Two concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms have been got
up for the benefit of the Berlin choristers : .the one was given on Thursday morn- ing, the other takes place today. The room on Thursday was but in- differently filled; which we think might have been expected, as the prices of admission, though low, were higher than at Her Majesty's Theatre, where these singers have been performing nightly for several weeks past ; nor was there the attraction of novelty, the programme being chiefly made up of pieces which they have been performing at the Na- tional Concerts. They seemed, however, nowise affected by the com- parative meagreness of the audience, but sang with true German con- scientiousness and care, delighting the listeners by the unrivalled beauty and purity of their vocal harmony, for they sang their choral pieces as usual, without the accompaniment even of a pianoforte. Two of them, Messrs. Kotzolt and Neumann, sang solos. The first, in the air from the Zauberflete, "In diesen heiligen Hellen," displayed the qualities of his singularly deep and sonorous bass voice ; and the second, a fine tenor, sang an air from lphigenia in Tauris with the chaste simplicity which Gluck's music demands. A little boy of eleven, Emile Papendyk by name, played on the piano some of Mendelssolues Lieder ohne !Forte charmingly. This admirable choir will only be beard one night more at Her Majesty's Theatre before they return home to handle the musket and sword "in the cause" (as the advertisement has it) "of their King and country."
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