The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-25
PEACE JUBILEE.

next on Boston Common, argues a lamentabl
degree of mental remoteness from the chic
seat Of civilization and loyalty in this cour
thy. We blush to think that through joui
nalistic delinquency, we may have helped t
keep the public mind in darkness as to thi
g(ee)lorious enterprise which is to be consum
mated in the most toploftical, transcendental
thaumaturgical compound of ''trooly loil
clap<rap, balderdash and bosh that will hay
been Witnessed within the sacred precincts o
the Club" since the Club" commenced Il
''rotate through all creation" Well, we vii
try to make amends for our short-coming il
this particular, and thus mollify the offended
Minerva Of the Modern Athens" The pro
| jector and leader of this enterprise bears the
terrestrial cognomen of Gilmore, name asso
ciated with famous effusion of noise and
explosion of pyrotechny and display of fun.
merry in the gorgeous days when Banks was
military satrap in Louisiana, and Hahn
was his gubernatorial understrapper. Indeed,
this musical boanerge does our poor city the
honor to say that the germ of his present
grand conception originated in New Orleans
and metallic blare, and racket, and thunder,
invented and achieved by him in celebration
of the event when Don Quixote Banks made
Sancho Panza Hahn governor of the State of
Barataria. He refers to that triumphant
occasion in answer to journalists of New
York who, jealous of the mammoth organ
and other eclipsing bignesses in Boston, pre-
tend to smile incredulously at the unheard of
magnitude of the projected festival "Gen-
tlemen," he proudly says, Gin New Orleans,
on the 4th of March, 1864, on the occasion of
the Inauguration of Gov. Hahn, a concert
Quoted. There was chorus of ten thousand
voices, selected from the children of the
public schools, and an orchestra of five hun
dred musicians. This chorus and orchestra,
with artillery and infantry, and all the bells
in the city ringing, poured out in the anthems
of liberty over regenerated Louisiana That
was success. And this cannot help being
success as we'll"
And no doubt the second will be as signal
triumph in the sense of testimony ain
honor of the restoration of peace throughout
the land" as was the first in the sense of
testimony in honor of liberty and regenera-
ton. The peace to be celebrated in the COM
ing jubilee will be on a par with the liberty
which was sung in the Gilmore-Banks-
Hahn musical splurge in 1864. There was
nothing of either in the latter case and if
there will be anything of one or the other or
of both, in the former, it will not be the fault
of those who have been enacting for four
years the exquisite irony of organizing peace
with the appliances of war and establishing
liberty amid all the conditions of despotism.
Nevertheless, let us glance at the progRmme
Of this "Great National Peace Jubilee and
Musical Festival" We read in its special organ
that it is to be held in coliseum" erected
On Boston Common, five hundred feet long by |
three hundred feet wide, capable of accommo- |
dating fifty thousand people, and arranged |
inside similarly to the largest and most ele-
CANT Of theaters, with parquette, parquette
,ircles, dress circles and balconies, and in adj.
lition grand promenade around the whole.
This exceeds anything Of the kind in ancient
1ome, though in point of capacity it does not
ome up to the primitive theaters of ancient
ireece, which were as wide as the horizon
nd as high as the blue heavens which formed
heir domes. But this was only natures work,
nth which the ineffable glories of the amphi-
heatrical display in the Modern Athens"
corns the very idea of comparison. The ju-
lice, according to the outgivings of the same
ryan, is to be inaugurated at noon on the
9TH of June by prayer, the delivery of adj
resses Of welcome, and also "congratu-
tory national address on the restoration of
eace" The musical programme will open
it'll the national anthem, "Hail Columbia"
ndered in this manner:
Symphony" Hail Columbia once through
the iull band of 1000 performers.
10000.
Second Ierse-Full band, grand chorus and
THIRD dng last FerSe-Full band of 1000 grand
orus OF 10000, bells Ginning, drums rolling, to-
nty 1SDg, and cannon pealing in the distance
exact time with the music-the bells rung aHd
nnons fred by electricity from the music stand.
The national airs Of England, France, Russia,
ussia, Austria. and other nations, are to be rem.
red with similar effects.
What effects are meant as resulting from
rformance of sill those airs we can readily
nceive. If England, France, Russia, Prus-
4, Austria, and all other nations, including
nerica, are not stunned into amazement
d do not stop their ears to shut out the
deous storm of sounds, it will only be be-
use they have no nerves to be shocked and
ears to be tortured.
Further remark at this time is unnecessary
e have said enough to illustrate the musical
ste and ambition which reside at the Hub
Creation In spite, however, Of the clap
lp, balderdash and bosh which characterize
3 enterprise, let us hope that we are at :
lgth to have peace which will be more gen. n
ne than either the music or the grandeur of q
ming jubilee. L
We apain in the mama of the r1aopla of | :