The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-21
CINCINNATI MAY FESTIVAL
IN Outline of the Musical Feast In Gin.
Cinunti thlt Week.

IN Outline Of the Musical Feast In Gin.
cinnnti thI' Week.
In an illustrated article about May
Music FcstIvall In Cincinnati, occupy.
Ing three pages OF Lirr8r'1 Iptckiy Of May
18th. Mr.. Il. Z. Krchblcl, musical editor
Of the Now York Tribune, writes as Iol.
lows:
"Wlthin tho period OF May 90, %, q,
y and 20, sgvGn concerts win be given,
two Of them being matinoc1 on the
afternoons Of Thursday and Saturday.
At these afternoon concerts tho pro.
Gtammos will DO OF miscellaneous
character, tho evenings being set apart
Tor tho choral works. These compost
lions will DO MOudolssohu'B Elijah,
liorAtio ". Parkor'S "llora Aoyisslma."
Drahns' Song Of Destiny" Goetz'a
18TH Psalm" BccthovCn'B Ninth
Symphony, twoacenes from lIubin7tcin's
sacred opera Moss, aud tho "Rcquiom"
Of BorlioS. The principal orchestral
works TO be performed arc Dvorak's
Second Symphony, brahms Fourth,
Dcethoven's Fourth and Ninth, BaclI's
Suit in Is minor, Sclubert'B "Unln.
ishUd," Lists "Preludes," Berloz's
overture, "Benyenuto Cellini," TschRi-
kowsky's fantasy overture, Romeo
and Juliet" and Wagnor's "KNiser-
marsch." Tho choral forces will be
those already indicated; the instru.
mental. Mr. Theodore Thomas's Chicago
orchestra, augmented BY musicians
from New York. The policy which The
Festival Association has pursued from
the beginning Of choosing tho solo
singers from tho most eminent excm-
plars OF tho lyric art, has also been adj
hcrrd to.
"At the head OF the list standa Mrs..
Emma Eamos-S!ory. whose career, be-
gun in Boston, lg reaching its culmina-
ton in tho operate institutions OF
Paris, London and New York. as the
loading Ginger Of tho festival. Madame
Eames.Story will take her place in tho
company OF some OF tho most eminent
singers Of the modernopcra and concert
stage, such as Mcsdames Lehmann and
Ma.erna, but those who have heard
her know well that our fair countrywo.
man will hold her own in oil respects
with the great ones who have come from
beyond the Atlantic. The group Of for.
eign artists that will take part in the
concerts this year consists OF Niles An
toinette Trebelli, daughter OF Madame
Trebelli- Bettini, German who won
fame in England, and was heard hero
in tho first season OF Italian opera at
the Metropolitan Opera House; Mr..
Ben Davies, Il Welsh tenor, who has
voice OF manly quality and most con-
vinclng style; Mr.. Pluuket Greene, Il
basso, who has delighted Eastern audi
onces for two seasons with the intelli.
gence and ,asteEulness OF his singing and
tho loneliness OF his voice; and Mr..
Watkin NIiIIs,a sonorous bass.barytone,
who has for q decade been feature OF
the English choral festivals.
Tho remaining solo singers are
Americans: Mrs. Carl Alyes, contralto,
and Mr.. William II. Riegcr, OF New
York; and Miss Ida Marguerite Smith,
contralto OF Cincinnati. 1t has been
Mr.. Thomas policy in the arrange
ment OF the festival programmes to
conserve music whose excellence has
been approved rather than to mako
propaganda Tor young composers. Al
the came time he has recognized the
possibility aud the duty oil the festivals
as O patriotic undertaking to promote
appreciation Of American composers.
At three OF tho earlier festivals choral
works written for the OCCASION by Dud-
ley Buck, John K. Paine and ". ".
Giichrist were performed. For this
festival he has selected work by
young American, 1loratio W. Parker,
now orGanist and choir director Of
Trinity church, Boston. which has won
popular and critical approval in
both New York and Boston
u setting in the cantata style
OF the medieval hymn. "Hora Novissi-
ma" 1t is happy colncidcnce-per-
haps not wholly iortuitous-that the
four other living composers OF eminence
whose works have found places In the
festival scheme are representatives OF
different phases OF the national tenden-
cy which has taken possession OF
music within the . last generation.
Brahms is tho only one OF the four who
may be said to stand for tho art in its
cosmopolitan character. but as sym
phoni3t he represents tho art form
which Ia peculiarly the product OF Ger
many; Antonin Dvorak is the brightest
light that the Bohemian school has pro-
duced; Rubensteln the lofties: exemplar
Of the Russian school, though his man
ner is not SO pronouncedly national ns
il that OF some OF his younger conIem-
porarics; and Goldmark. IN Austrian,
consciously or unconsciously. has per.
mitted his strains to become tinged
with the laugnorou4 color of the Orient,
in obedience to racial predictions"