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Westonian sense of the word. A line, in season, may put a stop to the farther presentation of testimonials to these "enterprising" promoters of the consumption of ardent spirits, and destroyers of all that is healthy or worthy in the art of all others most justly esteemed "divine."

MLLE. ADELINA PATTI AT BERLIN.

ally after her first success in Lucia, that when she was announced for Amina the Opera House was crammed to the ceiling. The character of the somnambulist is peculiarly adapted to the childish, affectionate nature of the young artist, which is evident in her appearance as well as in her singing and acting. The very first scenes were sufficient to excite among the audience a feeling of the liveliest interest, mingled with the most sincere admiration of her surprising vocal fluency. Her voice, thanks to its clear and bright tone, penetrates everywhere, and completely fills the large space of the Opera House. Mlle. Patti understands admirably how to husband her resources, and her execution is so for her success. We can recollect no instance of staccata singing exhibiting the same amount of perfection, while the shake' for purity and case, has rarely been equalled. Each separate air was of itself a treat, while the concluding rondo, Ah! non giunge,' provoked a storm of enthusiastic applause. Mlle. Patti's performance bore throughout the stamp of a natural no less than an intellectual conception, and, in a word, combined the qualities most requisite to make her a genuine public favourite."

To the Editor of the MUSICAL WORLD. SIR,―The most recent "great event" in the Prussian capital unfailing, that even in the most difficult passages no fear is entertained has been the first appearance of Mlle. Adelina Patti before a Berlin public. I may as well, without more ado, inform your readers that her success has been unequivocal, and that she promises to become as great a favourite here as elsewhere, wherever she has sung. Your own opinion of Mlle. Patti is sufficiently well known; but the readers of the MUSICAL WORLD may, perhaps, be pleased to learn what the Brandenburgian critics here say of La pequeña señorita. I, therefore, append translations of a few extracts from the leading papers. The Neue Berliner Musik-Zeitung speaks as follows:

"The reputation which preceded the fair young singer fully explains a certain amount of curiosity on the part of the public, but although various reports from the English and American journals, dealing especially with her capabilities, were pretty generally known, the public, on the whole, appeared as though undecided what to think. With regard to Mile. Patti's reception here, it may be described as particularly favourable, and if the enthusiasm did not reach that convulsive height which we have seen it attain lately, on various occasions, the audience were most excellently inclined towards the débutante, a fact which was proved by their applauding and calling her on before the curtain. Adelina Patti has been singing from the time she was eight years old, and, between then and now, has brought the facility of execution, with which nature had so richly endowed her, to a pitch of perfection which is something absolutely wonderful. Two years ago she made her first appearance on the stage as Lucia, as she has done here. The writer of this notice was present on the occasion, and astonished at her soft and gentle method of taking the note, and the ease with which she executed the cantilena, as well as the virtuosity' with which she achieved the most difficult passages in fioriture. Since the evening in question, Mlle. Patti has become a celebrated singer. She has received homage both in the New and the Old World, and now appears here as a great artist, crowned with fame and decked with laurels. That Adelina Patti is a phenomenon is a fact we may set down as indisputable. She overcomes material difficulties with a boldness, rare even among Italian vocalists. Even admitting that her ornamentation is, here and there, not quite perfect, we still find plenty in her that is wonderfully beautiful and estimable in an equal degree. Mlle. Patti is, in short, a first-class artist, who need scarcely fear a rival. Her voice is soft and agreeable in the upper notes, and if her middle register has lost a portion of its former sonority, the reason is to be sought in the great exertion and restless activity to which she, although so young, has had to submit, since she went upon the stage. Her mechanism, however, is invariably marked by artistic certainty. To speak more especially of her Lucia, the great point of that performance is the grand air in the last act. This includes the graceful cabaletta, in which she displayed her wonderful facility of execution in every possible respect. In her future characters we have no doubt she will succeed in raising the good opinion of the public to a pitch of enthusiasm, especially when she sings the part of Norina or Adina, when we shall have an opportunity of having her in her proper element. Like all true artists, Mile. Patti has characters especially adapted to her means, and among them we must class those in the lighter class of Italian operas."

Before proceeding to give any further extracts from the Berlin press, concerning Mlle. Patti's performances, it is as well to premise that in Lucia, owing to the want of an Italian tenor, "Herr Theodor Formes, the national tenor of Berlin", was compelled to undertake the part of Edgardo. This made the task of our little prima donna doubly arduous.

