Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Spring Music Festival.

Washington will enjoy its first spring
musical festival beginning Monday, May
>, and continuing for four performances.
including a Wednesday matinee, under
the management of Mrs. Katie Wilson
Greene
The solosts for the ope"ing operate
concert, Monday, May. =. at $50 o'clock
are: Mile Alice Nielsen, prima donna
soprano: Mile. Marianne Flah.oiIt con
tralto: NJ. Edmond Clement. tenor: NJ
De Segurola, bass-baritone, and the en-
tire Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra
After an overture from 'Oberon''
won Weber, on the opening night De
Segurola will be heard in the aria from
Leporelo. Don Giovanni" tMozart)
some OF The principal numbers will be:
ARIA from Nine. Butterfly (PuccinD,
Mile Nelson. trio from Faust (Gounod)
Nielsen. Clement. Segurola the ballet
music from MasSenetS famous opera lie
Cid. After the ;ntermission. when the
audience VIII reassemble at the sound Of
a trumpet, Clement and DE Segurola will
De heard In selected duo. an aria from
sapho tMassenet, Flahaut; Nielsen
Will sing her famous aria from Don't
Zettis Don Pasquale, Clement will give
Massenet La Rave aria from
evening will close with quartet from
.Rigoletto'' VerdD. sung by Nielsen.
flahaut Clement and Segurola
MISS Margaret Reyes. con.ralto, will he
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the assisting artists will be the MetropoIi-
tan Opera House Orchestra the Ruben
stein Club and the Monday Morning Club.
the latter organizations affording chorus
or LOO voices. under the direction of Mrs
Blair The following program has been
arranged for this concert:
overture Mignon' (Thomas) Metro
p pc Opera House Orchestra Ca)
Lovely Night COffenbachD. chorus with
orchestra: aria, 20 Don Fatale'' Don
Carlos" Verdi, Miss Margaret Reyes:
Rhapsodie No. Iiszp, Metropolitan
opera House Orchestra. Intermission
March. Slave" Tschaikowsky), Metro
pohtan Opera House Orchestra; Natures
Resurrection" Huntington Woodman1.
Chorus ta) "Sontag Morgen" OBJ Verge
bitches Standchen,' (Brahms). tc) Wild
mung F'ranz) (d) Floods Of Spring
(Rachmannoff), Miss Reyes: Lost Chord
(Sullivan-Bartlett. chorus
Miss Roberta Amies. the High School
Chorus and the Metropolitan Opera House
Orchestra will give the program for the
Wednesday matinee. May 4, beginning at
j O'Clock. After an overture by the or
eheStra the chorus will give the famous
rllsrim chorus from "Tannhauser''
(Nagner. Miss Roberta Amies the tai
ented Washington dancer Will give classic
dances In costume. assisted by the
Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra. The
High School Chorus, under rhe direction
of Mr.. Halstead P. Hoover. will have 9th
er big numbers for the matinee concert
the concluding performance of the fes-
uVal Will be had Wednesday evening
May 4. when Nine Olive Fremstad, the
distinguished dramatic soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera House. will be heard
in an all-Wagnerian program. The Met
ropoiitan Opera House Orchestra, which
has been so thoroughly schooled in the
great masters works. will assist The pro-
gram follows Prelude, 'Meistersnger:
Good Friday Spell. "Parsifal' aria,
Tannhauser aria, 'Tannhauser':
Waldweben, Siesfried": Elsa's Dream,
"Lohengrin': introduction act H. To-
hengrln Ride of the Nalkyries; Funeral
March, Gotterdammerung' prelude and
finale. Tristan and Isolde" the program
concluding with the overture from Tam
hauSer"