ble reports of these sisters in the
California papers, but confess that we were not prepared for
such an exhibition of vocal powers as they gave us last
night.

"Miss Anna Hyers, the eldest, is a musical phenomenon. When
we tell musicians that she sings E flat above the staff as
loud and clear as an organ, they will understand us when we
say she is a prodigy. Jenny Lind was the recipient of
world-wide fame and the most lavishly-bestowed encomiums
from the most musical critics in the Old and New World
simply because she sang that note in Vienna twenty years
ago. Parepa Rosa, it is claimed, reached that vocal altitude
last summer. But the sopranos who did it flit across this
planet like angels. Several competent musicians listened to
Anna Hyers last evening, and unanimously pronounced her
perfectly wonderful. With the greatest ease in the world, as
naturally and gracefully as she breathes, she runs the scale
from the low notes in the middle register to the highest
notes ever reached by mortal singers. Her trills are as
sweet and bird-like as those with which the 'Swedish
Nightingale' once entranced the world. In Verdi's famous
'Traviata' there was not a note or modulation wrong: her
rendition was faultless, her voice the most sweet and
musical we ever listened to.

"In the duet, 'There's a sigh in the heart,' her voice was
exhibited in wonderful range; and, in the tower-scene from
'Il Trovatore,' its great power was singularly and very
agreeably apparent.

"We do not remember to have been more completely and
agreeably surprised than we were last evening in the
matchless excellence of the singing of the Hyers sisters.
They deserve a crowded house; and we predict that in Boston
or New York, by the most severe critics, they will be
pronounced musical prodigies."

In Chicago their success was none the less flattering. In this, styled
by many the "Queen City of the West," the remarkable musical powers of
these young ladies created intense excitement, especially among people
of the highest musical culture. The extraordinarily high range of the
voice of Anna Hyers quite astonished every one who heard her, and
evoked the warmest praise of the critics. For the purpose of assuring
those who had not heard her sing, or who, although present, failed to
exactly loca