Another journal, speaking of Mlle. Patti in the Sonnambula, exitself in these terms:

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"Although it must be admitted that, as a rule, the enthusiasm of the public for Italian opera has cooled down, every artist of extraordinary talent is sure to attract. Mlle. Adelina Patti must indubitably be classed in this category, and thus it could not astonish any one, especiBrother to Carl Formes, the well known bass.

A third journal contains the subjoined :

"Mlle. Adelina Patti gained a second triumph in the Sonnambula. The house was crammed, and the applause, especially at the end of the opera, was tumultuous. The celebrated finale was the pinnacle of success. Mlle. Patti's naturally delicate voice here appeared to grow stronger and stronger. It mounted, upon the boldest wings of tone, through a succession of the most difficult runs, to an extraordinary height, as though no difficulties existed for it in such dizzy spheres. Chromatic scales, on account of the virtuosa-like certainty with which each note, together with the half-tones, succeeded the other, struck the musical auditor with astonishment. As a brilliant instance of this, we may mention her masterly shake, which is executed in the presto with magic rapidity, without a single tone being slurred over. With this mastery over the most difficult vocal difficulties, Signora Patti combines the high advantage of a vocal tone as clear as a bell; her voice attacks the word and note at once, with a perfect absence of anything like hesitation. Not the slightest suspicion of tremolo obscures the purity and beauty of her intonation. There can be no doubt of her being one of the very first lyric vocalists, and all lovers of art in Berlin must feel grateful to Herr von Hülson for having afforded them an opportunity, before the inhabitants of any other continental city, of hearing so original, and, in her way, so unique an artist.",

When the Trovatore was performed there was not a single vacant seat in the house, so great was the desire to hear Mile. Patti as Leonora. The public, therefore, shared with me the belief that this performance would be one of the most brilliant of the Italian season. The ticket-sellers reaped a rich harvest; as much as five thalers were offered for a parquet ticket, about the price for which a good stall may be obtained at the Italian Opera in London. The frequent and hearty applause was in keeping with the crowded state of the theatre, and showed that public expectation had not been disappointed. In short, the entire performance exhibited a degree of excellence such as, probably, no previous representation of Verdi's Trovatore ever reached in Berlin, and such as could with difficulty be surpassed in any other European capital. Mlle. Patti embellished the music of Leonora in her own florid style, and, to quote the exuberant language of a Berlin critic"crowned it with artistic and variegated tone-flowers, which, like sonorous arabesques, produced apparently without an effort, bloomed on the delicate stalk of her voice, and twined upwards to the greatest heights." This is flowery language-more flowery, mayhap, than that in which a sober English critic would indulge; but I give it as it is, to show you how successful the "bijou prima donna" has been here. In fact, to sum the matter up in a word, Mlle. Adelina Patti has been a decided "hit" in the musical capital of Prussia. A. A.

Berlin, Jan. 2, 1862.

MISS ELEANOR ARMSTRONG'S Concert took place on Thursday evening at Westbourne Hall before a full and fashionable audience. The fair bénéficiaire, who is making rapid strides in her profession, sang two English songs, "A thousand miles from thee" (by Mr. Frank Mori, and rendered popular by the singing of Mlle. Florence Lancia), and the ballad of "Kathleen Mavourneen," in so charming a manner that spontaneous encores were awarded to her after each. The young vocalist was modest enough only to bow her thanks for the first, but the second she repeated with increased effect. Miss Eleanor Armstrong also sang

an aria from Roberto Devereux and the duet "Parigi O Cara," from the Traviata, with Mr. John Morgan, in which she showed herself as accomplished an artist as she did in the songs of her native tongue. Mr. John Morgan gave Balfe's elegant ballad, "Fresh as a rose," and Macfarren's "Guiding Star," with great effect. Mr. Viotti Cooper is a young and promising vocalist, but he must study hard before he arrives at the "top of the tree." He sang Mr. Frank Mori's ballads, "Rose of the morn" and "Who shall be fairest?" The other vocalists were Miss Poole, Mad. Louisa Vinning, Miss Lascelles, Miss Bradshaw and Mr. Gadsby, who, we need hardly say, ably fulfilled the duties allotted to them in the programme. Mr. G. F. Kiallmark and Miss Catherine Thompson were the pianists. The gentleman played a fantasia by Thalberg, and the lady a classical morceau by Beethoven and "Les Arpèges of Theodore Kullak. A violin solo by Herr Louis Ries completed an interesting musical evening.

