GTIISON PEACOCK. : .. VOLUME XXL-NO. 285. THE EVENING BULLETIN PUBLISHED EV,RWIt' EVENIIfKik ' • (Sunday' , excepted). ILT TUE NEW BULLETIN BITILDING, 807 Ultextuut !Street, Phllimlelphits, li9 EVENING BULLETIN ABBOCId.TION. raornorrone. GIBBON PEACOCK. ERNEST C. WALLACE F. L. FETBERBTON, THOS. J. WILLI/1511;10N. CASPER BOBBER, . FRANCIS WELLS. The Buttsrim is served to subscribers in the city at Id rents .er week. Payable to the carriers. or S 8 per annum. INVITATIONS FOR WEDDINGS, PARTIES. &u., executed Ie a /Impeder manner by ERBIL& lettl CHFSTISET STREET. fe2O•tf• DIED. JOYCE.—On the morning of the 6th inst., Anthony 'Kennedy Joyce. • The Funeral will take place from his late residence in Bristol. on Tuesday, the loth inst.., at one o'clock, P. M. * NEDINGEIt.-4.1n the =tuning of the tith Met, Dr. (leo. W. Nebinger, in the 44th year of his age. Te relatives and friends of the family ate respectfully invitee to attend his funexsi from the residence of his brother, Dr. A. liehinger. 1018 South Second street, on Wednesday morning next, at 9 o'clock. Services at St. Paul's Cbnrch. Interment at Cathedral Cemetery. PHILLIPS. , --On the evening of the 6th inst.. John Phillips, in the 76th year of his age. 'The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend his fUnerai,Whieh Will take place from his latereeldence, nigh street. Germantown, on Thursday mornims, the 12th 1 o'clock. •••• PASCHAL.—On Friday, actuary 21 &thin residence, in San Antonio, Texas, after painful Il l ness , Judge Isa iah A. Pomba'. aged 69 years, 2 °nth. , and 7 days. BEssoN & SON WILL OPEN: TO-DAY, ONE O&M of Black and Wldta Striped Silks, at $1 23 a yni d. MOURNING STOnC. mb9.24 9IH (ikeetnut atreet. 13LACK GROS GRAIN BILKS. $2. JUST OPENED our spring stock of Black Gros Grains, Taffetas. and Drap de Franc. from $2 to $5 to a yard. 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A more brilliant and well-directed effort in musical exhi bition has never been enjoyed by this public; we wish we could add that it has been appreciated and sustained in accordance with Its merits. Up to this attempt to give regular performances of Symphony, the lovers of this grand and ele vated style of compoaition had such rare chances of bearing it that we may almost say they had none. Symphony in its demands for superior ability in its composition and development,bears in the musical mind the relative position to tragedy in the literary mind. In this style Haydn and Mozarkhave been creators of models, which have been Imitated and am lifted by others, notably by Beethoven. But Mr. Bentz has shown great judgment and has controled his artistic pride and ambition in confining himself to the works of Haydn and Mozart, for they are simple, natural and easily understood. In later years the German composers have thrown so much inner meaning and metaphysical speculation into their works,• that the mind and the ear both have to be educated up to a perfect comprehension and enjoyment of their ideas. But this objection, if it be one, does not lie against the symphoniee of Haydn and Mozart, for any child may liaten to them with pleasure, and any musician - , however advanced, with profit. __They_ are but reflections of the nature, simple and childlike, of their inventors. They are pictures of beautiful landscapes, happy hoboes, mountain and valley, peasant love and contented hearts. To hear them is to purify our nature, refine our teelinge, and make us better men and women. Bat that is not all that has been done by Mr. Sentz. HOlas given us the waltzes of wonder ful, fertile and facile genius of the Dance, Johann ,Stranaa, in a meaner unknown to us before. They are not mean or low compositions; they are sweet little poemsathounding in musical beauties and suggestive of many pleasing images to the mind, and then how fascinating to .the gay young maiden who trips it lightly in the mazy dance; bow her heart-pulses rise and fall with the cadence of the many-colored strains that fall in terchangeably and antiphonally from flute and •cornet, clarinett and bassoon, violin and oboe, born and trombone. There is a tradition in the rendering of these fascinating trifles, and with out the knowledge and experience desired, they lose much of their attractiveness. We congratu late Mr. Bentz for having so well ful fi lled his promises to the public, and we condole with the audience that they will so soon lose the pleasure which they have enjoyed in such perfection and with such cheapness for the Fast five months. Nothing so instructs a public m musical appro. clatiation as a well-appointed orchestra, and as concerts and theatres now go, the opportunity to hear the hotter class of works for instruments is only left.to the meanies, Which are so soon to be