... MTJSICJ. SPOHR'S CALVARY. THE Novello Oratorio Concerts, established last year, have taken their place amongst the most valuable of our musical institutions. During the current season modern works of great importance have been for the first time presented to metro politan audiences, and on Tuesday last a welcome addition was made to the Novello concert repertory, in Spohr's second oratorio, ...

... . IT was a very odd dramatic mixture that was presented at a tentative matinée at the Royalty last Tuesday, under the title, The Professor's Wooing. The play is classified as a comical pastoral, and has enjoyed a considerable run on the American continent-- which latter fact only shows how different is American taste from English. A good notion underlies the piece, which has for its hero a ...

... . It was not to he expected that a successful sensation such as that achieved by the great Ileniey Regatta or tank scene last October at the Standard would be dropped after the com paratively short run allowed to it by the exigencies of panto mime. The moment accordingly that Christmas entertainment here is done with, Mr. John Douglass revives A Dark Secret, the drama into which Henley Regatta ...

... DRAMA. OPERA COMIQUE THEATRE WHERE the performance of old English comedy is concerned, the presence of a fashionable audience cannot make up for the absence of a pit. The players want the sympathy of out spoken playgoers to react upon them. They need hearty laughter rather than languid applause, no matter how dis tinguished be the applauders. Now, Miss Vaughan's patrons at the Opera Comique on ...

... . NO one would think from merely reading a précis of the plot of Jack in the Box that in this piece Messrs. Sims and Scott have provided Miss Fannie Leslie with a variety drama of the approved pattern. The main thread of the story is hung upon a murder committed before the play begins, which murder is supposed to implicate one Edward Moreland, the prodigal son of a rich Australian. Edward ...

... Joseth Williams. A pleasing song of medium compass is More and More, written and composed by William A. Aikin. Precisely the same may be said of Recollections, words by L. M. Martin, music by G. Be ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MYNHEER JAN. THE pen, it has been remarked, is mightier than the sword. In some instances though, the pencil is far superior to the pen. For example, a single glance at the illustra tions adorning this page will enable the glancer to seize in stantaneously and without difficulty on the idea which I am slowly and painfully striving to put for ward in the accom panying ...

... . A NEW and original comic opera m three acts, entitled Mynheer Jan, written by Harry Paulton and Mostyn Tedde, music by Edward Jakobowski, was produced at the Comedy Theatre on Monday last, with those signs of success which are almost always visible on first nights of new pieces, unless they prove to be downright failures. The new opera was produced last week at Birmingham, where it met ...

... . THE second half of the Saturday Concert Season at the Crystal Palace opened on Saturday last with an interesting programme, comprising Mr. Mackenzie's dramatic cantata, The Story of Sayid, and Mr. C. Villiers Stanford's choral setting of the Poet Laureate's stirring poem, The Revenge, a Ballad of the Fleet. Both compositions were successfully produced at the Leeds Musical Festival in October ...

... _ j I Ell I VERDI'S OTELLO.-- Accidents apart, Verdi's latest opera will be produced at La Scala, Milan, on Saturday of this week. A large number of professional musicians and critics (including rep ...

... VERDI'S OTELLO.-- We understand that there is little or no chance of a performance in London of Verdi's latest opera for some time to come. No presentation of the work in the English language will p ...

... MESSRS. J. CURWEN AND SONS.-- There is much sterling merit in The Victorian Age, a cantata for the Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign, the libretto by F. C. Weatherly, M.A., the music by J. L. Roeckel. ...