... which had been so , success- fully pruduced at Bristol in the previous October. In Friday night's performance of lNaaman, its grandest choral and instrumental effects were realised by the vast choir of the society, and a largely augmented orchestrae; the solos ...

... the w fourteenth season of the Royal Albert Hall be Choral Society-conducted by Mr. Barnby-on lo( Thursday eveniug, when the annual perfor- FE macico of the M Messiah was given. The sub- we linme choral music was rendered with fine effect fol by the gigantic ...

... s for Whit Monday is also being prepared. tin Saturday afternoon, June 11, the members of the Bristol Choral Society and the Alexandra Palace Choral Society, nearly °,Q00 strong, will give a united performance ...

... -for fthe banquet by the Wagner Society to Herr Felix MottL Perhaps we shal then bear something more of the scheme for the proposed new Wagner theatre, which, whether at Richmond-hilR or 'n the grounds of thei Crystal Palace, wi be far from the madding crowd ...

... Rand Branwell (scholar), and the London Musical Society's prize for singing, value 8 Ss., to Albert H. Archdeacon (Liverpool scholar). WOLVERHsAM'PTON FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY.-The annual meeting of this society, of which Dr. Swinnerton Heap is the conductor ...

... rendering of Vieuxtemps' not altogether interesting \Violis Concerto in D minor. CONCERTS (VARIOUS).-A choral concert was given at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, the programme including Dr. Bridge 5 Rock ofAges, originally produced at the Birmingham Festival ...

... meetings terminated on the 9th instmet with competitions between brass bands and choral societies. Messrs J. F. Barnett, Brinley Richards, and Henry Leslie were the Judges of the choral singing. The competition onl this occasion took place on the Handel orchestra ...

... the Wind Instrument Society last week. Apart from their curiosity these Eguales are intele~tinz enough. Two of them, indeed, we-re adapted by Seyfried to Nvoldi from the iseerere, and were performed at Beethoven's ?? the Crystal Palace, on Saturday, Sir ...

... greater proportion of the large numnber of d~er the residents of Sydenham and the vicinity, who chiefly %?,C compose the Crystal Palace audiences, heard the ore- ma torie for the first time on Saturday. We gave so full Da and detailed an analysis in the ...

... Hermine Spies, sang several of his songs. At the Alexandra Palace on Saturday there was a festival performance of Elijah, with a chorus of 2,000 voices, some of them members of the Bristol Choral Society, who caine up from the West of England expressly for ...

... the British Orchestral Society in January of this year, and it was again given at a concert of the Philharmonic Society in the following July. The oratorio to which it belongs is to be performed for 'the first time at the Bristol Festival, in October next ...

... manager of the Crystal Palace, who has also been prominent in the affairs of the Sacred Har- monic Society almost from its origin. The selection of Mr. Costa's D-aatwn for performance at the five hundredth concert of the Sacred Harmonic L Society was a most ...