Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-09-26
MAINE MUSIC FESTIVAL.
FOURTH SEASON OPENS AT BAN
COR NEXT MONDAY.
SPECIAL TRAINS FROM BANGOR TO
ELLSWORTH TUESDAY AND wEDNEs-
DAY NIGHTs-sPECIAL RATES
ON ALL THREE DAYS.

Through the efforts of the managers Of
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the
generous CO. operation OF the Maine Gen.
trail, special trains will be run from Ban
gor to Ellsworth on Tuesday and We'd
nesday evenings, leaving Bangor at II. Is.
A still further advantage to the music
loving public Of this vicinity will be the
low rate OF fare not only Monday, Oct. 1,
but also on Tuesday and Wednesday. On
any day Of the festiva one can go to
Bangor on any train for 81 %, which will
include a 50-cent admission to the festi-
val. The railroad ticket Is good for re-
turn on first morning train after day of
sale.
The festival will open its fourth season
In the Bangor auditorium next Monday
night, Oct. /, for three nights and two
matinees. 1t will this year be greater and
grander and more elaborate than ever; ;
besides, it will be far cheaper, for the cost
OF tickets has been cut squareiy in two.
All Maine railroads have offered low
rates for the three days Of the festival,
with special lower fares for all Maine Cen
trail points east OF Bangor for Oct. 1, and
for all points west OF Bangor on Oct. 2
The Bangor & Aroostook will offer low
rates for Oct. 8, and the Washington
county has given excursion fares for a
days of the festival. Steamboat lines will
offer the same inducements, 80 that there
will be every opportunity to hear the fes-
tiva' at Il low cost.
Tickets this season will sell at 70 for the
best seats, with 81 so and 81 for OF hers al
most Is good, and 50 cents for a big sec
ton OF the house which will be open to
ad mission checks sold at that low price.
By the use OF this 50-cent admission,
provided a seat can be found, and the low
fares on transportation lines, tue festival
can be seen at very small expense.
The programs are now familiar to news
paper readers. There will be five con-
certs. The matchless soprano, Lillian
Blauvelt, Will appear on the opening
night along with Richard Burmeister, one
OF the great pianists OF the world.
On the first afternoon the second con-
cert will be given, Tuesday, with fine
programme in which Signor Giuseppe
Campanari Will make his Maine debut,
exhibiting his famous baritone voice for
the first time in the East.
On Tuesday night Madame Schumann-
Heink, the famous contrallo, will appear,
and on Wednesday afternoon the annual
Maine day programme, for State compos-
ers and singers.
The festival will close on Wednesday
night with grand performance of the
oratorio "Eiijah", with Ffrangcon-Davies
in the title role.
All the artists will be heard in English
songs sung IN our own language, along
with their German operate and other Sc
lections, and I his Is expected to be one OF
the interesting features Of this great pop
ular festival.
Festival headquarters are at Andrews
music house, Bangor, where tickets can
be ordered by mail or where queries for
information may be sent.
The fest ival is now wholly under the
management Of the Eastern Maine festival
association, Bangor organization serv-
ing entirely without recompense OF any
kind, and " hich is endeavoring to give
the eastern part OF he State a permanent
institution in this great festival.
1t is fully expected that the attendance
viii be larger than ever before. II this
expectation groves to be correct the flu