Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-06-11
THE BOSTON NATIONAL PEACE
JUBILEE.

A national musical jubilee, to COM
memorate the restoration of peace
throughons the United States, is to
be held in Boston next week, commen-
cling on Tuesday, the 18th and ending
on the following Saturday. According
to accounts it is to be the ''grandesr
musical festival ever known in the
history of the world and among 9TH
er features equally immeasurable and
unprecedented there will be. in the mu-
sical performance, "the greatest orator.
10 chorus ever assembled, comprising
over 500 vocal organizations, who have
been in rehearsal many MONTHS" and
who viii be accompanied by a 'sgrand
orchestra of 1000 musicians, selected
from the best orchestras, bands and
musical associations in the United
States. Aside from its being "the first
grand national reunion since the close
of the war; the ''greatest feast of sub
lime and inspiring harmony that has
ever been heard in any part of the
worId'' is promised, together with many
oIher things 500 numerous to men
tion.''
A correspondent says the Coliseum
prepared for the event by the iabilato-
'ry BOstonians is an immense add lefty
cOncert-rOom, covering three acres and
"a half of ground. 1t is rapidly an
prOsching completion. 1t Will sea,
Comfortably, it is estimated, twenty
thousand auditors and more than twelvp
thousand chOristers. It is calculated tn
afford standing and sittiug-room for
tilty thousand persons. Five hundred
feet in leugGh, three hundred feet wide.
and a hundred feet high, perfectly ven
tIlated, weIl-hghted both by day and
by night, substantially built, aud hand
sOmely decorated. Boston has real cause
70 be VAN of her enterprise in erecting
10 so rapidly, and in Investing the vaSI
sums that have already been expended
IN this and other necessary accessories
of the Jubilee. Her faith has already
removed mountains of doubt, and
changed I IN thousand ironical
soeers into genuine and hearty APP
pl4use.
The same writer further says the
coming chorus viii be constituted O
from II 600 to 20, 600 vol ices and of nearly
], 100 instruments, besides such accessO-
ries as anViIs, artillery, and peaIs OF
cLurch-bells. There will be, at least
II 600 trained adult voices, chosen from
the brst mnsical societies in the country
and on Saturday it is calculated tha
Gnero VI De kUsOOO cnlluren from our
public schools.
Il Will interest your musical readers,
who may not havesee the programmes
to know how the Orchestras are made
up.
There will be two distinct bands-the
chcrai orchestra, which will accompany
the vocalists and The grand orchestra.
which will exclusively perfOt m the in
strumental music.
The grand orchestra will have $50 in
strumenIs: of Bb cOrnets Bb alto horns.
and Ed Fasso tubas, rs each of BbclarI-
onets. Ed cOrueUs, tenor CrOmbones, and
small drums, so each of pIccaloes and
fu'es, Bb tenor horns, bass trombOnes,
Bb baritones, and bass drums, 25 each
of Ed clarionets, 20; Of cymbals and tri-
angles 10 each.
The choral orchestra is made mp of
430 stringed and "a wind instruments.
The stIinged instruments consist OF
215 (frst and secODd) vI9lins. 65 violas
aud 65 violinctllos, and S5dOubie bases.
The wind Instruments are flutes,
cIarionets, 8 ObOes, 8 b bassOORs, Il horns,
trumpets, 9 trombon tu bas, and 10
dFumss Besides sll these, there win be
a grand organ, powerful enough t.
blend into Que harmonious whole this
vast valume of sweet sound.
The music selected Ter the concerts
stay-s1 is Uf q noble and strong type.
worthy of the occasion, the nation, and
The combination