Sinfonie of Toeschi Quartetto of Davaux for Violins Song by Mrs. Hyde 'Soldiers tir'd of War's alarms' Violino Concerto of Borchay Quintetto of C. Bach for Flauto Sinfonie of Stamitz Act II Sinfonie of Haydn Quartetto of Kammell, for violino Song by Mrs. Hyde, 'If 'tis joy to wound a lover' Hoboy Solo Concerto of C. Fisher Quartetto of Vanhall for Flauto Sinfonie of Haydn Act III Sinfonie of Bach Quartetto of Davaux for violino Clarinetto Solo Concerto of Mahoy Quartetto of Toeschi for Flauto Sinfonie of Mardino Of course, all the concerts given in New York were not on an equally high plane. Many of them were frankly popular and many mixed judiciously the popular with the serious. A large proportion of these were given at Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Columbia and other public gardens where it was necessary to cater to the taste of an assorted assemblage. On the whole, however, the musical taste of the New York public was remarkably good. Haydn seems to have been the favorite composer of the time and after him we notice most frequently the names of Pleyel, Handel, Corelli, Gossec, Stamitz, Gyrowetz, and Bach.[18] The musical life of Philadelphia during the second half of the eighteenth century was apparently richer than in any other American city. There are no records of public concerts there before the year 1757, but after that date they became so suddenly common and maintained such a relatively high standard that the musical soil in which they grew must have been extremely fertile--notwithstanding the Quakers. Indeed, the musical taste of the Philadelphians seems to have been at once more eclectic and more discriminating than that of the citizens of Boston and New York. Besides Haydn, Pleyel, Handel, and the rest we find in their programs the names of Grétry, Boccherini, Viotti, Kreutzer, Paesiello, Sacchini, Cimarosa, Piccini, Gluck, and Mozart.[19] The programs were much less mixed than was customary in Boston and New York. We find fewer comic numbers and fewer songs to Mars and Bacchus, to larks and pining hearts and sighing breezes. And quite as much consideration was shown to the native American composer as is shown by the concert-givers of to-day. Consider the following program of the first Uranian Concert, given at the Reformed Church, in Race Street, on the 12th April, 1787: