1821 .J New Music 
will give them sufficient practice. They 
are also, for the most part, smooth and 
graceful, as well as very lively; 
and the two parts are blended with 
much skill. The melody is judiciously 
divided between the fiauto primo and 
the flauto secondo , each of which be¬ 
comes alternately the principal, and 
consequently shares the delicacy and 
difficulty of the execution. 
A Concertanto Duett for Two Flutes, com¬ 
posed by John Parry. 3 s. 
This concertante, in which is intro¬ 
duced the favourite Scotch Air of Auld 
Lang Syne , is the production of a mas¬ 
ter whose merits, in certain styles of 
composition, are too well known not to 
bespeak a favourable anticipation of 
the pretensions of whatever is announ¬ 
ced from the same hand. The present 
production abounds in pleasingly-con¬ 
ceived passages; and the general effect 
is calculated to gratify every cultivated 
ear, and to maintain the reputation 
Mr. Parry has so justly acquired. 
La Retour au Chateau ; a favourite di¬ 
vertimento for the Piano Forte , byJ.C. 
Nightingale. 2 s.Qd. 
This publication consists of an “ in¬ 
troduction,” in two crotchets in a bar, 
a march in common time of four crotch¬ 
ets, a trio in the same time, the air of 
“ Ye streams that round my prison 
creep,” and a Rondo Polonaise, in three 
crotchets. The whole occupies seven 
pages, and presents the juvenile prac¬ 
titioner on the instrument for which it 
is intended, with an exercise as inviting 
as agreeable. The beauty and diversity 
of the passages and movements are 
calculated to excite and repay atten¬ 
tion; and to practice them'will be to 
improve the finger and refine the taste. 
The Venetian Gondoliers, an Air, with 
Variations for the Piano Forte or Harp, 
by M. Holst. 
Mr. Holst, in this piece, has intro¬ 
duced his main subject with a pleasing 
and animated movement. The varia¬ 
tions are happily conceived, and ably 
executed; and the intended effect is 
fully produced. The Finale, without 
deserting the theme, possesses a spirit 
and boldness that close the piece with 
peculiar eclat. The publication is evi¬ 
dently designed for young practitioners, 
and to such it will prove as profitable 
as gratifying. 
Overture du Jeune Henry, par Mehul f 
arrangee pour Deux Flutes par G. F. 
Fuchs. 3s. 
This overture is arranged with a de- 
Monthly Mag. No. 359. 
and Drama 
gree of skill which evinces Mr. F.’s 
qualification for undertakings of this 
description. Aware, as we are, of the 
difficulty of producing with two instru¬ 
ments only, any desirable effect in an 
^orchestral composition, it would be in¬ 
justice in the present instance to with¬ 
hold our praise. All that could be 
achieved with such slender means, has 
been effected; and such success in so 
narrow a space, will, we hope, encou¬ 
rage this master to exercise his talents 
on more extended plans. 
DRAMA. 
Drury Lane and Haymarket 
Theatres. These theatres, during 
the past month, have been running a 
brilliant career. The one, by the con¬ 
tinued representation of the Coronation y 
aided by A Cheque on my Banker, The 
Spectre Bridegroom, Monsieur Tonson, 
and Geraldi Duval ; and the other, by 
the repeated performance of Fenice Pre¬ 
served, (which introduced a new and 
excellent young actress) Rise and Fall , 
Match Making and Match Breaking, 
(pieces of high and peculiar merit) has 
continued, in spite of the unpropitious 
season of the year, and the opposition 
of the Lyceum and the other minor 
theatres, to attract full and fashionable 
audiences, and to render the recess at 
Covent Garden the less felt. This lat¬ 
ter house, with renovated splendour 
and a good appointment, re-opened on 
Monday, the 24th of September, and 
did not a little contribute to enliven the 
somewhat flat period of a London life. 
The new painting and gilding of the in¬ 
terior put the audience in good humour, 
and rendered them willing to be pleased 
with the representations promised in 
the bill of fare. But however the com¬ 
pany might be delighted with the new 
and lustrous aspect of every part of the 
edifice, they were more attracted by the 
performance of Mr. Young, after a 
three years’ absence from London. His 
personation of Hamlet was received 
with those warm manifestations of pub¬ 
lic favour, to which his chaste, classical 
and animated acting is so well entitled. 
T he other characters were respectably 
sustained; and the melo-dramatic ro¬ 
mance of Undine, closed the entertain¬ 
ments of the evening with eclat. The 
audience was full and fashionable, and 
gave to the managers the most cheering 
promise of a successful and brilliant 
season. 
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