text:  Such is the stuff palmed off on us varied as it is by glees screamed out by four voices all in different keys; solos squeaked out by stout gentlemen and roared by pale lanky lads of eighteen; duets by young ladies who accidentally set out on discordant notes and don't find out the mistake till they come to the finale; with occasionally a psalm crooned by worthy sexagenarians guiltless alike of ear and voice but who seeming to think it a duty to add their mite to the inexpressible dissonance perform the same to the unmixed dismay of all their hearers