VOCAL CONCERTS.
THE commencement of these concerts has been delayed in consequence of the alterations %Mich have taken place in the Hanover Square Rooms ; but they begin on Monday. We mean to be there. We feel a sort of paternal liking for this child ; bin: we shall watch its pro- gress with a father's jealousy. It starts into life with a healthy frame and a vigorous constitution : its symmetry is complete and its propor- tions perfect. All it has to apprehend is bad nur,ing. If petted and fondled, it will become rickety, and die in its inf mey ; but if well treated, it will grow up to maturity and strength. The Hammy-ikon of this month gives us a glimpse at the scheme of the first concert. Of English masters, we are to have WEBBE, Dr. COOKE, Dr. CROTCH, ATTWOOD, and BISHOP: of foreign composers, HAYDN, BEETHOVEN, MOZART, and HUMMER. If such men as BRAHAM, VAUGHAN, SALE, HOBBS, TERRAIL, PHILT.IPS, E. TAYLOR, and HORNCASTLE, can Con- trive to make an indifferent concert, out of such materials as these, they must have a perverseness of ingenuity for which we don't give them credit.
We presume, by the manner in which the advertisement is drawn, that concerted pieces are to form the principal feature of these concerts. And so they ought. Such a combination of vocal talent as this, will aim at something higher than amusing each other with mere song. singing. We long to have some of the treasures of the English school unlocked, and to hear the rich harmonies of the old IVIadrigalians—to have the dust brushed off the volumes of WEBBE and CALT.COTT, and LEO and Ccatu—to hear PURCELL again asserting his supremacy, and now and then a mass of HAYDN or MOZART, or a scene of SPOIIII.
But we need not anticipate. A few hours will satisfy us how far our expectations will be realized.
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