The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-06-28
THE GREAT Musk FEST.
Newark Ready to Welcome
Her Saen gerbund and
MaenneIchor.
JERSEY CITY WELL REPRESENTED.
How the Thousands Of Singers Will
be Taken Care Of The Daily
Programme.
JERSEY CITY WELL REPRESENTED.

ments are about completed for the Six
tenth National Saengerfest which will
be held in this city from July to T. The
fest will begin with grand torchlighs
procession which will take place Friday
evening. On Saturday morning there
will be concert at Caledonian Park, fol-
by the visiting societies. At three o'clock
in the afternoon there will be a reception
concert by the United Singers of Newark,
Jonh WerschiHger. conductor At
eight p. m. there will be a popu-
lar orchestral concert. Frank Van
de Stucken, conductor, which will
! be followed by pyrotechnic display.
The programme for the following days
of thh fest will he:--
Sunday, July 5, 10 a. m.--Grand fual
| rehearsal for first festival CONCERT; 3 p.
M, prize singing, city associations and
societies, third class; p. m, first festival
concert, Frank Van der Stricken, con-
| ductor.
| Monday, July 8, 10 a. in.-Grand final
| rehearsal for second festival concert; 3 p.
M, prize singing. first and second class;
D. M. second festival concert, Frank
Van der Stucken. conductor.
| Tuesday. July Procession in the
morning Awarding Of prizes IN the
| afternoon.
The fest will close with grand picnic.
THE SCHUBERT BUST
The king prize will be bronze bust of
| Franz Schubert, which has been cast by
the Henry Bonnard bronzs foundry, of
/ New York, for Henry Baerer, the artist,
who was also the sculptor Of the Beetho-
| ven memorial in Central Park. The
| bust is of colossal bronze and has an ale
| gorical bus relief. II will be the property
| of the city which wins the prize, and ia
| three feet eight inches high. the exact
dimensions of the Beethoven bust.
| The head OF Schubert is bent down in
| thought like that of Beethoven, and is to
| be placed with the relief early next week
/ on a temporary pedestal ten feet IN height
| in CaIedonian Park. 1t is q seriously
studied. largely handled and effective If
| somewhat conventional piece OF work
| The relief, which nagrows toward the top
| to follow the outer lines OF the pedestal,
| measures two feet in height and three
| feet In width at the bottom and bears
four figures in high relief. The treatment
/ is good but little heavy, the three
| weighed childtea who figure being too
fat for grace.
the ailegorical female figure of music
| In the centre has considerable grace aud
! classlcism, and her draperies in the air
| aud about her body are well treated. The
branch she hollis aloft in her right hand
| Is OF laurel, and in her left hand Is nat1r
ally Tyre. The small boy floating TO the
| left stsums some strlnged instrument of
archaic character. while his two COM
! panions below on the right skip along
| singing from the scores they hold. The
pretty prance of the boy on the extreme
| right il hardly sculptural In character.
The other prizes are thirteen bronze
medallions OF composers by the same
/ sculptor.
The bust..was cut at the foundry No. 1872
| West Sixteenth street. 1t IS about three
! feet eight inches high aud weighs $50
pounds. 1t cost $500, and has taken
eight weeks for the casting alone.
| THE CONTESTANTS FOR THE PRIZE.
| The united societies which Will COM
| pete for this prizeare those Of Brooklyn,
| Baltimore. Troy, Philadelphia, New YORK
1 and TreAtoD. Each cigy's combined
chorus will select its own song.
| None of the Newark societies will be
\ allowed to compete for any OF the prizes.
| as according to custom the cities in which
the fest is held is supposed TO get glory
enough from being the place of the festi-
/ val.
The prize singing for individual So
eieties Will be divided into three classes
| There Will be three prizes in each class
| The societies OF the first class, which is
| composed of organizations having u
! chorus of forty or more men, will sing
! August -Bupgert's four-stanzaed song,
'.ErIinerung." lis strains are meilowy
and breathe the song OF nightingale on
a summers night Inc contestants in
| this Glass will be:--Sociai Quartette Club.
Greenpoint; Liederkranz. Scranton; Arion,
Brooklyn; Concordia, Waterbury, Conn /;
| Maenerchor, Philadelphia; Harmonic,
| Philadelphia; Arion, Baltimore.
| The second class will be composed of
societies having from twenty-five 10
thirty-nine men IN its chorus. The song
| which they will sing for the prizes is
Joseph Rheinberger's die verfailene
! Muehie.n The rushing OF the water at
| the fallen mill, the wall of the wind aud
| the song of maiden lingering near are
described In language which conveys
much of the real sound: The competitors
will be:--Arion, New Haven, Conn; Viii.
liamsburg Saengerbuud, Arion, Jersey
| City Heights; Saengerrunde. Baltimore:
| Hoboken Quartette Club, Hoboken: Ar
better Saengerbund, Philadelphia; Lieder-
kranz, Syracuse; Teutonin. Jersey City;
Harmonic, Baltimore; Washington Saen.
gerbund, Washington, d. C.; Concordia.
BROOKLYN, Brooklyn Saengerbund, Brook
| Ign; Teulonia MaenGerchor, Allegheny
| Pa; Franz Abt Sehueler. New YORK;
| Kreutzer Quaitette Club. New York;
Harmonic. Reading, Pa; Deutscher
Liederkranz, BROOKLYN, Arion Qaartette,
Brooklyn; Philadelphia QuartetIe Club.
! Philadelphia.
The third class is composed OF choruses
from different societies made up from
| twelve to twenty-fOur men, The prize
| song is " T. Bscker's "Maitag." Il is a
merry Song caroiiIng the pleasures of
spring ana .portraying the woods, sun
shine, birds. waterfall and bells.
| The societies which Will compete
in this class are:-C Columbia G. Y,
Philadelphia; Cecilia Mmnnerchor,
Allegheny. Pa; Frederick Glueek
Quartette Club, Brooklyn; Concordia,
Carlstadt. N. j.; G. v. Concordia, East
New York. Brooklyn Aurora, New
| Brunswick; WilKesbarre Saengerbund,
! Wilkesharre, Pa, Ehrenritler G. ",
New York; Gerniania Maennerchor,
Washington, ID. c.; Arbeiter Maennerchor,
Elizabeth. n. j.; Lyra. HoDoken; Con-
cordia. Phlladelhhia; Arbeiter Maenner-
Choir, Baltimore; Franz Schubert Maen-
nercnor, New York; East Trenton Maen-
nerchor, New Jersey; Delaware Saenger-
bund, Wilmington, Del
JUDGES FOR THE PRIZE SINGING.
Tie singers have faithfully rehearsed
the songs under the leadership OF Direc-
tors Van der S ucken and Werschinger
1t is expected that excellent results will
be attained. The judges for the prize
singing are III. Moseuthai. Dudley Buck
Adolph Neuendorff, Max Braun and
Henry Zoeilner.
The judges will determine upon the
winners by a system OF points to be award
ed for information, precision. accentnatisn.
comprehension and delivery. The distri.
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