The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-05-08
SALE REACHES $4,000
UNPRECEDENTED RUSH FOR THE
MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL SEATS.
Will Not he Admitted-Other
Regulations.

When the ticket Office for the sale of
May Festival seats closed last evening the
total receipts were augmented to $500. far
beyond the expectations of the most san
guine Of the directors. Five days for sales
remain before the first concert. and as the
expense will probably be in the ~neigh5or-
hood of $4,000. the success of the festival
is easily assured. The sale of season tick
cts has. amounted to $500 thus far. Last
year the entire sale of these tickets only
reached $500. The h~igh-water mark in dis
posing Of season tickets in past years was
$500.
When the sale of seats forssingle concerts
was resumed yesterday morning there was
another rush and the demand continued all
day. The orders for seats received from out
of-town people this year are more than
twice as great as ever before. Parties are
Springfield, o.. Columbus. o., Louisville.
KY. and other cities, besides scores of
parties from Indiana towns. One party of
seven ladies and gentlemen from Terre
Haute have engaged seats for all the per-
formances.
adopted certain regulations which will be
strictly enforced. to prevent the annoyance
of those who attend the concerts for the
purpose OF enjoying the music. The evening
concerts will begin promptly at S:15 o'clock
and the afternoon concerts at 2;SS O'clock;
of each concert, and late Corners will NOT
be admitted until some convenient place in
the programme is reached. Members of the
chorus who are not in their seats on time,
will not be permitted to go on the stage at
all. No children under five years of age will
be admitted TO any of the concerts, after
noon or evening. and those above this age
will have to pay full rates for seats. The
directors have also arranged to have Tom
linson Hall made and kept as clean as can
possibly be done, and there will be a plen-
tiful supply of drinking water on hand.
Inc nrSt appearance or Nine. Nor1lca at
the festival will be- next Tuesday night.
and that will be ore of the great concerts
OF the season. Ii is now generally conceded
that Nordica Is the greatest OF American
singers, and has no superior as a dramatic
soprano in the world. She will sing two
ring c~antata. Fair Ellen" At this concert.
Mr. Watkin Mills, who is. the greatest basso
engaged in concert or festival work, will
make his only appearance at the festival.
and two ballads. The programme otherwise
Is an unusually attractive one and will
draw an audience that will I'LL the house to
overlooking.
An undoubted treat Is in store for those
who hear Samson and Delilah," ON
"Wednesday night, for Saint Saens'sf great
romantic opera is the sensation of the day
In musical circles in the East. After IL had
been done at a few festivals there it was
so much talked about that the Metropolitan
Grand Opera Company took IL up and pre-
sented II with great success. The music is
intensely dramatic and stirring. In the pre-
sentatton here, Mrs. Julia l.. Wyman will
sing Deiilah and Mr.. Ben Davies Samson.
Two better artists could not be found for
these parts. The festival chorus Is partic-
ularly enthusiastic over this work. which
II has had in rehearsal for many months.
The sale will be renewed this morning.
Those who have had tickets laid aside for
them are asked TO call today ana get them,
otherwise they may be sold.