The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27
FESTIVAL MUSIC.
Programs Complete, As Ar
ranged for the
Week.

The managers of the festival have
been unusually successful in complet-
ing arrangements at.an early date for
the annual week of music. The bust
ness is all we'll advanced, and the pro-
grams are now announced in full for
the first time. Nine. Sembrich's num-
bers remain to be Sc lected, but her place
is defined in each Rse, and the choice
of music will have to be arranged by
cable. Aside from this, there is no de-
feet whatever in the list as here given.
Somewhat unexpectedly, Horatio Will
liam Parker will return from Europe
in season to conduct the performance
of King Trojan" "Wednesday evening.
two weeks after his appearance as
conductor at the festival in Worcester,
England, where his '1Hora Novissima"
is to be sung for the first time in that
country. Thus there will be two COM
poser-conductors at the local festival =
Mr.. Parker and Mr.. Converse, a sketch
OF whose life appeared in Saturdays
Spy
The number of actual novelties on the
program is somewhat smaller than
usual, but the high standard of the
music is ample justificat ion for the va
r1ous repetitions. The pieces which will
be heard for the first time at the festi-
- Gu al heI hlujg IrOJdn, the
first movement of CDnverse's SYM
phony Liza LehmannGs "Endynion''
scena, DR.. Mackenzie's britannia over
ture," Mendelssohn's "A1halie" over
ture and Tschaikowski's fifth SYM
phony. None of the other music has
been heard here for number of years.
THE. Creation" has been given twice,
in 1881 and 1889; Berloz's "Faust' four
times, the last performance being in
1895; Saint Saens' "Ompb ale's Spinning
WheeP' was last given in 1892; Nc
DowelPs suite was brought out at the
festival of 1891, and repeated two years
later. The "Sakuntala' overture was
last played at the festival in 1896, and
Beethoven's fifth symphony in 1892 The
"Lohengrin'' selections have been given
separately, but never in the connected
form now arranged.
1t will. be universally admitted that
the casts of the principal works are
strong, and in general it may be said
that the solo corps seems on the whole
rather more than usually promising.
Here are the programs:
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 26.
Haydns Observation-Disclosures Creation"
Soprano, Miss Evangeline Florence;
tenor, Mr. Evan Williams; bass Mr..
d. Ffrangcon-Davies.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SEPT. 81.
Goldmark, Overture, 'SakuntaIa"
Schubert. .............S Song, Die Allmacht"
Mr.. D. Ffrangcon Davies.
Beethoven. Symphony, No. 5, in c minor
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 81.
king Trojan" .................H.W w. Parker
Soprano, Miss Louise B. Voight;
tenor. Mr.: George Hamlin; bass, Mr..
Gwilvm Miles. Conducted by the com
poser.
Lilly nymph" ..........G: w. Chadwick
Soprano, Miss Louise B. Voigt; tenor.
Miles; tenor, Mr.. w. Theo. Van YORK
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. Is.
Frederick S. Converse,
First movement from symphony in d
minor
CONDUCTED by the composer9
Chopin. $50. Concerto for piano in + minor
Mr.. V. De Pachmann.
Liza Lehman. .Scena, "EndMnion"
Miss Florence.
Macoowell. Suite No. /, OPP. ~
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. %.
M = go. Overture, Britannia
schumann.''..Song, The two grenadiers"
Deeper and deeper still. . >'''''
Watt herangels: to the skies" (Jeptha).
Mr.. Williams.
81. Saens.... "Qmphale's spinning wheel"
Clone poem)
Donizetti............A Air, 20 Milo Fernando
LA faVorita).
Mrs. Bloodgood
Massenet. Vision fugitive" (Herodiade)
Mr.. Ffrangcon-DaVies.
Selected Nine. Sembrich
PART II.
wagner ....:....... Excerpts, "Lohengrin"
la) Vorspiel, act III.
OBJ "Elsa's vision" act I.
Nine. Sembrich.
(c) "Lohengrin's narration" act III.
Mr.. Williams
cd Finale, Kings prayer and quintet.
Act. l.
Nine. Sembrich, Mrs Bloodgood,
Messrs. Williams, Ffrangcon-Da
and Miles, chorus and orchestra
FRIDAY AFTERNOON. SEPT. 20.
Mendelssohn.. Overture, "Athalie''
Meyerbeer.. Air, 20 Paradise
(L'Africaine.)
a. az '''''''''': Selected
Nine. Sembrich.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. %.
| lie Damnation de Faust RerIioz
Soprano, Miss Louise b. Voigt; tenor
MI. Evan Williams; bass, MIR. D.
Ffrangcon Davies; bass, Mr.. Gwilym