The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-12
CINCINNATI MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL.

CINCINNATI MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Miss sfacintyrs's American Debut-Nino
Distinguished aoioists.
The Thirteenth May Music Festival In
Cincinnati, May "a. %. 20, a and %. will
be remarkable, among other things. for
the array Of soloists. Every has
been chosen with reference to his or her
fitness for the parts to be sustained.
MISS MARGUERITE MAC1NTYRE,
The principal soprano, comes from Eng
land to America Just as Edward Lloyd
did six years ago, for the first time and
expressly to sing at the Cincinnati May
Music Festival. Few singers succeed
equally well in %oratorlo and opera.
Aside from Lrlli Lehman, this young
Scotch woman Is almost the only ex-
ception. While she has taken part
most successfully in nearly all the
great English festivals, she has sung In
opera In most OF the European coun-
tries, being the only English singer
who has appeared with success at La
Scala, Milan. She Is such a favorite in
Russia that she spent the whole Of last
winter there, dividing her time between
st. Petersburg and Moscow. She has
sung with the De- Reszkes at Covent
Garden for several seasons. holding at
the same time the position of leading
soprano in all the principal concert
work in England. Some OF her most
conspicuous successes have been at
tanned in oratorlo singing. She created
the soprano part In M~ackenzle's
Dream OF Jubal." DR.. Parry's est. Ce-
elias Day." and DR.. Stanford's ed
en-" and was selected to sing the lead
ing soprano parts at the queens jubi-
lee last year. Miss Macintyre will sing
at four OF the five concerts and also at
n OF the two matinees.
Mr.. BEN DAVIES.
This eminent English tenor will be
thrice welcome on the occasion OF his
third appearance as a May Festival So
loist, he having sung here In 1894 and
1886. Mr.. Davies also comes to Ameri-
ca expressly to sing at the May Festi-
| val, he being the tenor best suited
for the selected music. His powerful
and attractive voice is well remembered
and he will be heard here again with
genuine pleasure. During his absence
Mr.. Davies has been singing In concert
and oratorio constantly, with much sue
cess, and he never was In better voice
than at the present time. Mr.. Davies
will sing at four concerts and one mat
inee. His rendering of the Handel aria,
WAIT Her. Angels,Y at the Eleventh
Festival, made such an impression that
he will sing Il this Lyear again. His
opportunities for use and display Of his
splendid voice will be more numerous
and greater at this Festival than at
any OF the others, which will be well
ONE news to his many admirers here.
Mr.. DAVID BISPHAM.
The principal bass and baritone parts
will be taken by SIr. David Bispham, a
newcomer to May Festivals. Mr.. Bis
pham Is an American. He Is best
known as the popular baritone OF the
Metropolitan Opera Company, New
York, but his forte is p~re-eminently
| concert and oratorio singing. He Is
recognized as the greatest Of ibaritones,
and his services have been in constant
deman In New York this season.. As q
singer he Is remarkable for rich, sym
pathetic voice. perfect enunciatlon, and
magnificent phraslng. Mr.. Bispham
has O refined and engaging personality
and q high conception Of what oratorlo
| singing should be. His flexible voice,
clear-cut execution, and excellent enun-
citation will be given abundant oppor-
tunity for display at the Festival, as he
also sings at four evening concerts and
at one matinee. Mr.. Bispham IS sure to
be a fayorite with Festival audiences,
as he is certainly a singer suited to the
| occasion.
MRS. CoRINNE MOORE LAWSON.
This Cincinnati lady, whom Festival
audiences delight to honor, has had the
reputation she enjoyed at home, OF q
sweet and finished vocalist, confirmed
by the Judgment OF New York concert
goers, in which city she has spent the
winter and sung many times. Mrs.
Lawson will sustain the principal So
prano part in Paradise and the Perl"
and, to the qualification OF her admirers,
will sing more frequently than at any
previous Festival, In several OF which
she has assisted.
MISS GERTRUDE MAY STEIN.
Contralto parts also will be sustained
by Miss Gertrude May Stein, whose
voice is wonderfully sympathetic and
well trained. 1t has more OF q mezzo-
soprano quality. perhaps. than a. con-
tralto, and is exactly suited to the Sc
| lections made for her ut the Festival.
| The confidence In her ability Is shown
by her assignment to the great contral-
to part in Grleg's Olaf ~Trygvasson, to
be SUNG ut the Festival for the first
time In Cincinnati. She will sing at
three evening concerts and n matinee.
MISS HELEN WRIGHT.
This lady ranks as tho leading So
prano In Boston. q city whence have
come some of the best May Festival So
loists Of past gears. Her musical edu.-
cation has been Of q thoroughly broad
and exactinG nature, She has q mag
| nincent voice, and perfect enunclation.
In Paradise and The Perl" she has q
part especially suited to her. and IN
| which she will acqult herself 70 the
great pleasure Of her auditors.
MRS. JOSEPHINE S. JACoBY.
Mrs. Jacoby's powerful voice is a
pure contralto In quality and tlmbre,
and she possesses tho dramatic fibre
which Is SO rare, and also tho lyric qual-
ity which has made her so popular In
| oil symphony concerts In the east, and
| also In Cincinnati and Chicago. For q
number OF years she has baen the con
q Aaenamlx