The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-02
THE PATTI CONCERT.
Curiosity Packed Infantry Hall to
Standing Room.
"Home Sweet Home," "T The Last Rose
of Summer" and Other Favorites of
Years Ago.

II was worth dollar OF the four
charged for best seats to get a glimpse OF
the vast audience at the Patti concert in
Infantry Hall last evening. 1t must be
recorded that Providence never
assembled parallel to it. The
millionaire and the shop girl iostled
each other in the crowds at the entrances,
and the throng represented the city in
all its walks of Industrial, social and idle
life.
All wanted to see and hear Patti. Curl
osity was the keynote OF the excitement.
A handful might have been there for arts
sake, and music lovers were present be-
cause it was the proper thing, for the peer
of vocalists, "once upon time, was
making her very latest farewell.
At $40 o'clock every seat wasoccupied,
and the floor and balcony were fringed
with those content to stand for
an evening with the diva who few years
ago enthralled the musical world.
The remains of great past were worth
but there was little room in the store
house Of recollection for anything in the
way OF music offered last evening.
Away back in the dim past
we recollect hearing about the same
program sung by the artists forming the
Patti company when the individual men,
bers were favorites with our parents and
older brothers and sisters.
Without the element OF curiosity sur
ronding the distinguished vocalist the
concert last evening would have been a
tame affair. The sentiment of the audi
ence was epitomized by a group of fashion,
ables right in the heart OF the Four
Hundred at 81 each.
"Oh, how little she is ~
"Just look at that immense turquoise in
her hair, and those diamonds"
"She looks little round shouldered,
don't she ?"
''She knows how to sing true, but I'm
a little disappointed. Somehow i ex-
pected TO see something stunning"
"Well they're an old opera singers, any
way, and what could be expected"
Gallassi was then singing something
largely made up of tum-te- tittle-tum tee,
and unable TO refrain from suggesting
rather foreign to the concert stage,
but few were inclined to take
much cognizance of what was
offered by the subordinates, and perhaps
they were. right as little was
presented that appealed to modern
for what he has done and
Mile. Fabbri for her past successes.
Signor Novara touched the popular
heart by fine Interpretation III the old
"Deep Cellar" German drinking song,
familiar to every one familiar with songs
in general. Tenor Lely was worth liten-
ing to in his pianissimo singing, because
his articulation was almost perfect. In
the louder passages the quality OF tone
changed.
The spinning wheel scene with the "Last
Rose OF Summer" and the "Good Night"
quartet from Martha was pleasing, hut
Martha at its best does not require a
Patti to make il pleasant. There is little
i'm the opera that demands singer
with PATHS prestige and the pur-
pose to suggest opera simply was
apparent. There was nothing offered
i'm the scene from "Martha," worth
serious consideration. Patti, OF course,
sang the "Last Rose" as well as il
ever was sung and altogether accom-
plished whot was intended by
the directors OF this last farewell.
After the concert there was nothing
particular to carry away except the
qualification OF seeing the once foremost
singer OF the 18th centuary, and the mind
photograph OF a remarkable audience.