Henry Byron Concert

“MR. HENRY BYRON’S GRAND Concert”

    “This popular vocalist’s concert at Dodworth Hall, on Tuesday night, was very well attended.  There was a large number of assistant artists and a still larger number of light, pleasing selections from English ballads, comic songs and glees.  The comic songs of Mr. George Guy, in particular, were leading features in the concert.  If Henry Russel [sic] had heard his fine bass solo, ‘Friar of Orders Grey,’ sung that night by Mr. T. Edwards, we would not be answerable for the consequences. The playing of Messrs. Alexander and Hill on the Weber piano was not certainly of the Wehli or Mills order, but still above mediocrity.  The audiences that attend one of these light popular concerts at Dodworth Hall are insatiable towards the singers in regard to the number of pieces. No matter if there are thirty or forty pieces on the bill, still the relentless audience will have an encore after each.  The consequence is that the concert terminates but a short time before the Excise law commences its operations.”