discontinued. "On next Thursday the celebrated War Symphony, composed by Haydn*, will be performed for the first time, we believe, in this •city. Several interesting lighter pieces are an nounced. CARL WOLFSOIIN'S SIXTH BEETROVRN MATINUR. —The half of this series of excellent concerts has already been given. Great satisfaction has been , expressed at the masterly manner in which Mr. :Wolfsohn--bas4exeented -his most ditietrit.task. - - 'The remaining numbers of the aeries contain :those &mates best known and most appreciated by amateur's and connoisseurs who have paid attention to this great composer's works. The Sixth Matinee wilt be given in the Foyer of, the Academy of Music on - Friday afternoon, March 13th, when Mr. Wolfsohn will , have the vainabb3, assistance of Mrs. 11. Behrens, who will sing the Cavatina from Weber's Fraisciiitz, and the Ave! Maria of Schubert. The sonatas to be performed aro opus 7, in E flat major; opus 13,in C minor (senate pathetique). ' .opus 110, A flat major. The sonata, opus 7, is the fourth in order of composition, and;was dedicated to the Countess Keglevies, utakinetts appearance in 1797. It is already a thousend leagues in advance of the three ureceding sonatas. The lion rattles the bars of the cage where he is yet held imprisoned by a merciless school. If the allegro throws up fire works and Chinese trees, there must bo recog nized in the largo the advent of au order of things new in chamber music. This beautiful move ment is an oratorio of holy ecatacy within the limits and province of the piano; a tear ; fallen from the eyes of the Magdalen upon the valley of misery inhabited by man; one of those moments when man feels himself nearer to God; the treasures of faith inspired by this scene. The third movement; Scherzo, Allegro, is a picture of one of the hap piest gatherings that were ever brought together on the shores of a lake, on the velvety green sward, under the shade of overhanging old trees, where the dance went merrily round to the gay mound of galonbet and tamborine. The trio in B fat rainier is scarcely In keeping with the cheer fulness of the other half. The motivo of the Rondo, PocoAllegretto, is full of grace, slim piteity and tenderness, and breathes that faith in the affections, which is the happiness of youth. The Largo has been arranged for a song with, the title Le teavail de la jourme eat The title in the original edition of the sonata opus 13 reads thus: 'Grande Senate Pathdtique, etc.," and was dedicated to the Prince Lichnowsky, an excellent amateur and warm friend of Bee thoven, in whose house were held those musical meetings in which the composer's works were first produced, and who settled upon him an annuity. It has been arranged for a nonetto, quartetto, quintetto, full orchestra,piano, four bands, two violine, and the Adagio for the voice on the text: Vail de la femme avnee. The Leip zig Gazette Ala:leak Ulmer:elk said of it, when first published, in 1800: "It is justly called pathelique; the sonata really has passion." Bee thoven was not partial to the custom of giving titles to his works, but from the announcement in the original edition, cited above,, he appears in this instance to have departed from his usual reserve; and-- has -Indicated --- what-- were his inner meaning and programme. when he com mitted his thoughts to paper. Perhaps none of his sonatas has undergone the dishonors and thigellations which have been heaped upon this for sixty years in young ladles? boarding schools and other institutions. where the piano is net studied. In visiting such inatitutione should you peradventure mention the name of Beethoven, the lady of the house will almost certainly draw cut from beneath richly-hound books, with which the eanterbmy is groaning, a well-thumbed paper which you recognize. With all afrighted manner you exclaim: "Madame, it is the Pathetiiue ! " 'Yes, sir; it is Beethoven ! " she replies with self satisfied expression of countenance. Spare the timid and innocent girl, with spiral curie, your criticism, and save yourself an infliction by jump ing into the first conveyance, be it what it may. The Pathitire has taken the place of the Battle of Pruyee and Caliph of Bagdad of the last gene stator, and comes as naturally to the future mothers as measles and love. Yes! the SO7laie Potbelly - at is too grand,too magnificent to entrust to immature hands, however industriously ap plied and well directed in their studies of the key-board. It requires ripe intelligence and large expression; without these it may fail of satisfying the hearer that he is listening to a great and much-loved composition. There is a history of another Senate Pathitique, composed by Lipawaki, who flour ished about 1770; there has been some dispute whether