Mr. Hullah had a concert on Monday evening at Exeter
Hall, similar to those which he has been giving for several seasons past, and the profits for a similar purpose—the completion of the fund for the new music hall which he is erecting in Long Acre. It consisted of Handers Aces and Galatea, two or three detached songs, and a selection from Weber's Oberon. The solo-singers were Miss A. Williams, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Benson, (a young singer, whose merit is coming into notice,) and Pischek. Reevea's singing in the part of Ads exhibited a fault carried to an excess—the habit of attempting to produce the effect of contrast by the vulgar and mecha- nical device of passing incessantly between the extremes of loud and soft —see-sawing between them without any meaning whatever.
The great precision, smoothness, and breadth of effect, at which Mr. Hullalfs chorus has arrived, speak volumes for his exertions, and for the improvement and diffusion of choral music among the middle classes of society.
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