CITY OF LONDON AMATEUR CONCERT.
THIS concert is a kind of rival to its opposite neighbour at the origi- nal London Tavern, but there appears to be ample room and abun- dant encouragement for both. The subscription is moderate, and the attraction considerable. We attended this concert for the first time on Monday evening ; and were gratified at finding a numerous and efficient band, in which the principal situations were filled by professors of known celebrity, and the repienos chiefly by amateurs. The instrumental music was well selected, and well performed ; particularly the admirable letter R Sinfonia of HAYDN, and a pleasing wind instrument quartett by MEYER. The latter was exe- cuted by RIBAZ, POWELL, PLATT, and MACKINTOSH. The singers were some of the Royal Academy pupils, and the music, consequently, all Italian, with the exception of one song by SPona. This exclu- sive selection of the music of one school, (for we had Rossini and ROSSINI and Rossisn, and PAcirsi, and BELLINI,) we presume is made in deference to the fashionables of the East, who are taught to apply the appalling epithet" vulgar" to all English music. This is sad nonsense. Judging from the auditors with whom we chanced to be placed in contiguity, they would have had more enjoyment in some- thing that they understood. The delightful Sestetto from Don Giovanni was very creditably performed ; it in some measure com- pensated for the tiresome sameness of two duets and a song of Rossisn placed in almost immediate succession. The leader of these concerts is Mr. DANDO ; the conductor Mr. N. WEIPPERT ; and the regularity, correctness, and method with which the details of the orchestra are arranged, are highly creditable to them.-
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