The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-03-17
The Chicago Lady Quartette.


1t is seldom in the history of Red
wood Falls that public audience ris-
es to the occasion, in way of such
hearty enthusiasm, as did the audi
ence in Huntington hall on Friday ev-
ening. And the enthusiasm was GER
tainly not out of place. The four la
dies who gave the entertainment are
thorough masters of their profession.
Nature has given them gosd voices,
and art has added a great deal more.
It would be difficult to say which of
the ladies did best. When they sang
together as a quartette, the striking
thing was that, without doing any in
justice to the music, they enunciated
so clearly, that at the back of the hall,
every word of the different pieces
sung could be distinctly heard. There
is an art of getting hold of an audi
ence, and that art they have studied
we'll. When they we're encored for the
first song they appeared smiling their
most winning smiles, and gave in re-
spouse a funny catch song which
brought the house down in thunder
ing applause, and the spirit of encor-
ing proceeded for the rest of the even
ing. There were only some dozen
pieces on the original programme, but
the encores brought out eight or ten
pieces more. Nearly everything was
encored. There was one Duet which
brought out in marvellous way the
high type of training in the voices con-
cerned. The solos did not tell so we'll
as they might have been expected, but
that was the fault of the hall more
than the voices.
The reciting and personation of
character was inimitable. In fact the
lady who took the part could we'll
have run a nights entertainment
without any assistance. Her imitation
of the two days old baby, and her
rendering of Mark Twain's European
Guides" we're alone worth all that the
concert cost.
If any drawback might be mentioned
it was in connection with the Scotch
songs. "Comin' thro' the Rye" and
"Annie Lawrie' were the two Scotch
songs sung. The former was beau
tifully rendered, and sung in the plain
Scotch way more nearly than the lat
ter. But into "Annie Lawrie" they in
fused such a preponderance of high
classical variations that the Scotch
character of the song was fairly we'll
destroyed. Some one in the audience
remarked that it was like putting clas-
steal variations into "Old Hundred"
The music however, ASSOCIATED from
the Scotch words, was superb. The
alto voice was heard to good effect in
Comm thro' the Rye" and a most
effective voice it is, though it would
have been more pleasing if it had not
been so sepulchral; but it was born
that way.
In the second part of the program
when the curtain rose the Quartette
was discovered standing full height
dressed in white satin dresses, with
powdered wigs, and moled faces. 1t
seemed as if that style of dress
we're adopted as suitable to The L.
gends," the first song on the second
half of the program, but they re-
tanned the dress for the rest of the
evening, and at the close of each
piece did not retire behind the scenes,
but seated themselves on chairs placed
at the back of the stage. Perhaps the
prettiest general feature of the whole
entertainment was the good humoI
which they all exhibited. "There is
much in look" applies to the stage
as we'll as to the lover, and the "Iooks'
of each of the four ladies, without put.
ting on any stage effect, throughout
the whole programme, was large ad.
dition to their musical and othel
marked accomplishments. The re-
mark is safe, that Redwood Falls has
not had such a thorough treat fo1
many a day. The sum realized fol
the library after all expenses was $50
The hall was crowded in every part.
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