The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-21
NEWARK SINGERS
TAKE PART TO-DAY
IN mSAENGERFESI
Participate in Prize Contests
in Madison Square
Garden.
FESTIVAL OPENED
BY MAJOR CARL LENTZ
German Ambassador, Present,
Makes Stirring Address
to Societies.

Prize singing contests under the aus
pices OF the Northeastern Saengerbund
began In Madison Square Garden this
afternoon. to be followed tonight by
another great concert. The contestants
this afternoon were:
Singing Societies of the Fourth Class
Adler Maennerchor, Brooklyn: Union
Hill L~iederkranz. Union Hill: River
side Maennerchor. Riverside; Ger
mania, Poughkeepsle, n. Y; Turner
Maennerchor, Atlantic City; Germania
GesanE Eerein. Brooklyn; c%oncordia
Quartet Club. Philadelphia; Bremen
evorder Maenaerchor. Brooklyn: Metz
ger Gssang verein, Baltimore. Md.
Singing Societies Of the Third Glass
NJ. G.. v. Alpenroeschen, Brooklyn'
schwae bischer Maennerchor Bridge
port, Conn: Yonkers Quartet Club.
Yonkers, N. Y; Deutscher Liederkranz.
Brooklyn: Schweizer Maennerchor'
Philadelphia; Mozart Maennerenor
Baltimore. Md; New Rochelle Maen-
nerchor, New Rochelle, n. Y. Green
vile Liederkranz. Jersey City.
Singing Societies of the Second Glass
Buffalo Saengerbund, Buffalo. n. ".
Saengerbund. Wilmington,
Del: syracuse Liederkranz, Syracuse,
N. Y; Harmonic Maennerchor. Read
ing, Pa: Swiss Harmony, West Ho-
hoken; Schwaebischer Saengerbund,
Newark; Bayrischer Saengerbund,
Newark; washington s~aengerbund,
washington, d. C..
sehumann-Heink Sings.
The first festival concert of the great
national gathering of music lovers took
place last night and a monster audi
ence filled the garden to greet h sing
ers. The ~soloists were Nine. Schumanh-
Heink. the famous contralto of German
and American grand opera. and Claude
CUNNINGHAM. baritone. There was a
male choir of 5000 voices. and an or
chestra Of $50 pieces played several Sc
lections. The concert was under the
direction of julius Lorenz. Rehearsal
for the massed chorus at last nights
concert was held in the Garden yester-
day morning. The Newark singers,
many OF whom had arrived the night
before, were all present. A large dele
CATION of the Newarkers marched down
from Krueger's Auditorium to the
Broad street station OF the Lacka-
wanna railroad on Saturday afternoon
where they boarded a special train for
New York. They attended the recep
ton concert In the Garden, when the
federation banner which has been III
the possession OF the United Singers
since the last saengerfest. three years
~~o-a,ta1 "a TbQndnra Hem
ninger, president of the United Singers
OF New York, by C. w. Heilman. presi-
dent of the United Singers OF Newark.
When Nine. Schumann-Heink APP
peared in the morning for rehearsal she
was greeted by a tremendous ovation.
The great singer was so affected by
this welcome that tears were streaming
down her face when she began her re-
A mammoth crowd filed the Garden
In the afternoon to hear the childrens
concert. The concert was rendered by
an elementary school chorus of 3.0Gp
voices, under the direction of DIR. Frank
r.. Fix and Of a High School chorus Of
!. 800 voices, under the direction Of
Albert s. CaswelI. The chorus was
supported by an orchestra of 100 pieces,
under DR.. Felix Jaeger. The assistant
soloists were Mrs, Corinne Rider-Kel-
sey, soprano, and Daniel Beddoe, tenor.
The concert was brought to q magnif-
rent close by the singing of the star
spangled Banner" in which the audi
ence Joined.
The Evening Program.
The program for the evening concert
was:
Overture from ~''Tannhauser." Rich
ard Wagner; Shepherds Sunday
Song (Conradin Kreutzer), massed
chorus: vittellia. aria from Titus
tMozart), Nine. Schumann-Heink:
Song (E. Kremser). massed
chorus and orchestra; aria. Fri Tu,"
from the Masked Bali &c VerdD.
Claude Cunningham: From Youths
Days (Robert Radecke).
massed chorus; "On the Bridge In
S~trassburg." G. Hirsch; "Old Folks at
Home arranged by Frank Won der
Stuckenl. massed chorus n solo by