New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-30
MUSIC.
JuIIien's FIR, Great Promenade Concert at Castle
Garden last night.


JuIIien's First Great Promenade Concert at Castle
Garden last night.
Tie arrival OF ". JuLLI = forms u or in musical ar
in this country. His Is enpbaiic1y superior mind-he
"a net only Of talent but Of genias He has the
qualities intellectual and Ihy SIC which E. hin for bis
post Of square bull. solid frame nsds 70 endure IA
rigue; zifh muscular that work ike steam
CINE; POSSESSED Of noontabs will and unolenching
energy with TIE skill Of leader Of that class Of mind
sheh can msgDetze and direct other thoroughly scr
attic musician bred up in the lore Of the schools under
Cberub with broad and genial lyrical philosophy, that
makes bin put al compositions into crucbls and Judge
then without The names Of composs or the presnsons
Of mere Classification inbusd with the bold strong and
At tin e. necessarily naughty nature Of rogressist and
reform ard h-Dce looking what has bseD done IS the
BASH addition, Improvement, he stands fty the
reprsseItstve Of sdvsncng ar'a musical director en
Ted g. guide sway and triumph II hs Play qaadrles ii 8
because man Of genius put bis genius into q1sdre
a. well asinto ymphony and ,od ql.drs has
more merit than mediocre synp eny in other
words such is the quality q genius that tbs soul may shine
in the na1ogest limits aud show itself 10 De divine We
claim all this for NJ Julien We claim for him profound
acquaintance with musical composition science
knowledge Of Instrumentation special leaving
nothing unsudied in that department; and power Of
command that would AXE itself felt il any other depart
ment where pure intelec. and high will demanded
The name Of julien has long familiar 70 American
others has succeeded in combining great Of orches
trial performers presenting through thsm to tbs Lou
don and Paris puoc the masterpieces of al styles aud
SCHOOL,. with tuch splendid and varied effects as 70 attract
nightly for long series Of years sdniring crowds, Snd
prove the possibility OF educating whole communities to
the SION Of the beauties well OF instru mental
az Of vocal music His concerts have every where been
monster concerts lie produces grea, effects by
novel and sres. He inyents and huge nstra
neuts monster drums monster ophceides, monster Gym
bas For these innovations and for ae apparently exrav
agant gesticulacn with which he directed his orchestra
the London ress first denounced him chaatsn'
and g mountebsnk but he lived down thsir sneefs,
conquered their preudces and resped harvest of glory
and guneas lie showed the effects his great instruments
10 be legitimate, and suitable in combination wh his
hundreds of instruments they would have besn out
racs in chamber concert and be proved that tle gss
tires and actions Of mercura Frsnohnsn though
ngly ouandish 20 the phegnac Englishmsn, possessed
maenetism under the influence Of which hundred art
lets are forced to give together any musical phrase with
u1auimy sentiment and precision OF time that seem ht
lie sholt Of miraculous Ia fact to direct great orchestra
AZ Julien does, must BE- all eyes and ears. Every
noe OF tho usands played bs heard AMI judged
~ him and come fOi tn pure. He must know much Of
the rsources of each instrument he thai plays IT, aud
more in lis relaens and proportions with other instfu
rnerts Argus and Brsreus ali in must he prove t.
illustrate TO the unmusics reader, 10 the musical
reader who has given thought to the subjec' the
power it'll which great conductor controls his orchestra
and the ability OF the musical to ndviduate each
e mass of rapidly uttered musical sounds let him call to
mind the sound he has often heard emitted by the locom)
tive engine at starting caused by the abrupt emission Of
waste steam up the chimney and technically called the
cough" DIR. Lardner, when recently commenting upon
he speed Of seventy miles PR hour attained on the Great
esten Railroad Of England remarked that at that rite
of speed the engine oOughed twenty times in second
~ .o4ao~ ltat.a.
Now under the direction of great leader We have heard
forty yions in the coda Of overture firmly attack
passage Of groups Of eight notes, aud with lightning Ike
RAJ oty play them perfectly together as by one insru
mept each being most distinctly appreciate by the
ear The effect the audience electrical exciting to
the last degree Happening TO have watch IN hand att
moment we calculated the speed of the players, and
found for twenty seconds three groups twentyiO
notes second we're played by esch Thus in each sec
d thsy play nine hundred and sixty notes and In the
twenty seconds third Of minute, eighteen thoa
sand two hundred notes and had single one OF these
notes been MISPLACED highly cultivated and naturally
susceptible musical would hsve discovered and been
displeased by it,
The treatment Julien at first met at the hands Of the
London press was similar that awarded TO all other III
novators the musical critics there being Set OF old TO-
eies no denounce everything as not being formed
after classical models As it takes according to these
critics the verdict OF two generations 10 set the seal OF
oasoaity upon works produced, il may be that the
novelties and not the limitations Of this day will fifty years
hence be classical We used IN this country TO take
opinions on musical matters at second hand from the Lon
don journals but happily better era has arrived aud
blink and Judge for ourselves The ideas OF the London
critics are however, beginning to improves they ad
nit that the works Of Beni and Donnizetti have
sight merits aud may continue popular yet little longer
This is decidedly concession; for We remember, when
Relnis and Donzets operas drs presented at the
London Opera house the management was denounced for
setting aside Cimsrosss Mozsrts aud Rossnis TO give
them place The Times, The Post The Chronicle, ths
dalies and the weeklies all joined in the chorus. Ia
SOnaombaa was pronounced by the musical editor of The
Morsiag Ckr0Hice-who, by the way, WAS Hogarth
psuished oracle and author OF standard dictionary
Of music and biography of musicsns-as work desti
tute of merit fmsy trash, unworthy place tbs Lon
don boards, and-most amusing OF ALA work without
originality being in tston OF Rossni Notwithstand
iue the critics, Julien found favor with the public
success without parallel his He has
given. in London, Paris and various other Eu
ropesn cites no less than three thousand concerts mostly
monster concerts to monster audisnces. Each ons
of his concerts is music lesson OF the FIRST order and
less than six millions of auditors have already prontsd by
them lie has more cultivate the taste Of the
masses BY aordpg the best music at the cheapest posi-
bic cost than any other living snd We therefore look
with particular interest upon his present undertaking. The
presentation Of orchestral music alone at concerts IN this
city has never ye; been pseuaary successful enterprise
the public seemingly not being educated up to the