Besides the above, the noticeable concerts of the week have
been the Ancient Concert on Wednesday evening, and Miss Dolby's and Mr. Lind- say Sloper's joint benefit concert on the same morning.
The Ancient Concert was remarkable for two things,-Herr Pischek's performance of Handers " Deeper and deeper still "; and the appearance of Roger, the celebrated tenor of the Opera Comique. Pischek's performance was a musical curiosity: he sang the scene in German, with the music transposed to a lower key. This vocalist too often shows himself ignorant of Hamlet's advice to the players, not to " tear a passion to tatters "; and, on the 'present occasion, the violence of his declamation in the recitative formed a singular contrast to the ultra refinement and often inaudible soft- ness with which he warbled the air, " Waft her, angels, to the sky." At the previous Ancient Concert, he sang another of those pieces which Braham has made entirely his own,-the " Total Eclipse," from Samson. It too was necessarily transposed to, snit his compass, and was sung in such a way that its most intimate acquaintances could hardly recognize it. M. Roger's talents are not confined to the boards of the Comic Opera: he is an excellent concert-singer, with a voice of the finest quality, and a pure Italian taste. His performance of the fine air " Champs paternels," in Me- hes Joseph, and (with Madame Gras Dorus) of the pathetic duet " Ne' giorni tuoi feliei," in Paesiello's Olimpiade, attested his qualities as an artist. Miss Dolby and Mr. Sloper had a crowded and fashionable concert. Of the lady's deserts it often falls in our way to speak. Mr. Sloper has but lately become known to the public, having pursued his studies chiefly on the Continent; but he cannot fail soon to be generally recognized as one of the most accomplished pianists of the day.
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