LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 722, 10 July 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT.

Die miscellaneous concert given last night, or the benefit of the funds of the proposed lew St. Luke's parsonage was alike finanially and musically successful. If there v.i 3 any fault to be found with the programme, it was that it was too pregnant with .•ocal music, and that «f a class almost exclusively for one, two, and three voices. That il ivould have been perferable to have inter sp*Tse«l these items with a few glee.-:, there can not be the least doubt. We are not wishing t< underrate the efforts of the ladies and gentle men who took part in last night's entertain ment, for we have seldom heard vocalisahoi so evenly good. We have neither space no iiK-lina'ion to comment upon the merit o each performance. In doing so, we woulc either have to bestow praise where it wai undeserved, and give hints .is to how, inou opinion, performances could be improved or lavish fulsome praise on all. T< do the first would perhaps give offence ; t< do the latter would ofjend pur sense o propriety. But we can conscientiously assert that even the debutantes of last even inc displayed a richness of voice and, be n«>ath a little pardonable awkwardness, ai aptitude for interpheting their pieces, tha were quito refreshing. Then, of course, wi were the fortunate recipients of favors a the hands of those ladies and gentlemen wh< have so often delighted us with their per formances. We congratulate everybody con nectedwith the affair on thesuccessachieved If the programme was a little monotonous in consequence of the abscence of a few lively glees, it wa«, notwithstanding, in teresting, from the circumstance that not : single vocalist who took part in last night': entertainment could be said to be afflictec with a bad voice; indeed, we might g( further and say that in every instance thi vocalists were favored by nature with goor vocal powers : bnt much yet remains to b( done b}- artifice in the case of some of them We hear that the receipts were of ai amount quite satisfactory to the promoter: of the entertainment; but we shall not bi able to give the exact amount until tr morrow.