New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-23
AMUsEMENTs.
WGe Academy and Concerts.

then the tenor is the stage properly warmed and
defended apsinrt currents Of air, which are ad.
verse 10 keeping the vocal organs in the best cond
ton l)-and We had substitutions Of singers and
opera accordingly To give ono thing in place OF
another even If il be good is not apt to please
the public for their minds are made up TO hear
something and they do not welcome something r'sc.
The substitution, however, Of La 1rartdsa, with
Mademoiselle Brgnoli in the musico-coughing part,
proved very acceptable. The opera of IL Bale
also passed Off well, Madame Guerrabells, IN
the leading character. The opera Of La Faror'ta,
however, with Mile. Suzer ~ the center OF
attraction. failed TO reach public expectation. Tbs
lady's voice 10 not equal TO the immensely passionate
defamation needed for The heroine requiring ~
make her.ef eloquent in the vast circle OF the
Academy The second tenor in lace Of the first who
WAS ndisposed was All unhappy experiment In
ANAL house the effect wond be letter. but is mus;
be borne in mind, that the Academy OF Mus,e ooye1s
too many quaFe feet for any but large voices to hi
i. and produce admirable results. We look for
regular operate procedure this week, sitter go much
change in the programme during the past week.
Tonight, Norma will DO played the frat soprano
aud fret tenor having recovered from indisposion.
Mr.. Robert Goldbeck who arrived, youth in
this country, several years since, has became quite
Amerieanisod since; and for time has been
naturally DESTROYS presen. the fui, Of his stadies
in orchestral music to tho poblic. We do no, know
wha, lhe Philharmonic Society is instituted for uD-
lees It's Office DO equally 10 offer original American
with original European music; ard to labor might
and main, heart aud soul, ~ put America abreast
with Europe in tho adequate, constant and liberal
- Al.
cert room aud especially TO large orcbestras. To
SEQ, ~ We do, seventy or eighty musical
gentlemen composing the orchestra, app arently
tent 70 advertise year in and year out. pieces of
foreign production, when equally good piece, DO
and are written in this country. ID sorry sight.
10 overlook the grca. City Of New York, 10 rec
it 60 snubbed is, &C., &c. We apprehend
that no other country 10 80 wanting in artistic
pride; and that tho Art in none live at
all unloss ~ sedulousy nurred a. the mother
nurses the child sho loves. We say it with
due respect and reverence for every man In Europe
who seoks TO advance on chaos aud tho dark
by aiming 10 strike gu. new forms in musicsl ATT
llat vo have heard .othiDg of orchestral music
Of the most recent production in Europe ths. should
induce its performance here in preference to an
written in this country. We think, therefore, tina,
Mr. Robert Godbcck, after the study and trouble OF
producing an orchestral work Of pretenson, should
have been relieved Of all anxiety in regard to its
production, by the existence this city Of Phhsr
monte Society. Directors orchestra, and audience or
subscribers who would Gladly seize the opportunity
Of performing it; sad stimulating the author, a. we'll
as Others to similar undertakings.
But a. Dir. Robert Godbeck had to produce il at
his own concert tho first Thing that marked its per-
Torrance wac tho evidence OF it, being imperfectiy
reheased. The title Of the work ia Victory: Peace,
Struggle, and Triumph. The divisions Of this sub
ject unsteady must DO very decided. The Peace
of a naton-incudes all peaceful pursuits; omni.
buses driving up and down broadway; fire engines
on duty: steamboats, going safely or being blown
up; railway trains, the sane; the Titanic roar Of
the stean,.impelled n.ill; and even tremendous
thmder-storms in no, weather; canton on the
Fourth Of July; and the climax of election-day
in the Fourth Ward with dynamic episodes. |
But unsteady, only the ideal Of Peace-tranqni.
lily, fluent sofAsss--can be represented: otherwise
peace becomes hurry hustle. noise. aud condensation
In sound. The emotions which might be felt in |
standing on IN euineuce OF the Kaaskill Mountains
and surveying an oxpanso Of country beneath OF
nearly QUO hundred miles: with the landscape tho
cottages the barns tho csps, the sunlight, the Hld
son, all sublmely eloquent, yet silent, may
successfully NJ assumed IN tho right ones
with which tho musical artist should paint
Peace. Signor Rossini appears to have stood
ON An Alpine hight, and surveyed the
calm expanse of the Landscape beneath, when he
wrote his first idyllic chorus in Gndiaume Tel.
We expected some parallel idea in AIR. Goldbeck's
delineation OF Peace. But wo ~ero disappointed.
The frst notes On the strnSed instruments were
firm. and inurkiy -coored from their low pitch
andwere not descriptive of Peace; thon DO.
gan the contributions, tho struggles OF musical
countorpoints Whose very name, puntd contra
punta, indicates oppostion; and next the resonance
of peroration in which the loudest bras inst rumeuts
were in full action enforced by the thunder OF those Of
Percussion. We thought we had heard complete
piece Of music; and the only defect OF striking
kind WIS the too muscular aud darky toned draught
of Peace. But We erred: We found that tho whole
WA intended TO represent Peace. Tho soft, the fast
the plain tho intricate the loud, tho oudest. There
we're two errors in such q dcneation: in the frat
place. the idea of Peace was not conveyed at all
and in the second, the energy, resonance, roar,
canp. hell OF victorious war, were anticipated. But
in ono sense thst makes no odds: the musical