M. .Tullien has begun another series of promenade concerts, in
Covent Garden Theatre, which he has obtained from the directors of the Royal Italian Opera. The theatre, as fitted up by him, has lost its operahouse look, and is just like an enlarged Drury Lane, with its pit and stage thrown into a promenade, and its "grand tier" into a "dress circle" of open boxes. The change is much for the worse as regards the theatre, but for the better in as far as Jullien is concerned; for the house holds greater multitudes, with less of squeezing and discomfort. Since the change of locale the quality of the concerts is sensibly improved. Ma- dame Pleyel and Ernst play every evening ; and the "classical music" bears a larger proportion to the whole than it ever did before. On one evening this week, the programme included Mendelssohn's pianoforte concerto in D minor, a large portion of Beethoven's violin concerto in C, hieyerbeer's overture to " Struensee," and a selection from "Robert le Diable." On another evening there were Mendelssohn's pianoforte concerto in G, a selection from "Don Giovanni," the first and principal movement of Spohr's colossal symphony "The Power of Sound," and Wagner's overture to " Tannhauser." There was thus on each night an excellent classical concert, independently altogether of the "music for the million."
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