MUSICAL QUACKERY.—THE BOSTON JUBILEE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 269, 12 November 1872, Page 4

MUSICAL QUACKERY.— THE BOSTON JUBILEE.

(New York Herald, June 21.) The prospects in a financial point of view of the Boston experiment septa to be brightening. As the curiosity of tbe people is aroused, those who are not over sensitive in. musical matters wish to satisfy their curiosity, even at the expense of their ears. An improvement is also noticeable in the way the vast army of singers work together as they become more used to their novel position. In the important choruses the rendering is impressive, as it may well be with ao army of singers;, there .is. more discipline, and harmony than was generally expected; and when this bisbeen said we have exhausted nearly aJl^ejpabeg^rio that. the occasion, r warrants. '•'••• -It is evident from the slitnaitendance that the mass of tho, citizens adb}>t our views as to the value of these musical shows where mountebankery is ,to car ry :off the laurels from modest ; wprth.^-vT^ ceiirtres^^ discbarges of cannpn, and chorus b^ ; thousand voices, rather than upon" any teat artistic merit i*4 the.: performances. All sense of delicacy of^execation, of oolorscd

-^ . ,-.._.■ ,-^. ■■-- - . — of sentiment, is lost amid the strident j twang of numberless fiddle-string?, the rattat of drums, and the booming of guns. To people of/ n lymphatic, .nature, who want to be stirred up by the warring of sounds, the Coliseum of Boston is just now a delightful place of amusement ; but to those of finer sensibilities, that huge slaughterhouse of delicacy ond refinement-! of execution is a place of toiture from which, after the first sensation of novelty has passed, they seek to escape. The redeeming feature of the whole thing ia to be found in its unparalleled absurdity. It is a magnificeut. monstrous jok% which we pardon easily because of its magnitude. Just now the public are in want of a sensation, and Gilmore's enterprise looms up with certainly majestic proportions to meet tbe want. Looked at from this point of view, the jubilee must ba regarded as a most welcome oveDt by that unfortunate class of people who are afflicted with a superabundance of leisure and cash, without much taste or any refinement of thought. This clhss of the community ought to congratulate themselves on their good fortune in possessing such a wonderful caterer to their amusement as the enthusiastic Celt who imagined tbe big festival The G-er-man composers who have been introduced into the concerts as "features" are also delighted at what they call Yankee enterprise; but though they admit they are surprised to find musial knowledge so generally spread among our people, whom they were accustomed to look at only as enterprising choppers of lojrs anJ rather sharp merchants of notions, they are silent on the artistic value of the gathering. Boston, however, is delighted with its jubilee.