The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-06
THE SENGERFEST.
PREPARING FOR THE GREAT
EVENT OF 1879.
The Hard Work of Managers and
Singers to be Crowned
With a Grand
Success.

For many months past the Committee
having in charge the work of prepar'
ing for the twenty-first meeting of the
North American Sangerfest, which is to as
semble in this city in few days, have been
quietly but steadily at work attending to the
numerous details OF the great undertaking,
No one outside of those engaged has any
thing like correct idea of the immense
amount OF time and labor involved in these
preliminary arrangements Night aftel
night the various committees have met and
transacted business, and day after day the
pubic-spirited members, upon whom the
real work has fallen, have devoted theii
time and energies to the multiplicity of dL'
ties which have fallen to each of them.
That this work has been thoroughly, gen
erously and energetically done, is already
evident from the encouraging reports thai
are coming in, and the unmistakable as
surances we have that the twenty-first
Sangerfest is to be in all respects the most
important that has yet taken place. II
will be notable event in the history OF ev-
cry society that participates, ana no small
part of the glory will rebound to Cincin-
natl, whose musical taste made such a high
standard of music necessary, and to the
energy and pride of whose people is due
the determination to make the Ssengerfest
q musical event on such a magnificent
scale.
Societies managers and citizens long ago
determined to make this Sengerfest great
in all senses of the word, but first of all great
in the character of the music to be pre-
sented, the artists to render the solo
parts, as we'll as the societies that form the
chorus. OF the latter there was no ques-
ton.
The Societies have made National repu-
tatons, and under the supervision of Pro-
fessor Eckert. who has travelled from city
to city, they have been dl6 led to uni
formity that will be strikingly apparent
when they are brought together. 1t was
only necessary to secure such soloists as
would do them credit in the rendition of the
great works selected for the S,engerfest.
This was fully met by the engagement of
the following artists: Soprano, Madame
Otto-A Alvsleben, Miss Annie B. Norton,
Miss Emma Heckle and Mrs. Flora Mueller;
contralto, Miss Emma Cranch and Miss
Josie Jones; tenor, Mr.. II. Alexander
Bischoff and Mr.. Carl Fritsch; baritone,
Mr.. Franz Remmertz; bass, MIR. Myron w.
Whitney. All of these ladies and gentle
men, with the exception of four, have been
heard in the capacity they will fill next
week in our city, heretofore; all but those
excepted have sung at our May Musical
Festival, and are recognized favorites here
1t is source of much satisfaction that
such high order of talent was found right
at home; ii adds the element of local
patriotism and pride to the other pleasure
BILE feelings awakened by the festival. Miss
Heckle is but recently returned from a
stay of nearly years duration in Germany,
where she has been singing in concerts and
studying under the excellent guidance Of
Prof. Julius Stockhausen. Save that which
she acquired in this trip her musical cdu-
cation was received here, and she is pupil
of Miss Clara Baur of the Conservatory of
Music, with which institution she was in
later years connected as vocal teacher. Mrs.
Flora Mueller is well known through
several years of connection with the Ger
man operatic and local concert stage and
as soloist at the Mound-street Jewish Tenn
pie and Trinity NJ. f. Church. Miss Norton
has written her name high in the local lists
during the season of Music Hall concerts
just closed Miss Cranch's reputation is
national, made so by her artist tours with
the Theodore Thomas orchestra in its prime.
She was born in this city, and made her
first studies with Mrs. Edmund Dexter, the
sooist at the last Sangerfcst given in ST.
Louis. Afterward she continued her stud
les with Errani, in New York, and finished
them with San Giovanni, in Milan. In ad-
dition to voice which is phenomenal for
its purity and musical quality, Miss Cranch
has method which is well nigh unparal-
leled in this country. Miss Jones is on a
visit to this, her native city, wearing a
crown OF laurels won by career in Great
Britain with Carl Rosa's English Opera
Troupe. Her education, too, was begun
here, under the care OF Signor Alfisi, and
completed, in a theoretical sense, in
Milan. For a number of years Miss Jones,
under the nom de theater Miss Josephine
Yorke las enjoyed the best school in the
world, the stage, and much of her reputa-
ton has been earned before the audiences
of the worlds metropolis, London. Messrs.
Bischoff and Fritsch are both residents Of
New York, where one name or the other of
the two figures upon every concert pro-
gramme containing work of any magni-
tude. Mr.. Bischoff sang here in the festi-
val OF 1875, and Mr.. Fritsch in that of last
wear, Mr.. Remmertz and Mr.. Whitney are
also familiar to our people from the festi-
walls of the past. They are Americas rep,
resentative male singers and Mr.. Whitney
has so successfully extended his fame that
he is quite as familiar an appearance on the
concert stages of London as on those of his
home, Boston. Mr.. Remmertz was one of the
soloists of the Sangerfest of 1877, held in
Louisville.
The following is list of the singing soci,
cites that will participate in the Festival,
their numerical representation, and in the
case of the societies from her cities. the
places where they will be quartered during
the continuance of the Festival:
CINCINNATI SOCIETIES.
A. p. A. M9nnerchor.
Concordia MRnnerchOr. 81
Druid MRnneTChor. %
Germania MPnnerchor. 81
Good Fellow l.
Harngari MnnneTchor.... II
IIerwegh !.
IedeTk ranZ J.
81
Odd-fellow SRngerChor z
OrpheuS o
SChweitZer MfenneTchOT....-. =
St. Cecilia MHnnerchOr........... .............. 2
Turner MHnnCrCnOr o
Festival chorus (mixed voices .,........"....4W 4W
Buffalo-DeutscherS &c. Craw