The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-18
THE MUSIC FESTIVAL ENDED
ASSOCIATIONS MOST SUCCESSFUL
MEETING
Closes With n Splendid Performance of
Arminius by the Gounod Society
Other Features of the Closing Enter
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| The big festival is over, and peace
reigns again within our halls. The most
ardent devotee Of the heavenly maid
| has been satisfied, and the weary, Sati-
| ated music teacher can now return to
| his duties and save up his pennies for
the next great pleasure In 1900. 1t has
been the most successful festival, both
| artistically and financially, that the as
| ISOLATION has known, and great things
are expected for next year. The attend
anee has been enormous at every con-
cert and the weather has been propi-
tious; there have been no disappont-
ments or substitutions, and the business
end of the affair is managed in a Won
derful way.
The festival has come to be serious
and dignified occasion, and the ambi-
lions of the promoters of the association
are to make it the big annual festival
of southern New England. If things
continue to improve as rapidly for the
next two years as they have in the two
gone by, this does not seem improbable
or overweening. If the price is raised
to two dollars, as is proposed, 1T will
enable the management to alter some
features which are not altogether sat
isfactory now, and 1t is hoped that this
change will be made.
THE MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT.
Yesterdays pleasure was begun with
a miscellaneous programme at $3.50
o'clock. The music teacher is appar-
emily an unpleasantly early bird for at
the appointed hour numerous assem-
a. 10 IN, ha
bristling and alert. Master Nathan
Fryer, e. A. Parsons precocious pupil,
was the first performer. The wonder
child is usually bore, but Master Fry
er is a pleasant exception. He per-
forms his most difficult feats with such
ease as to relieve one entirely of the
feeling that his talent has been forced
by unnatural means He plays remark
ably for a boy of his years, and Mr..
Parsons hal every reason to be proud
of him. He played three pieces by Raft
Liszt and Macdowell, and ar an encore
Griegs "Papillons." Later he played
Weber's brilliant and SNOWY concerto
OPP. 70 with Mr. Parsons at the second
plano. After this he was twice recalled.
playing first the Iljinsky "Berceuse' in
G fiat and second Mendelssohn's Spin
ming Song which brought him into
unfortunate comparison with Szumow-
ska
w. r. Clarke, baritone from Bridge
port sang next His selection was
Tours old ballad Of The Three Sing
ers," and Miss Swan accompanied him.
Miss Florence Isabel Cummings, one of
Mr.. Troostwyk's pupils, was next heard.
Miss Cummings substituted Leonard's
Souvenir de Haydn." which consists of I
on the Kaiser Hymn, for the |
number on the programme. Like all of /
Mr. Troostwyk's pupils, Miss Cummings |
has good tone and plays with finished |
style. Max Dessauer accompanied her |
beautifully in this as well as in her sec /
ond number, which was Wieniawskfs I
"Legende" Miss Cummings encore |
piece was the familiar Hauser "Wiegen- !
led
Miss Marguerite Rockwell sang two |
songs by Speaker and Harrss. Miss
Rockwell is q Middletown girl and sings |
at the Church of the Redeemer in this
city. She has resonant, rich contralto
voice.
Mrs. Mary Morse Granniss, accompa-
MED by f. b. Granniss, sang Nevin's
Rosary" and with considerable verve /
Clayton Johns II Love and the World
Is Nine