SOCIETA ARMONICA.
THE periodical concerts of the season are fast drawing to a close, and this among them—the last, and we may add, the least. It is a specu- lation, as we understand, of LAPORTE. Moat, and Fonites; the first of the trio undertaking to furnish his singers by pairs at each succeed- ing concert, where an audience is attracted at an abatement of the regular opera or concert prices. This is an arrangement well calcu- lated to extend the sphere of musical enjoyment among a class of persons to whom access to concerts of a higher rank would be incon- veniently, if at all, obtained; and we are always well pleased to see at the SocietA Armonica, an assemblage of what are usually, though foolishly, called vulgar persons. We only wish their time and motley were spent on a more refitted species of musics] gratification. But, by the very character of the arrangement to which we have alluded, this may be impracticable, since it seems to imply the performance of songs and duets from the previous week's operas ; at least such usually form the contents of the scheme. The vocal music on Monday night was chiefly taken from Morino Faller° and L'Assedio di Connie: of which all that needs to be said is, that it was (as all such music is) less effec- tive in the concert-room than on the stage, end that it was accorn- panied by a hand far inferior to that of the Opera-house. The con- cert eommenced by a Mass in G, said to be by Weemt,—but not by the WEBER, Ave are satisfied; for even an inferior and imperfect per- formance, as this undoubtedly was, could not fail to develop some features of this great master's design. It is, probably, the production of GODFREY WEBER, a writer of very inferior powers, who published a mass in this key.
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