The sun., 1909-06-13
The FOUR DAY SAENGERPEST
PROGRAMMES FOR THE SPECIAL
CONCERTS ANNOUNCED.
Julius Loreny and Carl Helm 10 BE tho
Conductors - Schumann-Helnk and
Corinne Rider.ke,sey Among the
Soioists School children In Chorus.

Conductors - SchunannsHeink and
Corinne Rider.kelsey Among the
soioists School children In Chorus.
julius Lorenz and Carl Helm. musical
conductors Of the saengerfest to be held
in Madison Square Garden June 10 to
% inclusive, have completed the pro-
grammes for the four artists concerts
which will be feature Of the festival,
Members Of the New York Philharmonic
and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra
to the number OF $50 are to be heard In a
number OF special orchestral selections
throughout the festival under both d.
rectors. The selections will include the
Festival Overture by Lassen; Sym
phonic Scherzo,;' by julius Lorenz; the
Coronation March, by Svendsen; 'Le-
onora" overture. by Beethoven; the over
ture to Wagner's -TannhAuser. the
KAISER March by the same composer.
and the symphonic poem Les Preludes, v
by Franz Liszt.
These four concerts will have the assist
ance of Nine. Schumann-Heink. who is
to be heard on Sunday and Monday eve
nings. June 20 and 21. and Corinne Rider
Kelsey. who will sing at the reception
concert with Claude Cunningham and the
United Singers Of New York on Saturday
evening, June 10. when the principal
number will be Max Bruchs cantata
Fair Ellen. and again on Sunday after
noon, June 20,with Daniel Beddoe in the
school children's concert. This concert
will be given by nermission Of the Board
of Education and is in charge OF DR..
Frank r. Rix, Albert CaswelI and DR..
Felix Jaeger. who is to conduct the or
chestral numbers Of this programme.
DR.. Rix will conduct the numbers to be
sung by the elementary school children
and Mr.. Caswell the numbers to be sung
by the members Of the high schools.
The selections to be sung at this con-
cert include an arrangement Of BE Not
Afraid" from Mendelssohn's @Elijah,'
and Sir Arthur Sullivan's famous hymn
The Lost Chord" in addition to compo-
sitions by Beethoven, Tottman and Liszt.
and the programme is to conclude with
Victor Herberts American fantasie the
ner.' is to be sung by 5000 children.
The three other concerts OF the festival
will he known as the competitive concerts
in which the organizations from tn e
forty-two cities will participate for tho
prizes which have been offered. On
Monday afternoon, June II. the societies
Of the second. third and fourth classes
will compete. On Tuesday afternoon,
June ~. societies Of the first class and the
city and county federations Of the first
and second class will compete. These
include the United Singers OF Newark,
n. j.. 500 voices; United Singers OF Brook
lyn. 500 singers: United Singers Of Phila-
delphia, 700 voices; the United Singers OF
400 singers; 800 singers from
Hudson county. n. j.. 100 singers from
Long Island City and 900 from Atlantic
City, n. j.
The festival will conclude on Tuesday
evening, June %. when the famous Kaiser
prize will be competed for, and five
societies are entered for this contest,
They are the Kreutzer Club OF New York,
he Concordia Singing Society Of Wilkes.
barre. Pa: the Junger Maennerchor of
the German Society OF
Newark, n. j., and the Arion Society OF
Baltimore.
The song selected by the Music COM
nittee OF the festival to decide the test as
q which society should get the Kaiser
,rize for the next three years has been
specially composed for the occasion by
Neumann and entitled SThe
OF the Rhine" In addition TO
his each organization is permitted TO
'inIg a second number Of it's own selection.