26 FEBRUARY 1859, page 13

A Aeries Of "monday Popular Concerts" Has Been Lately Set

on foot at St. James's Hall. At first they were injured by a mistaken notion of the description of music suited to a popular audience ; the common error having been committed of......

The Expected Production Of Meyerbeer's New Opera,...

Opera Comique, is exciting great interest in the Parisian musical circles. This opera, we learn, is also to be produced, in an Italian dress, at Covent Garden, in the course of......

New Vocal Music.

We select for present notice a few of the most remarkable vocal pieces which have lately appeared. Walter Maynard, (the psendonyme of an amateur of distinguished talents) whose......

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LORD COWLEY'S MISSION. IT lies with Austria to tell Lord Cowley, finally, whether there shall be peace or war. It lies with Austria and those who consider themselves her......