M. Jullien—who has gradually been infusing a larger and larger
por- tion of the classic element into his concerts—has for two or three seasons back addressed himself specially to the cultivated taste of the public, by giving selections from the works of the greatest masters. One of these selections he gave on Wednesday it was from Mendelssohn; including that composer's overture to " Ruy Blas," his Italian Symphony, his Violin Concerto, and his music for "The Midsummer Night's Dream." These occupied the first part of the concert—two-thirds of the whole. It was one of the most crowded nights of the season, and would have been so had the concert been entirely of the same kind, for the theatre was completely filled before it began. The music could not have been more finely performed even by the Philharmonic Society ; nor would it have been applauded in Hanover Square with such genuine and heart- felt enthusiasm. We have no desire, however, that Jullien should forsake his own peculiar walk and betake himself wholly to the classical. His own genre is popular, but not vulgar. His quadrilles and waltzes are exceedingly gay and graceful ; and his military fantasias—obstreporous enough, to be sure—are wonderfully ingenious and effective—full of the " pomp and circumstance of glorious war," and in good keeping with the spirit of the time. Everything, too, is so admirably executed by this su- perb orchestra, that the lightest of these pieces gives pleasure to the most fastidious amateur.
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