The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-14
READY FOR THE FESTIVAL.
Preparations Complete for the Big Mu-
steal Event-Opening Programme.

So far as can be done in advance, prep
a~rations for the opening concert of the
sixth annual May Music Festival, to-mor-
row night, are now complete. The stage
has been extended so that there may be
room for the great chorus, the central sec
ton of seats on the main floor has been
divided by an aisle, SO as to facilitate the
seating of the audience, the hall has been
decorated. and thoroughly cleansed, and
arrangement have been made for handling
the large audiences that are expected to
hear the concerts expeditiously. The May
Festival directors held a session yesterday
and disposed of various matters connected
with the festival. 1t was decided that the
evening concerts should begin promptly at
Sis ID. m. and the afternoon concerts at
2:30. The holders of tickets who are not in
their seats at the time Of beginning will
not be allowed to enter the hall until a
convenient place in the programme is
reached. In coming to the hall carriages
will approach from the west, and, in de-
parting, from the east. There will be po-
lice about the entrance to see that this or
der is enforced.
The advance sale of seats. up to Saturday
night, amounted to something like two
thirds of the estimated expenses. The di-
IfcIOIS expect lHdl lit SlOod "a II
town that will be here this week Will bring
the receipts up to the expenses City people
who have not yet secured seats, and there
are plenty of choice locations left for all
the concerts in the various parts of the hall,
would do well to do so to-day, as The de-
mand is expected TO greatly Increase to-
morrow and Wednesday. There is evidence
that Emma Games will prove TO be the
great drawing card here, as in all other
cities in which she has sung, and from
present Indications the entire seating ca
pacity of Tomlinson Hall will be sold out
when she sings Wednesday evening. Nine.
Games will arrive here tomorrow after
noon from Chicago, and VIII remain until
Thursday, when she will go TO Cincinnati
to rehearse for the festival there next
week.
The programme for the opening concert
tomorrow night is an unusually attractive
one. The first part of and excerpts from
Mendelssohn's ~oratorio OF st. Paul" which
the great festival chorus has been rehears-
ing for two years, VIII be gwen. with Ire
belli, Poole-King. Davies and Heinrich in
the solo parts, and, in addition, they will
each sing selected solos. and together in
the quartet from "Rigoletto.' A particularly
interesting feature Will be the first appear
ance in Indianapolis of Mr.. Henri Marteau,
the famous French v~iolinist, whose playing
has excited so much wonder wherever he
has appeared. Marteau is down. for two
solos tomorrow night, and he Will also ap-
pear at the artists matinee on Thursday
The Boston Festival Orchestra, With Miss
Juch, Miss Stein. Mr.. Heinrich, Mr.. Fried
helm and Mr.. Giese, gave a concert at CO.
lumbus. o., last night, and Will appear
there again tonight. They will arrive here
on special cars over the Pennsylvania, at
the rehearsal of est. Paul. with the solo,
lists and chorus.