The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-25
Thomas Concert Tour.

The concert tour of Theodore
Thomas and his orchestra begins at
Baltimore On April 10Th. Here ne
will give three concerts and a matt
nee under the auspices of the Balti.
more Oratorio Society, whose chorus
of 400 will assist. The first concert
will be devoted to the Redemp-
ton, the second to the EIiiab.o
the other performances are miseel,
laneouS.
At PlttSburg there will lie festi-
val OF three concerts and a matinee.
beginning April 30th, the Pittsburg
Musical Union lending a chorus of
800 voices. The programmes are
the redemption" portions of the
Messiah and Elijah" and mis-
celaneous. At both these cities a
guarantee fund of $4,000 has been
raised. For matinee and concert
at Cleveland, May 9th. $1,000
has been paid. At Columbus
three concerts, for which Sc eco
has been paid, on May 7 and s. The
concerts at Dayton, May 9, and
Indianapolis, May 10, nave oeen
each sold for $1,000. The perform
anceS at Louisville, May II and L.
assume the proportions Of a festival.
the guarantee being $4,000, and
choral force Of 600 voices VIII be
furnished by the Louisville Musical
Union. The fourth festival is at
Memphis, May IA and Is, with a
guarantee Of $4,000; az Nashville
there will be single concert, sold
for $1,000, on May I6. at Cincin-
natl the May Festival Association
VIII make phOmaS's visit a gala
performance, and the orchestra will
De increased to hundred perform
ers by the addition of local talent.
Sold for $4,000. A fifth festival
takes place at st. Louis, May 1S, 10
and %. Guarantee $500. In ad-
dition to the Redemption" there
will be selections from the Mes.
siah,' the Elijah" the "Eroica"
Symphony and Wagner selections.
AT Kansas city a festival of four
concerts, sold for $1,000, will be
given May q, p, %. In addition
TO the selections above named, the
first act Of "LOhengren" and "Tbe
DamnatiQn Of Faust VIII be
given. The chorus will number
700. Two concerts will take place
at Keokuk on May q and %, guar,
antee $4,000, and four at st. Paul.
May e and 90, guaranty $4,000. The
novelty will be Gade's "Erl-Kinr's
Daughter" At Minneapolis, May
20 and 81 will be a series of four
concerts guaranteed for SS,0a0.
From st. Paul the troop proceeds
to San Francisco, where the great
event OF the tour will take place.
Mr.. Thomas arrives here on June
9th, and the festival begins June
9TH, and continues till the 18th, en-
DraclnG seven concerts. A great
pavilion, seating 500 people, and
htted up at a cost of SIS, 0OO, has been
erected. There will be a Wagner. a
beethoven, Redemption" a Mes.
slah," and an "Elijah" night. A
chorus OF 1000 Is in training. and
the celebrated chorus in GounOd's
oratorio will be rendered bv 400
boys. Miss Thursby will be added
to the soloists. On the 18th and
18th two concerts will be given in
the Mormon Tabernacle, where the
Mormon chorus Of 5000 voices will
be heard. The guarantee fund is
$4,000. Denver has subscribed
$4,000, and build a pavilion for
sevenf cOncertS-June is to %. A
single concert viii be given at
Topeka June IS for S1,25O; at Lea
Yenworth, June %, S1,4OO; st. Jo-
seph, q, 81, 800; Lincoln, %, 81, 500,
and, finally, Omaha, on the 10Th and
3Oth, two concerts and a matinee:
subscription, S4,000-MUsic and the
Drama.