Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-05
NtW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New YoRK, July Q, 1851.


few weeks 400, as passing allusion was made
n the Musical furore with which the citizens OF
New York were inspired by the melodous notes
of the Swedish nightingale, we hazarded the asser.
| ,ion that the Grand Concerts" which for time
seemed to absorb 80 deeply the public attention,
| would leave but fugitive impress on the public
mind. Music is an art, and, like every other art,
! il must be studied in order to be understood and
appreciated There seem to be, it is true, certain
natural and elementary combinations OF melody that
NAV be regarded as the universal language OF mu-
sic-shor, and simple airs, such as those which
Bishop Heber heard on the banks Of the Jumna
and the Gances exactly like the tunes most popular
among The Scotch peasantry. There is a natural
music which all men can appreciate, and it must be
music of this kind TO which Congreve alludes
when he asser.s in the o-quoed line that il hath
charms 10 soohe the savage breast But music in its
and more artistic conception demands for its due appreciation
taste that has been cultivated by study Of the
principles Of melody, that has been acquired by the hab
tude Of listening the best performers An Athenlsn popu
lace could detect false n theatrical orchestra the
Pasan ga1nin or Neapolan iazzero to-day better judge
OF music than the majority Of New York gentlemen and
simply because have established musical institutions
OF and have enough, from the exhibitions
of tina, wonder Of his age the infant drummer the Hamb
lin Dramatic Festival but all these make bu. transient i'm
preston upon the popular mind and perhaps well for
the present that so public thus formed would
not in all likelihood be very select What need, in order
to create genuine love for the musical art institutions
such those that by almost every town IN
Ialy-insuiions that shall remain French Legislatures
sometimes declare themselves peraa and which shall
interpret higher style u art than Ethiopian melodies 10
form opera troupe that shall last through the season Is IN
New York problem which nothing less than the managerial
- .lla In fha
little Italian town Of San Carlo, few years ago, LABLAcHE
fssdous Of his repuaono risk appearance be-
fore critical audience. These facts with su
fsn accuracy the relation which the two places bear to each
other in the worship Of st. Cecilia.
In another department Of art however, glad to be-
eve the people Of New York; and indeed whole country
beginning feel real and increasing interest The
nation that has given painting Benjamin West and to
statuary Hiram Powers has at least evneed that destiny
higher than development awaits it in the future
To fell the forest grade the mountan TO lay the rarosd
and launch the steamboat for the present natural
and legitimate the idea Of Burke must FIRST rem
der lovely physical features Of the land Of our love- before
be expected TO direct our attention to It's emoesn-
by the renemens Of art Greece did not produce her
Apees and her Phidias until Hercules and Theseus had
brought into suecon the rugged and begeren, forces o.
nature
1t would be grateful discussion from the dry details OF
statistics indulge in lew specuatons the arenir OF
American art From exhibitions in city, and es-
pecaly from fine paintings 10 the collection OF the Ma
tona Academy Design, inclined TO infer that land
scpe painting is the province in which native artists are
destined attain especial excellence they have not already
reached it. There much in the natural scenery Of oul
country hs, needs but to be faithfully transferred to the can
vass in order to charm by its beauty surprise by its gran
l. oll lvha fho
have been carried to degree perfection, there is nev
table tendency sacrifice nature to conventions just as
literature the quddies Of Cowley and the gaudy colone
Gongora succeed the simplicity and naturaness of ar
earlier age The American arts. is driven the study
nature by The very force of circumstances and that too
her naked beauty and in her secluded hauns
where the real world rich in native studies for the pencil
be laid under temptation the fictitious
the unreal maxim Of Sir Joshua Reynolds, bette
the lowest reality than the highest imitation"
easy task define with accuracy and comp
the peculiar and manifold that conspe supernduc
Of remarkable development in but that art, ik
literature, has its golden ages is fact to which the history
sculpture and painting bears the most conclusive testimony
II however, be in the artistic in the physical wo
tha, like produce like effects, may indulge th
hope tina, America shall day possess her school school
similar to those which have rendered classic the air and
Of Italy or, 10 home, of Holland When il
the early part of the century Holland began
emerge from the political and civil disorders which had previ
ouy wasted her energies and ruined her commerce, the
oraon Of peace and the return Of general thrift produced
and sustained the Flemish school, that noble sister Of alar
art. And if has been said, much depends upon na
ona temperament and individual organization in the
ton of artist, is imagined that we as nation and al
individuals can, without presumption overweening vanity
aogate ourselves quite much decscy and sensibty
much Of "he gift and faculty divine" possessed by
the phlegma.ic countymen Of Rembrandt Van Rhyn and
Gerard Dew. We hope however, that when American
school shall be really installed, that will prove short
lived that which illustrates the annals Of Babant and Fan
de for in 1907 that Rubens settled Anvers biz
from Italy, and in 1870 the entire school Of which he
the founder and acknowledged head had passed away
leaving behind it ,hs. inevitable and degenerate progeny
age Of genius of serie imitaors and seconda,e
copyss
In modern times Of the prime agencies in creating
love for art, well Of the dectes Of fostering
and sustaining its voares, has been found be the "A
Unon"-sn institution which had its origin about 1892 in
Germany, where there present thirty similar
Citations Several societies Of kindred aim have also been
organized in country at New York, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati and lately another Boston, under the auspices
Of Edward Everett, it's President The object Of these in.
stutions the promotion Of the fine arts in the production
engravngs, be distributed every subscriber and in
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