St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-09
DANVILLE'S CONVENTION.
A Successful Gathering of Musical PEG
pie In that Breezy Town.

from Montpelier, from Littleton and
from St. Johnsbury, musical people
gathered at Danville last week, IN
response to invitations sent out,
through poster" and prospectus, =
by hustling committee; and there
could be but one result from so gen
eral a manifestation ofinterest. The
convention was success both fnan-
cialy and as regards the musical
discipline it involved, and the com
mittee can congratulate themselves
on doing a good thing for the town
in thus bringing about so successful
agathering Of this sort. To be sure,
they said nothing on the bills about
that exceedingly lively blizzard
which appeared as Supplement-
10 the final concert; but it came too
late to interfere materially with the
attendance, so the committee have
no hard feelings on that score.
The convention, which was held at
the town hall, began on Tuesday
evening, with chorus OF 70 voices;
by Friday morning there were more
tI,or too IN the charms and II ;s es-
timated that half Of these came from
o,t oftowr IN the six rebearsals
great deal of earnest faithful work
was done under r. Humpbrev's
d;rect;on and r,cmbers NJ the cho.
rms were outsnoken IN their annre.
c;at;on of the onnortunitv Tins aE-
forded them
On Thursday evening after short
rehearsal = promenade concert WAS
indulped IN the Danv;lle hand hr-
n;sh;no mu.ic and thc hall was
crowded . great many vou,g neo.
nile driving IN to eniov This feature Of
the convention
On Friday afternoon At three
O'Clock q matinee was given and
the attendance WAS u,evnoctedIu
LARGO The nroorom,no Of +h;r+oon
numbers was an excellent one and
was greeted with MANY evidences of
approval In the evening came the
closing concert The weather nm m
Friday morning had been of tbe
best, and even the storm which then
set in (uriously gave promise dur;no
the day of moderatinp before n;obt
The promise. however was NOT FIJI.
filled and the nropramne 70 which
a full house listened was presented
to the accompaniment Of the worst
blizzard Danville has seen for marv
wear. DESPITE the storm good
sized DELEGATIONS drove in from 6
Iohnsburv and peacbar tb,s ,+ov
ING a friendly interest in what Nan.
Vile was trvinp to ACCOMPLISH nv
bercor,e,t;on
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AZ oo'h OF the concerts the chorus
d fine work, presenting "Carniyale"
in the afternoon and Damascus "
."Now Tromnn "AuoMo.:.".
,..,-,,[ ''' Two
hymns anu l'a''a III the evening
MT Humphreys careful training of
the singers was apparent in each of
these selections which vo,o o;,,a.
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'''' WIN q 0'eu''aoie
degree OF attention to shading.
In view OF the fact that good cho-
rus singing is inspiring and alwavs
er;ovcd i i nerhans 49,, ,c.
NV. '"'a'i
criticism 10 say mat some OF the solo
and duet work during the afternoon
and evening might well have given
Mace to the three mr. fourexoo,,os.
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'ee''o"s winch "au oeen worked up
by the chorus, but did not appear on
either programme, Good judges in
the audience SAID many compliment
tary things about the chorus and
ITS work.
Mrs Parker, Mrs. Sisby and Mrs.
Parker OF Littleton, n. H., were
present and cont rihuted ureatlv +o