A Few Thoughts on Musical Festivals. By a Looker-on at
York.
Our opinion of the York affair has been already given, and we have no desire to prosecute so worthless a subject any further. The author of this pamphlet agrees in the main with our view of it ; and he has helped to expose a system by which music is profaned and a liberal art degraded. He is mistaken in some points, particularly in his es- timate of the meetings of the Three Choirs. The arrangement and selections at some of these, (take the last Worcester Meeting as a splendid instance,) have been highly creditable to the zeal, taste, and let us add the honesty of the conductors. The charge.of having mono- polized SPURR'S Last Judgment, is most inappropriately brought against the Norwich Committee ; since to every performer it is very well known that their parts of this oratorio have been lent to all the Festi- vals in the kingdom.
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