singer, Madame Borghi-Mamo knows how to make the best of her means, exceptional as in many respects they are. Signor Mongini surprised everyone in Fernando, a part which many anticipated would not suit his vigorous style. He sang finely throughout and with exceeding judgment, never once indulging in those vociferous outbursts hitherto the bane of his perform ances, and which have often neutralized the effect so splendid a voice must otherwise inevitably produce. His most striking display on Thursday night was the romanza, "Spirto gentil," which was encored with enthusiasm. Signor Vialetti gave the music of Balthazar with power and judgment. The chorus was excellent, and the band, under the able direction of Mr. Benedict, thoroughly efficient, although some addition to the strength of the violins and other stringed instruments, to make head against the overwhelming power of the brass, was generally pronounced advisable.

The divertissement in the third act was graced by the presence of Mdlle. Pocchini, who executed a pas de deur with M. Durand, producing a sensation that we hardly believed it was in the power of any dancer now-a-days to create, and recalling to the "habituées" the grace, ease, finish and irresistible naturalness of Carlotta Grisi. One of her "steps" (pas ?)-the prettiest that could be imagined, and danced to perfection-was encored and repeated, although Mdlle. Pocchini abstained from accepting the compliment as long as she could gracefully persist. To-night Il Trovatore will be performed with Mdlle. Titiens, Mdme. Borghi-Mamo, Signors Giuglini, Aldighieri and Vialetti.

ALTERATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN HER
MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

silk with a large satin stripe in pale blue. The interior before the cur-
tain-with the exception that everything has been cleansed and
freshened up, the great chandelier, more particularly, undergoing a
thorough purification-remains precisely as in the halcyon days
Stay-we are wrong there is a
of the Lumleyan management.
change, and a great change, effected. The stalls no longer rejoice in the
old-fashioned leather-covered chairs, but give place to modern couches
contrast between the crimson couches and amber curtains; while others
in crimson satin figured. Some optimists in colours object to the
insist that the contrast is a striking feature in the aspect of the house.
All we can say about this affair is, that we do not deem it of the least
importance, since, when the people are seated in the stalls, little or
none of the crimson is seen. The outside of the theatre has been
newly painted, and eleven huge lamps in gilt frames, surmounted with
the crown, are suspended between the pillars in the Haymarket
front, and quite illuminate the whole neighbourhood. The private
entrance to the Queen's Box is magnificent. The walls are covered
with the richest tapestried satin, the floor spread with a thick velvet
pile carpet, and the whole way lighted with a series of brilliant
candelabra.

DRURY LANE.-A new English operatic company, under the direction of Dr. James Pech, commenced a series of performances on Monday evening, with Mr. Vincent Wallace's popular opera Maritana. The cast included Miss Dyer as the heroine ; Miss Emma Heywood, Lazarillo; Mr. Henry Haigh, Don Cæsar de Bazan; Mr. Borrani, the King of Spain; and Mr. Charles Durand, Don José. The performance was received with uproarious applause by a crowded audience, and all the favourite morceaux-no less than five-were encored. The band is efficient, numbering about fifty players, and the chorus tolerably good. Miss Emma Heywood promises to become an acquisition. Miss Dyer has recommendations sufficient to entitle the public to demand why she is not often heard in public; and Mr. Henry Haigh may be left to his antecedents without any danger of his suffering therefrom. Should the speculation succeed, we may look forward to the production of some novelties, among which Halévy's Three Musketeers.

CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.-These popular "entertainers" continue their performances with unabated success. On Thursday evening a new song was introduced by Mr. J. W. Raynor, entitled, "Come back, Annie." The poetry and music, by Messrs. John Oxenford and J. L. Hatton, were written expressly for the Christy's Minstrels, and appear admirably adapted for their style of entertainment. "Come back, Annie," was redemanded tumultuously, and is announced for repetition every evening.

CONCERTS.

MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS.-Easter Monday being essentially a "popular" and English holiday, the directors merely those who resorted to St. James's Hall for their evening's amusechose a selection from native composers for the gratification of

