CITY AMATEUR CONCERTS.
THE rehearsal, previously to the first performance for the season, took place at the City Concert Rooms on Thursday evening. It is an extremely judicious arrangement that the leading instruments of each part are filled by professors ;—with Mom for leader, BANNISTER for the violoncello, and SCHUNCKE for the horn, and the well-known talents of the City Amateurs, the band could not fail of being good. We have not yet, however, heard its effect ; for the orchestra of Tuesday evening was scena oboi, senza Aggoti, et so= contra-bassi: what there was, however, was respectable. A young lady (a pupil, we think, of the Royal Academy) sang the fine scena from " Il Sacrificio d'Abram- of CIMAROSA, " Deli Parlate" with considerable skill and delightful voice. She seemed of PASTA'S school ; the only fault of which is, that it deals in ultra-refinement. The scena Di Placer, the overture to Oberon, and other things, were hied over ; but as it is not our business to criticise rehearsals, we shall only say that the whole promised to go off well. We must, however, observe, that in performing such full orchestral music as the " Oberon," it will be absolutely neces- sary to procure the full complement of wind instruments, including the four horns and three trombones,—or else to get the pieces ar- ranged for such instruments as are at hand. Naked intervals, and all kinds of barbarous dissonance, are the fruits of omitting such parts as are not duplicate. For the first time, we heard here the effect of the violoncello strung as a double bass ;—it has so rich and fine atone that it deserves to be generally adopted in or- chestras. If the City Amateurs bring forward many such things as " Deh Parlate," their concerts will do infinite credit to their taste.
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