The Portland daily press., 1877-03-30
The Cary Concert.

Last evening one of theIlargest audiences
ever seen in City Hall assembled to welcome
the accomplished artist and woman whom
Maine delights to call her own. There was
scarcely vacant seat to be found in the hall.
The audience was quite as noticeable for its
| enthusiasm as for its numbers, and Miss Cary
was received with round.after roundIof applause
whenever she made her appearance on the
platform. Indeed the desire of her listeners
increased as the minutes of her stay lessened.
The Society under whose auspices the concert
was given have reason to congratulate them
selves upon its unequivocal success, and the
audience themselves upon a most delightful
entertainment
line programme was well-chosen, of proper
length, sufficiently varied to meet the tastes Of
miscellaneous audience, and we'll adapted to
display the best quality of the singers engaged
in its Interpretation. 1t was somewhat length
ened by the persistent demands for repetition
OF some of the numbers, demands which were
as readily acceded to as they were made.
Miss Cary did not make her appearance un-
til the third number, when she sang the "O'don
fatale" of Verdi. Her journey over seas has
certainly not impaired her glorious voice, and
1T rang out in the lingering strains with all its
old sweetness and power. She was in one of
her happiest moods and sang with even more
than her wonted dramatic expression. OF
course she was enthusiastically recalled. Ora
ciously responding she favored her hearers with
Summer Evening Memories But it was on
her second appearance when she gave the song
SIT was a Dream that she more closely
touched her audience. There was that in the
quality of her voice as it carried the words
along which deeply moved all who heard her.
Of course she was recalled and responded with
charming little serenade from Gounod. Her
last selection was the ''Non 9 ver,' which was
received with rapturous applause. In &C.
acknowledgement she once more came forward
and sang Coming thro' the Rye with SO
much pathos and fervor that she was again
called back. Evidently she saw the Kentucky
riheman in the audience, for she concluded to
come down. Indeed there was no resisting
that house, and its importantly had ample
Justification; for her voice, fine as it was be-
fore, has notably gained within year in dra-
matte power and pathetic expression. For her
last encore she gave There's Good Fish in the
Sea as ever were Caught
Cloudy, Miss Turner, and Messrs. Pencil,
Ceyle and Kotzschmar acquitted themselves
with marked credit. In the opening and clos
ing quartets opportunity was given for the dis
play OF their excellence in concerted pieces.
In the duet "L Pescatori'' Mrs. Goudy's pleas
ing contraito was heard to great advantage.
and Miss Mary Turner displayed soprano
voice of considerable power and much more
than ordinary expression and tenderness. In
response to an encore the number was repeated.
Mr.. Pencils sweet tenor found opportunity in
the quartettes and in the duet with Mr.. Coyle
to display its excellent quality, while NJ.
Coyle's fine voics and noble method provoked
in response to his solo 1.-THE Village Black
smith, the always pleasing "Friar Of Orders
Gray" He was in unusually fine voice, and
sang with great power aid expression. The
duet by Mess1s. Pencil and CoSle, the seventh
number on the programme, was encored, and
they gave the "Larboard Watch Mr..
Kotzschmar's Accomplishments were, as ever,
exquisite.