New-York tribune., 1868-02-03
MUSIC.
THIRD PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.

THIRD PHILHARMONIC CONCERT
The programme for the third philharmonic
concert OH Saturday evening more thah usually III
terestng one and at three thousand persons must
have assembled the Academy TO hear It, The nrst part
was short consisting only VI the overture to spohrs es
sonda" aud schumanns piano concerto III mhor'
played by Mr. :. B. Mills and orchestra his was au
mlraby done Mr. Miss chaste style and delicate touch'
and the intelligence and feeling Of his performance won
hearty appreciation. The great feature OF the eVehns
however, was the production OF BeethoVehs coios
fd Choral Symphony by the joint efforts OF
tho Philharmonic and Harmonic Societies. The
first three movements for orchestra alone were eA-
ceedngly well played The aliegrO with It's tremendous
sweep OF harmOncs, aud the delicious scheso spie"
vyaciou. and instinct with the great masters happies
spirit were especially good and. being quite Wlthih tue
comprehension OF ordinary listeners, were received WIN
good deal OF applause. The difficulties OF the symphony
commence with the third movement tdddgiO ed'tlo'e
alternating with o,ddnte MODERATOR nnd thcnceforward
the harmonies grow more intricate until they eulmnate
in the grand and awful labyrinth Of the choral Inc
Instrumental performance throughout was almost uheN
coptouabe n Judging OF the vocal part II VIII pe ehar
table 10 remember the tremendous dincnltes OK tue
composition which tax every quality Of voice and OF
artistic culture To the utmost. But the PLAIN
truth must be told; the attempt 10 produce the
Choral symphony has been failure. IL should
not have been attempted without better material
than the New York Harmonic Society affords.
The grand effects were a missed; the time was often
missed; the tone was sometimes at fault; the singers ap
pcared Dc ovorpowercd by the magnitude OF te task
they had undertaken and uncertain whether thcy were
,oIpc right or wrong Moreover, the chorus was not
large enough Instead u the $50 voices promised III the
advertisements only about 100 were actually present ana
those seemed weak Tho quartettc composed or hls.
smith Miss Mayer ,Ir Hi and Mr Duschitz was toll
crable The general effect ~ tho whole performance
was that OF large party Of wcmeanng persons struS.
tff.ap,f or tnn mn
Tor them For the first time in experience the Pill
harmonic Society has given positively bad concert
FIXES OPERA HOUSE.
our readers are reminded that this is the last
week Of the opera Tonight " Don Pasquale' Is au-
nouuced when Brgoli VIII appear In ono Of his most
sympathetic paris and Miss Phillips as Norma will nave
fine opportunity for the display Of her ninablc comic
acting On Wednesday Lagrange appears in q" Norma.
and ON Thursday Br1gnV Will rcnew his old rinmDhs IN
TroyatOrc an opera in which We have never seen his
equal Rigoloto" Is 10 be repeated on Friday the last
Mi ghl ot the season.
MIR. HARIIsoN's SUNDAY CoNCERn
4 largc and select audience attended the con-
cert given last night by M. L. +. Harrison In stenNay
Hall Tho names OF the artists engaged for tho evening
were sufficient guarantee the success ~ the enter
tlinmen aud the director deserves credit for the selee-
tiou and variety OF tie programme. hr Leopold de
Meyer called forth enthusiastic applause by his perform
nuce Russian airs" the piano, aud produced sril
more favorable impression by the scrcnade "An cyesng
on the Hudson River" lie ec0rcd each time, When
ho d,ligted the audience with music Of his own conpo
,tun ar. I.osa has gvcu repeated evidence Of his
ma.tersldp on the violin; his styo ~ Performance
is at once characteristic and pleasing, and hi, souvcuif
dc Bcsiui- ous rendered wlth much expression aud
feeling Mt Brookorsc Bowlcr'- voice excel, In tic pa
thctio style 0f uusc his scrcnade, GOOD Night. BE
loved was. therefore. happy selection. bat his peI-
foiinauce woud have shown to better advantage We
had heard "A little les the piano accompaniment I.
The selections from BecthOycus Promethcus" were
ably rendered by the orchestra under the conducorsp
81 Mr. IN. Thomas. In every musical performance por
on Of the audience viii Invariably show tact
by making for the door, before the end of the
cert thereby creating disturbance unpleasant for the
st the audience and II is 10 be hoped that the public
win learn to understand that such proceeding are nd,
cate loo The extreme.