The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-18
THE YALE BICENTENNIAL.
ARTISTIC AND MUSICAL FEATURES
 WILL PLAY PROMINENT PART.

Rendering of tho Greek ode to Music
 the Most Important-A Unique Fea-
 ture in the Line of fDecorntions-CoI-
 lege Campus VIII be Extensively H. | Iuminated.
 l Music and art will play prominent
 part in the functions of the coming 1 Yale Bi-centennial on October 20-23.
 Elaborate preparations are being made for two concerts-one the rendering of
 Parkers Flora Novissima," by the Gounod Choral society of New Haven; the other a concert by the Symphony orchestry of Boston.
 Numerous other musical features will
 be interspersed throughout the days of the celebration. Among the most inn portant is the rendering of the Greek
 Ode set to music by H. W. Parker.
 This unique literary and musical pro-
 duction is about to appear from the
 publishing house of G. Schirmer of New
 York. It is entitled Greek Festival
 Hymn for Yale University on the Two
 Hundredth Anniversary of it's Found-
 ing, October 1901, by Thomas Dwight
 Goodel"
 English Version by Isabella G. Par
 ker; the music composed for male
 voices and orchestra by Horatio Par
 ker. Professor Goodell Is a Yale grad
 uate of Yale college in 1877, and holds
 a i,, ,fC i,, bo mil,
 sity. The production of Greek hymn
 is in way unique, and will attract
 much attention among classical schol- ars in this country and abroad. More over, the setting of words to appropri- ate orchestral music will be regarded as a brilliant achievement on the part of the composer, Professor Parker. The English version is by Mrs Parker, his mother, who has on similar occasions done her son the same service. The edition will be shortly put on sale It is handsomely gotten up, the title page showing a carefully designed Greek | border, to correspond with the charac- ter of the contents of the book. The | chorus which will render this Festival | Hymn at the central commemorative | function on Wednesday, October 23d, | has in part been already organized, l and will be trained as soon as college | opens, a week hence. The baritone and | tenor soloists have already been en- gagged, and are at work mastering the peculiar difficulties of the text and mu- sic
 A large number of musicians and classicists have beerf consulted in overcoming the many difficulties which the task presented.
 Even the printing of the Greek text was made matter of long discussion in order to combine good taste with classical traditions.
 One of the unique and striking fea lures of the celebration in the line of decoration will be a succession of bea- cons or torches outlining the int erior of the college campus
 They will be twelve or fifteen feet nigh, surmounted by specially de- signed flat vessel of terra cotta or met d. the designing and making of which S in the hands of MT. Pierre Jay and he architect, MT. Charles A. Platt, of New York. In this shallow dish will stand a wire basket containing cotton waste, soaked in combustible material hat will be lighted on the evenings of l he celebration, giving out beautiful mellow light Ire chemists of the uni- ( ,ersity have been long experimenting { with the necessary ingredients for ( hese combustibles, in order to ensure { m effective light and at the same time ( void disabreeabe odors and too large [ m amount oe smoke |
 It is thought that they have succeed g d in securing the desired combination, s nd preparations have already been q made for mixing the necessary solids | nd liquids in due proportion, and if 2 possible adding chemicals required to d roduce effective colors These bea- V ons during the daytime will be filled \ with colored leaves or large punches f evergreens, and both by day and by /. fight will most effectively set off the /. and passageways on the his- oric campus.
 The campus, which has taken on ew appearance since the demolition all but one of the old buildings con- tituting the brick row, will be most ef- actively treated by means of decora- 4 ion and illumination. In the center of he campus will be erected tempora- ', y amphiteeater, disguised and beauti- :. ed as much as possible by drapery and VI At the focus of the am- ,, hitheater will be built large stage, r acking against majestic elm tree. :, n this stage will be presented the Y, istoric pantomimes planned for Tues ay evening, October 22d. o MT. Frank Lea Short, the well known f, manager, is hard at work q all the details for this unique VI erformance. A vast amount of work f,
 to be accomplished, costumes pre- W ared, scenery designed and painted, F, nd all the accessories carefully &, tanned. Immediately upon the open d g of the fall term the Students Dra- te atic association will organize it's il rces, and the training of the large b ody of amateur actors will begin rom present indications this dramatic motion will be one of the most inter- ting and arouse great enthusiasm. n The illumination of the amphitheater i'll he etrilSiur If is to be obtained by