Music and Some Highly Musical PeopleTrotter, James M.
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Music and Some Highly Musical People
Trotter, James M.
African American musicians -- Biography; African Americans -- Music
"A larger audience than that of last Saturday evening
greeted the Hyers sisters at Mechanics' Hall last evening.
The programme was a new one, with the exception of the
'Greeting to Spring,' which was repeated by request, and was
enthusiastically received. The 'Excelsior' of Messrs. King
and Luca, the 'Cavatina Linda' of Miss Anna Hyers, the
'Sleep Well' of Mr. King, and the 'Non e'ver' [Transcriber's
Note: 'Non e ver'] of Miss Emma Hyers, were encored, as well
as nearly all the quartets. The quartet-singing was
unaccompanied, and was the finest that has been heard in
this city for years. The voices blended beautifully, and
were full of expression. Nor can too high praise be bestowed
upon the soprano and tenor. They showed great cultivation,
and a quality of voice rarely equalled."
While they were in Connecticut, "The Daily Union" of New Haven
remarked,--
"New Haven has but rarely heard such extraordinary artists,
or reaped so much benefit as from their concerts."
And "The Providence (R.I.) Journal" said,--
"Seldom in the history of our pleasure-seeking has it been
our good fortune to enjoy an hour of such exquisite pleasure
as we were blessed with on the occasion of our attending a
concert given here, a short time since, by the Hyers
sisters."
Our talented artists had now acquired throughout New England a fame so
fair, that Mr. P.S. Gilmore felt warranted in inviting them to appear
at the great Peace Jubilee concerts; and here, before an audience of
fifty thousand people, and in the company of several of the great
solo-vocalists of the world, surrounded by a chorus of twenty thousand
voices and an orchestra of one thousand performers, these gifted girls
occupied a proud position, reflecting upon themselves and all with
whom they were identified additional honors.
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