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Christmas is not a musical season in London—at least, music forms but a small part of its musical entertainments. At the theatres, there ara only the pantomimes ; and the concert performers are all making holiday in the country. It is chiefly in the domestic and social circle, and round the christmas fire, that music is heard in London just now ; . and this, after all, is about the pleasantest music that can be heard. We hear that the committee for the Mullah Fund are going to get up a concert in aid of that fund, on a large and magnificent scale. All our eminent vocal and instrumental performers have tendered their gratui- tous services; so that the only difficulty the committee have to encounter arises from the embarras des richesses.
The London Glee and Madrigal Union, whose exquisite performances of the works of the great masters of the English school of vocal harmony, from the age of Queen Elizabeth to the present time, have given so much pleasure to the public for several years past, are about to resume those performances at the Dudley Gallery. The first takes place on Monday evening next, and they are to be continued dsily for a month. The singers are the same as formerly—Miss J. Wells, Miss Eyles, Messrs. Baxter, Cumming, Land, and Lawler; and Mr. Oliphant will enhance the interest of the entertainment by his animated, amusing, and instruc- tive literary illustrations.
We read, in the Gazette Itusicale—Mr. Wiliest Beale, the eminent English impresario, has passed through Paris, on his way to Vienna, where he intends to engage, for his next tour in the English provinces, the charming singer, Jetty Treffz. Mademoiselle Marchisio, Madame Alboni, and Miss Goddard, are to be members of the party.
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