The record-union., 1896-01-24
PLEASING ENTERTAINMENT. :.
Fine Music at The Congregational Church
Last Evening.
Miss Belle Darlington Makes Her Bow
to a Sacramento Audience-A
Galaxy of Musical Stars.

A grand musical festival took place
last night at the Congregational Church
under the direction of Miss Belle Car
rington, assisted by a large number of
well-known and leading musicians of
this city.
Despite the fact that the Oracle Plai-
sted Company opened at the Metropoli-
tan at the same time, the auditorium
was filled with a critical and appreci-
ative audience, who testified to their
satisfaction by encoring heartily every
selection on the programme.
Miss Darlington has a very sweet and
pleasing voice, not powerful, but fully
answering all the demands of the audi
torium upon it. She has it under excel
lent control, and showed clearly last
night that her training in the East has
been thorough and that she is fin
ished musician. Although she had
made a selection for her first song,
which was a very trying one for her
voice, she acquitted herself admirably,
and was forced to respond to an encore,
which she gave with excellent taste
and style. Her trilling is fine and her
enunciation good. In the sonata in the
second part she showed that her mu-
sical education had not been con-
fined to the voice, but that instru
mental music had also been paid thor
ough attention to. The selection was
beautifully rendered, the fine cello
playing of Mr. and Miss Lewis also
winning deserved applause.
The male chorus by members of the
MCNEIL Club was excellently given, the
parts being we'll balanced and the forte
and piano passages indicating that
great care had been bestowed on the re-
hearsals.
Nor was the ladies' trio by Miss
Clinch and Mesdames Howard and
Hawley one whit behind the general
excellence of the programme. 1t was
a pretty thing, and the voices were well
balanced and harmonized perfectly.
Professor Vanderhoof always takes
the audience with his violin solos, but
it seemed last night that there was
added finish to his bowling and depth
Of expression in his playing that out
did his former efforts.
The event that excited the most in
terest was the quartet composed by
Miss Darlington and rendered by her
self and Mrs. Howard and Messrs. Cohn
and Beardslee, with Mrs. Pinkham at
the organ. 1t is a very pretty COM
position full of good harmonies, and the
transitions are easy and pleasant and
the movement smooth. 1t was well rem
dered and made a very favorable i'm
preston.
The Ideal Mandolin Club is too we'll
known to need any praise, its precision,
feeling and the taste with which it
gives its numbers always receiving ap-
preciative recognition.
No rendition during the evening
brought forth more hearty applause
than the bass solo of Mr.. Beardslee. His
enunciation is clear ana his runs, espe-
cially the one of an octave that seemed
to go down into the foundation of the
building, secured him hearty encore.
Altogether the concert was a decided
success from opening to close.
Following was the programme:
king Olafs Christmas" Dudley
Buck), first tenors, w. Longbottom, G..
Lohmeyer, M. J. Desmond and E. S.
Elkus; second tenors, j. G.. Berger, c.
F. German, c. t. Milliken and M. K.
Barrett; first bass, F. Griffin, w. E.
Lovdal, Al Pritchard, Joseph M. Ander
son and J. c. Genshlea; second bass, w.
E. NJ Beardslee, C. H. Bentley, H.
Crocker, w. n. Miller, G. M. Phinney
and L. A Jacox; incidental solos, w.
Longbottom and c. M. Phinney; piano.
Miss Louise Milliken; organ, Mrs. j. H.
Thompson; director, Signor Tomaso.
(a) Hail Evening Bright" Queen
Marie Antoinette), (b) The Winter
Hath Not a Blossom (Carl Reinecke);
ladies' trio, Miss Ida Clinch, Mrs. r.
H. Hawley and Mrs. B. F. Howard.
"Aria from II Penseroso" CHandeD,
soprano solo, Miss Belle Darlington;
flute obligato, c. A. Neale; piano, Jessie
E. Neale.
Violin solo (a) "Serenade" &c. Pierne),
(b) 'The Virgins Last Slumber' q.
MasseneD, H. H. Vanderhoof; piano,
Mrs. Sadie Vanderhoof.
Quartet Composed by Belle Caring
ton, first rendition, sung from manu-
script, R. t. Cohn, tenor; Belle Car
rington, soprano; Mrs. B. F. Howard,
alto; w E. M. Beardslee, bass.
Serenata, Might Song (MatinD,
Ideal Mandolin Club. C. G. Stever, di-
rector; mandolins, Mrs c. G. Stever,
Miss Pauline Meister, Miss Iva Hugh
son, Miss Louise Meister, Miss Mabel
Lyon, Charles Green and Albert
Schaden; violin, Miss Edna Johnson;
lutte, Harry Gates; mandola, Ed. Hart;
guitars Miss Hattie Frazee, Mrs. J. A.
Green, Miss Bella McMurray and Miss
Minnie Lands; flute, c. A. Neale; cello,
c. G. Stever.
Ave Maria" CWilson), Miss Belle Car
rington; violin obligato, H. H. Wander
hoof; piano, Mrs. Jessie E. Neale; organ,
Mrs. A. T. Pinkham.
"The Bandits Life is the Life for Me"
TIarper); bass solo, w. E. NJ Boards
lee; piano, Mrs. Jessie E. Neale.
Sonata (Greig), Miss Belle Darlington,
piano; Mary A. Lewis and F. ]. Lewis.
cellos.
Finale, national hymn; grand chorus,
led by organ, piano, cornet, violins,
flute and cellos, the audience joining in
the singing.
Races.