Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-05-04
THE MAY MUSICAL.
Night of Next Week
Will Witness The Event.
EVERY SEAT SHOULD BE TAKEN.

On Tuesday evening of mex
week, May 9, the Goldsbore
Choral Society will give their frs
pubic rehearsal, and the event il
one that our people should moi
wake up to after 1t is passed. The
time to appreciate 1.-THE time to
encourage 1t is NOW, and the best
way to do both, and your town q
public service, is to buy a ticket
yourself and invite others to dc
he same.
The taste for good music, like
the taste for poetry and other
fine arts, is of slow growth; but
as music appeals to a greater
unmber Of people than any of
the artists more a part of mas
ture--musical culture has been
developed on stronger, broader
and more far-reaching lines than
Las been the taste for painting,
sculpture or even poetry, aad
where should music prosper bet>
ter than in Goldsboro, whose
people are by nature attuned to
the highest sensibilities of culs
ture and refinement: for music is
not confined to the af1uent alone.
In fact. the greatest musicians the
world has ever known have come
from the poorer classes. Indeed,
it is work, after all. that sets life
to music aud reduces to harmony
the strifes Of existence, SO that
the coming May Festival, on
Tuesday night of next week
should not appeal alone to the
wealth of our city for patronage,
but to the laboring classes as
we'll. The event should appeal to
tire civic pride of every citizen in
the community. The audience,
therefore, on next Tuesday night.
should be representative of every
Of our city life. anG the
price Of tickets is within the
reach Of all.
The history of music in Aneri-
Is full of interest. Solid music
with psslmody away back
Puritan New England, having
is centre, naturally, in Boston,
over a hundred years ago. The
generally were familiar
hen with the names of Handel
md Haydn, but such a thing as a
'ymphony or a grand orchestra
vas scarcely known 10 America
Until many years later. Along
With the development of the taste
or great sacred music came COL
aterally the wider development by
be COMMUNICATIONS. Fifty
ears ago this year the first Sien-
was held. It took plsce in
Cincinnati, and in Cincinnati in
une next the fftieth anniversary
# the Saengerbund is to be fitting
y celebrated. With the Germans
ompiete orchestras came into vo-
,ue, and the music of Beethoven
vas then heard. The Cincinnati
music festival and all other music
estiyals on a grand scale Of to-day
we're naturally evolved from the
'aengerfest. To both the New
England oratoiio societies and the
German societies, therefore, are
indebted for our present must
al state.
But of all the individuals who
ave labored to improve musical
aste 10 the United States to none
re we SO much Indebted as to
theodore Thomas. He was the
'ioneer in organizing the perma-
ent orchestra. He was the apos-
lie Of Wagner. He began his
areer as an orchestral conductor,
n Central park, New York, thirty
ago. For the first two or
hree years his programmes were
Exceedingly light compared with
be best programmes listened to
.ow. One or Two movements
rom a symphony and one classic
venture had to be saLdwiched
With Strauss wallz S and lively
marches. His theory was-and it
'roved true-that if the people,
hose with musical education-
ould only hear good music oc>
asionally they would gradually
ONE to love II. Thomas made
aoncert tours through the coun-
ry. In ten years his programmes
made up almost altogether
# classic, and his audiences ins
"reased in size. To-day in all
be large cities symphony con-
.erts are popular, and as for the
ubiime oratorios, where will you
ind a person who does not enjoy
hem-who does not feel elevated
n soul after hearing them?
Those who hear the rendition
# the sacred Opera Athalie by
he Goldsboro Choral Society
lext week will not only feel
of soul, but their city
bride also will be advanced con
'iderably and the city benefited
n porprotion.