, 1870-06-18
THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL AT NEW
YORK.
Third Day.

Yesterday, foE the first time, the musical
festival seemed to awaken genuine interest
evening, the Rink WIS nearly full. For this
grateful change there were several reasons
In the first place, the prices wero reduced; IN
the second place, the million Wsfe invited to
come in and hear what tho million can easiy
understand; in the third place, the absurd pre-
was virtuauy abandoned, aud there wAs hardly
scrap Of classical music on either programme.
The love Of Slan-BAnR, which seems to be
latent in the bosom Of ali Americans. wxs re-
lied upon TO attract the multitude in the sfter-
noon, while for the evening, the promised
make place for repetition Of N the miscel
lanenus pieces which had bean most warmly
praiaed It the previous concerts. Tho day
performance was given up 70 Mr. Gilmore and
The ausio of the Present. The Anvil Chosua,
si III red saaa sh5ts artillery IT, orKsn I'D
ly through The cloud Of harmony; "Ths star
spsng1ed Banner" with shouting, and waving
vsre all there. TO the average appedte i
must hsve seemed that al the dellcacies ii
we may be pardoued the expression) Of the
Boston Jubilee were crowded into one after
noon. No wonder then that JatHey and Long
Island poured forth their hosts, and the sa-
the surrounding villages girls dubbed to
| 9ather, took young man on shAres, and
brought him in to the festival Families
mado day Of it, retiring by squads
between the parts to dine sumptuously in the
reffehhnent room on cake and pop. Tha
young women who jump up every five min
utas to LOOK for their friends, and when they
hayo found them can't rest till they have e1-
changed mods md semtaEiculate but totally
lnaunible greetings; the young woman who
think the ln5sdmndsus 'tso NICE" aud the
1yoRe ffrh 1karn f1S7 H.
fall in love with Carl Rosa and gaze with awe
upon Max Maretzek the young women who
press the American flag to their boeoms liter
ally as we'll as metaphorica1ly, and need to be
tied down ut all the patriotic cnaxes-theso
all came to the Rink in their brightest gowns,
very pretty place, upon the whole, they
made OF it. Nay, it was our own good for
tune, riding up that pleasant afternoon in one
OF the sumptuous cars Of the Thirl-avenue
Railroad Company, to be placed next living
embodiment of Hail Columbia, fair girl, to
wit /: 1obed in the very bluest OF bright Llue
silks. with q shawl OF blood red and white
stripes. Need ne say where abe got out?
Upon the miscellaneous portions OF the af-
terDoon concert, it iH not necessary to e1pend
any criticism, for the critical faculty on occas-
iors like this is little out off place. Mr.. Ar
buckle, the Boston viRtuoso gsve scornet solo,
not the air from Attila" set down for him
lat not single concert 20 far have the pro-
grammes been adhered to-. but an ,arr1age-
me1t for his instrument Of violin fantasia Of
singing in the !" Int1ammatus" and 81 The Stag
Spangled Banner" charmed more cultivated
e7rs with the lovely Rach-gounod "Ave Ms-
Tia y and theEo we're some effective orrhes-
tral selections, led, like all the other afternoon
pieces, BY Nr. Gilmore They went we'll. for
some people might be led to suppose from the
peculiar n8tuIe Of his fame, but an
excellent and careful leader. The fea-
ture Of the day, however, w.s the
Anvil Chorus: About fifty men from the oper.
choruaes had been Chosen to WELD the ham
mers: They were dressed in black trousers,
Ked flannel shirts, and glazed hats. That Is
not e1actly the costume OF 6paniah gypaiea OF
tho period Of Maurice and AzucenA 1whataver
thEt period may have been), but it is q handy
and effective uniform, and tickles that extraor-
dinar{ in,pulse which makes the majority Of
Americans clap their hands whenever they soc
a counterfeit fireman. So when the fifty ha1a-
nerers filed upon the stage in four parallel !
lines. there rose first subdnod exclamation OF
Lcok, look: there they come!" and then q
round OF applause. When they faced about at
tue word Of command and let their hammers !
fall at once upon the anyiIs there WAS another |
round. Then the chorus began. As tho great !
moment approached the leader grew more and
ready the electric wifes with which he was to
touch OF the artillery placed outside. The
hammers rose IN the air. The conductor
stretched out bath aIms. There was an instant's
pau.e; and then Mr.. Gilmore began to move
himself like the wnlking-beam Of steam en-
sounds twenty-five anvlls; the left arm sinks,
and "clapg" go the other half. As the ham,
mers rise and fall IN perfect tins (fos they zre
welded by men who make the Anri1 Chorus
part Of the business OF 1ife(, and the cannons
roar in duo order, he gets hottar and hotter,
tv1&- r. fr.I 4 -zk
ment. the ru,npus: ends. Then Captain Of
Artillery comes in from tbs yard, and, ignor-
ing the young NAN with the battery, sits down
proudly, as who should say, "Good people, |
fired those gums" OF course, this quintas- |
sence Of Slam Bang made an immense sensa,
to have it all the rest of the afternoon.
1t went of even more successfully than I
i did in Boston, partly because
these chorus singers beat the anvils with moro l
perfect regularity than the unmnsical real
firemen who were employed on the former oc-
casion, and partly because this building is 30
much smaller than the Boston Coliseum
The evening concert being made mp chiefly |
Of pieces ne hare already noticed, calls for no !
special remark. Miss Kellogg repeated tho
being accompanied in the latter BY La Franc
instead Of BHgnoli. The Inhsmmatus" was
repeated with Mra. Caroline Mchings- Bernard |
instead Of Parepa for the solos, All, 60 far as
we have heard, went either pretty well or very
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