The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-07
PRESIDENT F. A. THOMPSON.

with concert by the Theodore Thomas
orchestra. The Haydns mustered very
nearly three hundred voices. The plan
list was Marie Krebs, one of the most
celebrated of the time, and the soloists
were Mrs. H. M. Smith, soprano, Mr..
Thurston, tenor, and John Winch, of
Boston, bass. In Mr.. Kotzschmar's
opinion this was one of the finest con-
certs ever given in Maine. The Associa-
ton realized good profit from it, and it
was a great stimulus to interest in music
al matters in this city.
About the year 1878 the Hadyns pro-
duced Prof. John K. Paine's oratorio of
est. Peter" For an orchestra they had
the Germania band, enlarged to about 40
pieces. The Haydns rehearsed it for
five months, and when it was produced
Mr.. Kotzschmar surrendered the baton
to Prof. Paine himself. The great sing
er Adelaide Phillips was ole of the at
fractions of the programme, and Mrs.
Wetherbee was among the local singers.
1t is needless to say that acrowded
house heard this splendid concert.
| The s'Messiah,' with the Germania
band, was also produced by the Haydns.
But the production of the great orato-
rios with the accompaniment of orches-
tras from abroad was too precari-
GUS from financial standpoint to be in
dulged in often by the association.
/ III,
for twenty years, for the benefit of the
season ticket. holders. The tickets adj
NIT to all concerts, and there is no sale
at the door. These concerts are in great
favor with the musical people of the
| city.
The President of the Association for
this year is Mr.. Frederick Tompson, the
well known architect. He is an ardent
lover of music, and is making strenuous
effort to have the association go to Chi
cago with full ranks and full voices.
The chorus will probably number 1925
when it sings at the fair. Only nineteen
OF twenty musical societies of the East
ern States have been invited to partici-
nate. and few of them are more famous
than the Haydns.
The other officers of the Association
this year are:
| Vice President-H. M. Nickerson.
| Secretary-F. III. Cloyes.
| Treasurer-C. L. Tewksbury.
Librarian-H. w. Barnard jr.H
| Councillors-Mrs. 0. Fl. Fellows, Miss ii. u.
Rice, F. w Pierce, FL. A. Merrill, A. W. Jor-
| dan.
The presidents of the Haydn Associa-
ton since it's reorganization in 1860 have
been M. N. Rich, Abner Lowell, Samuel
Thurston, A. M. Smith, John B. Coyle,
who served for a long time, William E.
Gould, Jerome Rumery, and HI. L..
Honghton. who gave place to MI. Tomp-
son at the beginning of this year.
In all these years there has been but
one conductor, the veteran musician and
| composer, who has been a central figure
in the musical circles of Portland for
more than forty years. For forty-one
wears he has played the organ of the old
First Parish church, and he had been
PLAYING it for nineteen years when the
Haydn society started out in the first
bloom of youth. Tt will do no injustice
to the Haydns to say that the honor of
the invitation to the Worlds Fair is
probably due more to the fame of their
conductor than to their own acknowl-
edged accomplishments.
Mr.. Kotzschmar was born in Finter-
waldo, Prussia, on the 4th of July, 1929.
He studied composition with the cele-
brated master, Julius Otto, of Dresden.
In November, 1S48, he came TO this
country, and after a sojourn of few
months in New York and Philadelphia,
arrived in Portland in time to enjoy his
twentieth birthday in the city which was
thereafter to be his home.
From the first Mr.. Kotzschmar was APP
preciated and encouraged here, and he
has already a lasting monument in the
beautiful Kotzschmar Hall. which the