St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-19
FEAST OF MELODY.
st. Paul Choral Association
Scores a Triumph at the
Peoples.
AVERY BRILLIANT AUDIENCE
Listens to a Programme or
Rare Excellence and
Taste.
THE BENEFIT TO BALDWIN
One Of the Most ArtiSticEventS
Of the Year--Large Au-
d;ence.
THE BENEFIT TO BALDWIN

The closing concert Of the season
by the st. Paul Choral association
which occurred last night, was an
unqualified success, the people OF ot.
Paul evidencing in a little greater
degree than usual their apprec1a-
ton of the work that one OF the
most able musical directors OF the
country is doing. Mr.. BALDWIN
should certainly feel satisfied with
the way in which the members of
his chorus acquitted themselves,
while of the solo work a great deal
can be said The orchestral work,
which usually receives so much less
notice than is its due, attested again
to the thorough rehersals that the
chorus and orchestra had under
gone individually and together.
The degree of excellence that has
been attained by this musical or
ganization has been accomplished by
the untiring energy of its director,
to whom st. Paul people owe it that
SO much very superior talent has
been brought into the city.
L lie COIttIl ldSl IliSH was d lColi-
monial benefit to Mr. Baldwin, ar
ranged by the committee consisting
of Mrs. Charles P. Noyes, Mrs. Rus
sell R. Dorr, Mrs. H. A. Stahl, Mrs.
Charles E. Furness, Mrs. George R.
Metcalf, Gustav Won Goetzen, A. H.
Bigelow Jr., John M. Blakely and
D. F. De Wolf. The large audience
consisted of the leading musical peo-
pie of the city
The first part of the programme
consisted of Mendelssohn's beautiful
Hymn of Praise" in which the
solo parts were taken by Mrs. D. F.
De Wolf, Miss Augusta Wicklund
and Charles A. Knorr. Mr.. Knorr,
although of Chicago, is very well
known in st. Paul, having
SUNG IN ORATORIO
here on several occasions. His work
last night was not what it has been
on past occasions, his singing being
decidedly uneven, particularly in
some of the higher notes.
Mrs. De Wolf is, perhaps, the
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ticularly in oraltorio work, for which
her voice is particularly we'll adapted.
Her singing last night was very
good in every particular, and she
created quite as favorable an i'm
preston as on a former occasion
when She did some of the difficult
solo work in the Messiah" Miss
iW1cklund is new contralto, who in
the small parts in which she ap-
peared, created quite a favorable i'm
preston. Her voice is Of quite an
unusual quality.
The star of the occasion was. OF
course, Dr. Carl E. Duff, of New York
who, earlier in the season, was heard
IN the Messiah. The magnificent
bass solo in Haydn's beautiful hymn
1.-The Creation" afforded DR.. Duff ar
excellent opportunity to display hi:
very wonderful vocal powers. HI
charmed the audience with his splendid
voice and artistic rendition of tn,
beautiful parts of this wonderful com
position. His Interpretation of the las
solo in 1.-The Creation and of the due
which follows, which he sang with Mrs
De Wolf, received a great deal of well
merited applause.
The work of the chorus showed tina
1t had undergone a great deal of care
full rehearsing. The choruses were al
well sung, the finale to the first part o.
the hymn being magnificent.