect control in inthe inthe the dram dramatic tlc VIsion with which he began br in the lighter Scotch and Irish ballads or In the noble aria from Men his 1115 Interpretation fitted perfectly the description of sing ing with the spirit and the understand understandIng Ing Mr Rail Ban not only sings with rare intelligence but he Is blessed with a strong personalIty the power or of hOlding an audience His versatility is short of extraordinary as witness the thc range of his f Sore Sere Serenade nade Hills o Skye two little Irish songs songs and the Elijah aria ada The Te Hulls o 0 Skye particularly particular exemplified the way a Scotch ballad should be sung stIng even to the touch of so difficult cult to any but a Celt and yet as In Inseparable separable from H a conception of their mu music music sic as the heather is from the moor To make the transition successfully from light humorous baIl ballads ads to oratorio I Is perhaps the supreme test of the ar artist artist and Mr Han Hall did it With the first few bars of the he had pro produced produced in hIs audience a reverent attl atti tude which heard the al roost breathlessly an and refused to leave although ough It was the final number until he gave an encore Space precludes an adequate review of aU all the club numbers It gave Love Is Done with exquisite effect and the Valentine wa was a dainty gem My y Lady Chloe fel fell short of just the swing an and rhythm of a negro melody ought to have but the Bedouin Song was n magnificently wih with al all the dramatic force and regard fo lot it its poetic passion one could ask Mr Shepherds accompaniments were as always a decisive factor In the sac suc ces cess of the numbers Very few artists approach hi him in that s sympathy and su without effacement which give a genuine accompaniment standing as an achievement Altogether te the avening wa was a Seat great tr tn for the club Following the concert the club opened its new ro roams ms in the build ing in with an Informal reception for Glenn wih Hall and Madame Lydia Sterling A HaI number of musicIans and several frends friends of the club were invited and the club delighted it its got guests with a selection A buff t supper wa was sere served People who were not at the last night wm will not know until th thOy y talk to some of thoe those that tere there how very very lucky they are they hey certaInly certainly vey ver a bd bad one one The was uniform uniform to the unspeakable ak able Exceptions should be made how however ow ever eyer In favor of Willard over overture overture ture and the act ot of the ant Who paper scraps off the stage The latter laUer it t must be confessed won considerable I It is not worth worthwhile while to go Into details A good many of last nights nights audience went lome home b be before fore the performance was over It would be difficult for the ret rest to SY say why they stayed except that probably they thought that the get worse and i it might get beter better Happy Ja Gardner failed to arrive His place was taken by the y tro whose act was good last week It ItIs Itis tro Is an act though that partakes some somewhat somewhat what of the as i it was in the begIn begInning ning is now and ever eer shall be world without end style style The usual crime pictures were show by the with the usual pursuits and the usual wih captures See Hebrews Last nig nIghts ts bill will be continued through the week bi at the wf Orpheum except that that Gardner Is scheduled to stat start work today and the trIo wH will be eliminated I There wl will be a matinee this Frol Fron Frou wl will be given at the Grand again Yankee anee Doodle Girls playe played to two good houses yesterday I It goe goes agan again this i |