MRS. ANDERSON'S CONCERT.
THIS concert, on Friday, filled the Hanover Square Rooms with a fashionable crowd. Mrs. ANDERSON played part of a Concerto of Hummel. and BEETHOVEN'S descriptive Fantasia, which we had previ- ously heard at one of the Vocal Concerts. These classical pieces she performed admirably; but, though she delighted, we dare say, many of the fashionable misses, yet she hurt her credit with the musical part of the audience by playing a set of brilliant (or, in other words, extravagant and unmeaning) variations by CZERNY on Ileinat's "God save the Emperor." The Chronicle of this morning is right in saying, that " an artist of her reputation, and consequent influence, would promote the cause of good taste, and the progress of music, by abstaining from countenancing by her example the cultivation of this depraved and frivolous style." The remainder of the concert was of a commonplace character ; but the Fantasia on the Harp played by Miss COWARD RICHARDSON, who made her debut on the occasion, is en- titled to particular notice. This young lady has a most brilliant finger, her tone is free from the wiriness which makes the harp so often dis- agreeable, and she has taste and expression. She is, moreover, a beau- tiful girl—an excellent thing in a harp-player.
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