The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-14

O'Clock p NJ. The programme for the first day is as
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On the Restoration Of Peace and Union.
Grand Musical Performance,
in which the Greatest Oratorio Chorus
SgTF @ as y eight n hundred
viii BY Grand Orchestra H Of on
and SSses s IN the the R2
Selections to be performed.
a. Full ChQEps- Grand Orchestra and Great Organ.
c,1 Select oTS6Sstra $50 Performer. '' 'S10,
Full Chorus with Orchestra and Organ AcoompanInents
r'"y'r- HS8 sung aiGi1 Py Madame Paropa Rosa
s % be Sie S bS 9Ggt 5 BoSs % by
3. National Air."The Star Spangedm l. Banner" with
"Not as North or as South in ne future reH stand,
And the star spanged Bagper oreyeT ore sba Wave
Ger the LAND @ Of the free and the home Of the br2ye"
Military Band, Dram Corps, Ginning of Bells, and Ar
-'''' Iatermission-Fyttesn Minutes.
s Invocation, A 11,rr Part al Pn:o0 u; -;,+0- Gov
tn this 500 occasion t36 BY by Or o Oliver Wendell Holmes
Full Chorus Grand Orches,Ta, Organ and Military Band
Performed by Select Orchestra Of 800 performers
Sung Sg Madame Prp Ro with full chorus oSan
q g.. and and grand orchestral he, accompaniment,
BY S 3 band Of dnS
H. National Nat gi, Air; r Words written by Rev. s.
:sSIy sNSy.s s2sntrg }sns q Iii iisss,ys of thee
Ghesra of 500 Military Band Of 500 great organ, full
Realing in the distance in exact time with the music
verse.
The following is the "Hymn of Peace" written for
the occasion by DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes:-
Angel of Peace thou hast wandered too long
Nyh wi n IN thn ngh inn M f1nyn
Come while our voices are blended in song
Fly to our ark like the storm-beaten dove
Fly to our ark on the wings OF the dove
Speed DER the far-soundiDg bOws of song,
Crowned with thine olive leaf garland of love
Angel OF Peace thou hast waited too long!
Brothers we meet, on this altar of thine.
Mingling the gifts we have gathered for thee,
Sweet with the odors OF myrtle and pine,
Breeze of the prairie and breath Of the
Meadow and mountain and forest and sea
Sweet is the fragrance of myrtle and pine,
Sweeter the incense we offer to thee,
Brothers. once more round this altar OF thine!
Angels of Bethlehem, answer the strain!
Hark! new brth-song is filling the sky!
Loud as the storm-wind that tumbles the main
Bid the full breath OF the organ reply
Let the loud tempest Of voices reply
Swell the vast song till it mounts to the sky
Angels of Bethlehem, echo the strain!
The programme on Wednesday will include the
overture in Luther's Choral by Nicholai choruses
from the Messiah; "NOn pui d iOri," from La Gle
qnenzG di Tito, by Mozart, sung by Miss Adelaide
Phillips; chorus from Mendelssohns Elijah; "Let
the Bright Seraphim," from Handel's Samson,
sung by Madame Parepa-Rosa; chorus from Handels
Judas MaccabeuS; symphony in major, by Schu-
bert, and selections from IIaydn's Creation.
The third day will be the celebration Of the ami
versary of the battle of Bunker Hil when grand
patriotic programme will be presented. On this oc-
casion the anvil chorus will be performed with
grand chorus full band Of one thousand pieces, one
hundred anvils, several drum corps, artillery bells,
etc, all of which will be very fine, doubtless but the
connection between the anvil chorus and the Battle
of Bunker Hill is not very clear to any but Boston
Imagination.
The festival, however, will be big thing for the
Hub, and as business speculation, at least, it pro-
misses to be a brilliant Success
A Peace Jubilee Two Hundred and Fifty Years
Ago.
1t has just been discovered that the great Boston
peace jubilee is not entirely without parallel in the
| history of the world a musical undertaking. A
! concert very well worthy in many respects to be
| mentioned in the same day with it occurred near
the beginning Of the seventeenth century, at Dres-
den. under the patronage Of the Prince Elector OF
SaXOny The performance was that Of the oratorio
| of 'HolOphemes." The cappellmaster proposed to
| the Prince performance OF extraordinary magni-
| tude and was rewarded for the suggestion with
| gift OF five barrels Of beer from the electoral
brewery, and told to proceed and execute the plan
| the State Treasury bearing all the cost.
| All the musicians OF Germany, France Swtzer-
lanu lIay, ana GOldNU, were invited 10 appear at
the appointed day in the first week in july 1915, and
the performers assembled to the number of $40 nstru-
| mentasts and over a thousand singers. Some Of
the instruments Of the foreign musicians looked very
strange to the Dresden people, and the oldest of all
| were described in the record A Pole from CracOw,
| named Rapotzkp, brought, on a wagon drawn by
eight mules ga terrible double bass" fourteen feet
high, which could only be played by an artist willing
| to run up and down a ladder with his bow. The in
genious cappelmaster cast this into the shade
by tying strong ships rope TO the wing Of wind
mill, to be used as single-stringed violin big saw
| serving for bow. Beside these the large copper
kettles of the brewery and battery of the guns Of
the period were commonplace instruments.
After a week OF rehearsal this concert took place
in the open air the 18th OF july in the suburbs of
Dresden, seats having been built in the form Of an
amphitheatre. The principal male soloist was one
Rumper student from Wttemberg, who was
allowed free TO the public beer to strengthen
his powerful voice, with such excellent effect, that
when his bass chimed in with the instruments above
mentioned, everything trembled." The prima
donna was Bigazzi, from Milan, who received the
greatest applause of the day. as she ought, for she
sung artificial cadences with such fatal vgor that
she died three days afterwards. The greatest violin
player of that day, Signor Scipo, Of Cremono, was
also present and gave spice to the entertainments
by playing on his instrument while holding 1t behind
his back.
The finale OF the programme was grand double