New-York daily tribune., 1858-06-29
THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
THE ACADEMY-JONESS WOODS.

THE ACADEMY-JONESS WOODS.
This festival which bss been in preparation for some
time came of at the stated time. Partly through the
intenie hest-party ard chiefly we would believe be-
cause il was Sundsythe Concert a. the Academy was
thmly attended Certainly the nuUbers on the stage
almost rivsled those in the auditorium. Tne feature
Of the evening was Beethooven's Ninth Choral Sym
phony. IL is pot saying too much that az whole y
would be difficult to find better execution of this great
work in Europe and what w,s wsnting in the crowd
was compensated for We trust in the close attention
and appreciation rendered by the amateurs present
We shall not believe until another and more favora
BILE chance s given to it, that such production 80
executed will Lot draw together more auditors. With
thermometer resr 1909, must be excused from
ente1I further into the merits of this Concer-cOos
eel though it was 10 it's proportions come to the
second part Of the festival, which was enacted at
Joness Woods, Seventeth street and East River yes
terdsy.
The machinery Of passenger carrying-by land by
water-wss actively in demsnd during yesterday.
Steamboats, laden almost TO the waters edge and rail-
way c.rs overcharged never full the conductor udce,
were smong the phenomena. Though the bulls had
bold Of the mercury and bore il up 10 the T,phet
frpges, yet there was want Of company According
TO the Police the railroad and stesmbOst estimates,
&C., there were from twenty to thirty thousand persons
prerent All the aifectopate and naif demonstrations
of German life in the open cir there evident
Mother father children babies-withou false shame,
and with an abandon truly nstionsl. Besides " the
German element" were other national elements-our
own beirg largely interused. The most ,tinguished
personal ite IN the programme was the Mayor. Ihe
Y5 600 we're quiet it may be suppoted beyond the let
ter Of the TO keep order tbere were only
Bryan with 40 regular police and some 81 ecia de-
tectives. The supremey good coDddct-the courteous
quesoenct-which digtiDguisbed the immense crowd
speaks well for the popular disposition OF our city
for ia intrinsic sentiment Of self government. There
was go far as we observed, no violation Of good man.
ners. A large proportion Of the crowd were women
and young girls. Many carriages were on the ground
| The Lsger. beer drunk beyond calculation. II
not pro-tempeIanoe it does dispose to qusres and
assault and battery. The various pieces set down in
the programme under the different conductors were
given. These latter Messrs. Anscnu'z, Bf:tow,
Rietzel, Bergmsnp, Noll, Weber an amount of talent
not exceed any where There were, according to the
programme, 400 singers of the Anon Hsrmonia LIE
| de1krspz, aod Allegmene SaeDgeIbund Societies, and
| 800 Instrumental players in the orchestra and N0 In
the procession, making 600 performers in all. The
Star .SpaDgled Banner being reformed as the third
piece, MIR. w III oe Inc oiosci VI uoJj
tpOke as folows:
SPEECH OF WI. HENRY FRY.
| LADIES AND GEsrLtnES: You have juet been ad-
dressed by seventeen hundred orators that s TO
by three hundred performers Cd sonorous brase ostru-
mens ard by fourteen hundred enthusiastic slngers.
All this vast multitude Of Lsrunebtaliss and vocal
lsts speaking a. with voice in the magical ifioD
# musical cOrcord, was found Necessary to fill tho n-
mtnse concave and reach the Of this com nunty
this multitude of fall twenty FIVE thousand auditors.
Twenty five thousand theIe a,e by all the sober esti-
mates Of appropriate observers d !ew pers0ns CON.
psIstivey speaking, may l the largest room bounded
by four walls but tOs landscape covering many acres
ara tlckly studded by hunsDity, must at the monet OF
contain ito vital t.ns Of thousands, according TO
the laws Ct numerical calculation. The mlllot
of human berss which ii the greatest en-
ows Of History, can be condensed within 8
very few square miles. SO then we may suppose tha,
not lees than % 600 perso are requJed 10 occupy
these widespread acres. 1 beg you, therefore, IL
make ALLOW ace Tor tie siosl5 voice tnat ad
dresses you. That many people are a0-tracted
from our Guy suggests lis g'ande ar. Ulcers Bll
it is morally as well az numerically sreat Oar city !:
commercial snd political co-tangebt with the Old
world. Like a generous mother, she opens VIDE heE
AIMS TO the oppressed OF all nations; and receives
them bv the instincts Of nato9al bOspts i,y.hrou2n
Tie dictates of common brotterhOod-which scAno VI
edges one heart soul, destiny, as belonging to
Coos imsge. Greet cceering And surely, II al the
Ioety sDd all the fact cesty and Of history are mem
orsbo and eloquent, must ind each so expressive
IL this sceLe, wbefs Tue honest ~ Oosh ol ivioh
found in concord harmony, in the general language
OF II usic whore dioms-Eogish, German, French,
Italian, American equally understood. Long con-
iiLuea cheering The aitIst-toe musical ar,lst-in
okiDg at THE uuiversay OF his language must deiise
Consolation; and whether his eI: be appreciated OF
not be uust value il and treat IT vita honor lchesr-
not only for lie aniversality but for impersia
BILE nature must he esteem il. Ais nusic 10 no. simply
tue universal lang 4gethe folutan of emotional at
pourrfs-tut II aptedates oil written tos gaes--
oversteps even the era OF the confusion oil
topgues-aId reaches the par!dis.ical epoch. The
musician, indeed, is most appropriately called
10 meet his fellow here, 10 the face OF natare mere
shen two great rivers echo back the etersl byuin Of
the ocean, where stately trees ohauIt with the choral
Of the winds and where the lyrics, OF the lyrics 81
heavens expires the common electricity Of sound end
OF light; for 1t ceItsioty that the poetry which
mace the Sun, Apollo, equally The god Of and Of
bsht, the procreatise force Of nature. has been
affirmed by tie ,eyeest modern philosophy; and