The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-22
MAYMUSN FESTIVAL

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silrcrAnnivcrsaryso6T These Grand Gone
e,ris-h Feast for Mu,ic lovers.
The Thirteenth May Musical Festival.
viii be held ot Musical Hall. Cincinnati.
commencing Tuesday evening, May "a.
1893, and closing Saturday night.
May Is.
There will be Ave evening concerts,
one on each evening OF tho Festival.
md two afternoon concerts, on We'd
nesday and Saturday.
The great chornlG works will be per-
formed at the evening concerts, The
afternoon concerts Will be devoted to
orchestral work and to solo numbers by
some OF the artists engaged for the
Festival.
This Festival will be the twenty
nth anniversary OF the first given In
Cincinnati in 1873, and what was then
regarded az an experiment by the pro-
moters, has become one OF the perma-
nent %inStitutions OF tho city, In view. OF
this anniversary the musical director
mid the festival board have ~endearored
to arrange a series OF Programmes
which will not only give dignity to the
occasion, but Will prove to be OF the
greatest interest to all.
The works selected are of tho most
important and attractive character,
and no expense has been spared to
insure entire success. These works
will include Berlloz' Damnatlon of.
Faust, Bach's Fine FesteV Burg.
Grieg's Olaf Trygvasson, Beethovcn's
Missa Solemnls, given twice in 1880,
the popular demand requiring its repe-
tition), Schumann's Paradise and The
Peri and portions OF Wagner's Flying
Dutchman and Parsifal.
In preparing the programmes Mr..
Thomas has endeavored to make an
orderly sequence OF composers nights,
and the afternoon concerts will have sew.
eral interesting novelties. To give such
works Us these requires English speaking
soloists OF the greatest artistic ability,
and Mr.. Thomas interest in securing
them as well as in the work of the
chorus has been OF the greatest assist
ance 70 the board.
Two OF the most important soloists
will be brought from England espe-
ciallyTor this Festival, the board find
Ing no one In this country capable OF
filling the great requirements OF the So
prano and tenor parts. Miss Margaret
Macintyre Is a young Scotch singer,
who, beginning in opera, and making
q decided success, has In the last two
or three years made such an impress
sion as an oratorio singer as to be
needed at allimportant festivals in Eng
land, and she Is now almost the only
great English speaking concert soprano
abroad.
Mr.. Ben Davies. whose powerful and
attractive tenor voice has been heard
at the Festivals of 1884, and 1896. comes
from England expressly for the Festi-
val. The board has been fortunate In
finding in this country such an ac-
complished artist as Mr.. David lspham,
who will take the principal bass and
baritone parts.
The contralto work will be divided be-
tween Mrs. Josephine S. Jacoby and
Miss Gertrude May Stein, both of whom
have achieved high regulations. Mrs.
Corinne Moore Lawson now comes to
US from New York where she has been.
very successful. Miss Helen Wright.
OF Boston, also sings in the soprano
parts and Mr.. George Hamlin, of Chi
cago, tenor, and Mr.. Joseph S. Baern-
stien, of New York, will complete the
the list OF nonresident artists.
The chorus will be a great feature at
this Festival. The established Festival
chorus has been under the charge of
Prof. e. W. Glover, while the well
known Apollo Club, with Mr.. B. W.
Foley as director, has been preparing
all the music and will be incorporated
with the Festival chorus, and the re-
suit will be greater choral efforts than
have ever been produced. The orchestra
Will be the magnificent body which has
been SO successful this year, both at
Chicago and in the eastern cities, the
great Metropolitan Opera House. in
New York, having proven OF insufficient
capacity to accommodate oil who came,
numbers having been turned away
from the doors,