Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-01
We wondered who lent him money


exhibition of good clothes and bad music,
that has grown to be afeature of the musi-
cal world in Shawneetown, came off last
evening ut the Opera House. Every seat
in the hall was taken, for our patient
community has become accustomed to
this atliiction, and submits to it without n
murmur four or five times year, very
much ns they take duinine i'll the spring
Those people who came stamping i'll
late as usual, after the Shawneetown
style, are to be congratulated this time,
as they escaped hearing the "Arion Quar-
totte" sing "IIele in the Cool Croft 1t
is due to the "Arion Qunrtettc' however,
to say it was not the worst singing of the
evening. The audience thought it Ger
tainly would be the worst : and so, in
deed it was, until later III the evening the
same quartette botched Come Where
my Love Lies Dreaming" 1t was dread
full beyond description and the dcafcn-
ing applause which followed it only tcs-
titled the great joy Of the audience ON be-
ing assured that the "Arion Quartette"
would sing no more that evening.
Miss Abigail Mciinnessy rendered IL
recitatiye and aria, by Cappola, in the
Ii amer that has long ago become so sad
ly familiar TO our suffering people, and is
always source of profound ombarrass-
ment to the accompauist, who iloundered
along last night i'll the patient but vain
| hope of getting even with the singer
somewhere by scrambling across lots, and
heading her off in some unusually pro-
longed run. But this was impossible,
and singer and accompanist were never
within six bars Of each other during the
whole of the alleged performance. Mr..
Poundawa, the time-honored acoompa-
mist Ill all these affairs, by the way, did
even worse than usual last evening. We
are panied to notice that his habit of
| playing on the edge of the piano, two
inches away from the keys, grows upon
him. ana he should either change his
! drink or his vocation.
Mrs. Bangalon played Monastery
Bells us usual. 1t was disguised under
II French name in the program but every
one knows what is coming after Mrs.
Bangalon finally gets the piano moved
into precisely the right place which is
always Just where it stood before she had
it moved the first time-and after seating
herself for the iftieth time, finally con-
cludes to remain seated. Mrs. Banga-
| Ions unvarying habit of wearing her
| gloves to the piano, and occupying seven
minutes i'll removing them, is not an af-
| fectatlun. 1t ~ an act of mercy. and
gives the people nearest the door an OPP
portunity to slip out before she begins to
| play. The reporters of the city press
used to go out at this time; but since
Bngalon has taken to standing at the
door to watch refugees, they have, with
excellent taste and better Judgment,
abandoned the custom and silently swal.
lowed their full cup of misery. As Mrs
Bangalon left the stage Joab Garbey'
who was asleep i'll the gallery fell off his
chair, and installing the noise for an en-
core, Mrs. Baugalon returned and pound
cd out the "Maiden's Prayer" Some
body ought to kill that man Garbey.
professor SownpUst played violin
solc-Do Beriots Seventh Air Every
body was grateful that he didn't try the
eighth. The professor dresses like n
waiter, and handles fiddle like II gradu.
ate from side show. He is in great de-
muld at all the dances down ut Wyseker',
Branch and the Snssafras Bottoms and
il is believed, i'll fact, that all his musca
education was acquired ut Dan Coscman'
store. ut the old ford. on Clymer's Creek.
He is trying TO get up Il class Ill this city
and if this man attempts to teach ON
boys TO play the fiddle us he does, he
ought to be lyncheI. And he will be il
the TumJOrCc has any influence i'll musi
cal circles.
1t was as good as Il circus to hear Mad
anne Parapluc sing Robert, tot gu,
Anne" Ii the old lady's lungs were II!
big as her feet she might sing more ant
wheeze less. As it is, candor compels III
to say that case of asthma weighing tw,
hundred and seventeen pounds is no ar
tistic addition to concert.
Miss Cppercea played the same ole
'Improvisation" she began playing il
these concerts eighteen years ago. |
lasts about rs well us her diamonds ant
changes about MS little. 1t is time sh,
had 1t published and improvised some
thing new.
jim ThurlOw came ont and sang hi
unchangiug "Ah, so fair The agony o
the audience during this time of trial wa,
fairly insupportable. His high notes ar,
greatly admired, because his voice alwayl
breaks into IL thin falsetto squeak OF
them and lie cant make SO much noise as
he can on his chest tones. If Jim hat
been born dumb, or his audience deaf
the world would be much happier. Som,
time he will go away from home and sing
and the Judge will give him sixty day!
for it. Still this would not be extraya
giant. His singing is worth it ; every ia,
OF It,
The only excuse for putting Miss Malt
by on the programme every time there il
II concert i'll Shuwneetown, is that he
. father is worth eighty thousand dollars
and owns the biggest brewery in Lowell
County.
With II voice, musical education an,
general ability about mp to the grade o
baby Mine. she sang her old standby
last night, the "Spinning-whecl Song
from Faust If Marguerite could hav
sung ii as Miss Maltby sung it, it woul,
buve saved the poor child world o
trouble. 1t would have scared Faust
cphistOpholes and the whole gang o
; them out OF the country. There is NOR
music in Mr.. Maltbys bung- starters THAI
there is in his daughter. Much has here
tofore been said in these columns abou
Miss Maltby's beauty. While the spiri
oil Truth is upon us we are free to ADM
! that she Is pretty-in the dark.
Mr.. Bellows sang ooh, We Tears. Mr.
Bellows has II rich baritone voice
!, wheel-barrow tone, that is. Uniortu
1 nately for his effort last evening, nobod
knew he was singing until he finished til
Dntchery OF Art and bowed himself o
the stage. Everybody thought he wa
: just trying his voice. If ever his voice
u tried, 1t will be convicted on its own ev
dencc.
James ii. Blowson and Ebert Hafu
:, sang "Larboard Watch" 1t is II grea
pity these young men are not aware tina
q their mouths were made to catch HE
n with rather than for singing. Hafut'
\, voice is so like Il fog-horn that he may h
pardoned for a tendency to sing marin
n songs but aside from a plea of nature
:. depravity and fiendish misanthropy, thel
8 is no excuse whatever for Blowsons a