A Pupils' Recital

The recital given Wednesday evening by the pupils of Messrs. Kenipl' and Bilbie was well attended and the yotuig people acquitted themselves uniforinly well, showing careful training. Of the piano players perhaps Miss Charlotte O. Howe's performance of the C minor sonata of Mozart was the most commendable being played witli clearness of techniqne and musical feeling. Miss Lisia Van Valkenburg played two short numbers quite brilliantly in spite of being nervous. The younger pupils on both piano and violin were a credit to their teachers. Of Mr. Bilbie 's pupils Mr. Albert Long played with his teacher a concerto for two violins by Bach. This concerto requires considerable technique and coolness and judgment on the part of the performers and Mr. Long fulfilled the requirements of his part. Miss Mlnnie Davis sustained the piano part. The greatest applause of the evening was won by Mr. Frank Smith, of Ypsilanti, and deservedly so. The beauty and power of his tone and the maturity of his style are unusual in a pupil. He played the celebrated serenade of Shubert and a mazurka by Wisniawski, the first with much tenderness of expression and the second with dash and flre. The concert ended with a Mozart sonata for four hands, played justly and well by Miss Myrta Kenipf and Miss Crissy Sawyer.