The two Philharmonic Societies have had concerts this week ;
the Old on Monday, the New on Wednesday. Both concerts were good, and attended by crowded audiences. At the Old, our English violinist Cooper played Spohr's Dramatic Concerto in a manner which vindicated his claim to undoubted supremacy among his countrymen, and showed but little inferiority to any of his foreign rivals. At the New Society, Ma- dame Schumann played one of her husband's concertos ; a work full of beauties. At this concert, too, Howard Glover's cantata, " Tam o' Shanter " was again performed with applause.
At the Musical Union, on Tuesday, Madame Schumann, thegreat concert star at present, was the chief object of interest. She played, as a solo, Beethoven's air with variations in C minor ; and, with Ernst and Pisa, Mendelssohn's trio in the same key; exciting the rapture,of the fashionable amateurs who crowded the room.
There have been two other concerts of note this week ; that of Made- moiselle Sedlatzek, the singer; and that of Miss Arabella Goddard, the pianist. Miss Goddard has just returned to England after a sojourn of nearly two years on the Continent, where she has gained a great reputa- tion. Both these ladies had their rooms filled with elegant company.
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