The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-16
MUSIC FESTIVAL !. IS ID ECLIPSE ALL
 PREVIOUS EVENTS President Holcomb Makes Announcements Regard
 ing the Details
FAMOUS ARTISTS TO
 APPEAR EACH NIGHT
Schumann-H Heink and Evan Williams to Sing and Mrs. Truman Aldrich to Play the Big
 Concerto

| President J. H. Hocombe of the Music Festival association stated yesterday that | practically all the details for Birming- hams forthcoming great musical eveni had been settled. The festival will be held at the Orpheum, which has com fortable seating capacity of about 14oo. While this is relatively a small capacity
 from a festival point of view, one great t
 advantage offered by the Orpheum man agement is that every seat in the house is a frst-class seat, that Is to say, q
 seat commanding an unobstructed view of the stage
 The seat sale will begin at the Jesse
 French Starr Piano companys rooms or, Third avenue a week from tomorrow. April 24. President Holcombe says that all mail orders and all telephone or
 ders long distance or local, will have prompt attention; and in the matter of reserved seats it will be a case of first come, first served
 The festival will open Monday night May 22 It will embrace five concerts three night and two afternoon perform ances. While the festival executive com
 mittee has not passed upon the matter of a price scale, it is understood that season tickets will be sold at $10 and that reserved seats for a single perform
 ance, night or afternoon, will be $2.59. It is seen therefore, that season ticket will amount to saving of s2 50 for those who wish to attend all five of the con- certs.
 The National Good Roads convention, which meets here on the week of the festival, will bring thousands of visitors.
 and it goes without saying that the de-
 mand for seats will be exceptionally large.
 This springs music festival will, 1t is believed, eclipse any former musical event attempted in Alabama. Victor Herbert, the composer-conductor telegraphs that he Is bringing a select orchestra to Biz mingham for this occasion It will be unsurpassed In personnel, it is claimed, by any symphony band heard in this country.
 Madame Schumann- Heink has been en-
 gagged for two of the festival concerts,
 Monday and Tuesday. Her appearance
 at the Monday night concert Is positive, but 1t will be question to be decide
 later as to whether she will appear at the Tuesday afternoon or the Tuesday night concert, Evan Williams, the great tenor will be on the first nights bill. Among the other great vocal artists en-
 gagged for this festival are Miss Kim ball. soprano: Mile. Cisneros. contralto. and Frank Croxton, basso.
 The instrumental features of the open ing night will be especially attractive.
 There vii, be several rich orchestra nov cities and big drawing card will be
 Mrs. Truman Aldrich, Jr., who will ap-
 pear as soloist in Tschaikowsky's B flat
 minor piano concerto, in which she re- cently achieved a splendid triumph with
 the Russian Symphony orchestra. ms
 concerto which Mrs. Aldrich has added to her repertoire is a colossal symphonic work. but notwithstanding It's technical difficulties and the intellectual demand it makes oi, the performer, it Is extreme ly popular. Few of the popular over-
 lures or symphonies indeed so abound
 in p,easing melody, sensuous beauty or gorgeous ensemble as this famous Tsch- aik0WSkN COnCeTlO. Altci NiNeci 'iSi
 bert had heard of the encomiums which
 M Altschu'er, the conductor of the Rus sian Symphony orchestra, had passed on
 Mrs. Aldrich just after his first rehearsal with her, he insisted that she should have a prominent place on Part l of the opening festival programme here. MT. Holcombe se,d that this point which MT. Herbert urged was naturally f1attering to the local festival management, and
 he was confident that the Birmingham
 public would applaud the action Of those
 charged with making up the programme in placing this gifted woman near the top.
 The guarantee fund for the music fes-
 tival amounts to $l1 .O0O, but MT. Holcombe
 says there is every promise that instead of the guarantors being called upon to
 make up a deficit there will be con- siderable surplus to be carried over to next years festival account.