The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-03-01
rE coNcEErE OF Yl. oLDE roLKEs.

The concert last night at the City Hall was something new for Prescott, and eiicised more than ordinary interest
 The performers, fifteen in number, male and female, were dressed in the style of some uncertain period of < the olden time. : which left the imagination free to locate the scene in Leicester in the reign of the King of Northumberland, or America in CoIlonial times, as if happened to strike the fancy of ss.e spectator.
 Whether we wefe standing in the crooked streets of Coventry gazing at a picture of the Lady Godiya in church window with the inscription beneath
 .sIiurieae for love of thee
 Doe make cOyenrry ton free"
 or by the bridge where lie the remains of Richard the III, the last of the Plantagnets, or at Stratford -on Avon, criticising the in- junction carved on a slab over the newly made grave of the immortal Shakespeare:
 .6oode triende. for Jesus sake forbsare,
 To digge ye dnst enclosed heare-
 Bieste be ye man VI spares these stones
 And curt be he yt moves my bones."
 But to the Concert. At o'clock sharp the Sth Infantry Band, under the leadership of Prof. DiBello, played Gen. Edw. ". Hicks Quick Step Waltz, followed by the '-Fieur de Alsace,- while the people were coming in: after which, the curtain rose, and Mr. H. c. Howe, as sHodija Gideon Hutchinson, acting as timeist for the sing CTS, led the party on to the stage where All ye men and women singers" joined in singing '.Stiike ye Symbslen
 Mrs. F. w Blake, as Priscilla DoolittIe,- then sang Mary of Argyle .SherburDer was then sung by all the men and women.
 MT. Howe, as "Hodija,' etc, sang 'sThe Old Sexton.'' Then came four parte song. entitled Cousin Jedediah,r ,r in which Mrs Blake, as "Pricilla Doolittle," John Lloyd, as "Timothy Ticklepitchcr," and A. Head, as "James Joshua Higgleby,n took part.
 Mrs. R. II. Burmister and Miss IAzzie Bashford, as "Araminta Vainlove Pound keys and Mehitable Grimshaw- played a two part tune on the harpsichord, entitled 70, Dolce Conciento.r
 Mrs. N. B. Bowers, (the Ladye from the next Parish,) as Margery Pinchwife, sang Kathleen Mavooneen.
 All ye men and women then sang the Marseilles Hymn, and marched off the stage for few minutes, while the band played !" Fantasia" from Stradele, s Rosa Schot- tische g and " Un Balo en Maschera.-
 All ye men and women singers then raised their voices again and < Sounded the Loud Timbrel o'er Egypts dark Sea-
 Timothy 1ickeIpitcher sang {" Worldlye Song entitled "When George the Sd was King" and being enchored gave "The Campbells are Coming"
 Miss Parker, as prudence Witherspoop, Mrs. w. c. Bashford. as Deborah Down. right; Mrs. Blake, as Prescilla Doolittle; Mrs. Burmister, as Araminta V. Poundkeys; A. Head, as J. l. Higgleby; E. $. Seed, as Jeremiah JewhilIkins Judkins; Mr. Howe, as H. G. Hutchinson; and E. P. Clark, as l Obediah R. Kittlewell; sang an eight part | song entitled " Dearest Spot on Earth.r
 Now came the feature of the evenings | and if is no want of appre- | citation or inclination to underrate the ! abilities of other singers, that constrains us to say that Mrs. F. c. Parker, as s Huldana l Augustine Broderick,p sang "The Last Rose of Summer" in manner that would | have been a credit to any of the great | artistes, who have maGe that sweet song | speciality. Being encored, she came back and sang "Within a Mile of Peterborough Town" with scarcely less sweetness of voice and excellent appreciation of the text. Mrs. Parker's voice, naturally fine, has evi- dently received careful culture of very high order, which entities her to rank with the very best amateur singers in this or my other country,
 Mrs. Parker, Miss Bashford, and Messrs. Clark ana Seed sang good old song; Mrs. Burmister performed a medley; Lloyd, Clark, and Seed introduced worldlye song, entitled "The Barber" and all the people, including the audience, joined in singing 'Auld Lang Syne," which closed the enter ainment. As the reader will observe, we have been obliged to omit any mention of the various costumes, which were all rich, antique and ,dd enough to entitle them each to sepa- ate paragraph. but we have naither time lof space to attend to them to-day. Neither Ire we quite sure that we have tho charac- CTS exactly right, but we have done the , pest we could, under the circumstances. w. c. Bashford represented Genl. Israel Putnam, who appeared to have grown some what stout about the abdomen since he had ( lis picture taken. I R. H. Burmister, whom we had never [ leard sing before, occupied the extreme l eft of the stage and filled the position as- I igned him qnite satisfactorily.
 Hon. C. B. Foster and Mr. Frank c. Par ' ter sang in nearly all the songs, except the clos, and We find on the programme two or | hree more character names, such as 0verdo, Alden, Egglestone, etc, which belong to { 'srker, Foster and Bgrmister, but we have ! orgotten just how they come in, 1 The house was quite we'll filled with eiti- [ ems, as we'll as officers and ladies from I Headquarters aud Fort Whipple, and it is $ afe 70 say that the old folks concert was s uccess.
 While the audience was filing out of the f all the band played the Flip-fap Polka.
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