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The Birmingham Festival, Always The G Reatest Of The...

meetings, is to be held on the 27th , 28th, 29th, and 30th of August, and, as usual, there will be a morning and an evening per- formance each day; but, what is unusual, two of......

Her Majesty's. Commissioners For The Great Exhibition Of...

it appears, invited Rossini, Meyerbeer, and Auber to compose works to be performed on the occasion of the opening of the Exhi- bition, in conjunction with a work by an English......

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Tim appearance of Adelina Patti as Zerlina, in Don Giovanni, last Saturday, did what we said it would do—gave full scope to her dra- matic talent and tested her qualities as a......

Low And High Literature.

4 CL OW " literature has received a great impulse in the repeal of the paper duty. The various penny miscellanies, which boast so vast a circulation, are already beginning to......

The Centenary Anniversary Of The Noblemen's Catch Club...

celebrated this year by a competition for two prizes—the first, a silver goblet, the second five guineas—for glees. The first prize has been awarded to Mr. William Cummings,'......

Giuseppe Stanzieri, A Young Composer, Whose Extraordinary...

gave promise of a brilliant career, died a few days ago at Paris. " He was born," says the Gazette Musicale, " at Naples, where his father was a manufacturer of pianos. Lablache......