Beethoven or Lipawski is the originator of the title in question. However that may be, It is certain that we at this day know Beethoven's Senate Patlidlique, but we do not Lipawski's. Few of Beethoven's Sonatas are so well known and appreciated, and when there is a chance to bear it performed by a master who understands his art, there is shown an- interest and attention extremely gratifying to the executant, who fre quently labors for the elevation 'of the public taste with but little reward. The Sonata, opus 110 in A flat major, is the thirty-first of those composed for piano solo, and in its classification is the fourth as recognized of the Third penod. It is more regular than its fellows which precede it. The first movement, Moderato, has some queer things in it. There falls from the clouds a passage in demisemiquav ers where the fingers feather the keys of the piano as the swan on the solitary lake, whence the bunter forces her to rise. The melodic phrase which governs this morcean is pressing, concise and impassioned. The Scherzo, of pompous sim plicity and noisy with cries of triumph, has the character of an invincible power: it is the step of some old Roman. guard. Its third part, figuring the trio or the alternative, is a tissue of ideas which have no relation to the material world, tint belong to fairy-land. This episode supposes a pianist of the first rank. Each mea sure presents a group of four quavers in a move ment which is not rapid ; nothing more easy at the first glance, but the left hand jumping from the lowest bass notes has others distributed among the more acute, from which it must again descend at the middle of the keyboard, and then strike a single note in the unaccented part of the measure. It is a difficulty, and this scherzo can scarcely be rendered in perfection by the piano. An orchestra is wanted. The adagio is less a piece of music than a picture. In it Beethoven makes the attempt to vibrate a string of the piano in changing the finger on a synco pated note. Two measures of the recitative pre sent twenty-seven times the la on the sLvtli line above, divided into fourteen syucopations taken by the fourth and third finger of the right hand. This change of finger on a syncopated note is in tended to produce a_particular effect. The finale of the sonata is a Fuga, interrupted in a most unexpected manner by the repetition of the arioso of She adagio. Hand says of ,this fugue: "We see here a simple idea in appearance developed with great richness. Each of the three perform ances carries in itself its own seal, and neverthe lees all struggle by a sympathetic variety' to ren der the same truth, the same sentiment." ureters OEGAITOO3tCERT.-801320 ' enrioei"es s has been expressed in regard to this announcement. We are Wormed that twenty-four of, our princi- - _pal organista will take part in this interesting and unique entertainnient. Some of the names have been mentioned to us and all will be published in a few days. The Soloists engaged already are Mrs. Behrens, Messrs. Thunder, Benkert, Bentz, Garton, Hoffman and others. The seats will be told with coupon tickets, and every effort made to afford satisfaction to the audience, which is expected to be unusually large, as 'Weedy orders have come in from the country to engage places. CODICEET,—A grand operatic concert will be given at Horticultural Hall on the evening of Mareh 18th, by the "Black Swan" and other artists. A fine entertainment may be expected. Chun= CONCERT.—A grand concert will tbe given at Horticultural Hall this evening in aid of one of the noblest and most deserving charities of this city. The programme is a very attractive one, comprising selections of popular,sacred and classical music, and the artists are all of the highest grade. We sincerely hope the house may be crowded. OLE Buras—On Thursday and Friday evenings, and on Saturday afternoon of this week, the famous violinis_t, Ole Bull, will give concerts at Horticultural Hall. He will be assisted upon each occasion by competent artists. Anbere New Opera. • Tile London, fllmtrated News contains this brief account of the 'last — prOdifetion — of the 'veteran composer Auger "An event ha,just occurred which is worth re cording in the' annals of music. On 'Saturday,. Feb. Ib, 1868, a new opera, entitled,. Uri Promzer . Jour de iionheur,' composed by Daniel Francois Auber, was performed for the first time at the Opfra'Comique, in Paris; the composer being then In, the eighty-fifth year of his age. Such, is the, fact. The opera was not, only performed, but perfortaod in the presence ,of the illustrious musician himself, who eat on the stagei surrotuided byea host of friends, and enjoying one of the most 'brilliant ovations ever bestowed' upon an artist.: What