The age-herald., 1899-04-09
LAST TOUCHES
 TO THE CREATION Festival Chorus Rehearsing Often
 and With Fine Results. THE MANAGEMENT AT WORK Programmes Will Soon be Completed, and Varied and Rich They Promise to be-The Singers Are Mani
 festing Much Interest.
THE MANAGEMENT AT WORK

The Conservatory of Music, where the festival forces assemble for rehearsal, is the scene of wonderful activity, with part rehearsals three times week, with mass rehearsals twice a week, and with the chil- dren rehearsing daily, except Sunday. Prof Guckenburger, the patient and enthusiastic festival director, is pretty severely taxed. But he likes it.
 The mass rehearsal fast Thursday night was well attended, notwithstanding the rain, and musically speaking 1t was the best yet. Prof. Guckenberger is naturally proud of the interest the members of the chorus are taking in their work and the progress they are making. He is now put ting the finishing touches to Haydn's popu- lar oratorio, ''The Creation" After one or two more rehearsals it will be ready for public rendition. To sing it requires one hour and thirty-two minutes by the met ronome, and this work together with an overture by the orchestra, will make up the programme for the first concert May 5.
 Next to the oratorio greatest progress has been made at the rehearsas on Griegs beautiful musical drama, "olaf Trygvas- son"-the number that created such fur or at the last Cincinnati festival-and in artistic importance this work will rank close to The Creation"
 It will be given on the second and last night of the festival, to be known as the "Opera Night"
 But in point of popularity, Benoits chil- dren's cantata, entitled Into the World" to be sung at the afternoon concert, will be hard to surpaSs. It is redoent of nature deliciously pastoral-and is especially ap- propriate to the spring of the year. The cantata numbers 150 children between the ages of 10 and 13 years, and about fifty youths and maidens between the ages of II and +. The latter have alto parts. No work for young voices has ever made so pronounced a hit. It has been heard only two or three times in the United States and it had never been printed in English until Prof Guckenburger ordered it for this oc- casion.
 At the mass rehearsal next Tuesday night a good deal of time will be spent on the Wagner music, especially on the Lohengrin selections. A full turnout will be expected, for Wagner is exceedingly difficult, and there is no time to be lost.
 The programmes will be finally decided upon within the next few days. At the matinee and the second evening concert many melodic orchestral works will be heard. Beethovens Fifth Symphony will be played entire Another orchestral num- Der will probably be Liszts symphonic poem, Les Pre!udes." While this does not rank with the classic symphonies, it is a favorite programme piece and Is one of Liszt's strongest and most characteristic compositions. It Is exceptionally varied and rich in it's tone color.
 Miss Sara Anderson, who made her debut only this season, is to be the prima donna of the festival. She has been highly praised by the New York and Boston press. The second soprano will be Miss Annie Lohoiler. Clarence Shirley will be the tenor and Myron Whisney Jr., will be the basso profundo. But the most famous ar tist in the festival galaxy will be Cam panari. As a pure baritone he has had few equals in Europe or this country.
 The business management, fully alive to the magnitude of the festival, is now ener- getically at work, and will soon have it's part of the enterprise well in hand. Season tickets will be on sale in a few days. The low price at which the tickets are to be offered-$2 for the three performances-is regarded as a wise business policy. The re- ceipts will be greater at this price than il $3 or $4 dollars were charged. With the music lovers and their country cousins who will come to the festival the | spacious auditorium will doubtless be well | filled.