The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-24
The CambrO- American Concert Company Be.
gins Its Welsh Tour.
HAS A DELIGHTFUL RECEPTION
Miss Kaiser Speaks in Grateful
Terms of the Pleasant Greeting
Accorded to Professor HadYn
Evans and Associates in the Land
of Song-The First Concert Is
Warmly Commended-Glad, How
ever, That She Is an American.

PoNT-Y-PRIDD, Sonth Wales, Sept 13.
000E are now in Pont-y-Pridd and
\VAUI having glorious time. Ow.
WVI ing to the lateness of the Bsr-
wv lin in getting into Soushamp-
ton and TO the temporary loss Of the
trunks OF two OF our party. we began
our concerts week later than we had
promised. thereby disarranging sew
eral dates; but we are now in working
order again. Our time is all filled up
with concerts, one being given every
night. We are staying at Pont y
Pridd as our headquarters, and 90
from there every evening to towns
eight, ten or twelve miles distant
where we give concert and return to
our hotel the same night, after having
been royalty entertained by the towns
men Of the place in which the concert
occurred
We are being very cordially received,
to put 1t mildly. At the first concert,
given at Treherbert, ssMr. Evans was
greeted with cheer after cheer as he
stepped upon the stage, and very fiat
tertng reception was given to the rest
OF u.s. even before we opened our lips
But when the concert began the open
ing number was greeted with wild ap-
plause, and nearly every number called
forth enthusiastic recalls We are one
and all appreciated by the musical
Welsh people, aud / should be the very
last to complain of my reception, as it
is perfectly beautiful. They are very
kind to me, indeed, and l am surprised
and delighted beyond measure by the
warmth Of my reception.
MISS ALLEN CoMPLIMENTED.
The playing of our violinist Miss
Allen, is everywhere commented on
with the highest praise. Her audiences
rise to the highest pitch of enthusi-
ssm, asthe newspapers say, over her
playing and her fine instrument, and
as l said before. we have nothing to
complain of in the appreciation in
which we are held. Tuesday night,
Sept II, we performed at Pentre, and
Last night. Sept. IL, at Ferndale, and
at each place onr reception was only a
repetition OF the others.
We can see that the Welsh people
are very much surprised at the ex-
cellence of the American voices. They
knew, OF course, that we could do
something in the way of making music,
but not much, you know. They ex-
pected us to be sort of uncouth and in
artistic about it, l fancy, as they take
no pains whatever to conceal their
unmixed surprise and pleasure in
our work. We have met several of the
leading Welshmen In the Rhondda val
ley and have been beautifully enter
tanned by their wives and themselves.
Tuesday night we were given small
reception at Tom Stevens house, where
we had very pleasant time. Mr..
Stevens will be remembered as the
leader of the Rhondda Valley Male choir
which carried off one of the principal
prizes at the Worlds fair last summer,
and afterward made such a successful
concert tour in the States. He is geui-
ality itself toward us, and every time |
see him have to think of that quota
tion We come across so often in the
hack part of the magazines among the
advertisements: ave are advertised by
our loving friends for he is always
doing something thoughtful and lovely
| for us.
ACCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
Today there is horse show at Car
diff and some of us are going down. az
| it is not many miles from Pont-y- -Pridd.
expect to enjoy myself very much, as
there is nothing 1 love better than a
fine horse. There is much Of interest
in Pont-y.P .Pridd as well. On Sunday
attended the English church here and
listened to the finest choral service |
ever had the pleasure of hearing. IL
was exquisite and in passing other
churches all day Sunday, the eongrega.
tional music of which l caught snatches
was very fine in every instance. No
wonder these people are fine chorus
singers, as couple of hundred of them
will often sing whole anthem with.
out the support OF any instrument and
not deviate single thread Of tone
from the key.
This part of Wales is often called
"the mucb-churched" country, on &C
count of the myriads of churches
which one meets in going around at
all. There are churches every where.
but when one stops to think about it,
it is really not surprising, be-
cause this valley is so denssly popu-
lated, that dare say the number Of
churches is merely proportionste to
the mum Der of psople In the valley. 1t
is said that there are at least 800, 900
people in the Rhondda valley itself
WELSH SCENERY.
The last three evenings we gave con-
certs we had man with trap drive
us from Pont-y- Pridd to our concert
town, and the scenery through which
we drove was simply magnificent.
For wild, startling bits Of seen e.
cry this country exoels any
locality through which l ever
passed The roads are. of course,
faultless, as You know good roads are
what England and Wales are famous
for, and we roll easily along from one
town to another, passing the numerous
mines or pits, as the mouths Of the
mines are called, and going from one
little valley into the next through
scenery that is simply idyllic. Volumes
could be written about the difference
between their way Of mining coal and