The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-01-02
THE CONCERT.

What comes next? Probably you will
The New Year, but what re-
suits will it make? Many. Yes, partlc-
ularly, if We in retrospect review the i'm
provements of our people for the past
year, aud calculate upon things necessa-
rly in the present. We have our mills
in operation, new dwelling houses by the
score erected; our pew Presbyterian
Church, within a 8 lick of waffle OF
being finished, and our County Institute
established upon principle, that must IN.
sure It's success What comes next? Is
now being asked by every one: all allow,
that, generally, We are fast-golng
people making preparations, issuing no
tices for arrearages, that none may com
meuce the year in debt; and while We
are jostling out Old '67, some Of US are
actually looking out for the first of April.
We have sung our last song for the
year, and sung it tenderly, beautiful and
sweet. The voices of childhood have
mingled in the chorus, and we find out
with satisfaction, that we have more har-
mony in our com position than We have been
willing to acknowledge. We can number
among our many Improvements, Celeb
rdy an song. If we notice with what elo
auence and chaste sublimity Miss eau
saules sung her admirable solo, it is no
thing more than a merited acknowledge
ment, which every one who witnessed
the concert few nights ago, may bt
called upon to affirm. The thing wa:
quite natural aud becoming in It's way
both in sequent and particular; and only
wants small amount Of patronage, to or
ganize among us a class of performer.
that may rival in ability and address the
most popular in the land. Mrs. Shoe
maker, in her fine delivery of numbers
came of admirably, and displayed con
siderable discrimination, in the accute
ness of her easy and voluminous tone =
the execution was decisive, firm, and in
telligible: = and then the "Old Arm
Chair - SO popular, so vivid, and S;
commendatory in its natural impressions
that every one admires, and learns tC
adopt its familiarity to the happiness O.
home. Miss Dutot, whom We propose t.
mention without any effort to bewilder Oh
astonish, has SO well given proofs of NOR,
than ordinary culture, that We pause il
our epistoary review to legalize our free
dom in Judgment The soto was remark
ably characteristic Of the tOue-admirabl,
sung, and elegantly suited to the occa
sion: but if We should sum the matter u,
in its verbal condensity, we should say
that Miss Dutot possesses all the natural
properties of song, without the irregu,
artieS that often intrude upon, or intimi.
date the clear delivery, y hen the harmony
affecting, or the rehearsal pathetic OF
melancholy. Should we say that Miss
Dutot is accomplished as a singer VIC
would not err; but that she could i'm.
prove as public performer We are eqaal
y sure; however, she has evineed su,
periority in her vocation as a teacher
since she hasin soshort time presented to
the public class of juvenile performers
worthy of general patronage.
On the whole the concert was excel
lent = the children, in their solos and
quartettes, gave manifest proofs of good
instruction, and reliable power in what
they learned. In most of the quartcttes the
parts were not well balanced, or words
pronounced distinctly.
Much interest was felt in its success
"a large audience attended, chiefly
aliens Of the church; and on returning
home we heard young man address an
other thus:
Oh, James, how comes that none OF
the church members were PRESENT."
" Because" rejoined the other, d" the
church members don't wear their sunday
clothes except on the SaJJath."
We pronounce the solo by Miss Gau-
saules to be extra.
4 SPECTATOR.