SOCIETY OF BRITISH MUSICIANS.
WE have already noticed the first concert of the season, given by this Society. The second took place on Monday last; and has afforded us no reason to modify, in any degree, the opinions we have already expressed as to the system on which the Society is conducted, and the quality of the music brought before the public at its concerts. Indeed, the second concert was inferior to the first ; for it contained no com- position of BENNETT's—the only one of the members who has as yet produced any thing beyond a clever and praiseworthy academical exer- cise. The performances at these concerts may be applauded and encored by audiences consisting chiefly of the members of the Society (a body of between three and four hundred persons) and their relatives and friends : but these audiences are not the public ; and the Society will find that the public will never be attracted to concerts where they are allowed to hear nothing but the crude compositions of young men, (clever and promising sonic of them, undoubtedly,) who are mere tyros in their art. This is not the way either to promote the interest of British Music or of the individuals who form this.Society of British Musicians.
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