National Conservatory of Music Concert: 1st

“Irving Hall.—The first concert of the National Conservatory of Music took place last night before an immense audience. Pattison played one of his new pieces, ‘Soirée and Ball,’ Introduction and grand polka, in a particularly brilliant style, and the tones of the grand piano were brought out with almost an organ degree of power. In this work Mr. Pattison would do well to cut out the cadenzas in the introduction and middle; for they completely spoil the rattling spirited character of the polka. Miss Jennie Bull sang the bolero from the ‘Sicilian Vespers,’ and showed that she has a fine voice, which may place her in an enviable position on the concert stage. But such a piece as the bolero is unsuited to her, and therefore she failed in it. In the ballad which she sang as an encore she was very successful. The other artistes were Severini, Poznanski, and Misses Pease and Wells, two promising pupils of the Conservatory. The person who presided at the piano as conductor was especially unfitted for the position, for he did not assist the artistes much in the solos."

“The first concert of the National Conservatory of Music, was given on Saturday evening at Irving Hall, before an overflowing house. The principal performers were Miss Pease and Miss Wells (pupils), Miss Jennie Bull, Mr. Pattison, Mr. Poznanski, and Signor Severini. Miss Bull has a pleasant mezzo soprano voice, and though her culture is yet rather imperfect, she made an agreeable impression.”