Symphony Concert.

The seventh concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was given in Sanders Theatre last night. At the suggestion of Mr. Higginson, it was a memorial concert to George William Curtis, and the numbers on the programme, especially the aria from Sampson, the Unfinished Symphony, and the funeral march from Gotterdommerung, were such as arouse in our minds associations of solemnity. In this respect the programme was an admirable exposition of the manner of expressing the same emotion by three widely different schools of musical composition,-the strictly classical school, the romantic school and the school of what fifteen years ago was called the Music of the Future." The first relies on form, the second on imaginative beauty, and the third on dramatic power for effect.

The selections from Wagner are interesting as concert pieces; but we realize by how much they fail of reproducing the orchestral effects intended by the composer when we remember that the funeral march as it occurs in the opera is scored for six harps and has fifteen instruments in the wind band, and seventeen in the brass, in addition to the usual number of strings.

Mr. Heinrich Mayn, the soloist, showed himself thoroughly equal to the interpretation of his numbers on the programme, and was heartily applauded.

After the concert, a reception was given to Mr. and Mrs. Nikisch at Professor Norton's.