Litchfield enquirer., 1872-04-18
THE KELLOGG CONCERT.

county papers were all present at the Kel- logg Concert at Winsted, last week. It isn't likely that Miss Kellogg ever faced quite that amount of journalistic and crit ical ability before. Yet she seemed cheer full It is we'll enough to state that six hundred and ninety-six other people were snere aiso. .sszzsassazzs.sss
 unluckily for us, the three other county editors publish later than we do, and said their say last week. This s'cribs, cabins. and confines" our genius to lamentable extent. For instance, we had intended introducing, What we Know about Thorough Bass" incidentally; but we ''turn down" that trump in despair after contemplating the scientific flights of Brother Pease, of the News, who describes Miss Kellogg as ''carrying her hearers with her, as it were, to the top of the third heaven of song, and then grad ually bringing them down with her, trilling her way through the intricate network of hemi- -demi-semi- -quavers," &c.,, &c., Then, too, we had thought of introducing a bit of sentiment a neat reference to 'sFlee as Bird, The Passage Bird 8 Farewell" Chad actually hit on that particular coinci- dence) when down comes the Herald on us, charging in half column as follows: Before the eyes of our more distant readers will trace these lines, the most charming and gifted American represent -a&ise of tho lyric art will have become bird of passaae," Citalics ours) &c.,, &c. When we thought, finally, of subsiding into matter-of-fact report, with pro- gramme, there stands the Sentinel, cov- ering that very ground.
 With the respective fields of Science, Poetry, and Fact, thusalready pre-empted, little is left for us to say except that everything was lovely: Miss Kellogg; her ways, her voice, and her expression; her diamonds, pearls, and satin dress. AL though her voice is singularly pure, req sonably powerful, and apparently capable of overcoming any amount of vocal diff 4ACu1U4Cc, b4CkO W0C A1tL1O O1 G1db SOTt O4 display. She sang some difficult music, executing it so perfectly that it seemed easy; but the ballads, the Kissing Song," Beware" and, above all, "Home Sweet Home" were done with 8 grace, a roguish- ness, 8 tenderness, that the sweetest voice, the sweetest face, and the sweetest man. ner, combined to render inimitable. Some of the ladies, indeed, object that she was affected" 'smade eyes," &c. Now we venture to say that no such criticism oc- cured to any male person there present. We look over our files of the Sentinel, the Herald, and the News, in vain for any such imputations. The gravest man we saw there (we set him down, without know ing at all where he was from, as Deacon of the Congregational church in Old Win chesteD evidently hadn't such thought. No matter how impressively she cried "Beware," he appeared willing to risk it, every time; and the only thing he seemed to regret in the Kissing Song was the one sided nature of the performance. The ladies, however, all united in commend ing the quiet manner of MT. Morgan, who had the sweetest tenor voice in the world, and was fragile and interesting to 8 degree. The baritone sang well but ex- cited little compassion. MT. Wehi seems an irascible gentleman who has taken contract to make kinding wood of We- Der Grand Piano. Under his treatment, that amiable instrument became Royal Bengal Tiger. Every now and then, touse Dr. Holmes metaphor, cit gave great howl, as if its tail had been trod on.". In fairness, we must say, however, that with the notes MT. Wehli pounds out" come many poured out" passages of the most de- ightful piano music.
 The arrangements for seating the audi ence were excellent, and our gratitude to Winsted carried us through the darkness of the Valley of the Shadow of Death that prevails over the intervening space be- tween the s'Flat" and West Winsted, with out an audible growl. Litchfeld county did not turn out to welcome it's glorious
 orin,a donna as it would have done had not travelling at night been positively dangerous Now that Winsted is ''rail- road center," why not have more Kellogg concerts, and the like?