New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-17
ACADEMY or MUSIC.
THE SEPTEMBER SEASON.

When kings angry the g. eeks weep, says the
Latin poet. We would quote the original, bnt since
the exact sciences studied at the expense Of the
Gr0dus ad Parnassum, We are AFRAID TO discharge
classics at the head Of the average reader lest he
should not understand them. And, after all, why
quote the dead tongues Of dead men TO prove an OBJ
yous truth when the fountains Of our common inspra
tions efferyesee ever with the same bubbles The
kings-the soveregns-tbat ia, here, the people, are
now angry through potics-and the Greeks-that is
the It's liaDs weep; in other words, the al fTesco en-
thusasm Of Wide-Awakes ard "the dreadful note OF
preparation" generally for the Bosworth-teld OF
November, interfere with the fortunes Of the AGA
demic eliptic-with the popular fuency thther, and
the decorating pontaney of many thousands Of young
hearts and hands. For the Of true music cannot
run smooth why these eccentrcities Of the COres?
Why advertise to sing aud then not spg, and soid
reas ons eiven7 Why induce two thousand unocents,
more or less TO go and hear the inoonsequental
Indebtedness. the head-over heels agony Of the
Troubadour lady, who is go bewdered at the
expense of cause and effect and only measures
her length on her moiher-earth by the happy
interpretation of the culinary arrangements in Act
w, by which the said Troubadour is done into
soup to the horror of his big brother? or TO
dwell with womaDly tenderness and tears over the
narrowing hectics, the consumptive cough, with its
coffn-clod sonnd, of the upchangeably true and
loving Tdriota and then, with Hsrodan cruelty,
massacre the hopes of the two thousand. If we ever
paused, which we do not, we would for reply to
thspe energetic questions The solution Of this difficulty
IT, doubtless, material one, I" of the EARTH earthly,
az may be judged by the tremendous Of
the creation of rival operaopera house, commencing
NJ OF tha
test All this is owing, as we have said, to the political
furies nternecne warfare moreover therein exasper
ating the difficulty. If, however, those rich merchants
who gongto buy those Presidential electoral ticket
places at $4,000 a piece-money thrown away,
they may be assured for the Law of intrinsic coagua
ton and not pecuniary desperation guides these matters
would put the sums into the Academy, the rival
house would to seek to play viOno secondo to
the Forestan revival; and with stage, const
tution and deftiDy, the musical North and South
East ard West, would wave their banner inscribed in
letters of Stroncha: Union now and for ever, one
and Dseparable."
The regular opera was attempted six times week
each evening endeavoring to grab thefyDg artillery Of
fashion and beauty from Maine to Minnesota aud Can
ada to Cuba. This unbroken series ought to succeed
in ordinary September for the laws for attracting
overlooking hotel company at this season of the year
are not those when Winter freezes intercourse and
homes ard fresides are so tempting. Among the |
operas so literally served up Martha, with its Ollity
and amorousness was a pet. He who doubts that |
New-York is the most cosmopolitan of Cities may |
CLEAN faith by attendance such night when, in
addition to the British Spanish, French Italian, and
American audience, there are Germans enough to re-
mind one Of Berlin or Vienna.
The non-Cortes business afforded the managers An /
opportunity for introducing the Parodi in Norma who
drew forth much applause, and deservedy so. The |
batting certain chickering's of the text, by
which the composer made to return to his cmaxes
ike wounded snake, and his implorations of half
tones, gentle as newborn pity, turned into hackned
flourish, like the nterpositiOn of Indy OF2aHagaH
INTO the Cred0--the CaSto. DiUd was well rendered.
Singers should remember that composers are-com-
Dosers. That the laws of political succession may be
doubtful, but of musical not That when a passage,
with an iteraed and nssted.on climax, at the close
IF the slow movement in question, eXhausts the iuten
,y and is supposed TO exhaust the breath and admit
ration of the singer and hearer severaly, it is
han nonsense TO seek to heap fresh fuel of rotten
luality. We never knew an alteration of the kind
which did not indicate TO speak mildly, a want Of the
irst principles of musical logic and rhetoric.
Among the missing the operate stage is the Brig
lol Whether the b. is indisposed or not no Dr0HuR-
l0nientO has decided. But in his place the Musian,
With much vigor and note which lie gets on his tip
Oe like expectation to reach delivers vocalic words
lud feminine rhymes. Auodio, round as young Nor
,as moon, iP, however, in the ;ademic groves; aud,
With voice of adpose richness tells of the thundergust
n bis heart, or pronouncss lynch-law on some poor
wretch of tenor poaching his baronia acres not to
ay affections The military Susini-who for his pat
ioic work on Italy, made Major-is missiugtoo,
nd much wanted. Why not try Moses with the Ma
or with Mise Patti as the Egyptian soprano-sfogato
But the Fabbri comes TO the rescue tonight in the
irariata. With voice anything but cOnsumptiye in
Is normal condition-with, in fact lunga puissance
which belongs to but few of the vDgstreet thrushes
With much enthusiasm for her art and attention TO
he business Of the which never mods; with many
riends and admirers the Fabbr will deineate all the
bases of Traciata life, from the nonchaence of the
emi-monde of Act /. to the fatastic realities Of Act
Vi showing the versatility of the artist in marked
sgree.
The prospects for new operas are small. Meyerbeer
'rites considerably that he is not to be depended
pom for a gushing supply and it nay be soberly
ueitoued if his last work, DmOrah, would do
eter here than bis Russian OPERA which did not sue
eed. Verdi is resting from his abors. Excepting
lese two amid all the musical talent of Europe, we
o not hear Of name sufficiently individual in the
peraic world Of creation 10 carry hope to managers
here excellent Dosers for mueic this side of
rat for the stage; but the stumbling block is in music
in literature dramatic characteriz alton, and the
over to condense much into little space and the in
'rations OF melody which stands ont from harmonic
jiuvants that the general ear seizes hold of and