... I WOLVEYRIHAMPTON MUSICAL YESTIVAL. DR. HEAP'S NEW CANTATA, THE MAID 0F ASTOLAT. In noticing the new work by Dr. Swinnerton Heap, it is quite needless here in Birmingham to offer any prefa- tory remarks by way of introducing the composer. Living and labouring in our midst, ho has long occupied a fore- most place in the first rank of our losal musicians as pro- fessor, performer, and ...

... THE ELECTRIO LIGHT AT THE ART GALLERY. The new electric lighting of the rotunda at the Art Gallery has now had upwards of a week's trial, and, with some slight modifications upon the original arrangement, is found to give the fullest satisfaction. The experiment is one of the greatest importance, not only to public bodies having the charge of museums and art galleries, but also to the owners ...

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... That genial end genuine humorisb; Mr. John S. Clarkie, ommenced a six nights' engagement hero on Monday night, supported by a specially organised company of his own, and met with a cordial reception from a large and appreciative audience, Stirling Coyns'e old foue-aet comedy, A Widow Rant, w.which constituted the principal item of the bill, owes its popularity of late years mainly to Mr. ...

... /:nxiois Language from Tutlif titl Roxtv, js u ' [F'rome Punch.] Do I sleep ? Do I drieai ? I Do I wondorand doubt? Are things what they seem? Or are dodgee About? Are we Liberal-Unineist faileres? And is William Gladstone pilayed cut? All expressions though strang, - Aii to tell ail our glee, At the gamo some called wrong, (But that's fiddle-de-dee) Which we worked off on William our partner ...

... THEIATRE ROYAL. THE CARL ROSA OPER1A COMPANY. A crowded houso last night testified to the continued popularity of Bizet's lyrie masterpiece, Carmnn,' the performance of which, however, presented in itself several points of interest. It is needless egain to enter into details respecting this adaptation of the fascinating romance of Prosper Dierimee. As in the case of M ignon, the ...

... THE CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY. Mloxart's lyric masterpiece, like some other noblo classics, is more talked about and appisauded than really beloved by thio mass of English opera-goers, for whom perhaps the defects of the drama outweigh the charms of mncie; but its performance last night, novertlsdus, attracted a large and appreeiative audience, whose dolight with the enter- taonment found ...

... A new andl important departure will be noticed this season in the arrangements of the musical section of the Midland Institute, which have ne.w assumed a scope and character to justify its claim to rank as a local school of masie or popular con- servatoire. Besides mixed classes, under competent teachers, for the study of solo and choral singing (includ- ing the tonie-sol-fa system), theory of ...

... GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FE'STIVAL, I IJhusnm our S7eiei,7 Cbu ndessti GLOUCOSTER, Thursday, After the wet and gloomy weather of yesterday, this morning's sunshine came as a welcome change. To-day everything is bright and fair, and the appearance of the crowded Cathedral-tho rays of the sun glancing through the clerestory and lighting up the grand Norman nave- was grand in the extreme. The ...

... THE BIRMNGKHAM EXHIBITION. An interesting publication, of equarto size, has been issued by Messrs. flooghton and Co., of Scotland Passage, as a souvenir of tics Birmingham Exhibition. It contains .sea frontispiece live portraits of men whose connection with the exhibition entitles them to a place in the volume. That of Sir William Daween, I'resident of tho British Association, has the ...

... TIE SOCITY OF ARTISTS, I I EXHBITION FOURTH NOTIOCE As upon former occasions, of recent years, the water- colonr work of the Autumn Exhibition is hung in the North Room of the Soeiety's galleries. It is a pleasant and well-lighted room, and the works show to great advan- tage; hot it is not large enough for the proper exhibition of three hundred and thirty pictures. That is the uim- ber of ...

... I - - :~ Last evening the Vaughan-Conway Company opened a week's visit to the Theatre Royal with Sheridan's Sehool for ScandaL. That a hearty welcome was forthcoming it is needless to say, for an occasional representation of those good old comedies, which seem to ripen rather than decay with age, mast come upon Birmingham playgoors as a relief to the highly-spiced dramas with which of ...