The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-31
SELLING TICKETS
FOR BIG FESTIVAL
Programmes Offer Wide Range
for Music Lovers
FIVE PERFORMANCES
Festival Dates Will Be April 10, 70
and 2f-season Tickets VIII be
Withdrawn From Sale mt
End of Week
FIVE

Only season tickets for the music festi-
val are being sold on the first floor OF
the Jefferson theatre this week, but seats
in the balcony for single concerts are
now on sale. After this week the season
tickets will be withdrawn. The price of
the season ticket-fve performances-is
,6. good many season tickets were sold
yesterday. The festival dates are April
10, 20 and 81.
The programmes in full were published
in The Age-Herald last Sunday. The
Damrosch orchestra will be a feature of
each performance. On The opening night,
Tuesday, April 10. the frs. number Oh.
the programme is Weber's beautiful over
ture to "Oberon." The second number
will embrace two lovely choruses fol
ladies' voices, Delibes' "Nymphs of tile
Woods" and Scharwenka's primrose
Gavotte." These pieces will be sung by
one of the finest female choruses in this
Countrywide Treble Clef club of which
William Gussen is director.
The third number will be a soprano solo
by Nine. Sara Anderson, a distinguished
prima donna engaged by Mr.. Damrosch
for his festival tour. After Nine Ander.
sons solo will come two orchestral num-
bers-a Scherzo by Goldwark, and Haydn's
variations on the Austrian national hymn
Thus concludes part I. of the first concert
Part IL. opens with Weber's Concert
stuck, Opus ga brilliant piano solo ac-
companied by full orchestra-with Mrs.
Aldrlch as the pianist. This will be fol-
lowed by two short songs for femal,
voices by Brahms, with a unique ac-
compartment, namely, a harp and two
French horns. These songs are, When
e'er the Sounding Harp is Heard and
THE Death of Trenar.'' They will be
sung by the Treble Clef. This chorus will
sing also Hoffmans Song of the Norns."
Reed Miller, tenor will sing an air from.
Leoncavello's PA gliacoi," and Nine An
derson will sing an air from Les Tigres"
The first nights performance will close
with orchestral numbers, Dance of the
Sylphs," and the Rakoczy march from
'Damnation OF Faust both by Berlioz
The first matinee will be largely orches-
trail. including Schuberts Moments
Musical" Moskowski's "serenade." a
symphonic poem by Smetana, Mendels-
SUM spring SOHS,. anu 4ueuueiSSOTIl
Spinning Song" Saint saens' spin
ming Wheel" from "Omphale," and
grand Russian piece. Other numbers on
that programme will be Bruchs violin
concerto, with Alexander Easlavsky as
soloist, and a contralto solo by Nine.
Nevada Van der yeer.
The Wednesday night bill will be made
up OF the music from Tschaikonsky's pop.
ular opera in which all the solo artists,
the festival chorus, trained by Prof Fred
). CRAMPS. and the orchestra will di-
vide the honors.
At the Thursday matinee the orches>
ira will play Dvoraks New World
symphony-all four movements; Liszt's
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1, and a group
by Tschaikowsky. George Barrere, the
famous flute virtuoso, Will play a piece
by Chamnade, and Reed Miller will sing
two songs.
The final performance Thursday night
will consist of rich Wagner feast and
the programme will contain among other
things:
beths Air. Act II-Mme. Anderson. (c)
Song to the Evening Star'-Mr. Keller
man.
Lohengrin-(a) Prelude. OBJ Elsa's
Dream-Mme Anderson. (e) ELIZABETH
Prayer and finale to Act l. FESTIVAL
chorus).
Meistersinger-(a) Prize song. OBJ Dance
of the Apprentices. -, Choraie Festival
chorus)
\VaIlure-(a) Wotan's Fareweii-Mr
Kellerman % Ride of the VaiKyries.
Tristan and Isolde Prelude and F'inale.
Isoide's Death)-Mme. Anderson.
The box sheet will be found at the Jes-
Sc French companys store on Third ave-
nue