The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-09


lUnAssd States. $500
The progress Of music in the United States, for tas
last few years, has been very extraordinary, and has
moro than kept pace with the ether Ane arts. The
reason is obvious-music, unlike the other arts,
propsgates itself with great rapidity From the
pleasure it gives and from the facilities afforded in
modern times for acquiring knowledge oft. in q
country SO prosperous as the United S.ates-a
try the great mass Of whose people afford to pay
for admission to the performances Of the grostes.
musical artists. of the age, and can also afford
to pay for the best musical education for their
famil!es-the rapid extension Of the art might
have been anticipated A few years ago con-
certs were like angels visits, few and far be-
tween," and both vocal and instrum entail music. in
private circles well as in public, was ut very low
standard Now, music has attained q very high de-
gree Of excellence, both in the family in the orches
trss of concerts theatres and opera houses at
public entertainments, and in our military bands.
And this taste for music is decidedly the increase,
as new candidates for puslic favor spring up within
our borders new celebrities visit from beyond
the Atlantic. The great European vocalists who
have followed each other to the United States in
quick succession, within the las. two years, have
produced remarkable effect in raising tho stand
ard of musical taste and spreading the science and
snd practice Of music the land This is, there
fore, musical in the country, and the art has
received powerful impetus. Tue musical enter
tainments given night after night in this city alone
are very considerable, as may be seen from the adj
vertisements and notices from time to timo in the
HERALD. Sontag of course regns supreme. Let
us take glance Of what is doing throughout the
country at large.
Aboni, the greatest Lying contralto. has had
splendid success during the last week in Albany,
Troy, Rochester and Buffalo. In each city she was
received with enthusiastic paudits ond crowded au-
diences. At Rochester she was serenaded twice. In
the same city, concert has been given by SCOTS
Band, when several vocalists of talent and ability
were engaged, among them Miss Phelps, of Ro-
chester, who was received with great enthusiasm
At Lockport, the Swiss Bell Ringers have given
two concerts. Catherine Hayes is by this
time in California, where she was preceded by
Biscaccianti, who was very successful No
doubt the Irish prima donna viii be still more
SO. Mrs Bostuick in every place she visits, meets
with q warm reception She was last at Cleveland
The Aessrs. Raymond, who are now at Louisville,
where they propose, in connection with Mr. Malone
Hayward, to give q number of concerts, have
met with considerable success in the West. Ole
Bull is giving series Of concerts in the principal
cities of the Union. He has visited Cincinnati in
company with Adelins Patti, and given concerts
there. He win give concerts also ct st. Louis,
Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, and Nashville
At Louisville, and many other cities, Miss Worren
has given musical sofrees, and is represented
English lady Of great talent, who possesses the rare
power Of entertaining audience for two hours by
her own, varied talent in singing English ballads.
Madame Ablamowicz, "the distinguished VOC alist,S
is announced to give series Of concerts in Louis
vile about the middle of this month; and we are
told that Mons. +. Simon cannot get the hall to
give his concert until the middle Of December.
Mr.. Whipple has been giving comic concerts in
Buffalo. Ole HAITI is giving concerts in various
toyns Of Pennsylvania. The Madame Anna Bishop
op3ra troupe have commenced an engagement in
Philadelphia. Madame Devries and Mr. Frazer, the
English tenor singer, have been recently giving
concerts there. The Harmonic Sacred Music So
cisty have just given concerts il the Same
city. The Philharmonic Sscie,y, also, gave .
concert last week, comprising "a rich bill
Of known talent" in tho Quaker city and
the Musical Fund society's first concert hiss
come of, at which the sisters Tourny sang duets
by Aendelssohn, and young Camille Urso performed
on the VIOLIN Signor Cortes the now Italian tenor,
snd Signor Foghsll, the vioinist also took part in
Che performance; and, to crown all, We are told that
Hr. Adolph Schmitz, has commenced . series
bf popular juvenile concerts st Sansome Street
Hall. In Baltimore, the Goodalls have had
great success in concerts Mr.. Dempster, who
has won so many laurels, charmed the New
Englanders with his strains last week. Rosa
May, "the English innet,'' after making . suc-
eessful tour in New England, is now singing in
Canada, and is about to proceed to the Southern
and Western cities Of the United States The papers
describe her as "the queen Of English ballad sing
ing Tho first Of series Of six grand concerts for
the Musical Fund Society Of Boston, was given at
the Music Hall on the 4th instant. Caroline Lsh-
man sung upon the occasion. The Aendelssohn
Quintette Club bad excellent house at their con-
cert, at Masonic Hall, on the I'd instant; and Han
des oratorios are to be performed ut the Mslodeon
more perfectly than ever yet attempted in the " Til
Mount City I" The Harmonious gave ahighly popu.
lar concert on Thanksgiving evening, at Bangor,
Maine. Mrs. Crouch has been giving concerts
in Portland. Miss Wheelock, with other musical
talent of celebrity, has been recently giving concerts
in the same State. In Charleston, tho Infant Drum
skil. Finally, at New Orleans the opera season has
already opened, thus getting the start Of New York
1t will be secn however, that we, too, are soon to
have the Grand Opera, and Of such class Is will
eclipse New Orleans.
Such the extraordinary progress Of music in the
United States, east and west, north and south It
has become quite rage The immense number Of
Germans who have emigrated to this country with
in tho last few years, and who are all musical, have
greatly contributed to tho enlargement of musical
ideas. Ths great increase in military organina-
tons, and in the number Of military and other balls
has also tended to add fuel to the flame.
What will be the effect Of all this musical excite
meat in the United Statssl
The frs: effect is TO extend to the people at
argc the most refined Of oil pleasures. The
second is to produce permanent refining inau-
ence on the public taste. If music g hath char,ns