The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-06

uCipdte III tue reception winch Iono"s
The fourteenth May music festival of Gin
cinnati will begin on Tuesday evening at
Music Hall under the direction of Mr.. The
odore Thomas. The grand chorus, which
has been carefully trained by Mr.. z. W.
Glover. is said to surpass all previous ones.
The soloists are eminently capable, and in
clude Nine. Marcella Sembrich, Nine. Err
nestine Schumann-Heink, Mr.. Benjamin
Gray Davies, Mr.. David Bispham. Mrs.
Hissem De Moss and Mr.. Louis Ehrgott.
The seven programmes to be given during
the week are essentially Thomas pro-
grammes, and therefore entirely satiSfac-
tory from a musicians standpoint. Among
those who will attend from this city are
Miss Pauline Schellschmidt, Miss Bertha
Schellschmidt, Mrs. Emma Schellschmidt-
Rous, Mr.. Paul Teichert. Mr.. John L. Gel
ger, Mr.. Oliver Willard Pierce, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Raschig, Miss Ida Sweenie,
Miss Leona Rudy, Mr.. Clarence Carson.
Miss Emma Martin, Miss Sarah T. Meigs,
Miss Adelaide Carmen, Miss Lille Adam,
Mr.. Louis j. DocheZ, Miss Elizabeth Ketch-
am and Mr.. William Clapp.
Prof. George M. Hebble, the well-known
blind pianist and teacher of this city, cele-
brated his fortieth birthday yesterday az
his home, No. sos Camp street. Professor
Hebble was born in what Is now No. 23S
South Illinois street. then known as the
Gault House. a branch Of the Spencer
House. His boyhood days were spent in
the hotel, and until his seventeenth year he
seldom strayed from the immediate vicinity
Of the neighboring m the old Union
Station. Professor Hebble has always been
noted for his remarkable memory, espe-
cially his accuracy in committing all kinds
of time schedules, such as trains, street
cars, schools and what not. He attributes
this peculiar phase of mentality to his
early and constant association with the
travelling public. So far he has travelled
by rail over IA, 600 miles, more than half Of
which was alone and unattended. His
musical tutelage began in his eleventh
year, and, as he put it in a recent CONVEX
sation: II already knew ninety-two tunes
when / began" In 1850 he went to Phila-
delphia and attended the School for the
Blind, the musical department of which
was under the able management OF MIR. ID.
D. Wood, who was then and still is one of
Pe~nnsylvania's leading musicians. himself
a blind man. There Professor Hebble re-
ceived a thorough academical training.
having the advantage also of studying the
orchestration Of the masters. Upon grad
uation he stood at the head of his class and
carried of the first three prizes for piano,
organ and theory. Upon his return to this
city he identified himself with the musical
interests and has been an able factor In the
local progress and development of music
ever since. Gifted with the special genius
| for teaching, he has been very successful.
and his concert work has been received
with favor. His study of the sacred works
of Mozart, Haydn and other fllustrious
| composers. of which the masses are con-
| spicuous, led him to make the study OF the
Catholic service a speciality, and he is at
present organist and choir director OF the
| Church Of the Assumption, in West Indian
| apolis. His repertoire includes thirty
| standard masses, in addition to a countless
| number OF anthems, hymns and responses.