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SUDDEN TERMINATION TO THE Wednesday Concerts

... SUDDEN TERMWINATION TO TEE I Wedniesday Concerts. The WVernesday Concerts have terminated suddenly, and in a manner that reflects anything but credit ?? those musicians and vocalists wvhlo ' ore engaged for last WFednesday's entertainment, and this we shall attempt to show. Wedtne-sday last was to have given the eleventh con- cert of the springg series, with the second, appearance of Mdlie. ...

Published: Sunday 19 May 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1322 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... LIT Y[E EA. X WA~ 'S ARiOOi Yt IS from Within now that , mast look for dhapge, fpr when. eduction, ba'ed 'ljBoll correqtL)now~P b ,Qf 01W 9 constitution, shall have lra:d thie man, these will be found no impediment to the advance of the whole race to all that is necessary for.tF ey p Ce5&t; g.ijest If which.Phis jluiks -ls iscfptl' proitoh-s hlee4hi~g1^rsfer?'- ings of our nature gain strength ...

FOREIGN MUSICAL MEMORANDA

... FOR:EXGN DMUSICAZ DiEDzORANDA. PARIS.-At the c4,--A n-.. Al -_ . tau urana Upera Alboni continues to be eminently successful in the part of Fides, in The Prop/ket.-Auber's new opera, L'Enfant Prodigte, is not likely to be produced before the beginning of the winter ?? Thomas's new comic opera, A Alids-smmer Night's Dream, is performed nightly to crowded houses at the Opera Comique. At the same ...

Published: Sunday 19 May 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 819 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL EVENTS

... GRAND MORNING CONCERT AT HER MAJESTY'S TIE[ATREE.-The first of a series of grand morning con- certs was given at this theatre on Monday last, under the conduct of Mr. Balfe. It was supported by the entire corps of the establishment, assisted by the band. The programme was long and miscellaneous, being divided into three parts, and the performance occupied at least four hours! The concert ...

Published: Sunday 19 May 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1250 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... RErIEqS OF BOoKS. Tnc RIFLE R1 NGIIis.'t -BY CAPT'. MATyNP READ-. Shoberl, Mrirlbo)t-ogh-streeLt-Tho author of this work served in the AnieriqaiiJarlmy durinig the war betwedn that country and Mexico. Thei adventures that befel him while carniaigiinug with the invading tiroops ale narrated in a freslh vigor(us style, and a ehiarming off- hand mitanner. Tile author ?? us that, although rmich ...

THEATRICALS, ETC

... SADLER'S WELLS. -The liberality of Messrs. Phelps and Greenwood in appropriating the entire re- .eipts of their theatre in aid of the funds of the Grand 13dutrialExhibition of 1851, they fiefraying the whole of the expenses, was rewarded by as crowded and en- thbsiastic an audience as ever assembled within the walls of a theatre. Immediately after the last bar of the overture was heard, Mr. ...

THE DRAMA, MUSIC, &c

... THE DRAIA, MUSIC, &c. - HER MIAJESTY'S THEATRE. A. 1Grand[ Classical,. Dramatic,:3Miscallaneesis, Concerted. Musical Entertaillilent Wa's given at fliki great temple of the lyric drama, on Mronday muorninhg; whtiel, for, variety-, stupenidousnless, alid tile talent collected together and centred in its performance, has not been equalled for some years. Its; groatest fault was that the ...

FINE ARTS

... EIGHTY-SECOND EXHSIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (Second Nofice.) Mr Edwin Landseer's ' Dialogue at Waterloo' is a most masterly picture of the class to which it belongs. It is the prose of painting; but prose so terse, powerful, and finished, as to be better than much that goes by the name of poetry. The ground tone is fresh and inspiriting; the figure and action of the Doke are characteristic ...

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851

... THE LIHIBIIUON OF 1851. PRE:URLATIONS IN T3ECE MJdLt:EVACbTUI- ING DIStRUCTS. A correspondent writing from Manchester, says:-I have taken some pains to ascertain the progress which this grand seheme is making in the public mind through these districts, and have great pleasure in saying that in all directions where special efforts have been made to rouse the people and enlighten them as to the ...

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE

... THE:ATPRE ROYAL, DFLURY-LANE. Close of the Season. The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give, For those who live to please must please to live. The premature close of one of the two national theatres now left to us must be a source of the deepest regret to all who take an interest in the drama of our country, the drama bequeathed to England by the im- perishable names of Shakspere, Dryden, ...

Published: Sunday 19 May 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2436 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... LIThER A TURE. Normazv in 1848 and 1849; containing Ramlesbtos inmot t Ie fjields and Fjords of thre Central and lestern Districts, and includi-ng Re,,,ar.rs on its Ilolitical, Mditary, Eccle- siastical, and Social Oryanazzation. By TionMsw FoR :ESTER. &sq. With Extracts from the Journals of Lieut. i.A. lBiddulph, R.A. Longrans. . Though not containing much that is new, brilliant, or profound, ...

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) Baawxcx.oN-TwaoD.-James Cooke's company of equestrians visited this town on Tuesday last, and gave two performances to crowded and fashionable assemblies, who were delighted. Mr. George Coole, in his classical bits, came in for a great share of approbation. The juveniles, Miss and Master Gee, were received with eclat. The brothers Elliott, in their gymnastic ...

Published: Sunday 19 May 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2502 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture