Sunday Evening Concert: 40th

“The closing concert of Mr. Harrison’s Sunday Series occurred at Steinway Hall last night. These entertainments, of which forty have been given, have kept up their vogue by means of good selections and admirable performances.  Since we have spoken of them many things have been heard, each of which, if merit had its due, would be with a separate notion. But Mr. Harrison, who is as indefatigable as he is enterprising, must perforce take the will for the deed.  There is no reason why these 'Sunday Concerts'—as well conducted as they have been so far, and no one is likely to conduct them with more spirit than Mr. Harrison,—should not become a regular institution, and do much good service in this way.  If it be well to have good symphonies, concertos, &c., as the Philharmonic Society and Mr. Theodore Thomas have shown, it is also well to have good music of a simpler order, for those whose taste can go no deeper. Of course the Sunday series will be resumed next Fall. The concert under notice was excellent of its kind, and entirely to the taste of a crowded audience, who nevertheless could have put up cheerfully with half as many encores. Mrs. Annie Kemp Bowles, Mr. J. N. Pattison, and Mr. Gustavus F. Hall, a baritone already pleasing, and giving promise of even a better future, were heard in the solo, which need not be named, while Mr. Thomas’ orchestra engaged in duties conscientiously fulfilled under Mr. Matzka’s leadership.”