New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04
ACADEMY or Music.
LA JUNE.

Music IL, az regards the imperial spendor and
sohdiiy Of the Interior the handsomest hcater in the
world Tie circle with its caryatides and panel Gg
ures, without rival for beauty and only needed the
additional lamps placed there at The time Of the Princes
Ball 10 be duly get Off The Grand Opera at Paris may
have more gliding, and the new Covent Garden more
stretch but the coupdUil of neither presents the haT
mony Of the Academy. As regards the Stage, opera
was required which in point of dazzling decoration and
ingenious variety Of scenic effect should compete with
the architecture Of the house. and this is found in the
illustrations Of La JHire now being performed. few
years since the New-York public would a1 soon have
believed in the realzatons of Aaddins Lampas in the
immense fact before them of an opera so set forth
that Solomon in all his glory not thus arrayed
fortune was necessary merely to buy the purple and
gold of the multitudnous adornmens. After sueh
display the character of the Academy is made al peer
of that Of Paris. Nothing is defective, parsimonons,
iudged. IL If blaze Of magnicence, in comparison
with which ordinary tbeatrcas are as the Bowery to
the Fifth Avenue. II desires 10 have past history
romantic ecclesiasc and imperial-dsentombed after
FIVE hundred years-and the heroic actuaites OF the
times of mailed might and Vatican thuBders, displayed
in vivid forms of truthand the whole connected with
one of the most concise, wellconstruced and moving
dramas of the lyrical stagehe will surely visit the
Academy and see La june
Our teachers are forever recommending the study Of
history Now il the end of history be TO know how
people acted and looked years reading will not con-
yey such truthful impression Of the era in question as
nights contemplation Of the scenes ut the Academy
For it must be remembered that accuracy of costume
and detail in the theaeris part of the Partisan religion
BE assured that court preate knights and people are
represented in these mices ashley looked in Europe
before America discovered for the pains taken by
the abrcatcrs Of Dress decorations arms and proper
ties for the French Opera equal archeoogcaly TO
those required legally TO hunt up hidden ttle-deed OF
a valuable estate; and these stage requirements have
been made in Paris preesey by the costnmers and ar
moIers of the French Academy Of Music, and imported
for this extraordinary performance. After witnessing
it. the future traveller Europe has nothing more to
see in addition to stage splendOs-one OF the things
worth while going abroad for il already anticipated
We write thus of La Hre because the public do not
seem aware Of the Rature Of its performance here.
Neither the second third night of the representa-
ton approached in numbers present what was 10 be
expected of the so-ced artistic education and taste of
the city, and what was due the lbcralty of M. I'LL
mans management If instead of the finest spectacle
allied to music that brains and treasury Afford an
old opera with old clothes had been presented the APP
pearance Of the auditorium need not have been more
uninvtng. Ten thousand amateurs should have leapt
to their places but they did not. The matinee of Sat
urday was simply fair att ndance: fine daynviting
all Tie towns roundabout great in the glorious mere
menis Of the last census and the eight hundred thou
sand inhabitants of the island All this too, after
long operate vacation II that either the public
have lost taste do not know what is spread before
them.
M. Halevy, the compo&er of the music Of In Jure,
has had curious career The editing OF poshumous
opera Of Herold fell to hinand then he himself COM
posed The Jewess" But since then NJ. Huevy has
not bad a His publisher offered for sale all
the copyrigh, plates of bic works, but whether he
found purchaser need hardly be said. Failing uni
formy after the triumph of La Jpirc NJ. Halevy has
found solace in his pen as n literary man. He is a
m, mber of the French Institute and recently served
up learned PAPER on Pteh-for know all people with
throats that pitch is not a fixed thing, the axis Of
the earth or the undertakers BILL but, Ike the power
of the crown at the time of celebrated parliamentary
motion has increased il increasing and ought to be
diminished" in other words, the tuning fork must
be put down or lowered. When Handel wrote his
oIaorios for that old pagan George ii. and his Dutch
wife he never would marry again, not even TO please
herr, when Handel was writing music TO the most
pous injuncons OF tie Scriptures. which the King
heard unsteady not morally the pitch of the day
az different from that OF this time as the politicsa
whole tone lower; bu; by degrees, TO accommodate
certain Instruments pitch for the maeIsrom OF orches-
tIal sound and for voices went up; and an old has
been tiansmOgTGed into an A, and Of course singers
strain like turkey-cOeks to keep up with the bull"
movement; and there seemed Il general danger of a
Vocal Secession from the Union Of the Orchestra,
when neek-eyed science came 10 the rescue
of the human voice divine, and learned societies who
never before discussed whether man or woman had
voice were bored while their Haevy proved to them
that arynx, pLarynx, gottis and epigottis all
involved in the required reform. They consented. SO
did the Covenants. An imperial reecrpt Of that
OF thunder Napoleon Ill., whose music is the basso-
profopdo Of the cannon, has decided that Pitch in
France must give up her high fyings-must find
place Of for the sole Of her foot and become
sentative. 1t Is expected that Government will,
after consulting the Of harmony in the Sacred
certs Of the lageFbeer saloons and the one thousand
organ-inders of the metropolis Overlooking those no.
strictly popular institutions the opera and the Phhar-
monte SocietyD, come 10 the conclusion; and all
pch-pipes in future like coin, weights, and measures,
have stamp and uniformity. Then shall there be
hope for musical chess now 70 damaged OF ruined by
overtaxed Ia,ios Of pitch.
If M. Ha6yy wers in New-York he would be
pleased with his Icccss az unsteady rendered There
ia The keen-eyed Anschuu, who leads an excellent
orchestra. Madame Fabbri is a charming Jewess, who
deserved better fite. The most salient and interest