In the first place, commencing with the basement story, the walls in the vestibules and stone-hall are almost entirely covered with lookingglasses, which extend from floor to ceiling, and multiply objects all round, ad infinitum. The old desk, behind which for so many years sat Mr. Nugent, dispensing favour and courtesies, has been removed, and makes way for a monster mirror. The walls, where it was found impossible to place reflectors, are covered with paper of a crimson and gold pattern; and the pillars and pilasters are painted to resemble Scagliola marble. Over the entrance to the pit from the stone-hall (glass-hall, it should be called now), the Royal Arms are placed in gold, although it is not, therefore, to be imagined that Her Most Gracious Majesty has any idea of entering the theatre by that door. Magnificent carpets in velvet pile stretch over the floors in every direction, and cover the stone staircases. The balustrade is painted deep ultramarine blue, the ornaments picked out with gold, and the hand-rails are covered with crimson Utrecht velvet, deeply fringed and fastened on with gilt nails. Ascending from the stone-hall by the grand western staircase, the eye is arrested by a large vase filled with aquatic plants in flower, and surmounted by a figure of Autumn. From the centre of the vase a jet of water plays, and the figure holds in its hand a bunch of fruit with gas-lights shining through them. The greatest change of all bas taken place in the crush rooms. On all sides, as below stairs, the huge looking-glasses prevail; but the spaces between them and the doors, where no mirrors could be fixed, are papered in pure white and gold-ment. the pattern, a white ground with the fleur-de-lis in gold, between gold squares. In the centre-room-the round-room, or crush-room, par excellence the ceiling is painted light-blue, interspersed with gold stars. In the other rooms the ceilings are plain, with wreaths of flowers painted on the borders. The chairs are gilt, covered with maroon velvet, and the carpets, as down stairs, of the richest pile velvet. The candelabra, by which the entrances and crush-rooms are lighted, are extremely brilliant and tasteful, and are so numerous as to create a perfect illumination in the interior, aided, to a great extent, by the mirrors which flash back every jet a hundred-fold, magnifying the lights no less than multiplying objects. The corridors, or lobbies, are laid out with equal elegance and splendour. The walls, as in the crush-rooms, are papered in white and gold, but being for the greater part lined with looking glass, the white and gold paper is principally observable on the exterior of the boxes. The lighting here proceeds from golden cupids standing on golden pedestals, placed equidistantly along the lobbies, which have also in the most convenient spaces couches covered in figured crimson satin. The boxes are newly lined with figured chintz, excepting that of Her Majesty, Lord Dudley and some of the subscribers, who have followed their individual tastes in the ornamentation and furniture. The royal box is lined with white

The large room was crowded by an audience attentive and appreciative as ever, the only feature in which it differed from the ordinary audiences being the prevalence of encores, no less than seven being awarded in a short space of time. The pieces thus honoured were Mr. Henry Smart's charming song (charmingly sung by Mr. Sims Reeves) from Bertha, "In vain I would forget thee;" Mr. J. W. Davison's setting of Shelley's words, "Rough wind that moanest loud," admirably rendered by Mr. Santley; the madrigal from Macfarren's opera of King Charles the Second, "Maidens, would ye 'scape undoing" (Mr. Desmond Ryan's words); Horsley's glee, "By Celia's arbour" Union, under the direction of Mr. Land); and Mr. Balfe's (both given to perfection by the London Glee and Madrigal song, "Lovely maiden," belonging to the opera of the Rose of Castille, although generally omitted at the performance, sung by Mr. Reeves in his best style. Miss Eyles did ample justice to a beautiful song by G. A. Osborne, "The dew-drop and the rose," a composition likely to find favour equally in the drawingroom as the concert-hall. In addition to these were given-by Mr. Reeves, a new and graceful song of J. L. Hatton's, "I wander by my dear one's door each night"-Mr. Vincent

Wallace's quaint and exquisite "Bellringer," capitally given by |
Mr. Santley (and also encored by the way)-a true "old English
ditty," from Mr. Chappell's "inexhaustible selection," "Near
Woodstock Town," admirably rendered by Miss Eyles (again
also encored, by the way), and Bishop's well-known glee, "Blow,
gentle gales." Quite a feast of English vocal music.
The instrumental programme included one exception to the
native names-Dussek's Sonata in B flat for pianoforte and
violin (No. 1 of The Monday Popular Concert Library)-which
brought the first part to a brilliant conclusion, played as it was
by Messrs. Sainton and Lindsay Sloper with the consummate
talent for which they are remarkable. Alfred Mellon's Quartet
in G major is too seldom heard, and the satisfaction it afforded
on Monday, when performed so irreproachably by Messrs.
Sainton, Ries, Doyle, and Piatti, will probably induce its clever
composer to resume his pen, and afford us another "taste of his
quality" in similar productions. Mr. Macfarren's fine Trio in E,
for pianoforte, violin, and violoncello, drew forth marked ap-
plause, due no less to the beauty of the music than to the
perfect manner in which it was played by Messrs. Lindsay
Sloper, Sainton, and Piatti. The first-named gentleman also
won more laurels by his performance of Sterndale Bennett's
delicious sketches, "The Lake, the Millstream, and the Fountain,"
refreshing to hear after the fantasias and variations with which
we were formerly regaled at concerts denominated "popular"—
a term bearing a widely different interpretation when applied
to these at St. James's Hall, which have now fairly assumed
the importance so justly their due, and become as much an
'institution" as the Philharmonic and Sacred Harmonic
Societies themselves.

