The New York herald., 1851-10-29

MOVEMENTS m rm MUSICAL woRLD-Next
week the Italian Opera viii spen for the win
ter campaign, at the Astor Place House, under
Maretzek, with the old fsvorites, some Of them
broken down, and some Of them still capable
of giving satisfaction to the music wing pub
lie. On Monday next, Catherine Hayes returns
with her troupe, to Tripler Hail, from her
brief tour in New England. II is probable
Jenny Lind and suite will be here in about q
month. Biscaccianti, who is already favoraoiy
known to the musical circles of her native country
and now returns fran Europe greatly improved,
will make her debut Saturday evening, at Iripier
Hall. An account of a private musical source she
gave last evening, preliminary to her public appear
ance, will be found in another article. 1t will be
thus seen that there is prospect of abundance Of
vocal music to cheer up the cold nights OF the com
ing winter.
The success of foreign artists in the United
States, and particularly in New York, has created
as great sensation in the musical world OF
Europe. as did the success of the Anne .ican arms
In. Mexico among their statesmen and politicians.
The result is that the most distinguished vo,alists
from the other side of the Atlantic are preparing
to visit and charm the dollars out of our pockets.
Madame Sontag will be here in about year, with
her which will accommodate at least four thousand
persons, and of which she will have the manage
ment herself. She will not come now, as has been
stated by N p. Willis, for we have our informa-
tion from her own lips. She will be induced to
come only by the erection of a great opera house
for the people. Who will undertake it! Grisi and
Mario will come next year, and would be here no v
but for engagement in Russia.
This great musical success Of foreign artists here
is producing a movement westward in other de-
partments of art. Carlotte Grisi and Cerito will
soon be among US. Lola Montez is announced to
arrive in December; but she is only phantasy-
the others real artists
In New York, and throughout the United States,
there is ample encouragement for art. We are
getting rich California is sending US cargoes Of
gold, surprising the ancient fables of the Golden
Fleece, and Australia will soon send more, as it is
highly probable shall kick John Bull out of the
newly discovered mines in that country. We are
therefore able, and as willing as able, to reward
good artists. The talent of the old country will
find its way here, and the consequence Of this
gregation Of artistic genius in New York, instead
of inpovershing the city, will be to enrich it; for it
will attract thousands from the East and the West,
the North and the South, to visit Gotham, and
spend their money in it, Men of dollars and leisure,
who have no particular business to attend to, will
seek this city, that with their families they may
enjoy the luxury Of musical fes ivites of the high
est order, denied to them elsewhere. Men Of busi-
ness, too, instead of sending their ordt by nail
will come to make their bargains and select their
goods, deeming themselves abundantly compensated
for any additional expense, not only by being
bled to effect better arrangements in person than
they could have done by letter, but by the pleasure
they shall enjoy in visiting the concert room and
the opera.
The great thing that is wanted is an opera house,
such az the Tacon, LaScala, or the splendid Opera
House at Madrid. 1t would be one of the very best
investments for pital Not only would it pay the
proprietor, and the u aLager who knew his busi-
ness, but the tendency would pe to enhance the
value of property in the city, by drawing to it the
population and wealth of the United States. Who,
We again ask, will supply the desideratum, and
obtain for hmself reputation and handsome
profit on his outlay The prese Mt Opera House is
miserable abortion, and It's management still
worse.