The San Francisco call., 1896-05-30
GIRLS PLAY FOR CHARITY
A Successful Concert Given by
the Saturday Morning
Orchestra.
Several Soloists Help the Gooi Cause
Along - A Fashionable
Audience.

The concert given last night in Golden
Gate Hall by the Saturday Morning
orchestra drew together fashionable au-
dience that quite filed the galleries and
more than half filled the body of the hall.
The object of the concert was the estab-
lishment and maintenance of a bed in the
Children's Hospital
The Saturday Morning orchestra has
had several changes of conductors during
the last few years, but all last winter AL
fred Roncovieri welded the baton and a
good deal OF steady work was accom-
pIished. As might be expected in an or
ganization composed OF young ladies brass
and wood performers are not so easy to
procure as strings. The orchestra showed
this very plainly last night.
The "Semiramide" overture, for in
stance, had almost the effect of toy SYM
phony, but even if some of the brass were
conspicuously lacking it was much better
to have it so than to bring in incompetent
players of wind instruments.
The brass and reeds were a little sbaky
in their intonation here and there, but on
the whole the orchestra did exceedingly
well. Shading was not only attem pied
but was ACCOMPLISHED, and if the precision
here and there left something to be de-
sired the playing showed that there are a
iuLnOCl Va II iuc IHuhS Oh the
orchestra who have strong sense of
rhythm.
The orchestral numbers OF Ambrose
Thomas overture to !"Raymonde" the
"Danse des Sultanes" by Polak Daniels,
the "Semiramide" overture and the Men
delssohn wedding March," All these
selections were PLAYED in manner which
elected warm and well-deserved applause.
Miss Charlotte Gruenhagen' the concert
master, played the andante and allegro
from De Beriot seventh concerto, and both
she and the orchestra gave such satisfac-
ton that an encore was insisted on, where
upon the young lady played 'PArragon-
aise" by Alard.
Antoine Schott sang the "Erl King"
twice over and the audience not being sat
ished, he gave Beethoven's Creations
Hymn" which suits his dramatic vein
better than the Schubert song.
Mrs. Oliver Piercy Evans sang the
"Shadow Dapee" from "Dinora") and
Handels "Sweet Bird in her usual fin
| Lombard played the flute obligato. The
Misses Noble played q cornet and from
bone duet, Repeat Again." which their
hearers insisted on having repeated.
| The following young ladies composed
| the orchestra:
Miss Charlotte Gruenhagen, Miss Carolyn
Knox, Miss Madeleine Bcekhusen, Miss Mabel
Crabtree, Mrs. Adele Fletcher. Miss Annie
Gibson, Miss Mamie Van Wyck, Miss White,
Miss Mamie Conlin, Miss Edna Cadwalader,
Estelle Ro1leau, Miss Darlington, Miss
Beekhnsen, Miss Pearl Noble, Miss Shep-
| man, Miss Alma Keith. Miss Maud Noble,
Miss Blanche Rouleau, Miss LahI, Miss Annie
! Benson, Miss EUery, Miss Mary Walker Miss
| Phoebe Bowers, Miss Lulu Frazer Miss Marie
! Dillon, Miss Ludlow, Mrs. l.. A. Redmdn, Miss
Bessie Fuhrer, Miss May Darlington, Mrs. Ver-
non Van Buskirk, Miss Mai Moody.
! The ushers were:
Messrs. G. Z. Hildebrecht G. A. Christensen,
] s. g. Ludlow. Robert Haight George de Long,
1 W. Noble, E. Knox, W. White, G. S. Knox,
Sanford Lewald, Gus Falconer, ii. Lang.