Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-06-21

last hight. according 10 programme. In walk
ing about the immense building previous 70 the
commencement Of the evenings performance
We noticed the absence Of not few OF our most
noticeable faYofites Of last yeur. There are 9th
ar treasures however, added since, although the
I extensive preparations for the Musical Congress
put not n tew out Of their places. The colossal
horse.fur instance. with Washington on his bnek
va nliogcfhef hidden behind The umphthcatre
built ap for the accommodation Of the perform
err
The amphtbeatre rose from the eastern side
! Of the retoanda. rising up like huge mountain
/ far INTO the Eastern Nave, to height above
that of the galltiy railing. -sprcading Ifs wide
wings on either side into the galleries Themselves
and including. On the ground floor, II large part
of the nrra at thu fetounda.--fhe trefo outline
ing mark I'd tastcfnlly with statues &c. The
crowd was pouring in through every entrance
and continued the operation until the Congress
was nearly half over. There no such crowd
present even at the first opening ofthe build
ing.
Pnncunlly nj o'clock Julien mnde bis bo@
10 the audience, waved his baton, and il is sup
posed that the music began but nothing was
heard If it for some time. Il length, however.
snfne sounds breamn audible. waxcd louder at
crescendo passage, and we then were aware that
he overture Ia The Messiah was under way.
The great trouble of the Whole evening was the
rumble aud shuttle of innumerable thousands OF
feet in motion promenadng the aiscs AID gallc-
ries necessarily to prevent themselves from be-
coming weary Of standing still. The effect of
this on the music was like TINT Of fog on the
landscape. 1t confused all outline killed all
light and shade, aud left only two varieties Of
expression uniniured-the one was silence, from
music) the other was full fortissim0 Mr.. fia-
Ger .ang Comfort ye my people, at the top OF
his voice. but the people refused TO be comfort
III .,,Ily IL III l la
not doing his best 10 "cry in the wilderncss.'-
The chorus, ''Ihe Glory ofthe Lord shall be
ycaled," when the whole noun anous orchestra
and chorus rose 10 their work. WIS the first thing
that really nude noise enough TO compel listen.
ing, AID was mighty rclished. Madame Bouchel-
le found it impossible to "Rcioce greatly" how
ever, il may have been with the daughter Of
Zion She strained her voice to the utmost,
and occasionally gaye us good note; but the
extraordinary effort injured both the truth and
the tone of her yoealization, and sh" was almost
innndlbe through the continuous sound-fog nf-
ter all. Miss Hawley's AFRO thou that teest,"
told rather better. She did not "lift up her
"yoee with strength" so aborioasly Madame
Boachelle but the clcarness and even roundness
Of the tone cleft itsswuy Il rough the fog rather
better though poor was the best. MIR. Camo-
en- idea Of 1.-THE nations SO farously raging to-
gether' was altogether vain thing" or rather
would have been but for an occasional touch of
the in Instrumentation. "Ihe llaeluiah Chorus"
was we'll done, though the Instrumentation sound
ed wretehcdly thin and poor, The great body
of voices however gave everybody II chance to
listen and hear; and they were 50 delighted with
the novelty that they cBeored the chorus. Miss
Hrainard sung Il know that my Rcdeemer liv-
cth;7 aud we knew that she was singing it, be-
cause, it was down on the programme. aud we
caaght an occasional note III the upp + register
Of her voice, or ri the accompaniment. The fl
nal chorus of the second party Worthy is the
Lamb, and the "Amcn,' were very well done
except, rs before, the poverty Of the instrumen
tation.
The programme said that the united German
Choral Societies would sing grand march cho
rus between the first and second parts. If they
did, II was done quietly rs Il solo, and we new
or should have suspected il had we / OF been told.
The Second Part began with the overture to
"Niam Tell and here, for the first time, the
orchestra began 10 speak out. Brass tells, in
such II vast spaee the Crystal Palace, much
better than wood, wire or catgut The fog was
cleared up for IA little while. The whole house
actually listened, and were 81 thoroughly warm
I'd up by the final movement that they encorcd it
cn'hasia-tcallv. We believe NJ. Drouet then
played IN iuvorite air with brilliant variations
llautsn ans chorus from Der Frey schu'z'- and
the performances Judging iron an occasional high
note. and the yehemcnt clapping in the neighhor-
hood at the kotunda, was brilliant rs possible
Bui II was desperately ioggy to us outsiders half
way down the west nave. "Ihe Tanhauscr'
WIZ very good ndecd,-the loud parts, that is +.
the more suhdued parts were wholly suodu,d by
the log. Aud poor little Paul JULIEN, also, was
almost completely nothing being left
OF him except what wa, high up among the leger
lines. Iii, "Rom0nce' wis pure fiction to us,
hardly even founded ON fact. Mr.. BRIsrow's
beautiful mlnuet movement WIS too tcehet any
sort of rroper effect: and even the chorus, "tho
heavens are telliug,' did nat quite come up to
the mark. DonWoRTu, however, covered him
self with glory. In such world of space, brass
Is the only thing that seems MT home. The ten
derer emotions are drowned from any other in
straments, but from hrss they pass current. to
the remotcst corner of galleries and naves. All
listened. The fog Gifted Cor an Instant and the
applause was yeeiterous, with ii most emphatic
| encore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace played duet on two
| piano tortcs. For won ler,a few notes were oc-
| casionaly heard.
Then came the browning marvel of the even
/ ing-JuLLlEN's 'fmEMEN's QUApRILE' tenn
! hodying some udicious appropriations and adap-
tations from Bethovrn.) 1t was composed cx-
pressly for this occasion, as Is evident from the
fact that the fire is Obiig0to The piece com
menees with stirring movements representing
| the FTemen's annual parade-compuny after
company approaching gradually from the dis
lance till they reach the top of the orch 'stra-
mountain, down which they wind their way in
! the sight of the audience, aud amid thunders OF
| applause, TO their desks. At length the last
company music dies away in the distance and
| night descends over the city (hetc the central
gas lights sympathetically began to go out) un-
III perfect silence teigns-(s 50 SAYS the program
me, bat something like twenty thousand feet ac-
lively contradcted it, their motion reyiying as
| soon as the music subSided) Next there broke