The morning call., 1894-11-04
REACHED FORTY.
The Number of the Carr
Beei Pops.
A Large Audience Applauded the
Event-A Beautiful Quartet
by Dvorak.

The fortieth Saturday popular con cert
took place yesterday afternoon, and a
large and fashionable audience filled
Golden Gate Hall to celebrate the event
By their interest and applause.
Forty concerts of the high class of the
Saturday pops is an excellent record for a
town the size of San Francisco. Ii implie 5
that the same music-loyeTs have come
again and again. Indeed there seems {,
exist the same subtle sympathy between
tine performances ami the audience that is
frequently found all the world over in au-
dlences that appreciate and are in the
habit Of constantly hearing the same art
lists. The listener is rarely, indeed, an
nOyed by unseemly chatter al the Saturday
pops. 10 the forte as we j as in the plan s.
slmO passages the house Is perfectly quiet,
the applause well timed, and people 40 not
get up ana go before the concert is over.
These are only minor details, but they
show the appreciation OF the audiences
that attend tue pops.
The concert Yesterday afternoon opened
with BeeihOven'S string quartet in +, Op.
IS. Mr.. SolOm0ns, the second violin, rose
manfully 10 the task of playing perfectly
in tune, and not being hampere1 by the
weather. as he was couple OF weeks agr.
he succeeded eXcellent!y. There was not
suspicion of any one Straylng off the
key. The shading of all four numbers
was, as usual, delightful, the adagio
atfetuoso beng particularly artistic in this
respect. Indeed, so well was the uuartet
played that critic would have to be very
captlous not 10 give 1T IN stinted praise.
Willis t.. Bacheler i a singer whom it
is always aereea bic tn hear. His first two
songs yesterday were old irish airs ar
ranged by Villers Stanford. The La
mem" had a charact ristic arpegg o
accompaniment, which, IN Mrs. Carmichael
Carr's hands, added greatly TO the trae-
tlveness Of the song. The Rowing Peddler"
was pretty in the style OF All oId ballad,
but not enough of the words were dis
tinguishable TO gather the thread of The
meaning. In Grieg's ''Prolog" MI.
Bachelor enuncialed with great clearness
and considerable dramatic effect, though
there was slight ndeney here and there
to force his voice, which is too good to re-
our: it. Indeed. Mr.. Bachelor, who is
essentially q lyric tenor. is not dealing
kindly by his pleasant, wel-tralned voice
when he garnlshes Ills songs with so many
high notes, taken dramatically ID the
chest register, la TamagniU. The tour
de force Is expected Of robust tenOrs, but
lyric tenors WAC do not reserve il for 0c-
caSi0Dal effect give their audiences too
much tor their money.
MIR. Bacheiler's last song. "Ragnhild, d"
was artiSiically sung, as all the others had
been, and IN response TO warm encore he
repeated H.
In the quartet for plan oforts and strings
in E fat, by Dvoiak, the performers were.
Mrs. Carmichael-Carr. pianist; SigmuDd
Beel, first violin; b. Jauley, yiOl., aud
LOUIS Heine, cello. The work was a
beautiful and Interesting one, in which all
the performers distinguished themselves,
especially Mrs. Carr.
In the lento movement particularly she
triumpbed with artistic ease over the
technical difficulties and the eXacting time.