1W there w4e " Commemoration of is to ;ay, a
concert Selected' exclusively from goiTle,g overtures, atid:Oyeral airs and con-
)* ifistrumenfal,portion of the per-
fonnanoffidwadtgd5 u' yt4444 AXcitestra being now brought to a .vier efficient :State byi the: abie;eonductor,Merr Maims; but the vocal pieces except those sung by Mr. and Mrs. Weiss were very indiffe- zarftlietmetitedi t1Thelin nab:twits a: damper 't.csithe concert ; but still the attraction of Moiart's name %low togetheo,st -much larger!tak• 'tilt:Ant than Could have, been- expected a- eireumstanee highly -creditable to:the:taste of the pablic, which our -eoncert-givers are by ffir too apt to undervalue. • ThiSinkake has been committed, in the concoction of three "Popular Concerts" got up at St. Jameeffilitli this week, with a viewto profit by the influx of visitors from the eanittry'. on account 'tit the Cattle show. The programmes are curiOna, sPep*.ens Of the pains talcen to accommo- date the music to the Inunblest ,cnpacity. 11r.„BlinsBeeves and Atka Dolby were employed to sing.nathuag but hackneyed ballads ; Miss:Ara- bella Goddard, 'whose taste andinclination lead lier to the higheatstyle of art, was entifinsd. to -fautasiaS aid other eXhibition& Of Music;al &main; and Piatti, the elegant 'violoncellist, perpetrated one evening a piede af niers' fiddling-Which he Would newer have brought before an audiehee for 'Whose judgment he had any respect; Mr. Benedict acted as conductor at these concerts, but we acquit him of may share in plan, ning,performaneeS so mneh at variance with his classical taste and well,
known opinions pf Whatikdue to the public. • '
,The Sacred llarmoaid.-,'Deciety,gro now bniff.y, engaged in preparing the centenary commemoration 'Of, Mandel, . to lac place at the Crystal. Palace, nextjune. There was a greet reheftrant at -Exeter Hall on-Eri- day evening last week, when all the metropolitan choristers to be em- ployed at the festival, to the number of about eighteen hundred,- 're- henesed, under Mr. Costa's direction, the choruses in Belshazzar' one'of the great 'Master's works whiel has suffered unmerited neglect: The choral portiott of this oratorio is- truly Mendelian in its grandeur and sublimity. -The vast body of choristers brought together on Friday were unquestionably- singing at sight, -(for Belshazzar has not been performed for a quarter of a century,) yet they sang with a degree of precision and effect which did iellnite benour to themselves and their conducter. , . The Christmas performance of .The Xessighrgiven by the Sacred Har- monic Society, began last evening, -when a crOnd was assembled almost unprecedented even in Exeter Hall. To a religions mind, The Messiag at this season is something_ more than a musical entertainment—it is a solemn Commemoration. The singers were Mrs. Sunderland, Miss Dolby, Sims Reeves, and Belletti. Mrs. Sunderland is scarcely known in Lon- don but has considerable provicial repute, which she well deserves. Belletti, since he came to England, has made himself an accomplished Mendelian, and his English elocution might serve as a lesson to most of our native singers. 0. PSIReeiNt4 CIMAPaStaFtleVialYP'"°4e.e4 911I8IM aund as to eitf
the n
his Well' 4, eatical PieRee,
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