The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
BANNER FESTIVAL SALE
OVER $4,000 WORTH OF SINGLE
SEATS DISPOSED OF YESTERDAY.
Lots of Good Ones May BE Had Yet,
Was for the CaIve Concert.

The May Music Festival directors yester-
day sold over 81, GOO worth of seats for single
concerts, the greatest days sale in the his
tory of the association. At Z o'clock yes
terday morning there were seventy-fve peo-
pie in line waiting to get numbers emitting
them TO places in the line. Two hours later,
when the sale opened. the Big -Four ticket
office was packed, and the gentlemen in
charge of the sale were kept busy from
that time until the close of the office last
evening. The greatest demand, naturally
enough, was for the Calve concert and next
to 1t, FOR the Saturday afternoon concert,
when the children's chorus is to be given.
Unusual interest seems to be taken this
week in the work of the great festival
chorus, and as it will have its best oppor-
tunity in the opening and Wagner concerts,
the demand for them is also good.
Orders for seats were received from all
over the State yesterday and several nun
dred were disposed of in this way. AL
though the sale thus far has been larger
than ever before there will be no lack of
seats for all who want to attend the festi-
val, for Tomlinson Hail has a seating
capacity of at least $500.
The work Of putting up the extra staging,
seats, etc, for the chorus and orchestra
will begin this morning, and all Will be in
place by tomorrow night. The first re-
hearsal of the chorus at the hall will be
next Monday night, and other rehearsals
will be held Tuesday and Wednesday after
moons and evenings. The children's chorus
will rehearse in two parts on Saturday at
z p. M, the girls at the Manual Training
School and the boys at High School hail.
RenearSals for the entire children's chorus
Will he hnl6 al Fforn1nGnn Hall AInnHnN and
Wednesday afternoons.
CALVE AT PITTSBURG.
Madame Calve apparently took Pittsburg
by storm at her appearance there last
Wednesday evening. The Post says Of IT,:
Judging from the wild enthusiasm OF
the audience which filled Carnegie Hall t.
overlooking last night, no one who was
read the papers this morning in order to
know whether they enjoyed it or not. And
with all due allowance for the personally
intoxicating effect of the great singer and
actress herself, which might be liable to in
sp1re exaggerated sentiments and state
Lhents, 1t is quite safe to assert that in all
the musical history of Pittsburg a more
brilliant performance has never been pre-
scented before a more representative as
Semblage, nor received with greater en-
thusiasm.
A expression of intense interest and
pleased anticipation was noticeable on
every countenance before the appearance
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actual disappointment or failure to show
demonstrative satisfaction-if not to burst
forth into almost delirious applause.
From the moment that CalVe swept the
audience with her first compelling, indie
scribable glance, it was at her mercy, and
she played with it, individually and collec-
lively, somewhat as a cat does with q
mouse, establishing an entente and a feel
ing of camaraderie so irresistible, original
and unexpected that everyone felt it's cleo
trio influence, and the whole house relaxed
from the state of magnificent dignity which
befitted so great an occasion into a mood
of thorough unconventionality, and the fas-
cinating singer was inspired TO fresh et-
forts in the way of smiles, gestures and
chances, when she found her 'calinerie' so
quickly appreciated. The English language
is not adapted to express Calve, and one
unconsciously drops into French in the at
tempt to find the right word.
In the aria from lie Perle du BresiF
Calve was a supreme artist; her clearness,
purity and brillancy of vocaliZation and
facial execution showed her to be as great
a colorature as a dramatic singer, and the
exquisite beauty OF her fute-like tones in
the upper register was enhancing.
Not a little curiosity had been felt in
anticipation as to the artistic effect OF CIV
ing the mad scene from Hamlet in cos
tune, but here CalYe again showed her
greatness as singer and actress, for she SO
thoroughly entered into the part of Ophella
that no incongruity was felt At the back
ground of dress coats ana orchestral turn
iskings. Her characteriza tlon of Ol'helia
was a bit of wonderful realism in acting,
and a most beautiful ana artistic vocal per-
Torrance"