The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19
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Elaborate preparations are being
made for the various May musical fes-
rivals that are annually held in differ
ent parts of the United States: Here
in Minnesota, where it has not been
customary to hold a festival of this
sort, the annual convention of the Min
nesota State Music Teachers associa-
tion, Will, to a certain extent, take it's
place. OF course, at the majority of
these festivals. the great choruses are
the most important musical offerings
made and such d chorus will not be
heard at the coming convention in Min
neapCliS. But, nevertheless, some good
music Is being arranged for and, on the
whole, the convention that will begin
the It'll of next month may be consid-
cred a very good substitute for the fes-
IVal that other states will enjoy.
OF these festivals perhaps one of the
most interesting viii be the annual
Bach festival, which viii be given in
the little Moravian town of Bethlehem,
in Pennsylvania, the week beginning
May Il. Three years ago the first Bach
festival was given there, although
on that occasion the time selected was
March, the month in which Bach was
born. The programme that has been
arranged for this year will last
throughout the week. Some of the
Hottest and most beautiful music the
master ever wrote will be sung by the
Bach choir under the direction Of J.
Fred Welle, director. The choir num-
bers 10 members, and, in the singing
OF the chorales will be assisted by a
choir of fifty boys. But the music will
be printed in programme books and the
audience will be urged to join in all the
chorales, and, of course, it is this fea-
fure that makes these musical festivals
so important. Strangers become a part
or them and the uplifting influence of
great music reaches all who attend.
line more quickly such musical festj-
walls multiply, the more quickly will the
1nusiCaI standard be raised in America,
Tor, alter all, 1t is familiarity alone that
as needed to make good music appre-
Giateq. An interesting feature of the
bethlehem festival will be the an
nouncement of each musical session
from the belfry of the church by choir
of trombones
Manager Robert Grau has received
an extended communication from
baron Cederstrom with final details of
The tournee of Nine. Adelina Patti. The
diva, with her husband, two men serv-
ants, four maids and a regiment of
trunks, viii sail for New York from
southampton Oct. "a, and arrive in this
city about Oct. 80.
her Initial concert will be given here
the evening of Nov 2 followed nv a
on the tournee will be at Pittsburg two
DAYS later. and on Nov. 10 Philadel-
pnia VIII be visited. where a concert
WI! be given at the Academy of Music
NINE. Patti will then go to Montreal
singing at the Arena there on Nov "a
and, returning to this city will sing
al Brooklyn Nov. II, at the Academy
OF Music, while her first Boston an
pe9rance is scheduled at Symphony
hall Nov. 49,
- Nine. Patti will then rest for four
days and resume her tour at Scranton
on Nov. "a, where the concert has been
sold outright for the Armory, which
seats 1000 people Washington fol-
lows on Nov. 2, at Convention hall. and
.Baltimore on Nov. %. The bookings
which follow are Convention hall. Buff
1alo. Monday evening Nov. 30: Mas
sey hall, Toronto, Dec. 3, and the Light
Guard Armory at Detroit, Dec T.
NINE Patu's rteurn to Chicago will
take place Dec. 8, the anniversary of
her dedication of the Auditorium nine
years ago. She will also appear there
at matinee on Dec. ~ The follow
ing week she will sing at Music hail
cincinnati, and the Coliseum in ST,
Louis. Then comes Kansas City, Min
neapolis and st. Paul. which consumes
a week, after which the Patti com
pany viii proceed to the Pacific coast.
stopping at Omaha, Denver and Salt
Lake City, at which latter place the
Patti concert will be given at the Nor
mon Tabernacle. San Francisco will
haVe three opportunities to hear the
great singer and Los Angeles one
aIter which her tour will embrace
houston and Dallas and perhapS Mex
AGO. New York will receive two addi-
IlonaI farewell concerts in February.
no other foreign singing organiza-
Iloh mat has visited America has
aroused more enthusiasm in the big
cities Of the East than the lannon's
During Swedish Ladies' quintette,
which comes to the Peoples church
Monday evening, May 4.
For years the Five Durings" have
peeh recognized as the foremost vocal
qulntette IN all Europe. Singing al
most equally as we'll in English and
German as in their native tongue
Ihese charming Norsewomen have
won for themselves fame in foreign
centers like London. Paris. Berlin
DuSSeIdorf, Stockholm, Munchen. Lem
burg ETC.
=. The present tour. their first one IN
america was begun at the Carnegie
Lyceum, New York early last No
Vember. They should not be confound
ed with any other group of Swedish
singers that have been heard in this
country, since not q single member of
the During quintette ever saw Aneri
ca until the beginning of the present
tour. Se--'
Their sweet old Swedish folk songs"
Will be greatly enjoyed by all classes.
put by none so much as by the sturdy.
sons and daughters of the far North.
IN whom these songs will awal1ed a
LooG OF tender memories of the long
ago. Clad in the handsome costumes
Oh their fatherland. the During uuin-
tette members present a most attract
dve appearance
Ole Theobaldi, the noted Norwegian
Ylolinist, will also render several Sc
3ectiohS on the programme. Mr.. Theo-
baldi will be ACCOMPANIED NV Miss