The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-12
FIRST PROGRAM IS HELD TODAY Musical Festival Ready
 to Begin. MANY ARTISTS ALREADY HERE Concerts to Be Held at Montgom- < cry Theatre. Music Teachers of Alabama and of the South to Meet Here in Connec-
 tion With the First An-
 nual Festival.
MANY ARTISTS ALREADY HERE

The First Annual Musical Festival will begin today and some of the most distinguished musicians of the country will contribute to success. During the three days this festival, which marks musical era in Montgomery, is in session, the Alabama and the Southern Music Teachers Association will hold their meetings.
 For Montgomery and for Alabama the occasion is of importance because 1t will bring to the city some of the leading musicians of the country.
 The music teachers of the South and of Alabama will meet for their busi- ness sessions in the room of the Con- mercial Club The musical program of the festival will be rendered at the Montgomery Theatre. For. the festival there has been arranged perhaps the finest musical program to which the people of Montgomery have ever had an opportunity of listening. The pro- gram will consist of eight concerts, to which the leading artists of the South have generously agreed con- tribute.
 The concerts will be made notable by the contribution of such artists as Madame Birdice Bye of Chicago. Frank Ormsby of New York, Madame Shot, Piper, an Alabamian by birth and now of national fame; Kurt Mueller. pianist. and Oscar Pappenheiner, Southern musicians of note, and many others of note.
 The first musical program of the festival will be rendered in the The atre this afternoon. The participants on the program of this afternoon are Miss Emma Iavretta, soprano; Miss Georgia Stirling, violin; Mra Kurt Mu- elIer, plano; MT. Paul Donehoo, piano; Miss Louise Carver. piano; Miss Dora Sternfeld, piano; Miss Eleanor Carr, violin, and Miss Fanny Marks. violin.
 The splendid program for the even ing exercises, which begin at S:So o'clock. is as follows:
 Overture Martha Carbohydrates tra.
 (a) Prelude, A flat tchopin) (b) Scherzo, c. sharp minor (Chopin)- Madame Birdice Bye.
 Jewel Song (FausO (Gounod)-Mad- anne Shotwell- Piper.
 Spanish Dances (Moszkowski) {; Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens)-orches- tra.
 (a) carillon (Liapounow); (b) Bar cense (Liadow); (c) Arabesques on Blue Danube (Schultz- z-Evler)-Madame Bir- dice Bye.
 (a) Where Blossoms Grow (Saps Souci); (b) Retreat CLaForge); aG) l u6 CdlS at tilC iAiB NAA' II. ASSoShI Madame Shotwell-Piper.
 Overture Rienzi (Wagner)-Orches- tra.
 Robert Eilenberg, Conductor.
 Madame ShotwelI-Piper, soprano, and Madame Birdice Blye, pianist. will be the soloists.
 The distinguished musicians who will assist in making the First Annual Fes- tival notable, have already reached the city Madame Shotwell-Piper of New York, Mrs. Mary Fleming Meek, Mrs. Leila Brandon of Knoxville, Miss Eda Bartholomew, MT. oscar Pappenheim and Rev. E. Burrey of Atlanta are at the New Exchange. Madame Birdice Bye is with Mrs. W. M. Wilkerson on Church Street. Miss Stella Harris, President of the Alabama State Music Teachers Association, is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Neal Anderson at their home on Washington Avenue. MT. Au- gust Geiger, President of the Southern Music Teachers Association, is stop ping with Professor and Mrs. Robert Eilenberg on Perry Street. Miss Juan ita Hannon of Jackson, Ga, and Miss Eleanor Carr, talented violinists on the program, are stopping at the Glen more.