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A very happy social event transpired on
Tuesday 8th inst, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. It, P, Hopper, Claremont, when
Miss'Agar and her pupils held a musioale
from 8 to 6 in the afternoon. The guests
were the friends whom the class chose to
invite and the double parlors sest-a to
accommodate the sixty guests present
were failed. The following was the pro-
gramme::
ro-gramme : 'Duet, Blue Belle of Scotland,
Misses Nellie and Lizzie Gregg; Solo,
Light Foot Waltz, Mies Uertie Coultis;
Duet, Silver Threads among the Gold,
Misses Thomson and Agar; Solo, Good
Luck iValtz, Herbert Leggot; Duet, Shep-
herd's Evening Song', Misses Edith and
Maud Holden; Solo, Little Fairy Galop,
Miss Lizzie Gregg; Duet, Blushing Morn,.
;bar. Bowes and Miss Agar; Solo, La
Tocsa Waltz, Miss Macnab; Duet, Chop -
stinks, Misses Maggie and Jennie Gregg;.
Solo; Sweet Bye and Bye (variations,)
rites Naud Holden; Solo, Sultan's March,
Mies Macnab;.Solo, Forget Me Not, Miss
Edith Holden; Solo, Billman's Grand
March, Miss Ella Dowswell; Solo, Mid-
summer Night's Dream, bliss Agar.
After this overture from Mendelssohn's
compositions, the program concluded, as
Miss Agar like most modern instructora,
has a high regard for Von .Weber, Men-
delssohn, Sohuman, Chopin &c, it was
natural she would make a selection from
the German classics, but a Canadian
aud:enoe is always more moved by a vari-
ation in some sweet old melody. and when
one of'the audience asked for "Ole Black
Joe" a sense of satisfa:tion beamed from
every face. If Ole Black Joe is not Ger•
man classics so much the worse for Ger•
many; for it is classical American and as
we listenedl we saw in spirit the Angel
pinions sweep low and catch the tired. o13
body and sweep it through the gates into
the harmonies of the better land: How
that pathetic old melody, lifts the soul in
mystic sympathy in its refrain which re-
curs again and again, until it dies away
in a low soft weird chords like a dissolv-
ing
issolying view.
In introducing the class as a wholo Miss
Agar asked their sympathy and charitable
criticism of her pupils as it was the maid•
en effort of each one before an audience.
We understand some of them did not
know -either the keyboard or staff a few
months ago, but the audience were loud
in their appreciation of the efforts of the
young people to entertain them, and said
if another opportunity were given in the
future they would not be slow in respond.
ing. After refreshments and asocial chat,
the company dispersed haying spent a
couple of hours very pleasantly.
ONE WHO WAs THERE.