THE SISTERS MARCHISIO.-Miles. Carlotta and Barbara Marchisio again appeared on Saturday afternoon, at the second and last of Mr. Land's concerts in St. James's Hall, and more than confirmed the highly favourable impression created by their "début." On this occasion they introduced two duets from Semiramide-viz., "Serbami ognor” and “Giorno d'orrore”—and an original Bolero, composed expressly for them by Rossini. It is difficult to imagine duet-singing more irreproachable. The result of combination in musical performance could hardly be carried to a greater degree of perfection. The two voices,-although one is a soprano, and the other a contralto,-appear to possess some occult quality in common, which when they are heard together so thoroughly assimilates their individual tones, that, even in part-singing, where there is no unison to help the illusion, the effect is equivalent to harmonious concords produced upon a single instrument. Such precision, indeed, as the Mlles. Marchisio exhibit has rarely been attained. No mechanical contrivance could surpass it. They begin and end a phrase, roulade, or "cadenza" as if but one mind and one impulse directed the utterance of the two voices, and as if to vary from each other to the extent of the nicest perceptible gradation "the shadow of a shade" was not within the range of possibility. The simile of the poet, comparing two brothers who have no sympathies apart to "two cherries growing on a single stalk," might, without any great stretch of propriety, be applied to the Sisters Marchisio in their musical capacity. The audience were just as much delighted as on Thursday evening, and applauded all they did with indiscriminate warmth, the piece most unanimously admired being as before, the delicious slow-movement,

"Giorno d'orrore."

In other respects the programme bore a strong family likeness to that of Thursday, most of the same artists taking part in it, with the addition of Miss Arabella Goddard, who was recalled after Liszt's fantasia on the quartet from Rigoletto, and obtained a still more honourable success with the variations and finale from Beethoven's sonata dedicated to Kreutzer, in which she enjoyed the advantage of M. Vieux temps' invaluable co-operation, which were magnificently played on both hands, and as our clear and well informed contemporary The Sunday Times relates-"as keenly enjoyed as anything in the entire concert." How, indeed, could it be otherwise with two such artists?

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16 feet (O); 3. Principal, 8 feet (O and N); 4. Mixture, 2 ranks (N); 5. Trombone to FFF, 16 feet (O).--Summary of stops, great, 10; swell, 11; Choir, 8; Pedal, 5; Copulas 4; altogether 38, being 8 stops additional.

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Ar the Christmas performance of the Messiah, on Friday night in last week, the "Dead March" from Saul was played between the first and second parts, and the hall was fitted up in a manner appropriate to the occasion, the oratorio having been postponed as a mark of respect to the late lamented Prince Consort, a stanch patron of the Sacred Harmonic Society, and, as every one knows, a distinguished musical connoisseur. During the performance of the "Dead March" the audience stood up, and the effect was in the highest degree solemn and impressive. The principal singers were Mlle. Guerabella (soprano), a new and valuable acquisition to the concerts of sacred music at Exeter Hall; Mr. Henry Haigh (tenor), whose fine-toned voice is always welcome, and who could not possibly study in a school more likely to lead to excellence than that of Handel; Mad. Sainton-Dolby, and Signor Belletti, whose names it is sufficient to mention. Mr. Costa, as usual, conducted. The hall was crammed to suffocation. Last night Haydn's Creation was to be given, with Mr. Sims Reeves in the tenor part, the other singers being Mlle. Parepa and Signor Belletti.

Letters to the Editor.

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OPERA OR PANTOMIME.

SIR, Those who, like myself, have opportunities of visiting our national opera only during the Christmas holidays, are sure to suffer a disappointment. They go to listen to music, and instead only see pantomime. Last year they went with the praises of Balfe's opera Bianca sounding in their ears, and found, instead of a grand opera, the smallest and lightest of operettas, The Marriage of Georgette, embracing the services of two vocalists only; the remaining performance being a pantomime, which, loving music, they could not enjoy, and would not stay to witness. But for the Monday Popular Concerts those who sought enjoyment in music would not have had their tastes gratified. This year I observe that Balfe's new opera has not been displaced but shortened, to make room for the pantomime; musical people will wait then until the work can be heard in its entirety. I read with pleasure the following in one of the morning papers: "No one who was present at this theatre (Covent Garden) last night (Dec. 26) would have doubted that the English public prefer operatic to pantomimic performances, for while the latter were frequently interrupted, the former were listened to with breathless attention, and appreciated, the best morceaux being rapturously encored. The house was crowded from floor to ceiling.

