MR. E. TAYLOR'S CONCERT.
THE selection at this concert, as usual, embraced several glees of living composers, chosen, apparently, not on account of their being well known, but rather because they ought to be so. Among them, " Sweet poet of the woods," by HORSLEY, and " I wish to tune my quiv'ring lyre," by WALMISLEY, deserve especial notice and praise. A lovely terzetto, by ATTWOOD, " Qual silenzio," we presume must be unknown at the Philharmonic, or it would have superseded some of the trash we have been compelled to hear there. " The Gabre's Glee," an accompanied trio and chorus, may be quoted as an additional illustration of our remark last week, that BISHOP'S music, though driven from the stage, possesses too strong a principle of vitality to perish. The chief attraction of the evening was the selection from Die Zaubectliitte, which occupied the whole of the second act. It was committed to singers both able and willing to do justice to its unrivalled beauties,—Madame DE MERIC, Miss CRAMER, Miss MASSON, and Messrs. HORN- CASTLE and E. TAYLOR. Such a composition, performed as it was on Thursday, was a sumptuous musical treat. Madame DE. MERIC is evidently more at home in the operas of MOZART than in those flimsy compilations in which she has hitherto been em- ployed at the King's Theatre. She appeared to enjoy her task, and to go through it not so much with a desire to exhibit her own powers, as to render them subservient to the general effect of every piece in which she was engaged.
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