ACT U.

Siufonia, No. 6 Mower.

Aria. Mr. J. A. NoVELLO, " Menne tt laseto" MoZART.

Fantasia, Clarinet, Mr. GolIDSWAARD REISSEOER.

Tersett,. Madame CARADORI ALLAN, Mr. Moans, and Mr J. A. Noveu.o, " Benedictus" CUSPID:1TM. Overture, Anacreon CHERIIBINI.

Leader, Mr. Lonse—Ounductor, Mr. BISHOP.

A glance at. this scheme will show that our critical labours will be as

ACT I.

Sinfonia, Letter Q (performed at Oxford on obtaining the

Honorary Degree) Aria. Miss DOLBY, •• 0 salutaris hostia" Concerto in F. Pianoforte, Mrs. ANDERSON.

Mech. ed Aria. Madame CARADORI ALLAN, " Dove soon"

(Le Norse di Mgaru)

Overture. Leonora

HAYDN. CHERI:TENNI.

Mumtaz..

MOZART. BEFITIOWN.

light as those of its framers. A selection of pieces better known to all sorts of persons who dabble in music in any form could scarcely have been made ; and the idea of five eminent musicians sitting down in grave deliberation in order to produce it savours of the ludicrous. HAYDN, we are glad to find, is coming into favour again with the audience. A few years since, he was received with any thing but a cordial greeting. The "very learned" had discovered that he was " tame and antiquated." To the evident astonishment of the orchestra, the last movement of his Sinfonia was encored. Let us hope that this will be taken as a hint to the Directors to explore the rest of his Letter Sinfonias. Their sympathies, in this quarter are confined to Q—Q in his accustomed solitary corner, Q alone in his glory. Now Q here is no isolated person, but one of a large family, having sixteen brothers older, and some younger thin himself. We suggest a more impartial attention to the fraternity. Mrs. ANDERSON'S Concerto was one of that lady's most finished lied per- formances, and characterized not only by brilliant execution, but ex- pressive and sentimental. Mr. GOUDSWAARD is a Dutch player; of whose performance the principal feature was a frequent use of what we must term the diminuendissimo. His tone, usually rather martial and clamorous, was frequently lessened to the very vanishing-point. The vocal music, as usual, was left to the choice of the singers ; who took whatever best pleased their fancy, or gave them the least trouble. Miss DOLBY rarely fails to please, and often to delight her most judici- ous hearers : one defect in her song marred its otherwise very satisfac- tory performance—perhaps she was not aware of the solemn invocation she uttered, or of the impropriety of exhibiting a cadence in the course of its delivery. Indecencies of this kind are not uncommon, even in places of worship ; but no custom can sanction such a violation of good taste and such an outrage to the feelings. Let us recommend to Miss DOLBY, and to all the young singers of the present day, the advice of a sound and sensible Italian critic-

" If you have to sing in a language which you don't understand, take care not only to acquire its correct pronunciation, but the meaning and force of every word. How else can you sing with just expression ? Especially attend to this in singing church-music, of which expression is the very soul" In reference to the folly and ignorance which are often revealed by the cadenzas of singers, the same judicious writer thus exhorts ins fraternity- " Can you deny that you often make these exhibitions for the very purpose of begging for applause from the vulgar and the ignorant? You solicit these E Divas as an alms; for you know that justice would refuse them. And, in return, do you not laugh at your admirers ? Oh, if ever they should acquire wit enough to find out your tricks, and their paltry motive! My beloved singers, it these abuses bring you a little empty noise, they will insure you no true or lasting reputation. They are the greatest faults you can commit, be- cause you know yourselves to be in the wrong. For your own sakes, for the sake of your art, desist from such unworthy practices, and employ the talents with which you are endowed in a manner more worthy of them."

The other songs may be quickly dismissed, for very opposite reasons. Every one knows with what finished grace Madame CARADORI sings the exquisite" Dove sono ": let them Imagine something as opposite to it as possible—a vulgar howl—and they may have some idea of what " Mentre ti lascio " was changed into. Is such an exhibition designed to try how far the powers of endurance can be stretched? A new Sinfonia by SPOHR has arrived, and will be produced at one of these concerts, probably the next. Like the one which he wrote a few years since, its appeal is not merely to the senses, but the imagina- tion. Its title is " Irdisches und Giittliches in Menschenleben,"—lite- rally, "The Earthly and the Divine in the life of Man." It has excited great attention and admiration in Germany ; and whenever produced here, it will, at SPOIIR'S request, be conducted by MOSCHELES.