The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-31
THE BIG MAY FESTIVAL.
MUCH INTER EST 0 TER THE COMING
 MUSICAL EVENT.
Interesting Details Just Given Out by the Chairman, Th"ms C. Shepard The Festival Promises to bean unpTe' Cedented Success.

the Chairman, Th0ms G. Shephru-
 The Festival Promises to be an UnpTe'
 Cedented Success.
 Much interesting news concerning the
 May Festivals (May 5, and D big
 three days programme was given out
 Saturday by the management through
 it's chairman, Thomas c. Shepard who,
 since the inception of these remarkably
 successful festivals, has been at the
 helm and has steered the ship of music
 through all sorts of seas successfully.
 safely into port
 First of alf it will be interesting to
 note change in the programme since
 the first announcement went out. ln-
 stead of the production of The Mika- 1 do which has been found ineXpedient l owing to certain stage arrangements l which would interfere hopelessly with
 other important parts of the pro-
 gtamrne, the management has given us I q delightful substitute; instead Of lhe | Mikado'' a recital consisting entirely or ! the Norwegian compositions of Madame ! Sgne Lund Skabo will be given Mad l anne Skabo herself is to be here for the 1 concert and will assist in what will i probably be one of the most delightful
 programmes of the festival 1 Madame Skabo is pupil and protege of Edward Grieg. She came to Ameri- ca two months ago with the purpose or | getting her compositions-songs, piano and violin music-heard in America. | She had small hope when she came of gaining a title of the success she has achieved, for both fashionable and mu- sical Now York has made her the fash ion She gave a recital Friday March 21, at the Waldorf Astoria with the as sistance of Fritz Kreisler Mrs. Morris Black Mackenzie Gorden and Willis c. Alling under the patronage of a loEg list of social lights and a large audi ence was fairly entertained under the charm of her characteristic Norwegian music.
 Harold Bauer. the pianist. was among the listeners, and hae was loud in praise of Madame Skabo's compositions, He declared that he would put some of her piano things on his programmes at once.
 Mr. filling will play the piano solos
 
 that he plays better than she herself could Madame Skabo will accompany the violin numbers and the songs, SO that New Haven will have the oppor- tunity of seeing what manner of per sonality is she, for whom the famous Grieg and. others predict successful career,
 Miss Reba Cornett soprano, and Mrs Jsv.. st,4 1li ,;a4 e other artists booked for this unique event.
 Willis c. filling, a New Haven boy has not played here since he left a few years ago to make his permanent home i in New York upon accepting the posi- ton of organist at the historic old St. | Marks church.
 His musical career in New York has | been most gratifying to all those of his | friends here who have watched his | progress. for he has gone on gaining 1 musical recognition and a higher place | for himself from year to year by the { hardest kind of conscientious work. Everybody here who knows MT filling will be delighted to hear that Madame Skabo has paid him the subtle comph ment of selecting him to interpret her compositions on her first hearing in this country.
 This Signe I.und Skabo recital will take place on Tuesday morning at Ii o'clock the second day of the festival May @.
 George HensChefs song cycle, "The Servian Romanees," is to have it's first hearing in New Haven at the 2 o'clock concert of the same day. The work will be sung by the Asylum Hill church quartette, of Hartford, under the direc- tion of S. Clarke Lord, organist of this church
 This is another novelty for which mu- sica New Haven will be grateful to the May Festival management. Mrs. Frances A. Wright of Hartford, a vio- lnist of considerable reputation, will assist on this programme,
 Two very excellent male quartettes will also be heard during this festival, and as both quartettes are down for the first concerts (9:30) of Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, an added f1a- vor of interest will be attached to these early events
 The Temple quartette, of Hartford numbers among it's members the best singers in the state, They are Hubert
 l L. Maercklein, first tenor: William J. Carroll. second tenor; Thomas E, Couch. first bass; Ebert l.. Couch, sec ond bass. nearly all of whom have been sooists at past May festivals The Angelus Male quartette has for , it's personnel Leo Equilton, first tenor: , James Pearce, jr.. second tenor; John F. Mccarthy, first bass; George D. ! Pa1knap second hass eycelIent voices all. and voices that harmonize to nicety f Interest in the May Festival this year S keener than ever before in the his tory of these events. Tickets are sell ng faster both here and out of town, I all the city music stores as well as l. every one of the out-Of-town consuls re- ', porting an unusually early sale as we'll Is an extraordinarily large sale