The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-04
THE GILMORE JUBILEE FESTIVAL.
Eminent Artists 10 be Here With tn,
Great Band, IhnrsdaY.

Eminent Artists 20 be Here With the
Great Band, Thursday.
Nearly everybody knows something
more or less about tiilmore's great Boston
jubilee, the first of which was held twenty
years ago. They were the largest and most
successful musical undertakings ever
known. and Gilmore's name has been a
power ever since, as his wonderful exeen-
tive abilities were then. Whenever the
name of Gilmore is mentioned jubilee
always suggests itself. and when the great
leader began 20 take his band ont on con-
cert tours the people began to want the
Anvil Chorus, with its ringing steel &C
Compartment, and the ''star spangied
I Banner etc, with the booming of cam
mon 10 add to its power and stir up enthu-
siasm, as in the great Boston festivals
Mr.. Gilmore first added a few anviis, and
&c pleased the people who. in the memoir
able saying of Oliver Twist, asked for
tmore" So in the spring of 1885 he
stidsd. also, artillery. and increased his
FOCAL forces from one soprano to fun
auartette.
For four months a special train of four
! nrs, bearing the aggregation was pulled
/ through America with an average travel OF
ever $50 miles per day, visiting the larger
| aties, from Portland. Maine. TO Austin,
sexas. and Denver, Col. and from New
/ srIeans and Florida to Montreal. Quebec,
/ and other Canadian cities
| Some of the more pronounced successes
/ wre in Philadelphia, where the tremen-
| Gus Academy of Music could hardly hold
| te crowds: Pixsburg, where she largest
| ainory vas oseraowed repeatedly Detroit,
| wsere the Our concerts were ovsrcrowded;
| 0sand Rkpids. where the largest hail, seat
/ ia neSny 1909 people, was al sold out
i daV6n advance; baltimore, where for
Tie DAYS IL was the most crowded aud
SENSATIONAL affair that fair Southern city
hA ever known: indianapolis. where the
I enarmous Tomhnson building could not
( acompodAte the attendance. also Colum-
/ bts Harrisburg Providence, and numer-
I ousother cities, where the same general
/ success and crush was witnessed
4 hiring the summer Mr. Gilmore gave
/ Nea York city tao weeks OF the jubilee,
and even in the metropolis people went
fang Wild screaming with enthusiasm and
cheglng for the great Gilmore, who r.
wifoat doubt the most popular OF Al pub
&. tic kaaers. Nearly rocco people attended
/ or .aempted Ia attend, hut thousands were
/ turad away from tie spacious amphi-
the Ser at every performance. What CD.
+ mos will bring here is tue same huge aud
I relnfkahie affair. with the anyils and
aftiAry, his great band, soloisss and vocal
artiS.
re Of these superb concerts viii be
1 givesa at the Armory ball nexa Thursday.
/ one q ? O'Clock IN the afternoon and the
/ otheat : O'Clock in the evening. rAs the
/ Cammnini Concert Company appears in
/ contraction with the band, these concerts
J Will musical event ia SeaItles history.
/ Thos8who attend The afternoon entertain
mentain have the pleasure OF hearing
signc Italio Campanini, the great tenor.
nud Eapse who 20 at night viii hear MyTon
/ " eAltneY, the basso.
/ 1t iaimost unnecessary TO print extern
sssa rsSs enconiumS regarding Sienor Cam
I psniE the greatest OF tenors. Al Ameri-
/ cans sho can read have seen the cot
/ ulunssfiavish and ecstatic praise bestowed
( upon Ampanini for wears an& are already
! (amiiit with she fact thai by si critics be
has h4n awarded the highest position
. ever lAd by any artist as an exponent OF
! the snr roles Of Italian opera. Nature
! favores Cantpanini with per:eet physical
being. operative qualities Of voice, and
I tue iasHattve idealisEa Of an artist while
his EXCEPTIONALLY brilliant assi extensive
{ expsrietces have enabled HIN TO bring
all OF tese great elements 70 the highest
sievrsc 4 development IL Is nos strange.
there's ed that he hiss 50 unauesiion3hiy
been retraed As The FIRST living Tenor. That
/ he is ssfin the full enjoyment " his arts
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