The third concert of the Royal Academy of Music, on
Tuesday, fur- nished several creditable specimens of talent among the young performers. Miss Lyne, a King's Scholar, and pupil of Mr. Putter, played Sterndale Bennett's fine concerto in C minor with remarkable intelligence and ex- pression. A little boy named ham showed surprising proficiency as a. violinist : he is a pupil of Blagrove, whose beautiful silvery tone he has acquired. It is a frequent error at these concerts to give the pupils tasks far beyond their strength; as in the case of Miss Spiller, who was set to sing the tremendous scene in Mendelssohn's unfinished opera Lorely,--a composition which demands the utmost exertion of the very highest powers. The Quartet Association had an excellent concert on Thursday. Along with masterpieces of Beethoven and Spohr, there was one of the quartets of Mr. Lodge Ellerton the excellence of which we noticed when lately reviewing the score edition of the quartets of that accomplished amateur. The selection of this piece was highly creditable to the Association, as well as the careful and finished manner of its performance.
The concerts of the English Glee and Madrigal Union, which recom- menced on Monday, at Willis's Rooms, retain their character of being among the most pleasant and perfect of the many kinds of musical enter- tainments now in vogue. Mr. and Mrs. Lockey, Mrs. Endersohn, Mr. II. Phillips, and Mr. Hobbs, continue to be the principals; and by their long association they have attained an exquisite precision and delicacy ; but to them are added about sixteen male and female voices, which occa- sionally assist in the madrigals and in the glees with chorus.
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