The Grand .National Concerts are moving heavily, and seem to
be now. drawing to a premature close A-few days ago 'it was announced' that this is the last week but two of the performances, and next day that it in the last week .hut one, The .pieces "underlined' Ai about to be pro- dUced---LIderfe Tchsitachus, a work by Berlioz,49.7shave disappeSogi
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The last of the works by an English composer—produced, as weepers feeied at the outset, with a view to the encouragement of nativetalent- was a selection from a manuscript opera by Mr. Howard Glover called Hero and Leander. It'was performed on Monday, and the eoldnesita its reception amounted to a failure. 'Considering the way in whick'it was brought out success was impossible. ' With no book' of the-Wainkno pro- gramme or argument of the :subject, no indication' of thefolihraeters to which the different pieces belonged, we listenedto a Set of airsiduets, and concerted movements, of which a single word could not be distbiguislied or the meaning even guessed at In the performance, tsso, there were marks of great haste and carelessness. The orchestra was 81.144ESS Qua there were hitches, from time to time, arising from want. :understanding between the singers, and the band. We pitied the composer Whose musics by way of encouragement, was so treated we thought of Admiral Byng, shot, as Voltaire said, " pour encourager les autres." Of the music itself we cannot pretend to give an opinion. " It-seemed smooth, regular, and artist-like, with little novelty of phrase;' but of its dramatic qualities it was impossible to form the slightest idea. '•
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