The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
MUSIC FESTIVAL TOMORROW NIGHT InneS' Superb Orchestral Band
 Here Three Days BRILLIANT OPENING BILL Innes Opened Peoria's Spring Festival Last Night and Received Ovation.
 Dance of Seven Wells Pro-
 Vokes Great Applause.
BRILLIANT OPENING BILL

The music festival under the direction of F. N. Innes commences tomorrow night It will consist of five concerts three at night and two in the afternoon and will be held at the Jefferson theatre. Innes brings his superb orchestral band oi between 50 and 60 pieces and five vocal artists. He will be assisted by a large chorus trained by Philip Memoh and d chfiufen's chorus trained under the direc- , tion of Miss Kitts.
 Tie seat sale began yesterday, and the large number of tickets sold indicates Frank F. Brien, who is managing the festival, says the theatre will be crowded on the opening night. The net proceeds of the festival are to be applied to the Confederate veterans reunion fund.
 The programme tomorrow night will in- clude Liszts symphonic poem-"Les Pre- ludes,' Stanford's Irish Rhapsody No. 1, the Merry Widow waltz as originally written and as it might have been written by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and oth- CTS, not emitting Richard Wagner This number is styled by Innes musical joke In addition to the purely orchestral num- bers, Unfold, Ye Portals" from Gounod' s Redemption and Hail Bright Abode, . from 'eTannhauser," by the local chorus with band accompaniment, will be heard tomorrow night.
 Innes' band was the feature of the open ing of the spring festival at Peoria, H., Iaet Herald from Peoria says:
 The May festival opened here this i evening in the Coliseum with an audience 1 which packed the big building to it's ut most capacity. Innes orchestral band of 1 60 players is the chief feature of the fes- l tival The famous organization was &C., corded and unprecedented ovation fol- i ing a masterful interpretation of Richard ! Strauss wonderful Dance of the Seven Veils,' from "Salome.' The young Amer 1 jean soprano, Miss Virginia Listemann, scored big hit, as did also Miss Desel- 1 lem, contralto, of magnificent presence and superb voice. The other soloists were 1 Pezzetti, Zara, Evarts and Howe, the last | a well-known local singer, but who was given a splendid welcome A clear novel, | ty by Innes himself caught the chowd 1 The piece had been praised in advanced | and much was expected of it. The clever l ness of the number fairly carried the au- | dience to it's feet and won for Innes a ] personal triumph, using the Merry Wid- | oW" waltz as the leading motive. Innes gives the piece as though it had been
 written respectively by Haydn, Mozart l Mendelssohn, Verdi, Wagner and others I of the immortals, and does this in a way | so characteristic of the masters as to | make it a great hit.
 Tn view of the success of today's festi. | val it has been determined to have il l again next spring, and to that end ar. ! engagements were consummated which in.
 sure the return of Innes and his player.
 here next year.
 "The Innes organization left immedi
 ately after tonight's performance on it.
 own special train over the Illinois Cen
 tral for Owensboro, where it will give tw,
 performances and from there go immedi
 ately to Birmingham, where it is to talk
 part in a three days festival commencin.
 next Wednesday, May, 13."
 The famous "Dance of the Seven Veils,
 from "Saome.' will be heard in Birming
 ham Friday night.