The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-03 00:00:00

SOCIETY OF BRITISH MUSICIANS.

This Society gave their first Concert for the season last
night, in the Hanover-square rooms. It was well attended,
and the performances were received with much approba-
tion. Mudie's symphony, played at the beginning of the
first Act, is a composition of great merit. The first move-
ment has considerable-vigour, and is in the clear and melo-
dious style of Mozart. The andante and minuet are a good
deal in the same manner ; and the whole piece shows that
the composer has studied, to advantage, the scores of
those great masters. It does not exhibit much originality ;
but the first thing, with a young composer, is to acquire a
confirmed habit of writing in a good style. Few young
composers are original. Even Haydn and Mozart them-
selves, in their earliest works, wrote in the prevailing
manner of the day, and gradually formed a style for
themselves afterwards. Mr. Mudie's management of the
instruments is skilful and delicate. His harmony is rich, while
it is perfectly free from the besetting sin of the present day,
noise. Mr. Bennett's overture to Parisina, which commenced
the second Act was by far the finest thing that was performed.
Its title indicates that the composer intended that its expres-
sion should be melancholy and gloomy, and he fully suc-
ceeded. It opens with a wild phrase uttered by the violon-
cello alone, and this phrase, reproduced in a great variety
of forms, produces at every repetition, an increased effect.
The overture is in the style of Beethoven, both in the
structure of the passages and in the instrumentation ; and
is a work of great genius and power. Mr. Holmes played
a piano-forte concerto composed by Macfarren—a work of
considerable merit and exceedingly well performed. The
vocal music was not equal to the instrumental. The round
by Mr. Walmisley was very sweetly sung by Misses Bruce,
Wagstaff, and Dickens ; but it was too long, and the
melody not at all remarkable, though the different
parts were ingeniously combined. Bishop's ballad, " There
blooms a sweet flower," was more remarkable for the ex-
treme sweetness and delicacy of the accompaniments
than for the originality of the melody. It was beauti-
fully sung by Mrs. Bishop. The duettino by Bishop, sungby
Mrs. Bishop and Miss Birch, was simplicity itself, the parts
going together, from beginning to end, in thirds and sixths ;
but its effect was pleasing. Of Mr. Griesbach's scena, all
we can say is, that it received ample justice from Miss
Bruce, whose voice and execution appeared to great advar-
tage. The passage from Lord Byron's Pariszna, turned
into a sant: by Mr. Macfarren, is very ill suited to such a
purpose. It is the terrible address of the injured father
and husband to his guilty wife and son ; the idea of turning
which into a series of recitatives and airs, in which the words
are repeated over and over again, in order to round off a
passage of melody, is a sheer absurdity. The passage is not
at all lyrical, and does not .admit of being set to music at
all ; but if Mr. Macfarren was determined to attempt it,
he should have done it on the model of Handers " Deeper
and deeper still," entirely in accompanied recitative. On
the whole the Concert did the Society credit, and exhibited
a great deal of talent. We remain; however, still unsatis-
fied as to the policy of their performini, nothing but the
music of their own members. , On this subject we have a
good deal to say, but we must defer it to another oppor-
tunity.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Lord Fitzroy Somerset in Great Stanhope-street, from the
Duke of Beaufort's, Badminton ; Lady Sherbroke, at Mivart's
Hotel, Brook-street, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Dimsdale,
at ditto, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs Gallon, at ditto ; Sir Wal-
ter Riddell, Bart., from Dover; Messrs. Disney, Stanley,
Russell, and Morgan Thomas, from the Continent; Sir John
and Lady Rennie, in Whitehall-place, from the Continent;
Mr. and Mrs. Mitford, in Dover-street, from ditto ; Dr. and
Mrs. P:iillimore, in Whitehall-place, from Paris ; Robert
Fitzwygram, Esq., in Wygram-place, from the Continent ;
Thomas West, Esq., Mrs. West, and Miss West, at the Ber-
ners Hotel, Bernard-street, from Great Warley, Essex;
Steed Girdlestone, Esq., at ditto, from Cambridge ; the Rev.
R. Briscoe and Miss Briscoe, at ditto, from Godstone; C.
13arron, Esq., at ditto, from Cambridge ; tho. Marquis and
Marchioness of Salisbury, in Grafton. street, Bond-street, from
Hatfield House, Herts ; Colonel Latouche, in St. James's-
:square, from a Continental tour; Mademoiselle d'Este, in
South-street, from Windsor Castle; Earl Stanhope, at Fen-
ton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour ; Lord and Lady
Falkland, at ditto, from Windsor Castle; Sir Charles Cocke-
yell, Bart., at his seat, Sezincot, Morton-in-the-Marsh, Glou-
cestershire. from Buxton, Derbyshire; Freeman Eliot, Esq.,
at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Southampton ;
Captain Maitland, at Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, from
Cheltenham ; William Griffith, Esq., at ditto, from Paris ;
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dodd, at Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle-
street, from Kent ; Miss Dodd, at ditto, from ditto ; Henry
'Waddington, Esq., at ditto, from Norfolk ; James Haggett,
Esq., at ditto, from Edinburgh ; Capt. Frederick Vyse, at
ditto, from Portsmouth ; General Sir William Houstoun, at
ditto, from Scotland.
DEPARTURES.

Earl and Countess Cowper, for Brighton; Countess of
Farnham, for Leamington, Warwickshire ; Earl of Clanwil-
liam, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, on a tour ; Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. Humpfrey Sibthorpe, from ditto, for Brighton ;
Captain Egell, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street,
for Fiome, Somersetshire; Mrs. Cooke and family, from
Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Paris; J. J. Mayers, Esq.,
from ditto, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, from the
Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street. for their seat, Paine's-hill,
Surrey ; Mr. and Mrs Mimero, from ditto, for Liverpool ;
Lady Langham, from Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for
Richmond; William Langham, Esq., from ditto, for Notting-
ham ; Colonel and Mrs. White, from ditto ; John Harvey,
Esq., from ditto, for Oxford.

MR. CAMPBELL'S TRAVELS.
THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
FOR NOVEMBER

PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.
1. .Letters from the South. By Thomas Campbell, Esq. (cot-

tinned).
2. Lord Byron's Conversations with an American.
3. Captain Gray. By the Author of " Sayings and Doings."
4. A Residence in Little Pedlington. By the Author of " Paul

Pry."
5. The Barbarians of the North. By Leitch Ritchie.
6. The Temptation of Rachel llorisson. By Sirs. S. C. Hall.
7. Death-Bed of Alexander the Great. By L. E. L.
Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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