The Portland daily press., 1898-10-07
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Bangor, October 6.-The Bangor hotels
ara fun to the roof tonight for the people
have come to town to attend the Maine
Musical festival and the numbers have
been swelled by the Knights of Pythias
who have BEEN holding meeting here.
The festival has been the great topic of
interest for the Bangoreans ever since the
week began and on Sunday several of the
pastors Of Bangor churches preached on
Elijah. The oratorio of Elijah is one of
the events of the festival programme.
Bangor was alarmed at the beginning of
the week because the Bangor public was
not buying festival tickets fast enough to
suit the ideas of the critics butBaDgor has
come nokiy to the mark today and the
sale has been brisk. 1t is we'll for Ban
gor that the sale has been good one. 1t
may be fact not known to the rest Of
the world but Bangor's reputation is in
the balance. According to thu Commercial
the fame of Bangor as q rival OF Bayreuth
is at stake. The Commercial after point
ing out that at Bayreuth recsntly tickets
for the Wagner festival were sold six
months in advance, says: sit ought to be
and is with uncommon interest that the
people Of Bangor look forward to the be-
ginning Of the festival Of 1893. AS the
Commercial has before said this Is the
crucial test of the festival in this city. II
the festival fails this year, Bangor will
not only lose it completely but will attain
to an unenyiabIe reputation throughout
the country as town that did not care
for good music or for the coming of
famous singers, or that had public spirit
enough to place upon permanent basis
the greatest musical festival the country
knows. for this. whether the people
realize it or not, is what the Maine
festival really is"
Bangor last year showed it's public
spirit and appreciation of good music by
erecting O vast structure for the festival
In architecture this structure may be de-
scribed AS ''barnesque'' but were not the
tragedians OF old known as barn stormers?
And the Bangor auditorium, notwith-
standing it's lack of beauty, is admirably
adapted to it's purposes. 1t is big and its
acoustic proper ties are good. What more
does anyone want?
Here the soIoists have rehearsed and here
Mr.. Chapman met the chorus this after
noon. Among the soloists are number
who are we'll known to Portland people.
Mime. Gadski, whose appearance at the
Jefferson last winter in the Damrosch
grand.opera company is pleasantly re-
membered, has been here for several days.
Msssrs. GwiIym Miles and II. Evans
Williams have returned to Maine to renew
their triumphs of last year and Miss Rosa
Green and Miss Katherine Kicker are
both we'll known to Portland people
Miss Green is accompanied here by her
sister, Mrs. Edwin L. Dyer of Portland.
Mr.. Everett NJ. Warehouse Is a young
Portland tenor who scored great success
at Bath in the oratorio of Elijah and
there attracted the attention of Mr.. Chap
man, who at once engaged him for the
festival.
Mr.. William r. Chapman. the promoter
and leader of the maine musical festival,
has lost none of his energy. AT the re-
hearsal this afternoon, he was as active
as an acrobat, and like the movements OF
the acrobat his every motion had a mean
ing, The secret of his power over the
chorus is seen at one of these rehearsals,
and how he made. that chorus sing What
seemed good enough to the auditor on the
floor was not so to him, and difficult
passages were re peated again and again
RECLAIMED HEALTH.