... in October. Among the other choral novelties of the year have been Professor Bridge's Repentance of finesveh, first pro- duced at the Worcester Festival, and afterwards performed by the Finsbury and Hampstead Choral Societies; a cantata by Mr. Read, In ...

... no further notice is practicable have been given at the Crystal Palace (Choral Symphony and selections from fidelz) and also by the Sacred Harmonic Society (Eljalr), the Musical Artists' Society, the Gulidhall School of Students, and others. ...

... every city, town, and hamlet in the provinces there are one or more choral societies, of snore or less ample dimensions. If the funds suffice an orchestra is engaged. If not the society is content to give as good a performance as possible with the means ...

... Saturday and then made the gratifying, though by no means unexpected, announcement that the forty-first season of the Crystal Palace Concerts would take place, as usual, in the winter. His programme last Saturday was devoted mainly to the successes of ...

... conscious of the fact. The Sacred Harmonic Society is awakening from a long lethargy. Not only are we promised an oratorio, almost fresh from the mint, in Mr. Macfarren's St. YshAn the Baptist, produced at the recent Bristol Festival, but also the revival of an ...

... regard to Choral Concerts the principal novelties have been produced at the Festivals. An exception was made in favour of Mr. Cowen's comparatively simple though thoroughly English cantata St. John's Eve, intended for smaller choral societies, and recently ...

... choir of Dvorak's Legenden, and Draesecke's Requieln, will be produced by the London Musical Society, under Mr. Barnby. The Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace in J tine will be a notable feature of the musical year. The revived Henry Leslie Choir will ...

... in the summer. season. The Pops,' Crystal Palace, Richter, Hensrhel, and Royal Choral Society's. concerts, have all maintained their high re. putations, while under Dr. Mackenzie's direction the Philharmonic Society had a very successful ...

... concerto in B minor by Vivaldi, written for four violins with accompaniment for two violas, violoncello, and bass. In the Crystal Palace programme last Saturday an attempt was made to show Bach in his miscellaneous and violin work-, such as the overture from ...

... Scotland.-At the last Crystal Palace Concert a new.Symphony in C major, by Mr. Ebenezer Prout, was produced-a work of genuine merit, about which we shall take another opportunity of spe.¶ling. The determination of the Crystal Palace directors to give encourage- ...

... rendering of Vieuxtemps' not altogether interesting \Violis Concerto in D minor. CONCERTS (VARIOUS).-A choral concert was given at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, the programme including Dr. Bridge 5 Rock ofAges, originally produced at the Birmingham Festival ...

... the Wind Instrument Society last week. Apart from their curiosity these Eguales are intele~tinz enough. Two of them, indeed, we-re adapted by Seyfried to Nvoldi from the iseerere, and were performed at Beethoven's ?? the Crystal Palace, on Saturday, Sir ...