The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-15
NEARLY5,OOO VOICES
UNITE IN SONG
PROGRAMME
Great Northeastern Sangerfest
Begins Its Twentieth Trien-
Mai Session at Baltimore
Sixteen Thousand Hear the
Opening Concert 80 Newark
To Get Next Sangerfest.

BALTIMORE, Nd, June 14.-The
formal opening of the twentieth trien-
NAL saengerfest of the Northwestern
Saengerbund of America took place
here this afternoon, with reception
concert" in the Fifth Armory hall.
The seating capacity of the audito-
rum of this immense structure is $4,000
and the entire space was occupied,
there being 5000 singers on the stage
and 5000 persons seated on the floor.
The hall had been deliberately deco
rated for the occasion. Upon the walls
and pendant from the ceilings of the
arched roof there was a lavish display
of American and German flags, gay
bunting and STEAMERS and a profusion
of evergreens.
This afternoons concert was mainly
a welcome, designated as a greeting
from the Baltimore singers to the sing
ing society guests from other cities.
The singing was participated in by
$500 Baltimore singers and $500 school
children, and the numbers were ar
ranged especially in honor of flag day,
this being the 12Sth anniversary of the
adoption of the Stars and Stripes by
the American congress. Prof. Melamet
led the orchestra of 1876 pieces, the larg-
est ever heard in Baltimore, and the
following was the programme:
1. Prelude to "Meistersinger"-
ner; orchestra.
?. God Greet Thee-Muecke; United
3. The Heaven Are Telling'-Bee-
thoven; children's chorus and orchestra
Address of welcome-President VIE
man.
+. Choral Fantasia-Beethoven: piano
solo, Soil, chorus and orchestra; piano,
Mrs D. Melamet
8. Woodland Harps''-Spicker: s'FIar-
monte of Baltimore.
s. Finale from ''Walpurgisnight,' Men
delssohn; barytone solo. chorus and or
chestra. Solo, Stephan Schumacher.
Z. ''Old Folks at Home" arranged for
solo and male chorus by Melamet; solo
by children's chorus.
Messiah"-HandeI; chorus and orchestra.
y. (a)-American Fantasia Herbert; or
chestra: (b(-"Star Spangled Banner
natlonal anthem; sung by the entire au-
dience, standing.
A number of singing societies from
other cities arrived here today to par
tlclpate in the grand prize concerts of
tomorrow and Tuesday and the festivi-
ties of Wednesday. Thousands of visit
oTs are already here and it is estimated
that there will be an average of 900
mere until the end of the saengerfest
AIMING the QASlIilSU 1Su0Q guests VINO
VIII De present tomorrow night are
included President Theodore Roosevelt
who will make an address; the German
ambassador, Baron Won Sternberg. and
suite; the Prussian minister of finance
Baron Won Rheinbaben, and suite of
four; Gov. John Walter Smith and
staff, Admiral H. G. Taylor, Herr Won
Versen, assistant consul general at
Berlin, and Mayor Robert M. McLane:
officers at Fort McHenry, officers of the
United States ships which will be pres
ent during the saengerfest, officers of
the German gunboat Panther.
Next Sangerfest in Newark.
At the meeting of the directors of
the bund Karl Kuhl, of Philadelphia,
chairman of the music committee, an
nounced that DR.. Hans Harlan, Of Mu-
mich, one of the members of the col
Ieges of judges, had not arrived in this
country. The music committee was in
structed to fill the vacancy, so that a
complete membership of five shall Judge
the prize songs.
An effort was made to strike the
societies of Albany, Troy, N. Y, and
Trenton, n. J., from membership in the
bund, but President Carl Lentz, of
Newark, n. J., ruled the motion out
of order
It was decided to change the manner
of selecting the prize songs for the next
TEST, and an advisory committee of
three directors was appointed to confer
with the music committee as to the
best method of selecting the songs.
A proposition to change the bylaws
so that the fest should be held quad
rennially instead of triennially was
voted down.
At the conclusion of the meeting din
ner was served at Harmonic hall
At the meeting tonight of the dele
gates representing all the societies at
Inflated with the Northwestern Saen-
gerbund, it was decided to hold the
next trienntal saengerfest in Newark.
n. J.
The appointment of an advisory COM
mittee of three to act in conjunction
with the music committee in the selec
ton of the prize songs was left to the
directors of the saengerbund.
Prof. W. Edward HeimendahI, of the
Peabody conservatory of music, this
city, was selected to take the place of
Dr. Hans Hartman, of Munich, as a
member Of the college of judges
The reports of the various officers
and committees were read and accent