No. 2 is said to comprise the ‘favourite’ airs from Aureliano. We never before knew that this opera could boast of a single air that any person ever admired. We have here also a publication of the easy kind, and comparatively short. Had any of the four airs been long, they would have been intolerable.
No. 3 is an imitation of Swiss melody, followed by a rondo composed for the Harmonicon, and still our property, having paid, and liberally too, for it years ago! We, however, have applied for no injunction, nor do we intend; it has answered our purpose as a piano-forte piece, and we hope it will satisfy harp players as much as it did our own subscribers.
No. 4 is an easy arrangement of the Alpine March, or Alpensänger-Marsch, which is just now going the round of the different instruments.
BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
IT has been generally supposed and expected, that the Musical Festival at Birmingham would take place during the ensuing autumn, in the newly erected Town Hall, and which (when finished) we are assured will be one of the finest rooms in Europe. We are, however, authorized to state that, in order to carry the various and necessary preparations into effect, and that the arrangements in every department may be as complete and as perfect as possible, the committee of management have, under these considerations, come to a determination to postpone their Grand Musical Festival (for the benefit of the General Hospital) until the autumn of 1834, when we have every reason to believe it will take place under the most favourable auspices, and be carried into effect with a degree of splendour unequalled on any previous and similar occasions, either in this or any other country.
EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A DILETTANTE.
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