New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-27
MUSIC IN THE CENTRAL PARK.

great people OF the city for time put in the way
OF pleasant recreation. certain number Of the
wealthy class have purchased that privilege which II
would be inconsistent with the theory Of govern
ment to confer. Every such event the engagement
of hand of music to play in public the erection of
public drinking fountain by private Means or the &C.
complement by such Of any single end for the
refining and consolidating Of the citizens, is of the
utmost moment and has profound significance There
is power that can expend for the champagne of a
municipal entertainment twenty thousand dollars.
There ia not the power that can pay for an hours
music for the crowds once week. And it is interest
ingto consider whether untitled srstocracy ofargs
gmpahes and liberal hands, ia not nearer the masses
Of republic than their representatives in the govern
ment of affairs tits thought that should bring no little
consolation to those many who murmur undsr the
neglect and groan at the infamy of their law-givers
and are sometimes rs when huge outrage rises upon
the civic horizon tempted to the treason of wishing
for the rule of crumhling despot that they have
most benignant limited monarchy in that " upper
circle" where wealth and refinement, and true pa
triosm 60 together. Every persen that has faith in
the influence of art to guard people against its own
baseness and misfortune and to supply the poorest aud
bumblest and least successful classes with equiv
alent for all that money celebrity can bring owes
gratitude to the in enterprise ike this, and all
kindred enterprises, however trivial, and however
slight in effect they may seem.
The concerts begin at q good time When the Park
sha have got clothed with protecting foliage and the
present tender spres and sprays shall have expanded
into thick bougs there may be other melody than that
of the birds all Summer long, If 30 be that the race of
ctizens able and willing to pay for 1t shall not decay
before that period Then the thousands Of bardwork
ing people and thousands of harder do-nothngs who,
through all successive Summers will probably make 1t
falsehood to say that everybody is out Of town."
may invest the afternoon hour of leisure in msgnf
cent domain of shade and bright color and walk
ranced by the strains of the Dodworh who shall then
have charge of the brass and stringed instruments
through dream Of diamond. welded Art and Nature
But the fathers must do the best they can with the
dawn of delights at the Park, the meridian of which
their children viii enjoy. The midsummer sun bazed
upon an almostlea Park The thin ssplogsdyerted
without in the least subduing his fervent rays. Not
the most dulcet music could persuade the people to
ecdure the blazing baptism. We not even sure
that wealthy citizens were ready 10 provide it at all
But now and many weeks benceforth, during the
golden season of calendar, the slanting sun will
oaly aid the music and the western breezes to quicken
the blood and exat the SOUL The fancy paints gorgeous
autumnal afternoons at the Park, when the air sha
be exquisite with the lingering mellow warmth, and
vibrant with the harmony that even then, we hope,
the hberalty Of our citizens will continue to dispense
And now the music Of the band in the park will be
the weekly revee and sau of the cts returned from
the Springs and seaside The tide sets hurriedly In
from those dear resorts which, with yearly regularity,
CLEAN 60 cheerfuly in the fashionable imagination and
growing dim the days get short and the bills get
long, with the regularity loom up black aud sad
in the retreating horizon. The brilliant summer court
is broken and the train ofoysis disappearing from the
palace halls. Laura writes that she lie tired of flirting
and without single dress. Frederick faints in the
German and has lately been with the old gentle
men the Foreclosure sien of the approaching end.
The housekeepers on the Fifth Avenue, and other
beautiful strees have received instructions 10 have
dinner and good one ready such day, and to air
the Sheets Bridget that too susceptible creature has
been counting the spoons And the first big round
shot is fred from the operate forces whose CONSOLE
dated strength shall shake our very foundations all
through the season. and Little Patti perches on her
favorite bough and now darker shades appear In the
Broadway kaleidoscope of fashion, the sweet little
hats that have fonded the heads Of the ladies give way
to more substantial corona and millners aud modstes
are in the throes of invention and now old friends
look you and smile at you from beneath their brawn
and yon wonder and pass on; and the correspon-
dents up in the Provinces redOube their exercns TO get
us excited about the Prince and there s heavy immi-
grafton of strange actor folk wanting engagements,
and the churches get to two services the Sabbath
although the weekday meetings are not yet resumed,
and the nights are ol,-and, really, what a short
Summer it has been And the thousands who return
jaded and peevish from the watering places and the
thousands who are just quickened from their dull
siests with all the queer people I" from distance
who are in and about the hotels, may meet, at the
sound of Dodworth's music, in the Central Park
II was general reunion on Saturday. The sun
shone pleasantly upon the turf the water, the walks
the worbmen, the floating swans, the bushes the
bower the flowers the nurses and their little children
the old men and women held up to breathe the revvng
air, the young men and women eide by sde the lines
of carriages rolling with music Of their own over
tie hard road the sleek borses the massive masonry
Of tunneled roads, and the delicate curves of airy
bridges, the sentimental parties stretched upon the
rocks rustic lounges in the Rsmble Brilliant equip
ages met and passed each other, stood arrayed to-
gether at faEoIite points and the music and fell in
ftful cadence the scream of engine, it rushed
past into the country alone suggesting that this scene
Of cultivation and beauty did not belong to some fairy
realm, where Nature was too kind to tolerate such
ragged landscape that described in the third annual
rep ut Of the Board Of Commissioners of the Central
Park.
The band was stationed, not most judciously at the
end of the Grand Mall aud the immediate audience sat
under canvas and listened to the concert. The charm
of All al sco entertainment consists in the absence of
all actual or implied restraint In Park, where there
il grass and water and life the music of instruments