14 FEBRUARY 1852, Page 11

Mendelssohn's Elijah was performed by the Sacred Harmonic Society on

Friday last week, and was repeated yesternight. The principal so- prano Tart is now sung by Mrs. Endersohn, and the principal tenor by Mr. Sims Reeves. Mrs. Endersohn has been lately rising into notice by holding the soprano place in the " Glee and Madrigal Union," and is a sound singer of the English school. Mr. Reeves's oratorio-singing is more forcible and dramatic than that of Mr. Lockey, but wants Mr. Lockey's sustained evenness and purity of style. Elijah, in its ensemble, as now performed at Exeter Hall, is one of the grandest things that can be imagined. The choral band are as much at home in it as in the Mes- siah, and it approaches in sublimity to the Messiah itself.