Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-06
CROWDED PARLORs.
A Very Pleasing and Successful Piano Recital at the Residence of Dr. J. HI. Smith.

A Very Pleasing and Successful Piano Recital at the Residence of pr. J. HI. Smith.
 The large commodious parlors at the resi- dence of Dr. J H. Smith, No. g Elm street, were thronged last evening with young la dies and gentlemen and many prominent cit izens with their ladies, all giving close at tention and evincing much interest and ap- probation. The occasion was private piano recital before select company, given by the pupils of Miss Eastman. Two large grand pianos were used, loaned for the occasion by M. Steinert 6 Sons, and were regarded with marked interest, the pianos being samples of the famous 0. Bechstein piano from Berlin, just being introduced in New England by Steinert & Sons, arrangements for which MT Stsinert made on his visit to Europe last season. The pianos were highly ap- proved and commended for their rich ness and purity of tones, their power and the delicate and harmonious blending of sound and yielding an effect akin to an orchestra. The young ladies acquitted them selves admirably, and it was remarked by the critics that the recital was one of marked merit, not only in regard to the older, but also the younger pupils. The rendering of the fourth, fifth and third selections in part first on the programme was specially mer- itorious and ranked in merit in the order named, and the Misses Dem1ng's selections from Rubenstein and No. 1 in part two were specially noteworthy. The closing quartette was excellently given. The programme was as follows:
 1. Piano Duet-Sonata op. 3, No. 1: Mozart Master Stanley Knight, Master Sumner Peck 2. Mazourka-Op. B, No. .4................. Chopin
 Master Stanley Knight, 3. Piano Quartette-Swedish Wedding March. Miss Alice Bradley, Miss Sadie Taves, Miss Alice Fitch Miss Kitte Beecher. 4 Piano Duo-Grand Septuor. ......... Beethoven Miss May T. Harwood, Miss Fannie c. Potter. ~ Miss May T. Harwood. 6. Piano Duet-Overture, Hebriden Mendelssohn
 Misses Deming.
 PART H.
 1. Piano Quartette-Aufforderun Zum Tanz Miss May T. Harwood, Miss Mabel whittlesey Mas
 ter Stanley Knight, Master Sumner Peck. ?. Polonaise-Oeuvre Posthume. ............. Chopin
 Miss Fannie C. Potter. 3. Piano Duet:-Rhapsodie Hongroise No 2. Liszt Miss Fannie c. Potter, Miss May T. Harwood. 4. Kamennoi Ostrow. .Rubenstein
 Miss Elizabeth s. Deming 5. Piano Quartette-SlavischeT Tanze, Nos 5, 6, Miss Elizabeth s. Deming, Miss Fannie C. Potter, Miss Carrie M. Deming, Miss May T. Harwood.
 Personal.
 Mir. L. L. Sawyer, of Meriden, was booked to leave Texas for Chicago last Monday and his wife was to sail for home on one of the steamers.
 William T. Coggswell, eighty-two years old and one of RockvilIe's oldest residents, was taken with apoplexy Saturday morning and was unconscious during the day, but has rallied.
 Mir A1hert n Croua1I son If Mr. A P Crowell of Hartford, has just returned from half years exploration of the tropical regions of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Isthmus mountains.
 Colonel Hurd, whose winter home is in New York, has magnolia tree on his place at Watertown which has borne more than one thousand blossoms this year, bell shaped and as large as teacup.