The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-27 00:00:00

MUSIC.

" LA GAITIL," A SET OF NEW AND FASIIIONABLE
QUADRILLES, WITH THEIR PROPER FIGURES, SELECTED
FROM .MERCIDANTE'S OPERA OF ELIZA. E CLAUDIO.
BY J. P. Pixis.—These Six Melodies 'are so well adapted
to their newly intended uee, as to induce our entire appro-
bation of their present form; and if this is the first of a
forthcoming series of Quadrille*, to he extracted from cele-
brated Italian Operas, the lovers of Quadrille Dancing can-
not hut feel obliged to the projector of so eligible an under-
taking. The resource is ample, if not inexhaustible ; and
nothing will be required but selections equally good with
the one before us, and arrangements for the piano-forte,
at once as well calculated for their avowed object, and
for the impravment and amusement of piano-forte prac-
titioners.

" TRUE TA/VE," A GERMAN AMETTA, -ADAPTED EY J.
BAWNETT.---The words of this little sir, which is in the
ballad style, are translated by Mr. Logan, and by no means
deficient in the principal requisites of lyric-poety, delicate
diction, and ease and smoothness of metre. The melody,
the composer of which is not announced, bears evident
marks of a free and pleasing fancy; and the pia•io-forte
accompaniment is arranged in a style favourable to the
voice and the gene-11 effect. With the modulation into
the minor of the original key, and the relative major
of that minor, we are much pleased, as well as with the
easy and national manner in which the original scale
is resumed, and the pleasantly volatile passage that con-
cludes the whole.

FOUR GRAND WALTZES FOR VIZ PIANOFORTE, BY
FRANCIS 1-lornuiss.—We find in these Waltzes some
prettily turned ideas, ideas which have the merit of not
only being pleasingly conceived, hut artfully introduced,
and judiciously relieved. Considering that their very cha-
racter as waltzes necessitated a uniformity of time or mea-
sure, they are very varied, and farther from fatiguing the
ear than a succession of imilar movements might be ex-
pected to prove. We must not omit to observe, that the
general cast of these passages is such as to render them
useful exercises for the instrument for which they are ex-
pressly designed, and that they merit our recommending
them to the attention of juvenile practitio: ers.

On Thursday evening and Friday morning, a
vast number of foreign vessels, loaded with grain,
arrived in the roads, for Leith.
We were much interested by the performance
of Alfieri's tragedy of Primo Bruto last night,
at the great concert room in the King's Theatre.
Signer Pistrucci supported the chara..:ter of
Brutus. In all his scenes he commanded the
attention of an audience both numerous and
elegant, and in many of them his very energetic
acting produced the liveliest demonstrations of
applause. In the first act his declamation on the
tyranny of Tarquin, and the character of the
tyrant, was conceived in the best style. The ap-
peal of Brutus over the dead body of Lucretia,
where rage,at the conduct of the ravisLe‘hich
~and,
grief for the fate of his victim, are artfully mingled,
was recited with a discriminating feeling;
bile it gave to the hope of revenge its utmost force,
kept in view all that a deep felt sorrow demanded.
In the last act, Signor P. succeeded extremely
well. The judgment on his treacherous sons, was,
in the end, delivered with great vehemence,--a
vehemence which the Italian poet seems to have
introduced, for the purpose of overbearing the
ordinary feelings of nature—feelings that must
be supposed likely to triumph, unless the mind
be wrought up to a high pitch of excitation.
Signor Pistrucci 's adjuncts were all performed in
a creditable manner. The gentleman who per-
sonated the younger son of Brutus, played ex-
tremely well. After the tragedy Signor Pis-
trucci proceeded to his " improvizatione " task.
There was a great run upon his bank ; but he
met every demand fairly. Ladies called for a
descant upon " love," and (the subject is
easy) he at once obeyed their command. Gen-
tlemen, who had in the course of the evening
heard much of liberty, called for a poem
on that theme, and were gratified without
difficulty. In short, Pistrucci exhausted the
imagination of the challengers, while his own
treasury appeared to be as full as ever ; and when
a whole phalanx attacked him, each giving a
single word which was to he rhymed to, and a
poem to be conned upon this very slight founda-
tion, he took, as Falstaff says, their eleven points
at once, met them fairly, and defeated them.
The amusements of the evening were well attend,
ed, and well received.

SHAKSPERIAN JUBILEE.

(Third and last Day.)

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, THURSDAT MORNING.
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Yesterday terminated the amusements of this me-
morable Jubilee, which had excited so much curio-
sity, and has; afforded unqualified delight to many
thousands of individuals. The town was not very
full of country visitors, but the attendance of the
principal families at the Morning Concert, at the
White Lion Rooms, was more numerous than that
at the Public Breakfast, the previous day, and it is
the only fault of the Committee, in this commemo-
rative ceremonial, that they did not adopt Shaks-
peare's Hall for the purpose. The Concert, both in
the vocal and instrumental parts, was well sustained
by amateurs, and performers from Mr. Raymond's
company, who exerted themselves in so able a manner
AS to please a crowded audience nearly four hours.
Soon after the Concert had closed, the Theatrical
Company left the town in a carriage, drawn by six
horses, preceded by the military band,aiid escorted by
a number of the town's-people,who thus strongly testi-
fied their approbation of the Corps Dramatique for the
atention and support they had given to the pageant.
Mr. Ryan's Equestrian Troop also occasionally pa-
raded the town ; and, between the Concert and
Ball, many parties visited the birth-place of Shah-
speare, and his funeral monument in St. Mary's
Church, where a great number of names were re-
gistered in the books kept for that purpose. The
Ball in the evening commenced at eight o'clock, in
Shakspeare's Hall, which, in addition to the deco-
rations used at the dinner, displayed the several
banners bearing the names of Shakspeare's Plays,
carried in the Pageant on Monday, and brilliantly
illuminated, internally and externally, with many
thousand variegated lamps. The company was very
numerous and respectable, and the dance was going
on when our account left. It was supposed that
this Festival would have been attended by a much
greater number of persons, but for some misunder-
standing that arose, partly owing to the diffidence
of the Committee, who were unwilling to extend
their promises too far.
So greatly, however, is the satisfaction felt by all
parties, that many individuals have already sub-
scribed to the next tl:ennial meeting, which it is
intended will be on a scale of unparalleled magnifi-
cence ; all the characters of Shakspeare are to be in-
troduced, awl the subscription will be general all
over the kinzdoro.