Concert

Forthcoming first performance.

First concert of the new organization.

“This musical society gave its first concert on last Tuesday evening (28^th), in the large and elegant hall on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, between Third and Fourth avenues, which was filled to the full extent of its seating capacity by the élite of local fashionable society. The organization has been established upon a firm basis by its conductor, Professor George Fred. Bristow, so long and well known to our musical world as an accomplished composer, organist and chef d’orchestre. Under his able and practical management, and through the active participation of its members, the Harlem Mendelssohn Union has quietly attained a name and position of which it may justly feel proud. The society supplied on Tuesday evening a full grand chorus of nearly one-hundred well-trained voices, whose rendition of no less than seven admirably-selected choral pieces elicited enthusiastic applause. Two of them, the ‘Sky Lark,’ by Barnby, and ‘Oh, hush thee, my Baby,’ by Sullivan, were repeated. The co-operation of Miss Maria Brainerd, soprano, Mr. George Simpson, tenor, Mr. J. R. Thomas, baritone, Mr. J. W. Pirsson, violinist, and Mr. S. P. Warren, pianist, added greatly to the interest of the occasion. The concert was in fact a most complete success, and it is to be hoped that ere long another one will be given.”