Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-09-20
MAINE MUSIC FESTIVAL
At Bangor Oct. >, g and The Great
Musical Event of the Year.

| The Maine music festival, with such
| programmes have never before been
heard or even attempted in Maine, will
begin in the Bangor auditorium on
! Thursday, Oct. 5, Never before in this
part OF the country has there been so
wide an interest in any single series OF
! events.
William X. Chapman, OF New York, the
! director-in- chief aud central manager OF
| the festival, is now in the State working
with the choruses. He proudly says that
he finds greater enthusiasm than ever be-
! fore and expresses the belief that the fes-
tival of 1899, the third held in Maine, will
be the foundation OF great permanent
musical feature In Names annual his
| tory
The programmes for the festival are
| out. They embody a series of such per-
! formsnces as have never before been
heard in the State. Compared with them
other festivals are OF the mildest sort,
while even in the largest cities there has
not been in recent years splendid an
array of music as Mr.. Chapman is now
/ giving Maine.
u,
! be popular programme. The evening
viii open with the grand Hallelujah
chorus from 1.-The Messiah which Mr..
+ Chapman has adopted as the first piece
for all festivals under his directions
wonderful, reverent benediction upon the
splendid uplifting work OF the great
body OF people under his direction.
The orchestra selections Will include
the andante from Beethoyen's fifth sym
phony, a number OF minor works and ill.,
cidenta accomplishments. The chorus
" i'll sing the whole OF Rossini's .Stabst
Mater, with Madame Coleman, Miss
| Brideweli, Mr.. Pollock and Gwilym Miles
as the soloists. Another great chorus
feature will be numbers from 1.-The Re-
demption", with Charlotte Msconda as
the leading voice.
The second concert, on Friday after
noon, will be grand opera and sym
| phony with the vorspei from the die
| Meistersinger' aud TschRikowsky's
symphonic psthetique" as the orches-
trail features. The chorus will sing
/ among other numbers, the always stir
/ ring soldiers chorus in Faust and the
soloists will be headed by Richard Bur
meister, the great pianist and pupil OF
/ List
The second evening, Friday, will be
oratorio night, with he " hole of the i'm
mortal Messiah, in which Maconda Will
head t he solotsts, aud on Saturday after
noon there will be the matinee constitut
ing Maine Day, a programme in which
Maine composers and Maine artists will
be heard. Miss Mabel Monag han will
sing at this concert.
Saturday evening viii be Semhrich
mig 1t, the grand occasion OF all, with the
most wonderfully brilliant voice in the
world as the star. She Will sing twice,
an aria from LA Trsviata' and Strauss
waltz. Minor solois:s will make up the
programme together with the orchestra.
The chorus for the te-tjys; wjli numb Der
1,O00 persons, and the orchestra will in
eiude seventy players.
Concert tickets Hill sell a, =, = 80 and
=, and matinee seats at 10 cents. Il
aud sl51. For SeInbrich night only
the prices viii be =, 3, aud II, Mr..
Chapman having refused TO advance them
any further in spite OF the metropolitan
standard OF 80 TO =.
The popular plan this year is he patron
list, on which 800 names already sub
scribed. This allows ali those VINO
register their names and the number of
tickets they will take for the course on
the list at Andrews music house, Main
street, Bangor, on or before Saturday,
/ Sept, p, to secure season tickets, admit
! ting to all concerts, with reserved seats ut
! =, IS or =, according - location.
Subscri ptions can be sent at once by
/ mail, and will be filled in the order OF
! their receipt. The patron seats are issued
at private sale before the public event,
aud people out of town can have their
seats chosen in regular order and for
warded without extra charge.
That this plan, under which season seats
can be had at price only slightly in
advance OF the single concert cost, is
popular is shown by the 500 persons who
have subscribed and become patrons.
The patron tickets are transfera bic and
can thus be used by several people.
All rail and boat lines offer half rates
for the festival.
Els wort b people will do well to bear in
mind that next Saturday is the last day
on which patron tickets can be secured,
and that in the meantime orders may be
left at J. 4. Cunningham
A special train will be run to Ellsworth
after the concert on SATURDAY nj. hit.
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