SACRED MUSIC.
afa. kilts Goss was on Thursday appointed the successor of his excellent master as Organist of St. Paul's Cathedral. The choice is editable to the discernment of the Chapter. Arrwoon is succeeded brians of his appointments by a man worthy to follow him. Our opinion of Mr. Goss's talents has frequently been expressed, and, generally, coupled with a wish that he would furnish us with their fruits in larger abundance. H i e s now the successor of men of high eminence ,...of GREENE and BOYCE, as well as ATTWOOD: and we anticipate some additions to our Cathedral music, which may be worthily asso- ciated with that of his predecessors. In the present degenerate state of the Cathedral service, from which the solemn and divine harmonies of our greatest writers are too often excluded, in order to make room for scraps of Masses and other compositions altogether unsuited to the true character of sacred music, we hail the appointment of Mr. Goss as a sure pledge of better things in the choir to which he is now at- tached. With JAMES TCRLE at the West and JOHN Goss in the East, (fellow pupils, cord. i
cordial i friends, and able couperators in the same good cause,) church music s safe n London from all Gothic deface- ments and dandy refinements.
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