A concert, of greater merit in point of selection and
performance than the ordinary run of concerts, was given on Tuesday evening, in St. Mar- tin's Hall, to aid the building-fund of Trinity Church and Schools, in the Hartland Road, Haverstock Hill. An efficient though small band per- formed, under Mr. Hullah's conductorship, several instrumental pieces excellently. Miss Birch, Miss Dolby, Mr. Lockey, and Signor Marchesi, were the principal singers ; and Sterndale Bennett lent his assistance and played a caprice of his own and a sonata of Beethoven for violin and pianoforte with Blagrove. Mr. H. Blagrove began last night his series of three quartett concerts, in St. Martin's Hall. The quartetts were Beethoven's in B flat, and Men- delssohn's in E fiat ; but the novelty of the evening was the production of a quintett for stringed instruments by Boccherini, whose works have been undeservedly lost sight of: it is full of elegant simplicity, has a flow of melody throughout, and was well and delicately played.
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