The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-23
Tho Cincinnati Festival.

| (EFom the Chicago Trlbunc)
The arrangements for the Cincinnati
Musical Festival, which commences on
the 9Th OF HAY GnsueiDg, arc now suE-
hciently developed to indicate that 1t will
be the most important musical event
which has ever taken place in this coun.
try. Protlting by the results OF the two
Boston JubilcGs, Mr.. Theodore Thomas,
the director of the festival, has avoided
the features which led to their failures,
and has arranged his prCliminaries in
such shape that the musical success OF
the Festival Is assured, whatever may be
the financial result. Tho Cincinnati FGs.
tivAl will differ from Mr.. Gilmores nam.
m0ih affairs 1871 and 1872 in the utter
absence Of all sensation. There Will be
no salvos Of artillery, no ringing OF church
bells, no pounding Of anvils, no gymnas-
tics Of inspired harlAQuins like Strauss.
no show OF any sort, and no flourish Of
trumpets In their place there will DO
conscientious effort to produce vocal and
instrumental music of high order, with
proper regard to the expression OF music,
rather than desire TO produce noise.
Undoubtedly there were many grand e.
ieCts in both the Boston Jubilees; but tho
general result was not encouraging 10 the
theory that thousand players and TWEEN
~ thousand singers arc capable Of height.
ening tho effect Of music. Mr.. Thomas
has avoided this dangerous mistake; in
deed, 1t Is due to his keen musical preCep.
tons to say that he has never believed IN
1t, and from the very first prOphesied that
the Boston Jubilees would not aid any
new or valuable results to the musical
status Of the country. His chorus, COM
pRratively, is not large one, but 1t has
been carefully picked, and It will come
upon the stage with the advantage OF
long, and careful, and even severe train
ing The Boston chorus was to unwieldY
to handle and never bad any mass reheaT.
sals. The Cincinnati chorus is made up
OF societies which have not only rGhearsed
separately but together, under Compe-
tent drill.master. The backbone OF the
orchestral forces will be Theodore Thorn.
as own magnificent organization, aug
Aentedsby about and equal number of
players, who have been carefully sGlec-
ted by Mr.. Thomas himself in various
ClblSos uG 6OAuloko huNg hlSO DEGL NllOsSA
in the same careful manner; not for any
exceptional abilities or for the singing OF
show pieces, but because they ore con-
sCientious singers, and will heighteD the
general effects Of their artistic interpreta-
tons. Mrs. Edmund Dexter, OF Cincin-
natl, a pupil Of Garcia, who has an envia.
bic reputation among musicians Tor the
purity OF her voice and her artistic
method, and Mrs. II. NJ. Smith, Of Boston,
who is well known in the West as an ac-
complished vocalist, are the soprano solo.
ists. Miss Annie Louise Cary, who first
made herself name even in the shadow
Of Nilsson, will have the cUntraltO num-
bers. Mr.. Nelson Varley will be the solo
tenor. He has not yet sung in tho West,
but in Boston, and other Eastern cities
where he has appeared, he has taken very
high rank. Mr.. NJ. W. Whitney, the bass |
soloist, is the best and trucst Oratorio sing
or in the United States; and Mr.. Rudolph.
son, the baritone soloist, hardly needs any |
introduction to the American musical
public. With such Rsextette Of soloists
as these, it may be safely inferred that the |
great works on the programme will be
given.