Evening star., 1869-11-04

The CONCERT LAST NIGHr-The Patti an
dience last night was a success, both in numbers
and quality. Everybody, nearly, of note and
fashion i'll Washington may be said to have been
PRESENT The new concert room-Lincoln Hall
l. a great Improvement upon anything we have
had, Tor concert purposes; the main defect TO
our mind, being the narrow exits There are
enough OF them, but they are too narrow tn at
ford prompt egress tor a large audience. The
public convenience would also be advanced bv
dividing the auditorium into sections. thereby
anording easier access to the seats LIN acoustic
qualities the hall is very good.
IaFlotta Patti has improved greatly
since she last appeared here. She is filed
out; has that much priced acquisition for the
cantatrice, tine bust; and her powers of voice
have been cultivated closely. Her execution l.
very fine, and Is displayed conspieuously in her
triilS, and in staecato, crescendo and diminuendo
passages As in the case OF Adelna Patti her
voice Is not powerful. but is ample for her uses
Her rendering OF the parts upon her programme
vas certainly very delightful, and the audience
Wa rather oyer-demonstrative i'm asking her
for more than the three pieces set down. Quite
certainly she lacks in warmth, but the pieces in
e: repertoire of last night did not require great
1eTvOr. and the quality was not so much missed
liz will not do To say, however, that an artistic
has no inspiration for lyric passion In concert
Parepa has shown that it does not need stage ac-
Ces~ories to give the inspiration for such fervor.
As an encore, Patti gave with effect the Laugh
ing Song, from Auber's opera of Morron Lescaut,
songs sang here some six years ago, when
much less celebrated i'm the musical world than
now. Prume, the vioinist-a nephew, by the
way, Of the composer Prume-made a good inn
Preston. His bowling is not of good school,
and his effects are calculated rather for a popu-
lar audience than otherwise, but melodious
strains from the cat-gut rather pleasing after
the ear-fatiguing efforts Of the current artists
Of the bow.
Ritter displayed superb execution upon the
piano, especially i'm running passages. Her
manns, basso, is rather robust for the concert
room, and his thunderous shakes last night were
decidedly out Of place. Squires, tenor, shows no
late Improvement upon q barely tolerable voice.
Twofne Steinway pianos were in use at the con-
cert last night, and they seemed to be of equal
excellence and as but one was used at a time.
some portion of the audience were a little puz-
zled to guess why, in each successive piece, one
piano was trundled up the stage and another
trundled down, for current use. The explanation
is that Mr.. Ritter as pianist has his instru-
ment pitched half a note higher than the pitch
Patti uses in singing. In other words, the con-
cert singer Is accompanied by an instrument ON
the French pitch, or Didpason Normal, while the
piano performer for brilliancy of execution has
his instrument pitched n little more than half
note higher, playing upon what Is called the
English Philharmonic pitch.
We are glad to hear that there is a probability
that Patti may appear in concert in Washington
again ere long.