The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-20
ENTHUSIASTIC END
OF SAENCERFEST,
Large Audiences Indicate Finan-
cial and Artistic Success
of Meeting.
NATIONAL SONG LAST NUMBER.
Chorus of st. Louis Public School
Children Feature of Pro
gramme in the Aft
ernOOn.
NATIONAL SONG LAST NUMBER.

| With the singing of The Star SpanSled
Banner' by the great male chorus of 1900
voices. as well as the audience. numbering
more than 5000. the thrty-first national
Saengerfest came to end last night.
The attendance at the two concerts yes
terday proved the Saengerfest the most
successful. financially as we'll as artistically.
| held in the United States within the last
twenty-five years. and the promoters of the
| enterprise are more than jubilant over the
| outcome.
| The paid attendance Mt the four concerts
Is estimated at 1920. The paid attendance
at the first night was about 1850 Thursday
night about 1860, Friday afternoon 1O.5O
| and Friday night $500.
| OF the $4,000 guarantee fund subscribed
$4,000 of this amount was paid in. The re-
! ceipts from the ticket sale not including
those that went to subscribers, was about
$4,000 The total receipts Of the Saenger-
! fest amounted to $4,000
| The total expense is figured at $4,000, so
| that there will be a cash balance in favor
of the saengerfest Society amounting to
about 81, 600.
| CHORUS OF CHILDREN.
| FAVORABLY RECEIVED.
The SaenSerfest programme yesterday
dlltTuOOH WAS OF especial atlraCllNeTcS-S, ds
| introducing the grand chorus of children of
| the St. Louis public schools. and once more
presenting the five soloists of the present
| Saengerfest gathering.
| Professor William II. Pommer conducted
| the choral work. and Professor Alfred
| Ernst directed the great orchestra.
| For the opening number the orchestra
gave the stately overture to Massenets
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| Max Lohfing the famous Hamburg basso.
sang the selection Within These Holy
J Walls" from THE Magic Flute" of Mozart
| In this number Mr.. Lohfing confirmed the
| excellent impression made on Wednesday
| evening.
1t was test of training and versatility
| to require of the chorus of children of the
public schools the singing, in a bracketed
| number. first, the grand Beethoven COM
position. 1.-THE Heavens Are Telling" and
| then tender Brahms Lullaby" The test
| was finely met.
The fresh young voices sounded winning
| ly in the great hall and brought tremendous
| outburst of applause from the delighted
audience. Coming next on the programme.
VIII Birrenkoven, the Hamburg tenor, sang
| Walther's prize song from Die Meister-
| singer and in doing so surpassed his 'Sieg-
| fried effort of Wednesday evening. The
Buffalo Orpheus Society made a good i'm
preston with Hegar's Der Daxelhofer."
/ SOLOISTS RENDER
SEVERAL SELECTIONS.
The next number was from Gounod's
Faust in which Nine. F7eischer-Edel. Mr..
1 Birrerfkoven and Mr.. Lohfing were heard.
This was followed by an Interpretation of
the Largo" from Handel's ''Xerxes." ar
ranged for strings, which fairly enraptured
the audience with its beauty and delcacy.
The chorus of children of the public schools
was then heard in Pinsuttrs "Mignonette"
and Taubert's Position Doth being given
with much spirit and correctness
Nine. Louise Homer scored n success by
her singing of LISTS 'Loreley" and Schu-
berts "Omnipotence' with fine appreciation
of the respective themes. An orchestral
presentation of Carmen suite followed
Mime. Homer's solo number.
The great quintet from Die Meister-
singer" the most impressive number since
the "Lohengrin'' first-act finale of Wednes-
day evening, came next on the programme.
Nine. Fleischer-Edel Nine Homer Mr..
Birrenkoven. Mr.. Lohfing and Mr. Rohan
were the artists in this number
The afternoon programme ended with an
excellent rendition of Fanning's Song Of
the Vikings and Shaws patriotic Red
White and Blue by the chorus Of chill
dren.
The evening programme. terminating the
National Saengerfest Of 1903 was appropri-
ately devoted to typical choral singing with
an occasional orchestral number. 1t opened
with the splendid "Tannhauser" overture
in which the great orchestra was heard at
its best. Then came the massive and mill
tant Song of Challenge" by Attenhofer.
sung by the national male chorus.
CHARACTERISTIC EFFORT
OF SAENGERBUND.
Perhaps the most characteristic Saenger-
fest efforts are those of masculine voices
without accompaniment. and of these 1t
would be difficult to surpass the singing Of
Silcher's meodious I'm the Distance" and
Gericke's emotional Awake. Beautiful
Dreamer" by the national male chorus.
Following this group number, the United
Singing Societies of Chicago scored a sue
cess with the sonorous Battle Hymn by
Moehrlng. In which, directed by Mr. Gus
tav Ehrhorn, they displayed thorough train
ing and exceptional voice quality. The or
chestra then gave pleasing ballet suite
from Goldmarls's Queen of Sheba"
At this point reached the most con-
vincing manifestation OF Saengerfest choral
work which has yet been heard. In a series
of four songs the national male chorus far
surpassed all its preceding work and moved
the audience to the most enthusiastic ap-
plause.
The first of these was Wits Little Blue
Eyes given with exquisite feeling Sec
ond came a typical saengerfest number,
Ries- Ehrgott's "On the Rhine" with or
chestral accompaniment. Then, without ac-
compartment, the great body of singers
gave Silcher's pensve Farewell and
Weidts tuneful Young Journeyman" with
feeling SO true as to make those selections
almost poignant in their appeal to the emo
tons.
mastery Dvorak composition, the
"Slavoric Dances" was Interpreted by the
orchestra with spirit In temperamental har-
mony with the work OF the impassioned
composer. Next in order came the singing
of Haeser's thoughtful and nature worship
ing ''In the Forest" by the national male
Chorus.
The national male chorus, supported by
the orchestra. with the audience rising and
joining In the chorus. sang 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner" with the most enthusi-
astic surrender to the patriotic spirit of
that soul-moving composition.
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