The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, tnlnA V, AUGUST 6 1841.

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FARRINGDON:STREET CHORAL

SOCIETY.

We made a late attendance at the Public Concert of
Choral and Madrigal Music, which was held at the Harp-
alley School-room yesterday evening, and were so far
delighted as to wish that we had been earlier.
In common with many of the arts, music is descend-
ing from the elevated tripods which she once occu-
pied, and instead of having her fair and festal preaence
monopolized alone by Royal Academies and courtly
cliques, begins to walk in engaging familiarity among
all classes of the children of men. Till this came to
pass—and only the last few years have effected it—the
beauty of the vox humana arid its first capabilities
were known but to a limited few, and the sweetness
which the larynx comprehended in itself, was, among
the people at large, little developed. But by the forma-
tion of musical societies, such as the one in question,
good natural powers have been trained by masters into
tuneable order, so that the voice has, in many instances,
been enabled to conduct itself through the pleasing
windings of a song, or the more intricate evolutions of
the choir.

On casting our eyes over last evening's programme,
we were surprised to see that names, which some twenty
years back were strange even to the more occult culti-
vators of the science, were even here, inter pupillares, '
becoming familiar as household words. Nay, not names
alone, but strains and harmonies. A chaste composition
of the German Gluck opened the evening's vocal display,
and Danby was made to warble his hymn to the
Oiolian lyre." The amatory odes of Lord Mornington
were very charmingly executed. " Cynthia, thy song
and chanting," by the captivating musician Giovanni
Croce, was sung with equal taste wad delicacy. One
female voice attracted our attention in particular ; it rang
with a clear sweet tone, and in more energetic parts,
topped the whole concert choir. The united efforts of
the band also, told admirably in the soft effusion of
Festa's " Down in a flowery vale." Indeed the sotto
voce parts throughout were very winningly managed.
To see so much simplicity displayed in the pursuit
and cultivation of the science is itself attractive,
and we must confess that clear and simple enun-
ciations of airs and ballads, please the ear far better
than the unmeaning bravuras of operatic flights. We
would any day rather listen to the singing of the lint•
white in the broom, than to the the ordered trill of any
petted song-bird. An excellent plan is adopted, also,
before every chant. A tiny precentor stands up, and
distinctly repeats the words, ere they are rendered vocal
by the choir. The credit due to the organizer and ma-
nager of the 100 voices which compose the choral body,
and the praiseworthy manner in which the whole recipro-
cates his attention by improving on his instructions, ask
for great praise.
Counting the forms by twenties, there must, have been
about 300 persons composing last evening's audience.
The pleasure evinced by their countenances, and their
calls for repetitions of many chaunts, were themselves the
best testimonies to the evening's concert.

THE WORLDLY MINDED.....-.The thoughts of
worldly men are for ever regulated by a moral law of
gravitation, 'which, like the physical one, holds them
down to earth. The bright glory of the day, and the
silent wonders of a starlight night, appeal to their minds
in vain. There are no signs in the sun, or in the moon,
or in the stars for their reading. They are like some
wise men, who, learning to know each planet by its pro-
per name, have quire forgotten such small heavenly con-
stellations as charity, forbearance, universal love and
mercy, although they shine by night and day so brightly
that the blind may see them ; and who, looking up at
the spangled sky, see nothing there but the reflection of
their own great wisdom and book learning.—Humphrey's
Cloch.