Monday, the 23rd inst., will be devoted to the benefit of Mr. Sims Reeves, who has contributed in no small degree to the success of the Monday Popular Concerts by the unvarying excellence of his singing. Mr. Reeves is never so much at home as in the thoroughly good music which characterises these performances. Mrs. Reeves, Mad. Sainton-Dolby, Miss Arabella Goddard, &c., contribute their valuable services.

The difficulties of the pianoforte part in the sestet are as nothing
to this lady, who plays everything from the Op. 106 of Bee-
thoven downwards, with perfect ease, grace, and brilliancy. In
the trio of Beethoven she was equally successful, and in an
equal degree elicited the enthusiastic sympathies of her audi-
ence. The vocal music was divided between Miss Banks, a lady
with a voice of exquisite quality and great flexibility, and Miss
Lascelles, who rejoices in an organ of considerable richness and
power, but whose production of tone in the lower notes
"L'amor suo
is occasionally somewhat infelicitous. The former sang
(Roberto
Panseron ("Tyrol ") with clarinet obbligato, which
Devereux) and a "chanson" of
given to admiration by Mr. Maycock, one of our most
accomplished professors, and whose execution of the difficult
part in the trio of Beethoven was no less irreproachable. Miss
Lascelles exhibited "Il sogno" (Mercadante), and "The Reaper
and the Flowers" (Balfe). The violoncello to the former song
showed Mr. Pettit's power of cantabile in a favourable manner.
Mr. Willy, whose violin playing has been the constant theme of
admiration, deserves the highest credit for his management of
this interesting series of concerts.

MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL.

(From the Manchester Courier,)

was

for the Cathedral by Mr. Nicholson, of Worcester. The number We have before us a list of the stops of the new organ building course, be voiced up so as to tell sufficiently in so large a buildof sounding stops, it will be seen, is forty-one, which will, of instrument in a much lower rank than we should have liked the ing; but the comparatively small number of stops will place the organ of our Cathedral to occupy. In our own city, which posonly third, those at St. Peter's Church and Holy Trinity both sesses so few specimens of first-class instruments, it will rank preceding it. To enable our readers to form a comparison for themselves between the two instruments, we subjoin the contents Messrs. Kirtland and Jardine, in St. Peter's Church. As some of the new organ side-by-side with those of the organ built by alterations have been made in the latter instrument since the

omitting those which are intended to form the solo organ of four a correct list of the stops already finished and now in the organ, stops, comprising reeds and harmonic flutes, &c., on a high presand number of the manuals and pedals is the same in both sure of wind, as they have not yet been completed. The compass organs.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-If the bad weather and the fast days last week precluded a great attendance at the Piccolomini Festivals, the public took their revenge on Good Friday. Upwards of opening, when we gave a full description of it, we have obtained thirty-seven thousand "shilling" visitors assembled at the Crystal Palace on that day, and, of course, not one in a hundred could hear the music. Fortunately there are innumerable attractions within and without the building, and no complaint was made. On Saturday, the half-crown day, there was close on six thousand. Large audiences also congregated on Monday and Tuesday, although on the Monday the weather was miserable. To-day Mdlle. Piccolomini will sing for the last time at the Crystal Palace, and no doubt attracts a large and brilliant attendance.

LONDON QUINTET UNION CONCERTS.-The series of four concerts by the practised musicians who form this Association was brought to a close on Wednesday last. The talent of the players was called into requisition four times, in the compositions respectively by Spohr, Beethoven, Sterndale Bennett, and Onslow. The work of Spohr was Op. 3,-ottet in E, for stringed quintets, clarinet, and two horns. A genuine specimen of one of the greatest masters of instrumentation we have ever had amongst us, the Union (assisted by Messrs. Charles Harper and Mann), played it evidently con amore. Beethoven was characteristically represented, at least in his early manner, by the trio in B flat, Op. 11, for pianoforte, clarinet, and violoncello; and the allegro from Onslow's quintet, Op. 25, in C, ended the concert. The evening's entertainment lay chiefly in the work of Dr. W. Sterndale Bennett. One of his early writings (Op. 8, sestet for stringed quintet and pianoforte), produced twenty-four years ago, it is neither an exhibition, work of precocity, nor merely of promise, but the achievement of one who having gathered quickly yet surely the experience of those who preceded him, placed before his auditors the composition at once of a brilliant and original genius, and of an accomplished and scholarly student. The pianist of the evening was Miss Arabella Goddard, who has so frequently and so admirably played Dr. Bennett's writtings in public, at home and abroad.

