New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-07
TRIBUNE SUPPLEM ENT.
NEw.YORK, OCTOBER ,, IsiJ.
See Regular sheet OF This Morning.
state Of Music In Newly ork.

have had and know we shall havc-thc perform.
.,oe of Oratorios 10 crowded and enthusiastic audi
ences-the Musical Convention, the Juvenile Con
certs. &c which we are to have during the week
have all combined to give a new and powerful i'm
polse TO musical taste and refinement-in other
words to the desire for good music. We have al
WAYS believed that Music as the expression OF the
Great. unrcstrained harmonious passions Of Human
iy would fad here its highest and most perfect de
,elopment The public taste Of Europe is worn our
with constantly reiieraiing and repeating itsei' anu
each new furore is less real less earnest less HI
tense and more artificial and unmeaning tnah Inc
last. Beside Society there has not so VIDE nor ~
deep heart, not such piquant and enoiessVar,c.y
and freedom Of Municipalities, to be cmoaimed IN
u,s;o a. ,Ye have Here thought. enthusiasm, I'M
so;,.,oo have no limit. Our whole history is pc.
EN-. our daily life an ara constantly represented to
n. nuder every conceivable form Of variation
If /. right and natural tina; we should love Mu-
,c-t is ours 1t is the most truly republican oil all
the Fine Arts: it speaks language to whose thrii-
ing tones every heart responds Il not strange there
lore although it is very gratifying. to see the taste for
ursic among our people 80 rapidly extending itself
and embracing 10 much Of the intellect and worth Of
the City. We in the present state OF Music and
musical taste in this City evidences that we are to
become eminent as a musical people, and that here
Mu.jc is TO achieve her most brilliant and enduring
,dumphs The progress toward these must be IN
src, accordance with moral, social and intellectual
pogress-ihc mo, emcnt must all go together and
we regard Music as a powerful element in human
izng and enlighening public opinion, in exaItlng
and enabling public taste and expanding and dill
fusipg generous and lovely sympathies- Did ali
understand and feel Music it ought TO be under
stood and felt worship and spirituality would take
,be Mace of GOODNESS and selfish worldliness. Mu-
SIC NAV therefore be regarded as at once cause and
index Of Progress
The State Of Music in New York presents first Its
asoec, as regards public taste and criticism-next
as relating TO the musicians and composers them
selves In regard criticism we are mainly depend
en-, for il on the Daily Press The weekly journals
have generally very little circulation in the City and
still less influence public opinion. They are Tor
The most part each owned or controlled, in literary
artistic and musical matters, by some family clique
who bepuf and bepraise each other on all occasions,
and invariably underrate and decry every body else
This state Of things pervades the Daily Press to
great extent although the influence br ught to
bear upon is often of more direct and tangible
character-eher consisting of advertising and PRINT
ing custom or else direct pay for puffs in money
We have one instance in our eye at this very mo-
ment where a leading journal openly refused to
oven notice an arts, because he had his bills print
ed at rival establishment; and another in which a
paper daily disparaged and rdiculed indiscrmi-
nsiely every thing done at a certain establishment,
but which now daily and fusomely extos every
thing and every body there Without discrm
nation or even good policy. Formerly the bills OF
The establishment were printed elsewhere-now this
portion of its CUSTOM land at good round prices too
goes into the Editors pockets. The proprietor OF
newspaper and job office was called upon by the
Treasurer of a company of artists and told that they
were charged at his establishment greaty-advanced
prices for their bills over what other Offices had offer
3D. His reply was that those were has prices-that
they could take their printing away as soon as they
uleased and that the could sink their concern
and shu, up their house in two weeks. The Urea
sarcr replied Very well-if you put il on that
ground shall pay your over charge as matter OF
necessity" They did pay-but the company sunk
money Notwithstanding the powerful aid OF the
-. and very soon its members broke up and
scattered themselves over the world-some In Mex
leo, some In Italy. and some we know not where
For some years a regular leading Weekly Journal
purporing to be especially devoted to general musi-
cal and theatrical criticism refused even TO mention
The name Of one of the larges, establishments in the
City or to al ude in any way to any boky engaged
Il r. IL al
dislike to the Manager. One paper we know OF
whose musical judgments are Illuminated by per
Sn having relatives before the public as artists
Every thing in which they appear is laudcd without
SIM, absolutely smothered with praise and every
hing in which they or some OF them are not en-
pbyed isridculed and denounced-lerally 'slashed
niue MeGrawler style. Another publication pro
iessing high and intellectual tone in every thing II
says and does decries indiscriminatey every artist
who makes his appearance in this country unless he
belongs to particular nation. With It's critics Ole
Bull is humbug and his divinest effects are mere
unworthy trickery,-while every one who halls from
issvore nation is exalted and magnifed as unap
imachable, godlke.
In many, perhaps majority of cases, the cr'ti-
o'ms 10 the Daily Papers are written by the Police
Reporter OF the establishment,-who, getting OF
f''y a, the Tombs with the day watchmen, hastens
osweeney's for magnificent sixpenny steak and
fed potatoes and then rushes off 10 the theatre or
~nceri'Toom TO decide upon the merits OF the new
frlma Donna. OF course his critical opinion de
ends very much on the fact whether his name is on
heFree List, and the sort of reception he meets
Win At the door. To secure the appreciation OF
oar paper 10 the dtbtUant it is much more neces-
"H That there should be accommodating door
Aeeer than that the candidate should possess true
"~ genius Sometimes il is the advertising col
snas@ apaPer which indicate the critical opinion
IS editor. We have known many artist put
! WA totally beneath criticism in certain papers
spy because his advertisement had not been sent
t"'ne desk, and others because they had not re-
''d fashionable Editors call of ceremony by an
T~'on 10 dinner and champagne.
az vs resi-, there are few papers which employ
var musical reporters. and in fact few persons
&c Vry with sufficient musical knowledge ex.
race, Character and irmness TO become such.
who write mostly for the papers except the
e Reporters &c. are friends of the arts, TO be