The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-10
MUSICAL NOTES

A Steinway concert grand, nine feet l long, loaned by the Jesse French com pany will be used at the recital at the
 conservatory this afternoon at 3:4o o'clock. l Rienzi Thomas, the virtuoso organist, will be in demand this season for re- citals in the larger cities in Alabama, l Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee, es- pecially in churches with new organs. | At St Pauls church today at lO:5o
 o'clock the choir will sing the Kyrie, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Del | from Webers celebrated mass in G and
 the Benedietus from Gounod's St. Cecilia
 mass This being the Advent season. the 1 Gloria will be omitted Miss Van Merke- | styn will sing an 70 Salutaris.' for the | offertory, with violin obligato by Oliver 1 Chalifoux.
 | Stephen Allsopp, chorus trainer and di- rector. is the latest acquisition to Bir-
 mingham's musical society He was born l and reared in Wales and is a friend of Rienzl Thomas, organist. and attache of
 the Jesse French company, himself a | Welchman. MT. Allsopp brings the highest
 testimonials and possesses an elegant baton of ivory, gold mounted presented to ] him by the Prince of Wales. The in- scription on the baton is as follows: "To
 MT. stephen Alsopp, conductor of the 1 Abercarn and District male voice choir, l from H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, St. James's palace, St. Davlds Day. 1902" | Many of the London dalies contained
 reports of the concert in which MT. All sopp participated. The following appeared | in the Times
 The Prince of Wales marked the occa- | sion of St. Davids Day on Saturday by | inviting the Abercarn male voice choir to | come to London and sing before the Prln-
 cess and himself at St. James's Palace
 The King graciously consented to honour 1 the concert with his presence. The va l rious ladies and gentlemen of the royal | household were invited by the prince and | princess to be present. The choir. number | ing s. reached St. James's Palace about l 1 o'clock, and were received there by | Colonel the Hon. Sir w. Darlington (con- | troler to the Prince of Wales) on be-
 half of their royal highnesses. An intima- | ton was then conveyed to them of the | Kings intention to be present. The mem 1 bers of the choir, practically all miners | or tinplate workers were invited to in | spect the throne room and other state l apartments, and afterwards took their | places upon d special platform erected for | the occasion in the great banqueting hall. l Their conductor utilized the time remain | ing at his disposal before the arrival
 of the royal party by holding a short | rehearsal of the afternoons programme The Prince and Princess of Wales, who | had taken luncheon at York House, walked across to the palace Just before 80. Each | of them were wearing leek in honor of | St. David's day. Soon after the arrival of | the prince and princess in the concert room, the King walked over from Mar1- | borough House, attended by the Earl of Kntore Qord in waitng), Sir J. R. T. | Fullerton (groom in waiting), and the l Hon. Sidney Greville and Captain the | Hon. Seymour Fortescue (equerries in l waiting).
 | The choir appropriately opened the per l formance with "Twysog Cwmru" (God l Bless the Prince of Wales), which they
 rendered with marked fervor. The Welsh 1 version was used and the piece. like all ! those which followed it, was sung with i out any kind of accompaniment. Follow l ing it immediately came Men of liar | 1ech." There were seven items In all, and 1 two of these were in English-one of | them, 'rhe long day closes" being es- l pecially appreciated. The concluding item
 was ''Duw Gadw'r Brenin," and the choir, | after dsposing of the three verses in their
 own language, repeated them in English. | His majesty had purposed remaining halt | an hour only, but he stayed to the con | clusion and appeared greatly to appreci- | ate the rendering of the national anthem. l At the close of the concert the Aug 1 sent for the conductor and secretary of l the choir and warmly thanked and com | pllmented them. His majesty said that | the performances were splendid, and add | cd that they had truly noble voices in | Wales.
 The Prince and Princess of Wales also | thanked the choir most heartily. and Sir
 w. Darlington subsequently, intimated the 1 gracious intention of their royal high nesses 10 send some special souvenir of the occasion to the conductor and secre tary.
 After his majesty and the royal party
 had withdrawn. the choir were enter tained at luncheon in the palace.
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