The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-05
BIG MUSICAL EVENT.
May Festival to Open Monday
Night.

The Topeka May Musical Festival
which will open at the Auditorium next
Monday night with a concert by the
Theodore Thomas orchestra. viii be the
greatest musical event ever held il
Kansas
The demand for seats for the entire
series o. concerts. four in number.
which make up the festival has been
enormous Up to today $4,000 worth or
seats had been sold. and every day or
ders are being received from out OF
town and sales are being made to To-
peka people, and when the festival be-
gins every seat, together with the addi-
tional chairs. viii be about sold.
There are about 500 seats left. When
Nine. Nordica sang in the Auditorium
last year $40 extra chairs were placed
in the building About 100 of the reg
ular seats are left. which with the 340
additional chairs leaves about 500 seats
obtainable The extra chairs viii be AZ
good as the regular seats. In fact every
seat in the Auditorium will be good.
There are no bad ones. and the cons
certs can be heard to advantage from
any part of the building. On Monday
and Tuesday night and Tuesday matinee
the Theodore Thomas orchestra with
the soloists viii be heard. On Wednes-
day night the -Nordica-De Reszke
concert viii close the festival.
The spring tour of Duss' Metropolitan
opera house orchestra. under the direc-
ton of MI r. =. Johnston, promises to
be one of the most remarkable ever
made by any concert company Open
ing in Scranton, Pa, on Wednesday,
night with $4,000 house the players
packed the Academy of Music il
Reading on Thursday, and on Friday
afternoon appeared in Washington iii
Chase's Grand theater-the largest
house in the city-with every seat solo
before the beginning Of the concert @
o'ct0ck) at prices ranging from S. to s.
per seat Even the top gallery brought
premium 1rices
-ff q arr
The company on Friday night, and in
Wilmington the demands were so in
slstent for a second concert that Mr..
Duss remained aver Sunday and gave
the people sacred programme in the
evening. Madame Nordica and Edouard
De Reszke have been received with the
greatest favor everywhere while Mr.
Duss has had magnificent results with
the orchestra. The local papers every
where are giving him the highest praise
one correspondent even calling him the
greatest of the great"
A Washington dispatch says: The
Metropolitan opera house orchestra. J.
S. Duss. musical director. and Monsieur
1douard De Reszl1e, soloist appeared in
Chase's National theater Friday after
noon before one of the largest audiences
ever seen in Washington. Every seat
was sold before the opening of the
doors. even those In the top gallery be-
Ing snapped up at S3 apiece. The seats
tt""+
out In force, many members of the
diplomatic corps occupying boxes.
Among others were the Countess Cas-
SIM OF the Russian embassy and their
excellencies the ministers from Spain.
France, Italy Great Britain and Brazil.
a number of prominent officials and
their wives and daughters. unable to Sc
cure boxes, cOntented themselves with
seats in the body Of the house This
was Monsieur De Reszke's first appear
ance in concert in Washington.
Davenport Ia. Times said: To lay
stress on any particular number of the
orchestra would be a difficult matter
since each selection was a gem aies
was Interpreted as could only musicians
OF heart, soul and the highest degree Of
training
The precision and perfect harmony OF
the musicians. the bowling of the violins
the melody drawn from those three
score instruments. as they interpret tn,
varying passions of the heart and soul
the shading when a dozen instrument.
sound as one. make their music littl
less than divine.
And best of all the leader is not tn
whole thing" The listener almost lose
sight of the fact that there is a director
so much does he seem a part of tn.
perfect whole.