The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-03
Closing Concert q
Most Pronounced
Success.
DISTINCTLY ARTISTS NIGHT.
Elaborate Banquet Follows
in Horticultural Hall
-Today's Program.

The second and final concert of the
June festival of the eastern division of
the American union of Swedish singers,
in Mechanics hail. last night, was
marked by a degree of success not sec
ond to the opening concert.
| The hall was crowded to overlooking
by a critical and appreciative audience
| that displayed discrimination in en-
| thusiasm.
| The concert closed at II o'clock. The
long and varied program was executed
without an appreciable show of friction
and encores were numerous. 1t was
distinctly artists night. Nine. Augusta
| Ohrstrom- Renard sang a recitative and
| aria from Ernani. She scored her first
triumph and was forced to respond
! with an encore She rendered POL
SKA" one of the most delightful of the
| Swedish folk-songs, playing her accom-
paniment and singing from the piano.
Her rendition of 1.-The Princess" and
1.-The Peasant Girl' charmed her
| hearers.
Gustave Holm repeated his success of
/ the opening concert. He sang Mozart $
Magic Flute in a delightful manner
| that demanded an encore. Joseph
| Hagstrom rendered Wagner's aria from
"Tannhauser" in excellent voice of I'M
usual volume, accompanied by the full
| orchestra.
| One of the triumphs of the even
| ing was scored by Theodor Bjorksten,
and his magnificent tenor was no dis
! appointment to his Worcester musical
| friends, who are familiar with its rich
| qualities. In spite of an oppressive
| heat, the audience caught some of the
| enthusiasm which marked his work
and listened with delight to light love
song sung in encore.
The orchestra numbers were cur
tailed somewhat on account of the ne
cessity which compelled the Boston
members to make train connections.
Three numbers were given under the
direction of c. F. Hanson. The grand
chorus of 900 voices under the leader
ship of Arvid Akerlind, proved itself one
of the finest and most evenly balanced
choruses that ever sang in hall which
has heard the work of the finest cho-
ruses of New England. The immense
volume of the chorus is eXcellently well
| balanced, and sang the most difficult
of choral numbers without a percepi-
BILE flaw. Wennerberg's Banner
song" the thrilling chorus from
"Landkjending, and 1.-THE march OF
the Finnish cavalry" were received
with equal favor
The success of the evening was the
sextet and chorus from the second act
of c. F. Hanson's opera, "Frithiof and
| Ingeborg," given under the direction of
the author Mrs Lillian Hanson
| Gray, in this number, was singled out
by the audience as recipient of favor,
possibly on account of her success of
the opening concert. In this number
| appeared Mrs. Hanson-Gray, Nine.
| Ohrstrom- Renard, Messrs. Bjorksten,
Holm, Hagstrom and Albert Gray, the
Swedish festival chorus, Bragg ana or
chestra, and the volume of the large
chorus was nowhere better shown than
| in the final chorus.
Hjalmar Nilsson, who trained the
club for the festival, conducted the
| Swedish Glee club of Boston in ''The
peasant girl" and the well trained glee
sang itself at once into favor and was
encored. The Swedish Glee club Of