The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-16
ENDURING HARMONIES.

MRS. GILES SINGS FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE
HOURS AND IN FIVE LANGUAGES
BY special invitation number Of newspaper people
and few personal friends assembled yesterday morn.
ing the large hall Of the Cooper Institute 10 hear
Mrs. Maude Giles revel In harmonies for three
secutive hours. Having heard her, IT is much
aver that It is perfectly practicable TO maintain
steady dow meodous uttorance for that time than
10 any cui bono Tor tho exploit After all,
why should anybody DO compelled. as Charles
Lamb phrases 1t, 40 lie stretched upon a rack
OF rosesf" Why ''po honey upon sugar and sugar
upon honey to an interminablc tedious sweetness2"
Even at a soiree musicale Patti b,nt on SO prodiga
waste OF her divine would confronted by
the antagonism OF the diettdnti. But whatever may
DO tho practical and social objections to the too
frequent and indscrminato performance OF such q
feat It must DO confessed in all rankness that Mrs.
Giles music is not oil that quality which "dcrives III
sweetness from being long drawn OUT" Tho lady has
q pure soprano voice OF 1.xbility. compass and or.
preston, and ncr feat would warrant the additional
descr,r ton "endurancc.'' She 10 step-daughteR
Of the late Mr.. Below, tho celebrated elocutionst
and from him she Is said to have Ioarnsd many OF
those orotund contrivances ana economic methods
whereby the Of The voice best nusOsnde
Snc certainly performed her task yesterday uDtir.
ingly anu without perceptible flaw or blemlSh. Her
programme consisted OF forty ono selections when
covered very wide range. indeed OF sentimental,
In ivo lauguagcs-Engl,sh, Frencn, German, Italian
Latin. Mrs. Giles sings also In Spanish, anu Ia
moments OF erudito enthusiasm can express the yri-
cal emotions In the ancient language Ut Israel. Whom
lighted up at night and whom large.sOued dem0o-
rncy responds to tho ierveDt 0rat0ry VI It's leader
great hall OF the Cooper Institute IL not duil
place. II ~ otherwise Ut ten O'Clock In the morning
The garsh day fails penetrate It's recesses with any
degree Of efficacy and It's aspect IL dccldedy son,brc
IL looks, too MS IL all tue harinonies OF the Now Jeru
salem could not wake 1t into giadness.
IL looked 80 yesterday morning at ten O'Clock when
Mrs Gilos Launched forth on the wide OF melody
which she bad chosen 10 navigate. MI Justin Juch
was ut piano, and his digal dexterty responded
to and guided tho efforts oil the vocalist Starting
with composition by hiard, Mrs. Giles glidel INTO
that charming ballad by Arthur sullivan, s'Lct No
which have been welded TO a couple OF Mendels.
sohn's compositions and emerged again In Tho de-
upntiul strains OF 'rhe Harp that 0uco Tnro'
Tara's Hail. Then, among other things, she
marched bravoly through the heroes Of "rno Minis.
tresyn sparkied through "Lovc's Young Drcam,n
TRIPOD ghtIy along sComing Thro' the Rye" und
lauguishsd delightfully."- In Tho Last Rose OF sum.
Rosau OF opera "Under mo Daisies" " Miliard,
was beautifully sung, and Handlers "Angcls Ever
Bright and FAIR" was OF exceptional sxceenco But
why follow up The entire prograinmeY Suffice II TO
that Mira. les showed NO vocal fatigue all through,
that sue used tho piano method with great skill and
that ended blaze OF iorto glory In the grand
uria from s'Dor FrcischUtz"
At the conclusion oil her task Mrs. Gilos said sho
wns more faiigucd from Standing than from singing
and that she quito able to sing another song she
sings IN ST. Marys Roman Catholic Church, Jersey
City. and II tho jealous atcs are not angerod by her
waste OF resources wii sing shore to-day requiem
high mass