St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
The Cantata Tuesday Night.
Successful Performance by Home Talent.


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The Cantata Tuesday Night.
Successful Performance by Home Talent.
The North church choral society did
itself and it's friends proud by the very
successful rendering of j. Astor Broad's
cantata of "Ruth the Moabitess" at
Music hall last Tuesday evening. The
performance was wholly musical, with
the work, solos and all, should be so
well given entirely by local talent, re-
fleets decided credit on the society
which presented it. The cantata was
directed by Mr.. j. HI. Humphrey, and
sung to the accompaniment of a grand
piano and cabinet organ, respectively
played by Miss Mary E. Stone and Mr..
L. w. Metcalf. The chorus, number
ing 65 voices, sang with excellent pre-
cision, spirit, and volume. The bal
ancing of the parts was also very good.
The greater portion Of the solo work
was divided between Mrs. H. X. Ide
as "Naomi," Mrs. p. F. Hazen as
Ruth" and Mr.. E. A. Silsby as
"Boaz." Each part was sung with ex-
cellent taste and effect. Where all
was good, it may hardly be necessary
to single out special numbers. Mrs.
Ide, however, not only sang the lead
ing soprano solos in a satisfactory
hut oil IL
the obligatO passages with the male
quartette, ''The Lord bless thee" (sung
by Messrs. Tyler, Hazen, Silsby and
Webster,) and in the brilliant soprano
solos in connection with the chorus,
"Praise We the Lord" Mrs. Hazen's
solos were sung in such thoroughly
and evenlyartistic manner as to deserve
high praise. The solo, "Entreat me
not" the duet with Mrs. Ide imme-
diately following, the Cleaning song,
and the solo, ''My soul doth magnify"
were all finely rendered. The part of
"Boaz" was sung with dignity and ex
preston by Mr.. Silsby, who was par
ticularly fine in the spirited song,
"HuTrah for the reaper's life so gay"
acceptably rendered.
Miss Nellie Graves, who assumed the
part of the "Jewish Maiden" very re-
luctantly, owing to recent illness,
scored one of the chief successes of the
concert in the solo, "Tn darkest shades"
which was sung with marked express
sion and feeling, and won deserved
and hearty encore. Mrs. j. H. Hum
phrey as "Orpah" sang the tender
song, "Wben deepest shadows" with
charming sweetness and expression,
and Miss Mary F. Fairbanks as the
'Israelitish woman" was very success
full in the solo, "Haste We maids" sing
ing with both brilliancy and power.
Among the choicest gems of the
evening were the female triOs, 'Be
thou, Lord, my help in trouble" by
Mrs. Humphrey, Mrs. Ide and Mrs.
Hazen, and ale shall give his angels
charge over thee" by Miss Graves,
Mrs. Ide and Mrs. Hazen. Minor solo
parts were we'll taken by Messrs. A.
o. Baker, w. G.. Tyler, j. H. Hum
phrey and p. F. Hazen. Mr.. Tyler's
duet with Mrs. Ide is worthy of honor
able mention. The unaccOmpanied
quartet, GLOW blest are they" was
we'll rendered by Mrs. Ide, Mrs. Hazen,
Mr.. Hazen and Mr.. Silsby. The Drink
ing song, for bass and tenor solos,
(sung by Messrs. Silsby and Hazen)
male chorus and full chorus, gave a
pleasant variety to the cantata.
The piano accomplishments, on the
tiveness of the cantata largely depend
ed, were played in a thoroughly COM
petent manner by Miss Stone. Finally,
much credit is due to Mr.. Humphrey
for the faithful chorus drill which pro-
duced so effective results on this Occa-
sion, as we'll as for his able direction
of the performance itself. He is spe-
cially to be congratulated on the sue
cess of the cantata. The performance
lasted two hours, and progressed with
out confusion, break or failure from
the opening chorus to the finale.
RAILROAD MEETING TO-DAY.
The following Boston 81 Lowell rail
road managers arrived at the st. Johns
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