Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-22
A RARE TREAT.
Fine Series Of Entertainments
for the City Hospital.
List Of Attractions Comprise Some Of
the Best Known Celebrities.
A Course Which Every Citizen VIII
Want to Attend

high grade entertainments ever given
in this city. This will be known as the
Citizens Entertainment course. ana the
profits resulting from it will go to the
benefit of the Augusta CITY Hospital.
Many times our people have made
special trips to Boston and New York,
with all the attendant expense, to ell
JOY attractions that will this winter be
brought within easy reach OF our
homes, ut prices within the reach of
every one. The attractions will be as
follows:
Oct. 10, Suzanne Adams at City hail.
Nov. "A, Captain Hobson at the Au-
gusta Opera house.
jan l., Westminster Abbey Corona
ton Choir at the City hall.
March 3, Boston Ladies' Symphony
Orchestra at the Augusta Opera house
A reserved seat course ticket for the
entire course will be sold for S.
Miss Adams will fill only a few dates
before going to New York to sing in
Grand Opera. Any one in Maine who
was able to hear this world famous
prima donna there for 81 would con-
slider himself exceedingly fortunate
and, yet the people of Augusta will not
only have an opportunity to hear her
for that price but will include for the
same price three other famous enter
tainments.
For course ticket holders the average
cost OF these great entertainments will
be only fifty cents each.
Miss Adams will be assisted, on her
appearance in this city, by Leo Stern,
who ranks today among the worlds
greatest cello players, George Cramp-
ton, the famous English basso, former
ly soloist of the great choir Of St.
Marearet's in London, and Walter A.
Pyck, the celebrated pianist.
Arrangements Will doubtless be made
for the people who will come from
Waterville, Gardiner, Halowell,
Winthrop. Richmond and other sur
rounding places to take iii this great
entertainment. Miss Adams has come
to the front very. rapidly among the
worlds great singers, and this is prac-
tically the last opportunity people will
have to hear her of, the grand opera
stage. Perhaps never in the history of
music. with the single exception of
Pats, has so young a singer achieved
such enviable distinction, for this
prima donna, who ranks with the
greatest singers of the world, is but
tWenty-siX years of age, with the best
achievements of her life before ner.
She has sung at every state concert
in London since 1898, a record not held
by any living singer.
Leo Sterns first tour was made with
Madame Patti in England in 1883. In
March, 1896. he attained the greatest
triumph ever achieved by any cellist,
the first performance of the Dvorak
cello concerto in London. In America
Mr.. Stern has appeared as 4 star with
the Chicago Orchestra CThaodore
ThomaS) with Sedl in New York, the
Arion concerts in Brooklyn, the Apollo
in Cincinnati, with Sembrch and Nor
cliCd on tour. at private concerts given
by John Jacob Aston, w. *. Wander
blt and others, and on March II. 1898,
for the late President Mckinley at the
White House, after a dinner given to
Prince Albert of Belgium. The instru-
nent that Mr.. Stern will use in Au-
s,psta is a genuine Stradiyarius fo1
which he paid 100000.
basso, who has sung, as soloist. with
all the principal musical societies in
England and Wales in standard ora
tOlios, as we'll as in modern works,
and has appeared. with success, in
English. Italian and Wagnerian opera
His voice is Il beautiful bassO cantante,
but its quality affords by no means
his only claim for recognition as 4
great artist. The dramatic power and
intensity with which he invests his
songs bring new sensation. and
arouse his audiences to the highest
pitch of enthusiasm. His appearance
in Augusta will be practically his debut
on the concert stage in America.
The price of single tickets to this
great concert will be 70 cents and one
dollar.
Captain Hobson, the hero Of the Mer-
imac. needs no introduction to the
American people. AS a lecturer he has
won an unquestioned triumph wherever
he has appeared. Even his critics have
been forced to admit that his great lee
ture THE Navy and the Nation,
which he will deliver in Augusta is
able, scholarly, and fraught with elo-
quent lessons for young America.
The Westminster Abbey Boy Supra
nos Glee and Concert Party-10 mem
bers of the famous choir that sang at
the coronation of King Edward, is one
of the most notable musical attractions
that has ever come to this country
from across the water. The personnel
of this company is as follows: Madame
Marie Hooton. contraltO soloist, is a
pupil of the celebrated Prof. William
Shakespeare of London. Mr.. Edward
Branscombe. for 10 years Lay-Vicar of
Westminster Abbey. tenor soloist and
director: Mr.. Percy Coward, originally
chorister at the Chapel Royal st.
James palace, solo alto: Mr.. Herbert
Hilton. basso; Mr.. Albert Archdeacon,
baritone; Mr. Dudley Canston. must
cak humorist of the same high merit
as George Grossmith and Carney
Grain. Masters Percy Phillips, Lionel
Craven. George Forsyth and Alfred
Boughton. vested choristers This COM
bnation of Juvenile artists has never
had an equal outside of England.