The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-08
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sAVANNAH's MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Three Concerts VIII BE Given by
Eminent Artists.

Inc southern musical FESTIVAL Will be
in Savannah this week on lis initial tour.
ana will give three concerts-Friday
night. the oratorio "Stabat Mater" Sat
urday night, an operate programme, and
Saturday matinee, a miscellaneous pro-
gramme of popular music.
The plan of the management is to intro
duce in the South a series of festivals on
large scale, and to make it a permanent
institution. The organization includes an
orchestra selected from among the
most prominent members of the Boston
| Symphony players and from the New York
orchestra of Seidl & Damrosch, under the
conductorship Of Mr.. Gutav Strube, form
ing a picked orchestra OF a finish and brill
! fancy of playing as yet unheard in the
South. The vocalists are all young people
| with fresh and well trained voices, many
| of international reputation and some of
| the best Of Boston and New York singers;
| in ALL ten vocal soloists and ten instrll-
mental soloists, including Xaver Reiter,
the great French horn player, and Mr..
| Felix Fox, pianist Mr.. G. Strube is a
member of the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira.
AS this is the inaugural tour the man
agement thought best TO have the pro-
| gramme not too classical striving to suls
the musician, as we'll as the non-mustcian.
The three prima donnas are Mile Alice
Verlet, late of the Opera Comique Paris,
where she sang for three years. She made
her American debut with Damrosch. She
was then engaged by Mr.. Damrosch to
| sing the Magic Flute" she being the only
| soprano who could sing the difficult Mo
Fart music in the original key. She was
afterward engaged to sing six concerts
] with he 4 1.
soprano is Mile. Mamie Hands, a young
woman with a well-trained voice. an ex-
celent musician, a fine stage presence and
a singer of merit. The other promo donna
Mile. Noldi, has lately returned from long
study in Europe, where she sang very sue
cessfully in operate and concert perform
ances.
The contraltos are Miss Grace Preston,
! late with the Nordica Company, and Miss
Carrie Bridewell. The tenors. Mr.. Jack
son and Mr.. Mitchell, are both singers of
excellent reputation. The baritones and
bases are musicians whose regulations
are well established. Mr.. Fox has lately
returned from Europe, and is considered a
| charming pianist by European as well as
American music critics. MIR. Fielder, a
violinist of the Boston Symphony orehes-
ira, viii act as concert master, as well al
violin soloist.
Mr. Kronberg, baritone, and Mr.. Ken
nedy violinist, will both be heard here
early in the season in the Kronberg con-
cert under the auspices of the Y. NJ. c.
! A. Star Course.
The soloists will be supported by a loca
chorus of 100 voices, under the direction
of Prof. Spencer M. White. The pro
grammes OF the three concerts are as fol
lows:
Friday Night
Overture-"Renzr' CWagner).
Aria Chauson Bachoue, Hamlet
| CThomas), Mr. Harry Lucius Chase.
| Aria J'etais une Petite Herlie (Tschaj-
| kowskD Miss Helene Mold.
Nocturne and Scherzo (Mendelssohn)
midsummer Nights Dream"
Aria Che Faro Orpheus (Gluck, Miss
| Grace Preston.
Violin lo-"Zigeunerwisen' (SarasatD
Mr. Emanuel Fielder.
Aria Non Tenor violin obligato), (Mo-
zarD, Mile. Mamie Hands.
Spirit GentIl DonzettD, Mr.. George
Mitchell.
(a) Romance; Cb) valse Caprice. fol
] string orchestra (Strube).
Bell song "Lakme" Delibes), Miss Alice
Verlet.
Salve Regina written for Mr.. Kronberg)
! (Eavrs), S. Kronberg.
Piano Concerto &C. Pierne), Mr.. Felix
Fox.
Stabat Mater.
! Rhapsodie Hungrois NiszD.
Southern Melodies.
Saturday Matinee.
Overture, Merry Wives" (NicolaD; "a
! In Diesen Stunde (Spicker).
Songs-(b) Spring Song (WeiD, MIR
George Mitchell.
Soloe-(a) Nocturn q. BrossD; Cb) Ca
price (Foote); (c) Twelfth Hungarian
| Rhapsodie OiszO, Mr.. Felix Fox.
Elegie (for string orchestra), 0Strube).
Serenade.
Song) (AliabolD, Mile. Helene Noldi; "a
Cantelena; 90 La Cinquantaine (Gabrie
Marie, Mr.. Won Vllet.
Bal Costume two movements, rubin
steln).
songs-(a)-sunshine. (b) slumer Sons
CMotteD, Miss Carrie Bridewell.
Harp-Niss Margaret McNulty.
Toreadore Love Song (Couchoise), Mr.. u
S. Kerr.
Peere Gynt Suit (Grieg).
Duet-Noldi and Bridewell
tz-Gruleininchter (Zeller).
National melodies.
Saturday Night.
Overture Mignon, CThomas.)
Aria from "Oberon," (Weber), Mr.. Loi
Jackson.
Aria Amour viens Alder, Saint Saens)
Miss Grace Preston.
Aria Di Provence Traviata, Werdi) S
| Kronberg.
Hungarian Dances, Brahams). orches
ira.
Chanson Provencal, Den Acque). Mile
Mamie Hands.
Liberty Duet, "Puritani," DonlzettD
Kronberg and Kerr.
Aria from ''The Magic Flute" (Mozar0
| Mile. Nerlet.
Aria Dio Passante, Faust" Mr.. Harr.
Lucius Chase.
Violin solo, Romance" (svensen), Cor
DOM.
Sextette, Lucia" Donizetti)
March, Faust" (Berlioz.)
Fantasia-North and South
The prices are 50 for the course, or SIS
for single concert. The reserved seat sal
will open at the theater Wednesday morn
ing.
An Eagle Saved From Drowning.
From the Chicago Inter ocean.
James Johnson and Michael Burns, fish
ermen, rowed two miles out into the lax
| Sunday afternoon to rescue a suppose
| drowning man, and returned with a larg
| bold eagle which had fallen into the wa