New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-21
MUSIC.
. ,on, rYe SINGING CLASSES.

IL
,s given in Music Hall yesterday
con0s' 40, was of exceptional interest to all
aite'"s horol music and believers in It's potency
lovers % of culture and refinement. 1t was the
as annual concert of the People S"slns
seq" ard represented the work done curing 'he
C'Su now closing under the direction OF MT rrd"n
seaso h and his assistants Fifteen hundrea
jan non and women Of the working peopie oi
you's 81, ,sre gathered in the hall, occupying the
New ,he noor TO well-nlgh their full capacity;
s'ase performance was one that would nave
anu .od,, ~ many a long-estabshed chorus OF 'he
aoiN ,nbers Under the circumstances II was III
So ,espects remarkable. ~
H MAJ we're two divisions OF the singers ine
- Institute class numbering 800 occupied '"e
80. the elementary classes. OF l.V"' "e'e -
SUE eoor seats The former have completed their
ID w oson of study the latter their first anu III
ooses the classes entered upon their work IN
v0,,oouv total ignorance Of the technical part OF
por,the reading Of music and singing al sish''
tne sheorsals have been held every Sunday after
' ,,rouebout the fall and winter-a fact: as sig
p W., NJ the sacrifice by most of the m2Hibers OF
~or Measures and re.axatons on the Only Tree al
~n.. Of the week. yesterdays concert was
'H"o ., the intelligence, the energy and the en-
e0ts which had in SO short time given them
Wv Utility 70 understand and to sing music OF snch
soroc,er 50 well. 1t Is spirit which ought 10
. .u,,ful OF much good TO the musical culture OF
IN the widest sense, as wei as Oh an up
~. nd enabling influence in the lives or those TO
III n has come. II will occur TO those VINO
whoni' ,hs Ponies Singing Classes yesterday 10
hear What standing the art of music would nave
woi huS IN NETWORKS teemng population had suCH
to-lay heen actively at work during the last Hl'y
years. oo,,,a onenel with Martin Luther's Elm
lug y unrg sung by all the singers win impress
fese and nobility of tone II included also
siv. onge by MendeissOhn and Hatton Tor the al
par. - Class and one by COnradi AT sunset, Tor
yahcy,ea nsntarv classes the principal number being:
tns MendelssOhn's "Athahe. IN when OF
nons.n only the advanced chorus TOOK part. Inc
course nv no means a work adapted for the uses
"a beginners in music but in H. as IN me shor'tr
o. The singing OF the chorus was admlraDle IN
IGOR and enthusiasm its steadiness ana It's cyl
Us evnaerstanding and prompt realization or the
oens a,or's wishes as 10 shading and phrasng.
c0nIu' rsre indeed a few slips but nothing which
Ihd seriously the effectiveness and beauty or the
mar. ,rmance Mrs William lie Moyne read the lines
peI.onone the several musical numbers OF the work.
cum ~ solo parts were creditably taken by Misses
an Hlrsch NJ Henemann and Elizabeth ID.
Boyer 10 q brief address n, which no
MI the progress of the work during It's two
osons and gave well-merited praise 10 the en-
ssasm and devotion with which his singers had
tnsmsd a high ideal In music. He also presented
pu sSIeblv favorable financial statement, which
5000 large balance for the work of the coming
INV Ibe receipts being mainly from the charge OF
yesra, rne mt mon each choriser for each Sunday
~ os,srnnons rehearsal and in conclusion he an
aonnrsd the formation Of new elementary classes
~ autumn and the continuation OF the present
Vases in more advanced work His classes testified
Sar annrnciatOn Of his services by the presentation
Of a huge Tyre OF flowers