The great house was filled to its capacity with a representative Irish gathering and presented a fine picture of comely women and handsome men. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission had given the concert official place in its programme; the visiting guests of the Commission were invited. Governor Hughes of the State of New York, who boasts of Irish blood, and our one-time mayor and one-time president of Columbia College, Seth Low, as chairman of the Commission’s reception committee, occupied with the governor’s staff the central box on the grand tier. It was a “warm house,” then, that greeted the entry of the orchestra and the chorus on the broad stage, and listened raptly to what proved a fine concert of Irish music, deserving all the applause it received. And this was the programme:— 1. Overture—“Maritana,” _W. V. Wallace_ =Orchestra.= 2. Song—(a) “Ban-Chnoic Eireann, O” _Mac Conmara_ Lyric—(b) “The Penal Days” _Davis_ =Mrs. Helen O’Donnell.= 3. Chorus—(a) “The Minstrel Boy” _Moore_ (b) “Oft in the Stilly Night” _Balfe_ =Catholic Oratorio Society.= 4. Song (Irish)—“Thuit ar an m-bu-adharg” _MacHale_ Lyric (b)—“Sweet Harp of the Days That Are Gone,” _words by Samuel Lover; music by his grandson, Victor Herbert_. =Mr. William Ludwig.= 5. Irish Symphony—(a) “Andante Con Moto” (two movements) (b) “Allegretto Motto Vivace” _V. Villiers Stanford_ =Orchestra.= 6. Irish Rhapsody—“Erin, Oh, Erin” _composed by Victor Herbert and dedicated to the Gaelic Society_ =Orchestra.= 7. Song—“An Irish Noel” _Augusta Holmes_ =Madame Selma Kronold.= 8. Chorus—(a) “Hath Sorrow Thy Young Days” _Balfe_ (b) “The Fenian War Song” _Sir. R. P. Stewart_ =Catholic Oratorio Society.= 9. Song—(a) “Irish Reaper’s Harvest Hymn” _Keegan_ (b) “Old Ireland Shall Be Free” (_words by J. J. Rooney, old air arranged by Victor Herbert_) =Mr. William Ludwig.= 10. American Fantasy _Victor Herbert_ =Orchestra.= 11. Anthem—“The Star Spangled Banner” =Orchestra and Chorus.=