The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-27
MENDELssOHN QUINTETTE CLUB.
A Full House Acknowledgement Of
a Jacksonville Paper.

/ full house anticipated comments OF
Jacksonville Paper.
The concerts of the Mendelssohn Quin-
/ tette Club have been as successful as
they were enjoyable in all the larger
cities where they have appeared this
season; and the confidence in the mu-
steal taste and culture of our people, so
practically shown by the Palatka Music
ale in bringing this thoroughly excellent
entertainment to our city, will surely be
well repaid, unsteady, socially and
! financially, this evening. The excel
lence of each of the artists has won the
praise of the highest critical authorities.
The programme, though eminently
| classical, contains none of the unIntel-
| ligible music of the future, and each Sc
lection is popular in the highest sense
of the word. Two hundred seats have
already been sold and every seat in the
Opera House, $50 in number, will be re-
served. The entertainment will COM
mence promptly at 8 O'Clock and we are
requested to announce that the hall
doors will positively be closed during
the performance of each number of the
programme. The club gave a concert
in Jacksonville last Wednesday evening |
of which the Jacksonville Ne,cs- Heralds |
account is as follows:
$50 seldom do the people of Jackson /
vile have am opportunity of listening to
really fine instrumental and vocal music. /
that the coming of the Mendelssohn /
Quintette Club has been looked forward |
to with unwonted anticipations of pleas
ure. This organization has been before
the public for nearly forty years.
Changes in its personnel have been al
most constant from season to season,
sometimes improving and sometimes de-
teriorating the quality of the music Of
card, and an artistic as well as
a financial success. Mr.. Thomas Ryan
has been identified with it for over
quarter of "a century, and has contribut-
ed largely to its most excellent reputa-
ton in the amusement field.
The opening number was by the full
quintette, Mendelssohn's Opus 81, said
TO be the finest tive-part stringed COM
position ever written. 1t was rendered
most artisticaly. The audience was
impatient for the appearance of Miss
Carpenter. the soprano, of course, excit-
ing more curiosity as being practically
unknown to jacksonville, and of a less
extended reputation than the instru-
mental performers
Her selection was a Scena and Rondo
If Venzano. She sang sweetly, but her
rilling was excellent. The audience
quickly recognized and appreciated its !,
quality. and when, in response to an en-
ore, she rendered n composition of
iounods ''Sing, Smile, Slumber," the en-
husiasin was quite unusual for Park
Miss Carpenter is fresh from ,
Ter Paris studies. She has been under
he best known instructors in that city,
eft unexpectedly in response to call
or seasons engagement with the
iuintette Climb. She was not in her Gus
binary good voice" last night. The
atigues of tedious journey were I'M v
apparent; but she gave evil y
ence OF tone and training which will i,
oubtless assert themselves tonight and d.
u Ike her hearers demand more. Her y
,yle is not that which takes by storm, q
ut of kind which grows gradually q
pom the listener. "
Herr Phillip RodeIberger rendered as a -
ute 50 a Fantasia ON Russian Airs by
opp. 1t was well executed, and upon q
recall he favored the audience with the n
Album Leaf" composition by Ander- g
The fourth number was undoubtedly CT
10 most artistic one on the programme. "
$ title was 1.-The Miller's Pretty Daugh- Il,
4" dialogue for the violin and cello
18th the other parts in a running accom-
The violin represented the vi
alden, and the soft strains of the cello, p
IT lovers declaration. The second part * *
arranged for all five pieces, and its d
usic is that OF the merry water-wheel L
Id the rumblingof the mill. The effeIt ~
as beautiful, but, like most part pieces Ci
a programme, it labored under the Ys
sadvaptap.s r,f being cast a,,,<,,,x <.<,,,,
my of solos, and was therefore &C. n
rded no encore. Do
Gustav Hille rendered most acceptably tcs
composition Of his own for The violin r.