PHILHASMONIC CONCESTS.
The Philharmonic Society are often injudicious in their introduction of novelties; and in the concert of Monday last they were peculiarly so. The two Symphonies were unexceptionable,—Ilaydn's in D, No. 18, a simple bet beantiftil work; and Beethoveen's in A, one of his very greatest. His C minor Concerto for the pianoforte, played by Madame Dulcken, was also satisfactory. But the novelty of the evening, a Chorus by Men- delssohn, with words from Schiller's poem " To the Sons of Art," was a complete failure; and could not have been otherwise, seeing that it was a piece de circonstance, composed for a great public occasion, and requiring to be performed in the open air with some hundreds of voices, accompanied by a band of brazen instruments. It ended without a hand being moved in the way of applause. Au Overture by Meyerbeee, to a play called Struensee, (which is interspersed with incidental music, like oar old English plays in the time of Purcell,) also failed in effect, from its noisy and bois- terous character; which may perhaps do well enough in a large' theatre, but is intolerable in a concert-room.
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