27 MAY 1837, Page 9

LA SOCIETA ARMONICA.

Tin: transactions of this musical society necessarily compress them- selves into a small compass, as the original matter they contain is ex- ceedingly scanty. 1Ve wish it were otherwise ; for an instrumental and vocal apparatus engaged for a series of concerts, might, under active and well-directed management, produce something worth notice. As it is, they produce scarcely any thing. The instrumental music is, substantially, the seine with that performed at the Philharmonic Con- certs, only with a band inferior in numbers, and (the leader excepted) of much lower professional rank. The price of admission being pro- portionally reduced, enables a class of persons who might find it incon- venient or impracticable to obtain admission to the Philharmonic, to procure some musical gratification here at a cheaper rate : and so far so good.

The concert on Monday night consisted of Beertiov EN'S Sinfonia in D, the Overtures to Die Zaulierfliiie, Loduiska, andFuie;io, au air with variations on the oboe, by Ilaiutur, ditto on the violomello by GANZ. SCHRtEDER sang the scent from Der Friesehatz, a romance by SCHUBERT of considerable originality of feature, mid (alas !) ROSSINI'S duet " Ebben, la mia inemoria," with Mrs. SIIAw. Many of our spe- culators in concerts seem to labour with unwonted diligence and per- verse ingenuity to perpetrate some absurdity like this, and to labour heart and soul to put sonic performer (a female singer usually) into a false position. Thus was Guts, exposed in a solo of Havos's, and afterwards in " Let the bright Seraphim ;" Madame CARADORI and Mrs. BISHOP, in both instances, being among the listeners. Upon the same principle SHUTER played Richard, LISTON Octavian, MATHEWC Captain Macheath, mid BRAHAM Mango. f he best parallel for SCHIHEDER'S performance of ROSSINI would be Mrs. SIDCONS playing Lady Racket. We had never heard SCHROI- DER before in any music but that of the first masters of her own country; and out of this range, a pretty ample one, we never desire to hear her again. She who holds daily converse with the spirits of MOZART, BEETHOVEN, and WEBER, and who conveys to her hearers their inspirations, can have "no fellowship with the unfruitful works" of the ROSSINI school; which, to impart any pleasure, must be handled by Italian artists, trained and disciplined therein. Any ap- pearance of constraint or effort destroys all the effect which they are capable of producing. Of all musical inflictions, the direst is that of being compelled to listen to an English young lady (albeit a pupil of " the Academy ") while straining and staggering through a modern Italiim song. SCHIREDER was ill at ease throughout—in the language, in the passages, in the style. Let her content herself with BEET- HOVEN and other middling writers of the same stamp, and not vainly strive to soar to the elevation of Rossnar.