New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-11
THE TRIBUNE.

German Opera ut PaImo's Opera House.
The opening Of the German Opera on Monday
.re,iup. by the representation of Der Freischu,z,
rss well attended and gave good satisfaction The
,ns;c Of this avorite Opera is familiar to every one,
and 10 hear oil the airs in their natural places was
v.-, pleasant to those who had never before heard
tasa whole.
The performance and arrangements were tolera-
Nv good, quite es much so as can be expected at
The beginning. We hope very much the German
Ooera will succeed among US, and take lis turn
with the Italian and French. We shall thus have
an opportunity TO become better acquainted with
The crea. composers of the German school, and
vbena taste for their works is sufficiently cultivated,
he best performers will presently lie induced 10
yst u.s. We ought and we may easily have oppor-
t,nity 10 become acquainted with all kinds Of ex-
oelence from all parts Of the world. TO have this
opportunity, it is only necessary that we should
wish for il with sufficient earnestness to encourage
efforts OF this kind. We suppose, though there are
many Germans in New York. there still are not
enough 10 furnish permanent audience even TO
their national entertainments which must be doubly
dear to them in the new land. Our people, by aid
coming acquainted with their music and their Ian
ruare for you gain more familiar acquaintance with
language by attending dramatic entertainments
srd especially those where the association of music
with the words assists the memory TO retain them.
than you possibly can in any other way.
We hope there will be some means adopted to
setrid OF the smoke and suphureous fumes that fol
low upon the magical scenes in this opera as The air
in most places for public exhibitions is so bad at
eDy rate from the absence OF all proper means of
ventilation as to be almost uncomfortable and destruct
ire to health if brcathed often the addition OF these
fumes Is a little too much.
Ina more refined state of society it will be thought
wonderful that people submit TO be tornented as
hsy do under the Of pleasure Ii will then De
thought Incredible that they so long submitted TO
breathe this polluted air ana bear the inevitable
con:euuences-ihat they did not secure tolerably
comfortable aeats-hat they did not every where, as
they DO at one places, have the seats number
and the occupants directed TO them by usbcrs IN
stead of being josied and crowded or else obliged
togo 50 early as 10 waste hour even two hours
i1ddes,roy or dull the power of attention and Gu
ioyment before the performance begins
Other of our customs will he considered as mark
ing a semibarbarous period-among them that
thinking up bad and good music at concerts. so
that there shall be something for all kinds Of hear
er. Even If all The music be good, concert re-
quIes the greatest skill and delicacy of feeling in
the director so 20 grade and alternate the different
kinds that one shall not clash with another,
and the changes jar rudely on the nearer s mood
There seems indeed, in this country, singular ao
sence Of all regard TO effect upon the mind OF the
haer likely to result from the choice Of music At
Concerts lively jigs are interspersed with the dead
march or the prayer OF a priestess, and lately we
bea,da scramble TO bridal pair composed OF hop
waltz and the music OF the song Love Not, OF
which the verses begin, we think like this
4Love not, for those you love may change
Love not-for those you love may die
Listening TO this omuous serenadc we supposed
Ito be conducted on this principle Some friends
dihe new married pair having paid certain sum
phaye il given the leader of the band thought the
aney worth one gay tune and one melancholy one,
aspetiest to his taste he knew; and accordingly
hate the silence of the nigh, with the Hop Waltz
L! wound up with Love not as being the long
a,ad mos, impressive of the two.
4people who hear good music well performed,
ndia Ia way that does not disguise its meaning,
cannot long fancy that it is only meant to tickle the
"a, bu! will find that the soul is reached also. To
Vase sway this ignorance nothing is SO valuable as
lie performance of Operas and Oratorios Us wholes.
Aase has been formed here for Italian music by
3s Italian Opera and we hope the German Opera
My do the same Tor The other great kingdom Of
saHc The company have begun well with Won
weber, whose romantic genius cannot fail of spec
V!mpa,hy wherever there are men OF any fancy
capacity for romance. They promise also the
DOa Juan and Magic Flute OF Mozart, whose imagi.
asaon and heavenly tenderness must find sympathy
Wherever there are men capable of the higher and
more refined emotions AS in the case Of Der
seschliz, the airs in these works of Mozart are so
f. @nl'as that we shall have the pleasure of finding
0u acquaintance in their native home al last. X
4 No'kLIY lSDEED.-There are some stores