is more It appears from the concurrent voicesof. the Parisian public and press that this latest effort PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1868. of this marvellous octogenarian betrays none of the infirmities of old age, but is, on the contrary, one of the most brilliant achievements of the most brilliant composer of the present century. Beyond this our knowledge, derived from the re ',Una of the Parisian journals, does not enable us .to go; but, if it be such a work as It is described to be, we may predict with confidence that we shall soon have the opportn city of seeing it with our own eyes and hearing It with our own ears within the walls of Covent Gaidev. From Auber's great age and the num ber of his Works, it might be inferred that he ' was a precocious genius; but it was not so. It was not till he had reached tke ripe age of five-and•forty, that he prcduced the work, "La Neige," by which he laid the foundation of his fame; so that the vast number of his subsequent triumphs have been achieved within the period of forty years. There is no such instance of such fertility com bined with industry to be found in the whole range of musical biography. We may mention it as a remarkable circumstance that on the same night that Anber was enjoying at Paris one of thegreatest of his triumphs, he - was enjoying another in London without knowing it; for on that same night a London audience were wit nessing an excellent performance of his charming `Ambassadrice.'" DISASTERS. LARGE FIRE IN BROOKLYN. Destruction of the Church. of St. Charles Borromeo, Sidney Place— lbxtensive Loss an Yetintangs and Other Valuable Property—Damage 542,600. [From the New York World.] All that now remains of the neat, elegant. well known and favorite sacred edifice, St. Charles Borromeo Church, Sidney place, Brooklyn, are the blackened walls and smouldering timbers to tell -- of the ravages - of - the devouring element which left nothing but a bleak ruin. The fire was ciscovered about two o'clock yes terday morning, by some people passing the vicinity, who immediately gave the alarm, when the Clay Ball bell pealed forth at the same mo ment, and the firemen were out with their wonted -lacrity in response to the summons. The !lames raged with great fury about the location of the beaters, and defied the efforts of the tiretnen to extinguish them. The first work of the pastor was to ascend the altar and remove he blessed sacrament, which was suc cessfully accomplished. The consecrated gold :.nd silver vessels were also removed, together with several of the ornaments. In the vestry wardrobe were several thousand dollars' worth of sacrificial vestments of the most beautiful and costly workmanship, the collection of years. Through their united exertions, Rev. Fathers Free] and McGivren succeeded in causing the safe removal of• the larger portion of the vest ments, though the water had stained several of them so as to materially impair their original beauty. They were Insured for ei,soo. But among the most deplorable losses sustained in the burning of the Church of St. Charles Borromeo was, perhaps, the destruction of the Paintings width adorned the buildings. "The Crucifixon," a large and very superior work of art, which has for nearly seventeen years hung immediately over the altar, against the wall, "was destroyed. This' painting cost upwards of :51,000 and was very much admired. On the gavel side of the sanctuary was pen dant a beautiful painting of the 'lmmaculate Conception," and on the epistle side a very fine painting of St. Charles Borromco, the patron aint of the church. The side walls were adorned by six choice specimens of art of the school of Riehael Angelo, four of which were the evangt.•- lists and the others St. Veronica and St. Cecelia. These were worth between . s3,ooo and $4,000, and were also consumed. A finepiece of sculpture, representing St. Francis of Assisisum, which stood on the gospel side of the altar, which cost el,OOO, was also de .troyed. The organ, which has long been regarded as one of the best In Brooklyn, was purchased at a cost of $3,500 a few years ago. There was a very choice and valuable collection of sacred music in the choir gallery, which shared the fate of the urgan. The latter and the music was insured in the Niagara Insurance Company for the sum•of $l,BOO only. There seems to be but little doubt in regard to the origin of the fire, all who were in the vicinity immediately after the flames were discovered agreeing that it must have originated from the heater. Father Fred, who was one of the first to enter the building after the fire had been dis covered, states that the flames came up through the floor, almost directly over the heater. There had been a fire in the building