MUSICAL CRITICISM.
(TO THB EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.) Sir,— rHave you read thecritique (1 suppose! must call itsuch) of.ths; Wesleyan Sacred Concert m last night's Times. If not, therein a treat m store for you I never saw such a production before. I will give one instance of the dense ignorance pt th« critic. He asks why was not the concert concluded with the National Anthem! 11 Did you ever ? I will ask the ex-reverend editor did he ever hear of a religious service terminating with a Highland Fling, or a Nigger Breakdown ? . One would be juat as app opriate and l proper as the other. The writer's remarks about the audience m the different parts of the house are m very bad taste* v I trust the conductor of the late Choral Society was present, to take a lesson how to conduct without rendering himself an object of ridicule. The whole notice of the Wesleyan Concert would have been better left unpublished. One good thing is, not manj would see it, and m*uy of those would not read, beyond the firt few lines. — I am, &c, Bon Jour. May 19.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 140, 21 May 1883, Page 2
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