... LOYALTY THEATRE. Mit. Mayeu last week changed his plan of campaign, and discarding French drama opened a short season of French opera with a representation of that tuneful and lively work, la Perichole, written by Mil. Meilhac and Halevy, composed by Jacques Offenbach, and originally produced at the Theatre des Varietes, Paris, October 6th, 1868. The cast provided at the Royalty was as ...

... . THE tenth Saturday Concert of the Crystal Palace series was given last Saturday, when the following programme was pro vided:-- 1. Concerto in G, for Strings J. 3. Bach. V. Concerto for Pianoforte and Orchestra, No. :i Beethoven. Aria Let the dreadful engines Barcell. A. Symphony No. 7, in A Beethoven. ,V Hungarian Ithapsody, No. IS (First Time) laszt. (i. Traiimc (ltcverie), for Strings ...

... THE IIECKMANN QUARTETT. This excellent body of elianibcr-niusic players ga\e tliird- and, for tlie present, tlieir last concert at Princes Hall last week, tlieir programme including No. 1, Quartett, No. 6, in C Mozart _ No. 2, Quartett in A minor, Op. 41 'aU,!,! No. 3, Quartett in 0 sharp minor, Op. 131 Beetho, This interesting programme was marvellously well executed, to tlie gratification of ...

... TIIE STROLLING PLAYERS. THE smoking concert of the Strolling Players' Orchestral Society, given last Saturday at Princes Hall, attracted a large gathering of aristocratic amateurs, and was patronised by T.R.H. Prince Henry of Battenberg, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke of Teck, the Duke of Abercorn, the Earl of Lathom, &c. The orchestra played with complete success the instrumental ...

... . On Saturday lust the late Sir George Macfarren's first and best oratorio, St. John the Baptist, was performed at St. James's Hall by students of the Royal Academy of Music, over which institution the lamented deceased had watched during the last twelve years of his life with a zealous and unremitting devo tion which raised the academy to a higher pitch of prosperity than it had ever before ...

... . AT the concert given last week under the able direction of Mr. Henschel, an interesting novelty was found in Richard Wagner's first and only symphony, composed by him when in his nine teenth year, first performed (1832) at Prague, and subsequently at Würzburg and Leipsic. It was placed in the hands of Mendelssohn (at that time director of the famous Gewandhans Concerts), but was heard of no ...

... . WE have already furnished a biographical account of the late. Mme. Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt's career in England and on the Continent, and have great pleasure in adding some in teresting particulars of the Sweetish Nightingale's successes in America. Our American contemporaries frequently do us the honour to reprint the critical and other articles published in our columns. We rarely quote ...

... . Tiie Eighth Saturday Concert of the current season at the Crystal Palace presented an important novelty, and was in other respects interesting. Handel's Concerto in B flat, No. 7, for strings, was warmly welcomed, and was followed by Schu mann's pianoforte concerto. The pianoforte part was played by Mme. de Pachmann with but moderate success. As Miss Maggie Okey she bade fair to reach a high ...

... . at the Comedy Theatre Mr. Ilawtrey has been fortunate enough to secure a suitable home for the exiled Arabian Nights, w uch lias rapidly developed into one of the great paying successes of the day. Air audience which filled every part of ne house was attracted by the first performance after the .Ulster from the Globe and Mr. Grundy's smart, albeit tagar, adaptation went with a sliout of ...

... . THE opening meeting of this newly-formed association took place on Monday afternoon in the Pavilion at Lord's, under the presidency of Lord Harris. There was a large attendance, which included delegates from several of the leading clubs. The first business was the consideration of the rules which had been drawn up by the sub-committee, and these, with one or two alterations, were adopted. ...

... TIIE HECKMANN QTJARTETT. Tiie excellent quart ett party including Herr Hockuiaun and Herr Forberg (1st and 2nd violin), llerr Allecotte (viola), and Herr Bellmann (violoncello) arc with us again, for a short tune, and last week gave the first of a series of three concerts at Princes' Hall. Their programme opened with the first performance in London of the difficult Fugue in B flat, Op. 133, ...

... . Tub annual meeting of representatives of the chief counties to arrange the fixtures for the coming season was held in the Pavilion at Lord's Ground on Tuesday, and amongst the large number attending were Messrs. A. J. Webbe and I. D. Walker (Middlesex), W. H. C. Oates and E. Browne (Notts), J. B. Wolstenholme and M. J. Ellison (Yorks), S. H. Swire and A. Appleby (Lancashire), 0. H. Smith and ...