The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-18

IAN Orphans Prayer Saturday
Topeka May Musical Festival May
Al, u and IS at the Auditorium. viii
bring the greatest array of world fam
ed musicians to Kansas that ever vis-
ated the state.
The list includes Nine. Lillian Nordi-
ca, prima donna soprano; NJ. Edouard
de Reszke, the renowned basso; NIabeIle
Crawford. contralto; Jenny Osborn
Hanna, soprano; Glenn Hall. tenor;
Frank Croxton. the English basso; J.
S. Duss and his Metropolitan opera
house orchestra; the Theodore Thomas
orchestra; Paul NIiersch. celloist: NJ.
Funaro, euphonium soloist: M Pierce,
bass tuba sOloist; Miss Electa Clifford,
soprano; NJ. Frankie, violinist, Anne
Veil, harpest, and the Topeka Choral
society under the direction Of George
B. Penny
The Theodore Thomas orchestra,
which has earned a favorable and
worldwide reputation, was established
in the city of Chicago in 1891. A sea-
son Of tWenty-fOur weeks concerts (two
each week. is given in the Chicago
Auditorium. and four weeks reserved
for entertainments in other cities
While it is impossible, on account Of
the limited time, to visit many places
in one season, the numerous trips made
abled the orchestra to cover a very
large territory, bounded by Boston in
the east, Kansas City and Omaha in
the west Minneapolis and St. Paul in
the north and Charleston and Savan-
nah in the south. Compositions of the
best class, calculated to build up mu-
steal interest, have been played, and
have been of q nature to please the
average listener That the concerts
have been successful is evidenced by
the many articles of praise published
in the papers everywhere.
The foremost figure in American mu-
steal affairs today is ]. S. Duss- Con-
sidered first as an eccentric musical
millionaire, he has displayed so much
real musical talent that he is acclaimed
on al Sides not as the coming man,
but as the man who has already come,
seen and conquered. Mr.. Duss-1n the
parlance of the day-hss arrived. he
has disclosed rare musical acumen,
great executive ability and passion
for pleasing that combined, have made
him the most popular as well as the
most authoritative conductor OF the
day.
Mime. Nordica and NJ de Reszke. who
will be heard with the Duss orchestra
during the May Musical Festival IN
this city are the two artists before the
public today that are pre-ernlnent IN
their respective lines. Madame Nord1-
ca and NJ. de Reszke. They are the
strongest cards in the musical neld.
Mime Lillian NOrdica is an American
with a big A. and the greatest dramatic
soprano in the world. She is now nlling
an engagement with Grau. at the Met
ropolitan opera house in New York at
q greater salary than was ever paid for
the same length of time to any singer
Nordica sang to an audience numbering
over four thousand in the Topeka Audi
torium March g. 1902, and not a soul
In the audience went away dissatisfied
Every note can be heard distinctly. on
the Auditorium. she said: 1t gives me
great pleasure to express my delight at
your Auditorium and as for the acous-
tic qualities. I consider them equal to
the very best of the large houses in
which / have sung"
NJ. Edouard De Reszke--In 1876
Edouard De Reszke made his debut at
Paris in Aida" and entered on a career
OF renown. He was the younger brother
of Jean De Reszke, the tenor, and it
was at the instigatiOn of Jean that he
abandoned the proposed occupation and
took to the stage. EdOuard had under
gone a course of study at the AgricuI-
tural college at Prikao with a view of
developing the great estates in Poland
belonging to the De Reszke family He
accordingly proceeded to Milan and
studied with Stella and Alba and later
with Cote At the end of four years
he went to Paris for further study and