ST. PETER'S CHURCH.

Double open diapason
Flute harmonique
Open diapason
Viola d'amour
Gamba

Stopped diapason

THE CATHEDRAL.

GREAT ORGAN-CC TO G.

16ft.
8ft.

8ft.

8ft.

8ft.

Double stopped diapason
Clarabella

Open diapason

Open diapason
Gamba

Stopped diapason

16ft.

8ft.

...

8ft.

8ft.

lft.

8ft.

Quint
Principal
Flute harmonique
Clear flute
Fifteenth
Twelfth

Sharp mixture, 4 ranks
Full mixture, 5 ranks
Double trumpet
Trompette harmonique
Clarion

...

Tierce, larigot, mixture, 5 ranks
Sharp mixture, 3 ranks

Trumpet

Clarion

SWELL ORGAN-CC TO G.

THE MUSICAL WORLD.

CHOIR ORGAN-CC TO G.

Clarabella (wood)

Viol di gamba...

Dulciana

Sesquialtera, 3 ranks

16ft.

Trumpet 8ft.

8ft. 8ft.

Hautboy

8ft.

4ft.

Clarion

16ft.

8ft.

8ft.

...

Trumpet
From the above lists we calculate the new organ at the Cathe-
The
dral to contain 2,466 pipes, and St. Peter's 3,578 pipes.
number of pipes in itself, however, does not always afford a fair
estimate of the value of an organ, as the smaller pipes can be
easily multiplied at comparatively little cost, and at the same
time without adding to the weight or dignity of the instrument.
In the present instance St. Peter's organ has not only the supe-
riority in point of numbers, but this numerical excess of 1,112
pipes is in fair proportion obtained by the larger, more import-
ant, and more expensive 32, 16, and 8 feet foundation stops.

MUSIC AND THEATRES IN PARIS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Paris, April 4th.
LAST week the Italian opera gave us a "revival," in the shape
of Meyerbeer's opera, 11 Crociato in Egitto. It is now thirty-
seven years since it has been played here, and it is said that it
It was
is against Meyerbeer's advice that it is revived now.
brought out when Rossini was manager of the Opera here, and
Meyerbeer, who was then unknown, and of course nervous and
doubtful, as to his success with the Parisian world, told Rossini
it would be a failure. Rossini replied it would be a success, and
bet him five hundred francs about it. Meyerbeer accepted the
bet; and, as the piece proved successful, was no doubt only too
happy to pay. This work, belonging quite to the youth of
Meyerbeer, and framed almost mechanically on the Italian
model, with pieces composed invariably of an adagio, then an
allegro, cavatinas and airs d'obbligo, and rondos, with all the
usual concomitants of fiorituras and cabalettas, so different to his
present style, still gives a slight foretaste of the genius that was
one day to give us the Huguenots; and there are also some very
striking airs; the song of the "Crociato" is one, and the well-
known trio for female voices, and in which the principal
motif non fidarti o giosin cor recalls the music of Bellini, are
among the rest. The finale of the first act is very fine, and in
the last the death-song, sang by Merly and the chorus, are also
remarkable. Mad Borghi-Mamo performed the part of the
Crociato, and Mad. Penco, Alboni, Signors Merly and Angelini
filled the remaining principal parts; but, notwithstanding the
excellence of the performance, the revival has not been met
At the Grand-Opéra,
with any monstrous enthusiasm.

