The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-11

quality as conducive to health, ana al
most as nasty In taste as those Oh more
freouented resorts further over among
the mountains. and the place only neens
to be more talked about 10 oe DETER
patronized. .,r.. .h.
place presented a festival appearance,
with Chinese lanterns, wreaths ana moral
decorations and men and maldeDs IN
gala attire. The musical talens was sup
piled by a qusrtctte of singing men TON TON
Ricbmond-strOng men an.Nspt,aiu
Frank Cunningham, Messrs: PoiK siiller,
Il. III. Cloves and man who decllnes u
be mentioned, thereby laying glIe'Jhuo
jnterdict upon this chronicer soul, pc
cause no deserves TO be mentioned, ana
ought 10 be with special pleasure ana
gratitude.
Supplernenting the Richmond singing
contingent were players on instruments
Mr.. Kirk Mathews, Il brilliant pianiss,
and one of the best accompanies IN the
State; Miss Anderson and Master hiyne,
a boy violinist from Lynchbnrg
There was n programme uuly server
upon the public, but Mr. Beasley, the
efficient musical director, mustered free
from it. announcing that changes hhI
been made and that he would line ont
the performance, so to speak, IKE
camp-meetng hymn. In default of pro
gramme, therefore, memory must serv'
me, and if blunder most earnestly crave
forgiveness. because | am not MI
stefan, but only a music lover.
The concert opened with Maryland:
My Maryland given in chorus and
after so spirited a fashion that those
among the audience who remembered the
stirring old time among the sixties must
have felt ancient war thrills quicken the
ooofn xrhi1a ntbArG Of lHr
day, listening, could fancy how IL must
have been, and so forget the futility and
the sorrow of il. Miss Anderson then
gave us some of the Troyatore music.
which is always popular, even when less
artisticaly rendered. The boy yiollnist,
Master Klyne. then showed us tE'ngs
of beauty through the medium OF ire
most sympathetic of all instruments.
Frank Cunningham led us Across the
Meadows" with his matchless tenor, ana
showed us nature in her tender pastoral
moods, with sunshine galore, falr stretches
of fower-starred grass and the epchani-
ment of running water. Mrs. Gold
contralto. sang to our pleasure, ana was
followed by Miss Natalie Otey, soprano
of promise. who gave US ANGELS Serc-
made" with piano and violin ACCOMPANY
ment. Then came some jOyal comic
songs. de Baptists in de Grass, by me
gentleman who won't let me speak OF
him. and others. sung by Mr. Miller and
Miss Otey with joyous abandon and 10
a mastery banjo accompaniment,
At this point there was break IN tne
musical performance ana MI Iolk NIL
Ter gave us the very best rendition OF
negro dialect | have ever heard. His IN
tonations. expressions End phrasing
we're all inimitable, and he actually con-
trived. by innate histrionic ability, to
make his handsome white face aud gen
tlemnnly figure look African for the nonce
The little sketch. "Penitence, Is an mag
mary dialogue between two very wide
awake. clever negroes, relative to the
course which the North should have pur-
sued with the South in the days OF re-
construction. 1t is Mr. Millers own.
work, and for pthiness, humor ana dia-
lec.ic faithfulness equals anything OF the
sort Tom Page has done, and beats my
own work along similar lines clear out
of sight Mr.. Miller read dream also
lin diaIect) which, amid its quaint hu,
NOR. showed those depths of pathos ana
tragedy which make this joyous, mourn
ful Southern life of ours so rich IN CON
trast and sensation.
After the reading music reclaimed US
through the glorious baritone OF Mr.. IL
IL Cloves. baritone so rich IN harHohy;
tpnteT anu 30 lluts buhe eAi'
of the listener held fast its tones long AZ
ter they had ceased to vibrate on the ar.
Captain CUNNINGHAM told US 81 S 81 ra Us Se
purity and love itself, and Mr.. Miller
sang San e. for us a folk-song of his own com
position full of the light and joys Of Of other other
DAYS coming to us sadly through the spec
trum Of vain regret. MIR. Cloves sang
"Sweethearts and Wives" 70 crafty those
in the audience who care for min, mlnstr r,isg
Tosti's "Gcod-bye," sung by Miss Nat
allie Otey.
My mention of this concert has swelled
like the genn in the fshermIn's net-so
greater proportions than | originally IN,
tended-but TO me it seems only just ana
right that the gifted men ard women,
Virginians all, who are helping us t9r no
guerdon save love of their native State,
Should receive not only public thanks TOT
their efforts. but public acknowledgment
of their great merit and success.
N. 6. McCLELLAND.