The Somerset reporter., 1905-09-21

big Music Festival
The ninth annual music fesllyaI il the
next brs event Malue an and il being
looked forward TO impatiently by all
music lovers Ten years ago the names
OF the great musical artists were TO the
bulk Of The residents Of fhls state, as
far removed as were thoee If the Gods
oDd Goddesses from tue ancient Greeks
and Romans. and now, thanks 70 these
festivals, the names of BIaaYelt, Gadski,
Nordica, Sembrlch, Schamann-Heinck,
Francon- Davies, Evan Williams, les
Campanari aud others have become
household words for thanks to William
X Chapman, Maine people have heard
them here at home, glorious treat that
would not have been dreamed Of by the
most visionary, short ten years ago.
And now, true to his promises, Bangor
is again offered program, in every re-
spect worthy of its predecessors
The leading star is to be Madame
Emma Eames, whom Maine proudly
claims as product of this state. True,
she was not born in Maine, but the ac-
cident of birth of a daughter of Ameri-
that child a negress, neither does it
produce, if born in CHINA Chinawom-
an, but an American, owing TO allegiance
to the state TO which her parents owed
allegiance, and 80, Madame Eames is, in
every respect, a Maine woman, claiming
the city of Bath as her potential If not
actual, birthplace, that being the long
time residence of her torbears
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their names placed in juxta-position
even to that of Madame Eames. MIS-
Cornne Rder-Kelsey, although com
paratlvely newcomer in metropolitan
music circles, has already stepped into
the very front rank among the younger
artists of the day and has already been
announced as the prlma donna soprano
of the coming Worcester festival
Miss Eleanore Virginia Root was born
in New York, and is a grand niece of
the late Commodore Vanderbilt, also a
lineal descendant of Capt Ny les Stand
ish, thus being American through and
through. Although one of the youngest
singers now before the public she has
won many laures. Skowhegan people
had the pleasure to hear the little lady
only recently in concert and were cap
tiVated. Although her voice is called
mt zzo soprano, she has range of two
octaves, the quality of her voice being
pure, and remarkably dramatic and true.
Signor Salvatore Nunziato, unless all
predictions are false, will undoubtedly
prove emphaticaiiy a find" he is a
genuine Italian baritone, with all the
fire and enthusiasm of Cam panari, his
naturally beautiful voice reveals the
Italian training and development
Frank Croxton, who will take the
solos in the Creation and l.ohengrin, ia
another American singer, who has al
ready attained front rank in Oratorio
work and the like.
George c. Carrie, the tenor, was born
in Canada Of Scotch parentage, and came
to the United states ii years ago, set
tling in the west. A celebrated Italian
opera tenor discovered his voice in a
chorus choir and prevailed upon him to
study, with the result that at the end of
five years found him in St. Louis filling
one of the leading choir positions, where
he continued his studi, and sang quite
extensively until he was chosen AZ tenor
in the sextette from Lucia at one of
Madame Nordica's concerts
Last, but not least, there is Evan Will
llams, the only soloist in this season 3
program that has ever appeared before
at these festivals Those who had the
privilege of attending the first festival
will never forget the exquisite pathos
and truly reverental spirit that marked
his rendition OF that sublime solo from
Elijah, and the bare announcement of
his coming in the full plenitude of his
powers, with his sympathetically beauti-
full voice unimpaired, after winning de-
served laurels in England, where his
voice was favorably compared with that
of sims Reeves, the greatest English
tenor of the last half of the nineteenth
century, ought to be enough to pack the
auditorium in the first evening, and the
first afternoon, which will be largely a
Williams song recital. Mr.. Williams
comes from England purposely to sing
at this festival, and will return to that
country to fill another engagement i'm
mediately after his appearance in Port
land.
The musical program is on a parity
with the eminent artists named above,
and in all respects the ninth of these
festivals will be the equal, if not the
superior of any of its predecessors.