M. jullien is more and more successful in his "classical"
career. He has followed up his Beethoven and Mendelssohn Festivals with a " Mo- zart Festival," which he gave on Tuesday evening. The house was the fullest of the season ; the promenade was literally so packed as to render promenadingimpossible ; but the vast multitude were charmed by Mo- zart's magic into an entire insensibility to physical discomfort. They stood al; still and attentive as if they had been sitting at their ease in a concert- room ; and their silence was only broken by vehement bursts of applause. This, after all, did not surprise us ; for the music of Mozart, delicate and refined as it is, and destitute of those forcible appeals to attention which later composers are accustomed to make' is, of all the music in the world, the most melodious, the most symmetrical,, the most clear, and the most universally captivating. Jullien's selection was admirable. It included the un- rivalled overture to the Zauberifite ; two of the finest symphonies, the famous " Jupiter " and the symphony in E flat; the sonata in E fiat for piano and violin, played by Madame Pleyel and Ernst ; and the beauti- ful song " L'Addio," sung by Miss Dolby. The rest of the concert, of course, consisted of the noisy dancing music which once formed the staple of Jullien's performances, but which is now greatly restricted in quantity, since it has been found that it is no longer the sole or even the principal attraction.
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