. . and notwithstanding it was boxing-night,

this crowd, as we have already observed, listened with silent attention to the whole performance of the Puritan's Daughter. Of course there must be some unusual attraction on boxing-night at the Royal English Opera as well as at other theatres. Well, Sir, let there be a new English opera on a subject that has not already been exhausted at some other theatre; let it be supported by these three first-rate English dramatic singers, Mr. Sims Reeves for tenor, Miss L. Baxter for contralto, and Mr. Weiss, bass, not yet included in the company at our national opera, in addition to the two already engaged there, Miss L. Pyne and Mr. Santley; and the result would be that the theatre would be filled, not merely for a few nights by the followers of clown and pantaloon, but night after night and week after week, by the crowds who attend the performances of the Sacred Harmonic Society at the Royal Italian Opera, and wherever and whenever good music may be heard thoroughly well performed. In this way too our national taste would not be impugned, whilst our national opera would be elevated. A YOUNG MAN FROM THE COUNTRY.

NATIONAL ENGLISH OPERA.

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(THE FORMATION AND CULTIVATION OF THE VOICE FOR SINGING), By ADOLFO FERRARI.

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HEN this book first appeared we foretold its success; our conviction being founded on the author's freedom from conventional trammels, the strong good sense of his opinions, the novelty and yet evident soundness of his precepts, and the conciseness and practical value of his examples and exercises, of which every note is dictated by a clear and definite purpose. The influence of Signor Ferrari's method of forming and cultivating the voice, as it is explained in this treatise, is enhanced by the efficacy of his personal lessons in his practice as one of the most eminent teachers of the day; and this work has consequently come into general use as a manual of vocal inThe Mazurka from struction, not only in the metropolis but throughout the kingdom.

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In this new edition the author has made various important additions to the work, especially to the Exercises. Formerly they were confined to soprano or tenor voices; exercises for the one voice being also available for the other. But, for the contralto, or the barytone, provision was not made. This desideratum is now supplied, partly by means of

RICARDO LINTER.-Tally Ho! Fantasia (à la chasse). entirely new exercises, partly by giving the old exercises likewise in

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transposed keys, and partly by adapting the soprano exercises also to the contralto or barytone, by the insertion of alternative passages in small notes. By these means the utility of the work is very greatly increased.

We have said that the remarkable qualities of this book are the author's freedom from conventional trammels, the strong sense of his opinions, and the novelty yet evident soundness of his precepts; and this we will show by quoting, unconnectedly, a few passages which cannot fail to strike every reader.

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"Voices are too often ruined by giving pupils difficult songs, in order to gratify their vanity or that of their friends, before they have

HENRI ROUBIER.-Esilda. Fantaisie-Polka de Salon. acquired the power of sustaining the voice, throughout its natural ex

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tent, with a firm and clear intonation. When it is recollected that it has taken years of application and study to enable professional singers to execute properly the songs we are accustomed to hear attempted by almost every young lady who is requested to sing in a drawing-room, the absurdity of the prevailing system becomes self-evident.

"I strenuously advise all who wish to sing not to defer the commencement of this study, as is generally the case, till the pupil arrives at the age of 17 or 18, by which time young ladies ought to be good singers, but to commence early, at about 13 or 14 years of age, and resisting the gratification of singing a number of songs for the amusement of their friends (the word may be taken in more senses than one), to devote sufficient time to what may be termed the drudgery of singing, so as to enable them to acquire the power of sustaining the voice, casily to themselves and agreeably to the air.

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in G minor.

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their lowest notes; but, as the lower and richer tones of the voice are generally objectionable to young singers, all of whom are ambitious to Edited sing high, it requires much firmness and some coaxing on the part of the master to get the pupil to submit to this exercise. I cannot advise too strongly the greatest attention to the free and natural development

EFEBURE-WELY. Fugue in D minor. Edited by of the lower tones of the voice: it is to the stability of the voice what

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a deep foundation is to the building of a house.

"In conclusion, I must add a few words on a subject of great importance to the pupil who makes singing a study. I mean the spirit in Edited by which instruction is received. Every emotion of the mind affects the voice immediately; therefore it is of the utmost importance that the pupil should receive the lesson with the mind entirely unpreoccupied by other matters, and in a perfect spirit of willing submission to the teacher's corrections, however frequent, and however unimportant they may appear; for it is simply by the constant correction of little nothings that beauty of intonation and elegance of singing are obtained."-Daily News.

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