" MEMENTO .310111."
Regent Strmd, 12th February. Regent Strmd, 12th February.
3Ir. Error;—Seltee a list of "gontl things" announced for last 1londtly evening at the lie mover Sqtetre Rooms, I procured n ticket at .1 went, hoping to gratify toy fl:talitess fin. the music of the Gt•rtnan school—tic., 11:•.4 itiet ..• only being of English birth. kilt not expect much from that ; and accordingly sat it out without repining, as did mauy other patients around me; albeit its woundv length, poverty, and emptiness, justified all the ennui v,•e• sulftwed un- der. I pas:; over 31i's. l'ortxtix's perfbrtnance of 31oz.■ter's " fhb : per questo," in charity and forbearance, and ensue to the Et: LT met- : N ( 1 tart et ; for which my longing cars seemed "an hungered." 3Itesrs. !Mont, TOL- BEcQuE, and I.; xi; Lev, the tenor played by a youth I ( W.1.0;,.• moue T ]loots not, vice 3loitArer, indi,posed,) executed the piece as well as artists iambi do. But what a eh:eel—why, in the name of Apollo, ore the dr:doings, :lie dregs, of a genius like 11 eel-nee !:N's, to be fitrnished forth to an audience who not only would tu. ver tin. of his masterpieces, but hare yet to hear Vitally of IliS vig trolls and tasteful works. Pa•-itively, this quartet was a blot upon his f tont. St•ionce, I admit, is discernible in the eemposition ; but the entire lock of theme, of spirit, of hispiration, which pervades it, indicates the then feeble condition of the cowls:sec's faculties, and ought to have deterred the player from "un- covering the nakedness" of the 3fitestro. The wearisunie psalmodie dirge, to which we listened as the "second movement," was clearly the result of de- caying powers; 11711i in short, if I may hazard a pun, -f must describe this p.a.- formenee as altogether a "memento 3Iori," both ai, regards the cotop-ser and performer. The song allotted to 7,1i,s FANNY WINI/IIAM was of the same character ; and was :cog much as o basstott rtr horn would have played 1:,e notes. Theandiene-, however, seemed to relish tltis funchral till'air ; for they encored. it. Indeed. the worthy folks Appeased disposed to testify their love if music by applandimf every thing: and, in the absence of gout critical t,,,te. it is con- soling to lied a cordial sentiment of admiration, itowcv,r .an tivorons it may be. Much of this, Imeeter, I may remark en passant, must be escribed to the sbequeovs. The "wet ar:iele." as the shops-nen say, was a Trio of Cour.tin; tarn-thirds of which gat, o Sy :1Ies-rs. 1.1votg and 1T:7 .,,,,ttN:tarr, LINI,1,1:v sap- plying 11,, pat i of tTe first violin by ploying the ,tt , !, , note:, RR OttaVe halo's. The deliel. ,e.:. ,A l'•11ii...:us and ct tilt., delicicos tii.--tv-1, re—le,o1 into horto.toies, which till the 1;7, amore of delight t, en nunntt.'111'.6 sum;:!"':'■:!1 GO, .• 1.4,1',.;-11.11tw7tt are perf,an mN they were written,* were sue llyrentr!ohle tat this ecmt,,iuin. Bet the (barn 1 of herring a luttis do what is violin was int, 0,1,1 to (1,,, ,Iilliviciltl...,. re- tompenstal our goodnatured auditory, amid a volley of applause crowned the imitation. The other half of the pt chirtnance, vitt. I )ti s GONETTI's. citaisted in attemptiog on the subterranean tones of the Ibiable Bass, what 1/11,fitt to have proceeded from the Int:now vibrations of a Guarnaritts or Forster lltss. A. kind of rubbing, ventriloquistic whizzing, was all the car could detect—a some- thing compounded of a wet huger rubbed on a bit! drum and a rits;dng M. feet on a scrap, to tone there was none. It was the - as, and tee lap-deo" all over. lbit the more difficult the tosk, the mar., deli:do Cul I \V', who hat's unfortiton.,:y the means of "comparing notes," (It 101,) again I.) C:1111Pit :v.,..-lit imitatioir- -` it; fill" of performances ; we think Can r. i. 1. t knew hest what in- strumer.t • he w'de.c1 to play his themes. But to pr, weed, I skip all notiee of the hackneyed theatrical morcetut from Weitrees "Obe- ron," peer toms,,', and pass to the Septum' ; where 1 and in comp:mews em- barked on hoard of 1 fumna., steered by the excellent Madame 1)f t.i. E EN— the Queen ,,,' Pianistes, if that monarchy went by merit. Scarcely were we "over the lw" (the third bar) before we !bond ourselves— as we hove heretofore thole on quitting Dover harhour—in a " In avy sot" The' vessel strained, pitched, tossed, and groaned. The tempest norttl, and the wind whistled throneh the horn, flute, and ()hoe, whilst the tl,atith• bass vibrated like the "main: fay," the "shrouds," and other ",tatoling ri!.!•;i1o••," in deep, buzzing, trembling a■ffinds. 31tultune 1>er.c minx (41A Skil;pl.r) ileW from stem to stern ; mounted the poop, plunged into the hold ; " crag et•erJiefeere in turn und nHsi"'re long." 'o be brief': we got safe •into port at last, after as rough and boisterous a passage a4 ever hefel us. 'file elegant and melodious motif which charactorized the last movement, represented the calmer motion of the waves its we twared the shore; the succession of which was tolerably well imitated by its endless repetition. `Won We hall la1;ilial, 3 Signor IlnIZYJI murmured through Bet:Times:tea exquisite and no•laneholy song "Della -vita," (" In M12111 LebellS,") 10 the ac- companiment of a few hutch struck on a piromfbrte, in so meagre and mawkish a style that I seized my hat and effected my escape from this dissectine-room of musical reputations; again whispering, as I passed out, " Alemento .1/ori!" I hope yrat will insert this lament of an enthusiast, who is inOre0Ver your
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