The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-19
THE MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL
MUSTC4L MIND OF THE TOWN COM
PLETEEY ABSORBED IN IT.

Evening Well Attended and Were
Wholly days Programme
Consists of a lecture, - Piano Recital
and an Opera.
The musical mind of this town is
completely and wholly absorbed with
the music teachers convention. From
early morn till dewy eve and far into
the dark and fearsome night the Hy-
perion resounded with the tumult. The
devoted pilgrims came from all the
contingent rural districts, armed with
small grips in one hand, containing,
presumably, the necessary nocturnal
apparel and in the other lunch boxes
in which was slowed the most frugal
wherewithal to sustain life during the
seige. The real music lover at these
times begins with the first lecture in
the morning and never relaxes his
nerves until the last note has sounded
at night. They take possession of
parquet seats, and by depositing a suf-
ficient amount Of baggage in and about
them they manage to occupy them
throughout the day, after the man
ner of box-holders at the opera. And
considering that the prices are uniform
it is not kind of those who came early
and sat down stair to be so disagree
ably superior and patroniZing to those
who came later and sat aloft. They all
take it and themselves so seriously that
they are most amusing. They look 50
coUprnl, nritino1 yuh nt
pies friends perform and are so osten-
tatiously enthusiastic when their own
are laboring. The music teachers have
permeated the town and their pres
ence is sensibly felt in the land.
The music teachers association is,
nevertheless, a most dignified and con-
scientious body They have come up
out of the abyss of amateurishness
in which at one time it seemed prob
able they would be engulfed. Each
year they improve and the programmes
and assisting artists this year are so
much superior to those of former years
that the concerts are coming to be
more like a May music festival than 1t
ever seemed possible we should enjoy.
We are pleased to learn that the con-
Vention will be held in this city again
next year. 1t will mean a great deal
to the education of musical taste in
| this community If the present pro-
gressive policies of the association en-
dure.
The concerts of yesterday afternoon
began with a song recital by Mrs.
Helen Boice Hunsicker. The recital
was much enjoyed and Mrs. Hunsicker
made most favorable impression.
Her pleasing personality and marked
musical temperament took a firm hold
on the audience and made them over
| look certain defects. Mrs. Hunscker
has not a remarkable voice. she enun-
ciates badly, and the vocal emission Is
so faulty as to result in frequent false
! intonations. But she sang with so
much intelligence and showed so much
taste in her choice Of songs that every
thing else was forgotten for the mo-
| ly chosen. The Jewel-Song from
Faust" and the "Polacca" from mig
nom were in as bad taste at a song re-
cital as was the costume Mrs. Hun
sicker Wore. Her accompanist, Miss
Bundy, not only served excellently in
that difficult capacity, but showed her
self pianist of considerable ability.
In her solo numbers she disclosed
| technical powers of no mean order and
good taste.
| The second concert was the chamber
music concert. Messrs. Koert, Hoff-
mann, Altschuler, Miersch, Manoly,
| Fritsche and Kloepfel of the orchestra
and Miss Gertrude Sanford of this city
We're the performers. y Salnt-Saens'
Septet op, IS and the Mozart clartonet
quintet were the works performed. The
| first did not go very smoothly, and it
was undoubtedly to Miss Sanford s
credit that it did not fall through. Miss
Sanford did mastery work and saved
the situation. The quintet went better.
1t is a work of marvellous beauty and
ought to be heard oftener.
| In the evening came the symphony
concert, with Mr.. Frank Damrosch con-
| Quoting. 1t was a very pleasing con-
cert. Space will not permit a detailed
account. The symphony performed was
Mendelssohn's Scotch" which was
| played by our local orchestra at their
fourth concert. Beethoven's third lie
| nore' overture was the second number.
The soloist was the distinguished plan
| list, Mr.. Paolo Calico of New York
He played the Grieg concerto with the
greatest success. 1t was a splendid
performance and the audience was not
slow to appreciate it. The rest of the
program consisted Of Mr. Haesche's s
Dramatic" overture, a Strauss waltz.
an arrangement from a Tschaikowsky
quartette for string orchestra, and Dr.
Leopold Damrosch's arrangement of
one of Schubert's military marches.
To-day there is lecture at II o'clock
on "Lohengrin," preceded by a COM
posers' concert at O'Clock.
In the afternoon a piano recital at 2
O'Clock and choral concert at 4 o'clock.
In the evening the opera comes, begin
| ming at 7:45.
The programmes promise well and the
day will probably be the most brilliant
of the convention.
The mornings exercises will be found
in another column.
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