Mr. Hullah, for the time at least, has brought his
Orchestral Concerts to .a close. The fourth and last was given on Monday evening ; when St. Martin's Hall was crowded to the doors. Mr. Hullah's experiment of giving concerts of a highly classical character, in which excellence and cheapness are combined in an unprecedented degree, has so far suc- ceeded; and if he has suspended them for the present, it is because at this season it is impossible to keep his fine orchestra together, the performers being the elite of the profession, and all under engagements in other orchestras—those of the Italian Operas, Sacred Harmonic Society, the Philharmonic Societies, &c. The concert of Monday-evening was a first- rate entertainment. Several orchestral works of the highest class were admirably executed ; there was some excellent vocal music, in which Miss Dolby took the principal share:; and there was an interesting no- velty—a concerto for two flutes, played by the brothers Doppler, two Hungarian flautists of extraordinary talent. It was excellent both in composition and performance ; and its effect completely set at nought Cherubim's well-known sarcasm against the flute as a solo instrument- " If there is anything worse than a flute, it is two flutes."
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