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... CONCERTS.-- At the tenth Crystal Palace Concert the pro gramme, besides a too rarely heard symphony by Haydn (first of the famous Salomon twelve), and, glorious as it is, the over-frequently present ...
... CONCERTS.-- At the tenth Crystal Palace Concert the pro gramme, besides a too rarely heard symphony by Haydn (first of the famous Salomon twelve), and, glorious as it is, the over-frequently present ...
... Theatres CYNICAL observers of the tendencies of the modern drama can hardly have failed to draw inferences of an unflattering kind from the circumstance that the numerous published criticisms upon the ...
... NONE who read Mehalah are likely to forget that strangely powerful tragedy, resembling a transfer of the scene of Wuthering Heights from the Yorkshire Moors to the Essex Salt Marshes. John Herrin ...
... t MESSRS. RICORDI.-- A most taking song, which should be heard very often in the concert-room this season, is Plenilunio (Guardate Sempre, Rapita l'Anima), words by Carmelo Errico, music by Paolo ...
... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Our record of the doings at this great establishment need not be long. Quite enough has been said and written about the Mefistofele of Signor Boïto, a spasmodic attempt to intro ...
... MESSRS. STANLEY LUCAS, WEBER, AND CO.-- In Weakness, Lord, We Come to Thee, a hymn, by the Rev. C. H. Ostler, music by Florence Grayson Lowood, is a very nice and devotional composition, which would ...
... MESSRS. ROBERT COCKS AND CO.-- One of Jean Ingelow's beautiful and pathetic poems, The Song of a Boat, has been set to appropriate music by Alice Borton, who has caught the tender beauty of the word ...
... MESSRS. METZLER AND SON.-- A pleasing duet, for a mezzo soprano and baritone, is Out With the Tide, written and composed by C. J. Rowe and Francesco Berger. There is a cheerful swing and a more than ...
... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Gounod's Faust, always attractive with Mdlle. Pauline Lucca as the heroine, remains so still. Her Marguerite is a thing unique of its class, and for admirably sustained earnestn ...
... MESSRS. STANLEY LUCAS, WEBER, AND CO.-- In good time for preparation for the midsummer holiday displays at ladies' schools or colleges comes Agnes of the Sea, a cantata, with soli and chorus, for so ...
... Messrs. Boosey and Co. Colin's Love Letter, words by E. Williams, music by J. L. Molloy, is a piquant little song which young amateurs will find both pleasing and useful. By the same composer, with ...
... WE have carefully read Mr. A. P. Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism (Trübner), and we strongly recommend all who take any interest in transcendental speculation to do the same. It is one of those fascinati ...