... former Beethoven's third Rasoumowsky quartet was played by Madame Norman-Neruda, MM. Ries, Straus, and Piatti; and Mr. Charles Halle contributed the famous Waldstein sonata for pianoforte. Other works of interest were in the programme ; but between the' ...

... Ernts's EZegie, and joined Madame Neruda in a violin duet by Spohr ; Madame Schumann played Mendelssohn's Capriccioso; Mr. Charles Halls gave Beethoven's Air and variations in F (Op. 34); Herr Pauer's contribution was Schubert's impromptu in B flat; Signor ...

... novelties, and seek to entice those who look upon an opera-house in the light of a temple of art, rather than of fashion. Mr. Charles Halle's Pianoforte Recitals in St. James's Hall continue to draw together a crowd of amateurs every Friday afternoon. Their plan ...

... reduce Festival business to the level of ordinary contracts, but the plan worked well. The lowest tender, sent in by Mr. Charles Halle, was accepted, and the contractor fulfilled his oblU- gations with distinguished success. He provided a number of our best ...

... earned a legitimate success, and is a bright and unlooked-for star in our constellation of prima donnas. WAIFS.-Mr. Charles Halle has resumed his interesting Pianoforte Recitals, which, but that there are no quartets for stringed instruments exclusively ...

... Germany now expects to preserve the classical forms which should be imperishable, are Rheinberger, Gernsheim, and Grieg. Mr. Charles Hall, at his pianoforte recitals, has givem specimens of each of them. A little of Kiel, and something now and then of Gade ...

... Birmingham last year. The conductor appointed is Sir Julius Benedict, long regarded as musical king of Liverpool, just as Mr. Charles Hall has long been regarded as musical king of Manchester. Sir Julius (then Mr.) Benedict directed the concerts which celebrated ...

... has for a long time enjoyed the co-operation of Sir Julius Benedict-just as much the musical king of Liverpool as Mi. Charles Halls is musical king of Manchester. The festival began on Tuesday with a very fine performance of Mendelssohn's St. Paul-an ...

... composed by Beethoven upon Diabelli's Waltz had not before beein publicly executed. They wereplayed, howvever, by Mr. Charles Halle, at one of his pianoforte recitals, in the summer of 1866.-Herr Anton Rubinstein, after a brief sojourn in Paris, has left ...

... sudden indispo- sition prevented her from attempting. Here was an opportu- nity for the pianist of the evening-Mr. Charles Halle, who, at an instant's notice, played, without book, the Sonata Pastorale of the same composer-as finely and as accurately ...

... countrymen, Sir W. Ster.dale Bennett, seems to be getting more and more into vogue. The first piece in the programme of Mr. Charles Hall' fourth Recitl wasthe Chamber Trio in A, while Mdlle. Marie Krebs, at her second Recital, next Wednesday, IS to play ...

... professors, has resigned his position as pianoforte instructor at Queen's College and the Royal Academy of Music.-At Mr. Charles Hall's eighth and last Pianoforte Recital in St. James's Hall, yesterday, he was to play, with Madame Norman Neruda and Herr ...