, 1870-06-26
Tho New Toxk Festival Ffxxle.

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The great beethoven festival, Of which ne
have hesrd 20 much Of late, has turned out to
be fzele, farce, and fraud. It Was az-
zle In point Of public support; farce in point
Of uaasic; and : fraud in point OF pAying ita
indebtedness: :" It commenced by celebrating
birthday Of Beethoven in June which ehould
have been located IN December. Only two Of
his pieces we're on tho programmes, and these
vera 10 ehAmefully mutilated and murdered
that it would havo been only ample justice to
the greAt muzician to hAvn omitted bis nAme
altogether from tho programmes and saved II
from such sac1ilsge. Ths managers werc hard
up for noneJ from hrnt to last, lad had to
run their f.ces to give the concerts
At al The cho1us singers struck. The Or
chestrA struck. Tbs aovil-beAtazB struck.
The artillnrymen struck. Kellogg struck aud
WAS vrathy. parepA struck and WIS disgusted.
Gilmore did not have to strike "a he wxs
shrewd enough to get his pay in advance.
Money was raised from the chorus membera
BY selling them water at two oentH per glass
The uahers struck, and, indeed, tbs whole oc-
casion was \ striking one The audiences
were Email throughout. There were no pro
gr1mmes In the house. because the printeta
would not print them without pay. IA police
force Ind to be employed to keep the chorus
einge1s from breaking ont in an en,ettte. Tho
musical part Of the population took no IN
terest IN it, foreseeing from the first
that it would be 4 hu1nbug. The Germans,
I without whom music on my large ecalo il in
possible, were not consulted, and consequent
| " hid good laugh over this Barnumized At
tempt Of tbs New rorkera At musk and
9ewttezlithkxi1. The most important Of the
Sousic7l papers gave it little encouragement.
The Boston Handel and Haydn Society, the
Hnest vocal organization On the continent,
offered their services free. on condition thAt
their railroad md hotel hlla were paid, Aod
found themselves lodged in secood-class
hotels, sescn in room. And thus, from first
to lAst, eve1y thing connected With It was =
dismal failure, and to-day tho majority Of
those who took part in it are studying how Ia
get THAR salasies cut OF Grover'a empty box
There might be Some grounds for sympathy
in al these circumstances, 1ero it not for the
! fact that, last spring, whno Boston gave it,
successful and magnificent jubilee, Nav Yorl
| pcoh-poohed, and sneFred 1t, and belttlsd It
vsundngly proclaiming that great musica
festival could only BE- given in thAt city. III.
experiment has now been tried. and New 1orl
viii now probably be content to sing small ant
take its place rs \ musical city by the side o
Cheyenne and Pau-Paw, Thcso II
| buS txo cities in the Union whicl
can Eve theee monster fest
!. vaia With any degree Of success, md these a.
Boston and Chicago, both Of which have th
sequisite tunda, enterprise, and good taate
the muaicsana to perform and the public t
ratronire. In its Jubilee, Boston represents
, the muaic1f culture Of New England. It
now the turn Of Chicago to inxu4ur1te Astml
lar anterpzise, only on E1a.der scale, to rer
l reeant the rludrl culture Of the West, Onl
let eou,c one in2ugurate the move IN Chicagt
taking ttno to build the foundations dceE
broad and strong, and Illinois, with the otht
: great Northwestern 6tatea, will turn ont Ii
a | men singers and women singers, the bi
dIurna and big organs. the anvila from he
T. countless shops and the cannon from her y
0 morieA, the big fddles and httie 6ddlcs, Ii
4 &rumreta and tra,nbanes By Thousands An
tens OF Thousands, which will send up
q volume Of sound from these grand praii<
l. fka the rushing Of mighty river, hke tt
r. myriad tcnes which JnbA hard when he II
TUNED from his weary wanderngn. In Il
+ rnsahisnc, Nov York should continue to sin
l. smsl1: to enjoy ruutie IN Homeopathic VI
r. II the beer gardens and its great barn, Il
= Academy OF Music, and not TO bosst Of Il
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