, 1870-06-19
The Musical Festival Ax Novv York.
From tbs Hess FORK Tribune, Juas II.

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From tbs Gess FORK 1tioun4 Juns II.
FOURTH DAX,
Yesterday afternoon The managers o1 The
festival announced I special "GtAnd Beet
hoyen Celebration " ard hase Is the pro
Eramme:
5se zs s s{ngaBSo5 Bea 6 %'as nes9sssR asss
StgnoT RT4o1iost,
Hallelu}ah Chorus. .h1aaei Na;i
f'n1e cii,nsys; Sasa
oys5s1ts, nFdec" sso H.'. beeiaoysn Raysn
. WV Tadams 1naa bishop 49,.
Anv,! Gao;us ~; :: ~. S1osa4 i;xsaal
March from @aSs Si2's: p1oefst. S5s neysreee.
! We have no objection to this music in it
| SELF, but to call it Beethoven programme is
prepoaterous. The symphony vent better
Than it did the frst night, though the opening
movement WIS still rather scrAmblng, And no
part Of the work was giSen with the Perfect
finial which M. Bergmann knows 90 well how
overture to Fidelio (Which, as the adyer-
tisementa kindly inform us i ''tha gneatest
/ opera Beethoven ever Hrote!"), Was also but
inisGe1ently performed. The orchestra st no
| time nc believe hls numbarcd moro
than 200 pieces, c4clusive Of Gilmore Band
OF so. It has been reduced, dsy BY day, until
now it couNtB loo, but very few OF our best
plavcrd included, 80 that Ill. Bergman is eK-
pecte1 to produce works Of the highest char
acter. not only without reheatsals, but with
second.tate material. Il is not bus fault il the
result ia unsatisfactory. He has not the Thil-
latmpnic orchestra BY any mcnns. Madame
Bishop Gang, instead Of tho aria from :" The
Creation" i" GratiAs Ag1mus," By 0uglielmo.
and there were some othcr changes in the
programme. The audience Was the smallest
Of the week. "
In the evening We h1d half Of the long prom
ised 'Elijah b the Handel and Haydn Seci-
ETY., and here. nt lcaat, VAS something worthy
Of . festival. The audience Vas large, enthu-
eiastic, 2nd OF excellent quality, and, for the
frst time Eince the jubilee opened, was COM
poscd in large measure Of onr own citizens.
Nearly ali the choral societies we're in their
place1, but the work WIS done entirely by Mr.
Parepa.R Ross, Mrs Sterling, slr. Castle,
As they came upon the etage
the great jubilee soprano waa greeted with
loud cheers, and the chorus rose and saluted
rshn, too, had an enthusiastic greeting. OF
the performance we have not = word to cay
Int praise. Many who heard the compara.
: lively feeble singing Of 1900 persons on Mon
. day and Tuesday must have wondered at the
bo0; but those who knew what tho Handel ant
: Hnydn Society can do wrse quite prepared 70,
i the treat which awaited them. How d1ml,
9 the singers attacked every note! How care
6 fully they kept tho time! How STEADY the.
veso in the nost intricate and be9ilder
;. phrasea, low delicate the shading and empha
I sis, and how gzandIy and massiEely the soice
: swelled in tho creecendot They corere,
b ti,emselves indeed with glory; they showe'
New York societies how m oratorio ought T.
70 be sung, and set US wondering whethea, had
= performance Like this been giScn on the frs
d day instead Of the fourth the fate OF the fcsti
r yI might not hare been different. It was
n great disappointment to many Of us that IL
, stead OF the whole orstono which wasprouaisee
We had only halt, especially a. the omitte
g portion embraces eonao Of Mondelssohn'
ID finest music. Madame Rosa and Miss Stel
ling lost their beet eofos, and Mr. Whitne
q lost ono Of tho best Of his Still, we had III
beautiful duet for soprano and alto, - Zio
# Il apresdeth her hsnds for .ia;" The t' dogbl
ef upon the Lord" Nj. Castle sang Il II wit
" " a1l your hearts" exceedingly well, and ri.
u Sterling, gaso Woe unto Hum, Wit
= = geod taste and good voice, il nS
Of the best things. however, we're tho tv
e. dramatic dialogues between tho soprano an
:, the bass. Here Pa1epa il always unapproacl
sy able. Even sho does few piecos better tha
The sih m Thh hs e. that 11 thp .o1
At eon rcviveth!" or the scene in which, aft
il describing " the heavens as brass" aboso he
* ehe behoids the little cloud arising out Of Il
10 sea-" And Mr. Whitney, in the noble part ,
= E7tjah, was not unworthy Of the noble comp
IN rs in which he Was placed. He sang admir-
o. bly, all through, Without doubt he is the be
9 oratorio baeeo in America.
DO We believe one or two persons IN Boats
T. said that ne were enyious last year .becau
II We had 10 jubilee. Well, We don't care abo
nd tho jubilee, bat there are two things for viii
:. We do envy Doeton,-the Handel and Hay.
ss Society and Carl Zerr1hn.
es The keeond part oS the programme u
st. evening Was miscellaneous selection, inclu
It. ing nothing Of uoto e1cept s' Let the Brig
ne Se1aphim." By Psrepa and Mr. AIbuckle.
nd ! was ct cputae eacosA1.
lta After the performance, Mr.. Gilmore and
n- | band marched to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. =
st. | raid Madame Parep4 the graceful and epc
to | tsueo us compliment Of 4 seEenade.