Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-07
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Actively Preparing for Their Coming |
 Concert to be Given at the Hyperion
 January 24th.
 The sale of seats for the Gounod society concert, which will be held at the Hyperion, will begin January 9th (next Monday, con- tinuing to the 20th inclusive. Up to that time the sale is limited to associate mem bers After that time the sale will be open to the general public. The first concert will be held on Tuesday evening, January 24th. The society has engaged Miss Dutton, the prima donna soprano of New York, as solo- ist, and also the Beethoven String quartette. There will be ten numbers on the programme, of which the first will be Gounod's ''Galiia" and the closing one will be the ''Infamma- tus" from Stabat Mater, in both of which Miss D1tton will sing the obligato solos. The other numbers will consist of selections by the string quartette and by the chorus. All the arrangements have been made. The stage will be arched over as in the Thomas concerts aud no expense or pains have been or will be spared to make the concert 8 most brilliant success.
 Associate membership tickets may be ob- tained of any active member of the society l and at Loomis' Temple of Music or Steinert's music store, at both of which subscription ! cts has bees fixed at $3 for four tickets-two | reserved seats at each eoncert-Rnd subscrib- I CTS will have the privilege of selecting seats l in advance of the regular sale of admission | tickets, due notice of which will be given in ! the daily papers. In order to secure first ! choice of seats subscriptions must be handed | in and tickets obtained before the first of ! January.
 The active members of the society are as ! follows
 sopranos-Mrs. S. S. Thompson, Miss Nora Rus sell Miss Zlpha Hazlett, Miss Alice Fechter. Miss
 Miss Gertrude Sanford.
 " M er Mas M M %G hrs Miss l |. Allen, Miss Cornea Mayer, Miss Emma BeadIe,
 TenorsHSax SS Kastner. w. H. Brown, Frank os.
 c Corbin Ai a0nss' A. ' '''olA'0n' T A ADf0' ram
 Bassos-Ericsson Bushnell, Dr. G. M. Bush. R. E
 Manross, s: 2. DeForest, A. R. Cornwall, David | Callahan. c. H. Ford Thomas H. Prentice, Rev De \ Lyon Nichols, Thomas J. Adams, c. J. Bushnell.
 There are already over one hundred asso-
 ciate members of the society. Associate
 membership is gained by subscribing for one
 or more of the associate membership tickets,
 each one of which (price three dollars each) ! entities the holder to two reserved seats al
 each of the two concerts which are to be
 given during the season. Associate mem- I bers are entitled to first choice of seats, as
 above stated. The society is actively en- gagged in taking rehearsais every week under
 the gifted Signor Emile Agramonte, well I known as one of the best musical conductors | iE New York city. The ultimate plan of the
 society, as at present outlined, is that it shall
 form the nucleus of prospective Musical
 Festival society, similar in character to tha;
 in Worcester It is not expected to be 8
 money making organization. The expenses
 will be necessarily heavy, but should there
 be balance in the treasury at the end of the
 season it will be used in the preparation of 8 ! course of concerts 8 still more elaborate
 scale in the succeeding season.