... MUSIC. CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY. DURING the past seven days two additions have been made to the repertory of the current operatic season at Her Majesty's Theatre. Respecting Balfe's perennial work, The Bohemian Girl, nothing needs saying, but praise is due to the general ex cellence of the ensemble presented by the Carl Rosa Company. Owing to the absence of Mr. Packard, through indisposition, ...

... . I DON'T know exactly whether I read of a brawScot or heard the story told by an ear witness, but it was to the effect that he was assisting at a, Bums' Festival, and during the toast-giving a fervid orator happened to say, If Burns were but amongst us, how proud he would be of the reception that you have given this toast. The braw Soot immediately-- no doubt to prevent further ...

... MDSIG. MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS. AFTER the customary Christmas vacation, the Monday Popular Concerts were resumed at St. James's Hall last Monday night, when a programme was presented which contained an important and novel attraction in a posthumous quartett, com posed by Mendelssohn, and never before played in public. It appears to have been written in March, 1823, when Mendelssohn was but ...

... CARL ROSA'S OPERA COMPANY.-- Not that we have got Mr. Rosa and his company back again we may fairly look forward to a series of operatic performances in all respects deserving public support. This ent ...

... THE FARMERS' COURSE OF ACTION.-- A well-known writer, under the pseudonym of Agricola, says:-- As stock-farming is in these times more remunerative than corn-growing, the farmer might grow nothing ...

... MESSRS. WEEKES AND CO.-- A series of Offertory Sen tences, composed by Edmund H. Turpin, are worthy the pen of this clever musician, and will be a useful addition to all organists' libraries.-- Two ...

... . Here vox Bulow gave a pianoforte recital at St. James's Hall last Wednesday afternoon before a large audience. Illustrations were given of the pianoforte works of six composers of widely differing styles, commencing with Sebastian Bach and terminating with Rubinstein. Tho illustration of Bach was the No. C in D minor of his English suite, a series of dance movements following each other in ...

... . At the Monday Popular Concert, on Monday last, the pro gramme included Haydn's Quartett in E flat, op. 20, No. 1, for two violins (Mme. Neruda and M. Ries), viola (Mr. Zorbini), and violoncello (Signor Piatti). The woric had not previously been heard at the Monday Popular Concerts. It was admirably played, and met with a hearty welcome. Beethoven's posthu mous Sonata in C minor, op. 1 1 1 ...

... . THE Carl Rosa opera season at Her Majesty's Theatre com menced on Saturday last with a performance of Herr Richard Wagner's early opera, Rienzi. It will be remembered that it was with this work the Carl Rosa season of 1879 began and that the mise en scène was of the most gorgeous and tasteful kind. On Saturday last the spectacular effects which excited so much attention last season were all ...

... THE West End theatres have done but little this year in the way of pantomimes, with the exception of DRURY LANE and COVENT GARDEN; but that is a large exception, for those two houses, when they have t ...

... WILLIAM CZERNY.-- The demand for concerted music, vocal and instrumental, is steadily on the increase, and very well it is for the pleasure of that long-suffering and enduring class of hearers who nev ...

... DRAMA. DRURY LANE. THANKS to the fraternal rivalry of Mr. Augustus Harris at Drury Lane with his brother Charles at Covent Garden play goers are not disappointed, as at one time it seemed likely they would be of one of the two great Christmas spectacles of London. The absence of an orthodox pantomime from Drury Lane would have been regretted, both for the sake of old associations and because ...