The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-03
MUSICAL MATTERS.

Tomorrow evening the choir of the
Bergen Reformed Church will give their
usual monthly service of song, and on
this occasion will render selections from
Stainer's sacred cantata entitled 1.-THE
Crucitixion." Rev. DR.. Brett will preach
and the music will be rendered by the
regular choir of the church under the d.
rection of Mr.. L. r.. Dressler.
The third of a series of matinee must
Gales was held yesterday afternoon in
Bradbury Hall, Nc. 43 Montgomery street,
and in point of attendance and musical
merit 1t was far superior to those held
before. In giving these matinees, Mr..
Walter u. Holmes, manager for Freedom
G. Smith, manufacturer of the famous
Bradbury Piano, has conferred a distinct
benefit on the music loving public of this
city. Yesterdays programme was what
musicians would call a salad. Individual
~ some of the pieces were uninteresting.
but as a whole they served to make a
was not without artistic merit. In the
first place. there was the singing of Miss
G. Angeline Patterson, who possesses a
rich soprano voice. but who in some pas
sages marred the beauty of its timbre
with that internal tremolando," as
Rossini describes that wavy, shaking,
present However, Miss Patterson's
style atones for this little shortcoming,
and she sang with much grace Rogers
lovely 'Du Dist vie cine Blume." Later
she sang Wekerlin Counsel to Nina" a
charming little musical sketch. into
" AtNt sly AtAl d7C1 FS1 In D1TdSll2
Miss Katharyn 3. Matthaei ana Mr..
Oscar Lang's performance at the piano
was the next delightful feature. They
played the glorious G Minor Concerto Of
Mendelssohn in a splendid manner. Over
and above the beautiful elaboration came
the p1aintive theme which these artists
HE S5ss'sS asIr g apan nssf Ms sssSlsEly ws style I
most see the ghostly revel SO well has
Saint-Saens, unsteady depicted the scene
of the dead pirouetting over the tombs
N th fbe cn nores} d5s+s n n relief from this
sO'Sflea and Walter q. Holmes. There
was none of the brassiness and metallic
ISM nafol n II. the i tones produced, and one could
Merry Postillion,s' without grinding ones
teeth and saying things which wouldn't
look we'll in q hymn book: Finally there
was the Philharmonic Club, which se-
lected one of the most difficult overtures,
that of der Freischutz,'' as their first
piece, and well-zthey executed it,
he would have turned IN his
grave. A Largo from Beethoven
was led to the slaughter next,
1T was the Largo no one would have dis
covered it. It was q new and original
rendering, anything but what Beethoven
David's sHerculaneum" and a fantastic
from Don Juan: The Impression was
and he playing was set" that is,
heavy, u~nmeaning, without light and
shade, and about as attractive as a SON
alta on a comb. Had it not been for Mr..
Holmes, who was at the or
gan, there would have been lots Of gaps.
He covered up a multitude of sins. al
charitable act in which he was ably as
sisted by Mr.. Oscar Lang at the piano.
Mrs. NJ. A Davis of Crawford. N. jill
sister Of Mrs. john A. Walker Of this
city, will sing. by request, tomorrow
evening. In the First Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Davis has a charming voice and III
an ACCOMPLISHED artist