one

SO

Pierre de Medicis has been alternated with a perform-
ance of the Huguenots, Mad. C. Bartot filling the part
The
of Valentine, Gueymard and Obin Raoul and Marcel.
well, con-
Opéra-Comique, finding old pieces answer
tentedly keeps to them. The Théâtre-Lyrique, however, has
brought out a comic opera in five acts, a thing almost unheard
of, Mozart being nearly the only one who had ever brought out
so long. The libretto is by MM. Jules Barbier and
Michael Carré, the music by M. Theodore Semet, and the
subject is taken from some of the numerous adventures of Gil
Blas. Mad. Ugalde fills the part of the hero to the great
delight of the public, for whatever charm may now and then be
found wanting in her voice she supplies by her animated acting,
and carries the piece through triumphantly. The music is gay,
The least successful parts are the
sparkling and original.
choruses. The best airs in the opera are, Gil Blas' drinking
song, "Bacchus est le vrai medicin," the grand duo buffo of the
second act, the marriage chorus, "rondo pastoral," the finale of
the fourth act; but nothing is equal to the song he sings before
the door of the inn where the villagers are feasting, accompany-
ing himself with a mandoline. He is expressing the hunger he
feels, and when they will not listen to him he changes his tone
to diabolical menaces. The air was rapturously encored.
Mesdames Faure, Moreau, Vade, MM. Wartel, Lesage,
Legrand, Votel, Serene, Leroy, Gabriel, Giradot, fill the
other parts. There has been some talk for the last few days of
a probable change in the management of the Théâtre-Lyrique;
M. Carvalho retiring, and M. C. Retz, who has been, up to the
present moment, Secretary-General of the Theatre, filling his
place. However, nothing is decided yet. The Bouffes-Parisiens,
though like the little frog in the fable, it tries occasionally
to approach the dimensions of the ox, has yet good sense enough
to know at what point to stop. Its last production is a sort of
field-flower, in the shape of a patois-pastoral, entitled Daphnis
and Chloé. A pretty little actress, Mdlle. Julitte Beau, débuted in
it. The music is by the indefatigable M. Offenbach. In Paris
some novelty must always be going on; people cannot rest on
their oars here, and even now, before Fidelio is brought out at
the theatre, they talk of an opera with much scenery by M.
Charles Gounod, entitled La Reine Balkir. M. Gott, also-of
the Théâtre-Français-has written an opera in four acts, the
music by M. Memprie, under the title of Le Moine Rouge, though
whether it is to be played or not I have not heard.

There is little new this week at the theatres. The concerts
continue with unabated ardour, of which the best, the eighth
and last concert of Jeunes Artistes, took place on the 1st. Frag-
"La revolte des
ments of Meyerbeer's Struensée were given.
gardes," a polonaise," La Bal," was very good, and the bacchanal
chorus from Philémon et Baucis was encored. And thus with
all these entertainments Lent is passing-indeed has almost
passed away. It certainly this year has not been a season of
fasting and mortification, and the ladies of the great world have
rushed with equal ardour to their church in the morning and
dressed in "gorgeous array" for their ball in the evening, thinking
one neutralized the other, and thus reconciling the claims of
religion and of the world to their consciences in that comfortable
manner only French people can. Talking of the crowding of
churches, there is one thing very necessary, and that is-more
church-room for the people. There is not enough for the popu-
lation of Paris, and the scenes, the pushing, the rudeness and
quarrelling, that take place in a crowded church here, is more
divine worship.
fit for the crush-room of a theatre than a spot dedicated to

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SONATA, in E flat, Major, Pianoforte and Violin
Miss Arabella Goddard and M. Sainton.
SONG, "False friend, wilt thou smile or weep? (Cenoi)
Madame Sainton-Dolby.
SONG, "Dalla sua pace"
Mr. Sims Reeves.
DUET, "Pray leave me but a moment"
Mrs. Sims Reeves and Madame Sainton-Dolby.
SONG, "The Stolen Kiss"
Mr. Sims Reeves."
QUARTET, in E flat, No. 4.
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RCHESTRAL UNION.-MR. ALFRED MELLON begs to announce that he will return to London about the middle of June, when he will be open to any engagements for the Band of the Orchestral Union, which he has reconstructed. Principal Artistes-M M. Sainton, H. Hill, W. Watson, E. Payton, Doyle, Trust, G. Collins, Aylward, Howell, senr, White, P. S. Pratten, Barret, Lazarus, T. Owen, Hausser, C. Harper, Standen, T. Harper, Stanton Jones, W. Winterbottom, Cioffi, Hughes, and F. C. Horton, Applications respecting engagements to be made to Mr. George Dolby, 2, Hinde-street, Manchester-square, W.

THE MUSICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON CONCERT, on Wednesday Evening, April 25th at St. James's Hall. Programme-First Part:-Overture, the Iales of Fingal, Mendelssohn Bartholdy For Prospectuses, apply direct to the Royal College of Music, Bridge-street, Air, Jours de mon enfance (Pré aux Cleres), Miss Augusta Thompson, Herold Manchester. Symphony concertante, for two pianofortes and orchestra, Mr. Charles Salaman and Mr. Lindsay Sloper, Dussek; Scena, (MS.), Mr. Sapley, Benedict Overture, (Lurline), Wallace. Second Part :-Sinfonia Eroica, Beethoven: Duo Di qual città sei tu (L'Etoile du Nord), Miss Augusta Thompson and Mr. Santley, Meyer beer; Overture (Gustave), Auber. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon CHARLES SALAMAN, Hom Bec.

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