The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-07
THE GREAT YSAYE TONIGHT
MOST FAMOUS VIOLINIsT or THE
PRESENT DAY TO APPEAR.
MIR. Bispham Work Last Night and
Cantata This Afternoon.

Tonight the tenth annual May music fes-
tival will be brought TO a close with the
greatest concert of the season and one
which will undoubtedly draw the largest
audience of the four nights. for most of the
seats are already sold. This afternoon a
popular matinee. with tile childrens chorus
of eight hundred voices, will render the
beautiful cantata, Into Life" Miss Jacoby
Will sing and the orchestra will be heard in
several of it's best numbers. Ysaye, the
worlds greatest violnist, FOR whom the fes-
tival management pays $1,000 for one per-
Torrance, and Nine. Gadski are the attrac-
tons for the closing concert. The tenth
festival will end with the ''Jlbal'' overture,
to be repeated by request, the audience
joining in singing America" If Tomlinson
Hall is packed at both afternoon and even
ing concerts there is a prospect of the
deficit being small. For both concerts there
are many good seats to be had, although
the sale is large.
The programme last night was a varied
one, and in the first number Mr.. Van der
Stucken's orchestra was heard in one of
the most pretentious works of its present
repertoire the Tschaikowsky symphony in
Z minor. The symphony is a long one, re-
curing three-quarters of an hour for the
rendition, but the wonderful beauties of
the composition, including the enchanting
tenor theme, which the violins sing in so ro-
mantle a style, held the attention of the
audience to the very last notes. During the
first part of the programme the chorus
was absent from the stage, the members
occupying seats in the audience.
Nine. Emma Juch proved to the festival
audience last night that she is still a great
artist, and that it is cruel to class her as a
singer whose sun has set. Her performance
in "Lucifer' justified the critics in shaking
their heads and predicting the end of a
voice which, in its day, has given pleasure
to so many thousands. Yet this singular
woman, of whom few expected much last
night, captivated her hearers and took their
minds back to her palmy days when she
was heard on the same platform. The di-
rectors had little tiff with Nine. Juch in
the morning; in fact their past experience
rather taught them to expect it, and the
tears came to her eyes. She refused to sing
the part allotted her in "Olaf Trygvasson."
The directors reasoned with her. She was
obdurate. Then the management very firm
ly insisted that she must fulfill her contract
or abide by the consequences. An Indian
apolis festival audience has grown beyond
the provincial stage, where it must suffer
from the whims of artists. So a tear or two
came to the prima donnas eyes. She thought
the directors were unreasonable men,
cold-blooded and possibly without
hearts: - Finally she capitulated.
had said of her singing Wednesday night.
However 1t might have been, when the con-
cert began last night, Nine. Juch was feel
the critics. The "Loreley'' was a selection
we'll calculated to show her skill and ex-
preston, and throughout it her hearers sat
net nod tone.
In the making of which she always displays
consummate art, died away. Though al
ways popular. with an Indianapolis au-
dience, she could not have expected a more
hearty commentator than was accorded
her when she completed this song. Wave
upon wave of applause followed the num-
Der, and the people were not satisfied with
one encore, so she was forced to sing two
Of them. Her last was the favorite "Thou
dered that it will haunt those who heard it
like some beautiful dream. This same song
she sang in Indianapolis seven years ago,
and the impression she made at that time
is not forgotten. Nine. Juch is not yet to
be relegated to the past; and 1t is to be
hoped that she will continue to sing for
years yet to come as she sang last night.
Mr.. David Bispham was given a royal re-
ception. His severe cold continued with
him. and this was made the occasion of a
Bispham by Mr.. Alexander Weiss before the
singer appeared. The Walkure scene was
not one to permit Mr.. Bispham to give
popular display OF MS Incompatible voice.
He took reckless chances with it in his zeal
to please the audience, and this daring the
audience appreciated with a hearty testi-
monial of applause. Anyhow, Mr.. Bispham
was happy last night, cold or no cold, for
only short time before he went to the
hall he received a cablegram from London
announcing the arrival in the world of
David Bispham, jr 1t is his first and only
boy.
On account of the large crowd expected at
the Ysaye concert tonight the doors of the
auditorium will be closed promptly at S:15
o'clock and late corners will be required to
wait till the completion of the first number
on the programme. This is to prevent the
annoyance of large numbers entering dur
ing the music. Standing room tickets will
be sold for 81 and these will entitle the
holders to any seats unoccupied after the
int