At a meeting last week of the committee of the
Birmingham
Musical Festival, it was announced that Mademoiselle Patti had been added to the list of singers engaged, and that she will Biotin the two miscellaneous concerts: in the oratorio of Samson on the Wednesday morning, also in a motett of Hummel on the Friday morning, and in Judas Maceaberus on the Friday evening. The terms on which she is engaged are not stated by the committee, but they are said to be of such "fabulous" amount that we shall not repeat the sum that we have heard mentioned. The engagement, nevertheless, is a judicious one, and will not fail to pay. Miss Arabella Goddard is also added to the list of engagements previously made public. Choral rehearsals are going on weekly, and great progress, it is said, has been made with that most intricate work, Beethoven's Mass (or Service, as it is called) in D. If the Birmingham people succeed in performing it satisfactorily, they will do what has never been done yet.
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