The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-24

Ticket Holders-Enthus Rehenr- suI Last Night of Coleridgo Taylor's Work by tho Gounod Society.
 It is announced to-day by the com
 mittee of Connecticut Music Teachers association that the sale of reserved
 seats for the May festival on the 7th 9th and 9th, will start on Monday April 30, at o'clock. As usual the sale will be conducted at the Hyperion.
 There will be an innovation this year
 regarding this reserved seat sale, This innovation will effect the. afternoon concerts only, and is made at the sug-
 gestion of hundreds of tickets holders. According to the new arrangement it will be possible to secure reserved places for the two afternoon concerts for twenty-five cents Complaints re-
 garding the hurry, occasioned at noon
 by the necessity of rushing back so
 early in the afternoon to obtain fairly
 good seats led to the adoption of this plan.
 By this arrangement a reserved seat holder can leave the theater before the first concert is over with the knowl- edge that his seat will be kept for him. This check is, of course, transferable just as is an ordinary coupon.
 Of course those who prefer not to buy seats for any of the events either afternoon or evening, are assured of seat. To every holder of a season ticket seat is guaranteed, those seats not having been reserved in advance in any part of the house, being open to the general audience, that is to those not holding reserved seat checks.
 The Gounod society held character istic rehearsal last night at Republican hall The two works of Coleridge-Tay- Tor, "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" ''The Death of Mnnehaha," which are to close the festival, were gone over al- most in their entirety One could gain an insight last night of the true beau ties of both these works. There is lit tie doubt that both these rare compost tions will create a genuine sensation.
 The musical sensation of the London season is Coleridge-Taylors "Hiawa- tha," writes London correspondent in the Boston Advertiser.
 "At the concert in which Hiawatha' was given for the first time in its en" tirety at Albert hall the composer con- ducted and received most enthusias- tice reception," continues the writer.
 MT. Coltridge-Taylor, an Afro-Eng lishman, is young man to attain such distinction in the musical world. He is only twenty-five and was born in London He began the study of music at the age of ten, and at twenty three achieved his first notable success in an orchestral ballad which he wrote for the Gloucester festival in Septem- Der, 1898. Shortly after this he began work on three scenes from 'Hiawatha,' as told by the poet Longfellow.
 ''The first, 'Hiawatha's Wedding Feast was heard under festival condi- tions at Norwich last fall; the 2d, The Death of Minnehaha,' was produced at the North Staffordshire festival a lit- tie later. The third, Hiawathas De- parture, was given it's premier hearing at Albert hall Thursday evening""
 As to Mr. Agramonte's interpretation of these unique, Interesting works, it is sufficient to say that the conductor is enthusiastic over the genuine charm of both compositions and that the su- perb chorus has never been in better form.
 MT. Agramonte is getting magnificent effects from the score so that it Is ab- safe to predict that MT. Tay- lor's works will be produced as they have never been before