The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21
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RUSH FOR SEATS.

music festival Of the Wednesday Ciuo.
many hundreds Of seats for each com
cert Of the series remain 10 De soid |
before the financial success OF the big !
musical events can be assured.
The board Of governors OF the club, /
however, has every confidence in the
appreciation OF their efforts on the part
nj the nahlic The outlay of funds Is
fhe largest ever yentured by the organ
ization. but the wide public interest
shown in the forthcoming festival TO
this time indicates demand for seats
that will enable the club not only 10
meet the cost OF this years festival but
10 retrieve the deficit OF last season.
From many Virginia cities music low
ers will come to swell the crowds in
the City Auditorium April 20 and 80.
The business managers OF the club Will
endeavor to arrange with the of1lcers
of the Virginia Railway and Power
Company for special cars to be run
during the music festival between
Richmond and Petersburg for the ae-
commodatioa of the throng expected
from the Cockade City.
Statewide Interest.
The festival will be more than ever
before a musical affair OF Statewide
interest. Inquiries concerning the
concerts and mail orders for seats
pouring In from all parts Of the state
presage very large patronage from
out of town points.
The Wednesday Club Chorus was
never SO large or vocally efficient.
Choral Conductor Louis E. Witzel has
been showered with congratulations
by many competent judges upon the
high degree of artistic excellence with
which the choral numbers are rem
dered.
The famous artists and the big or
chestra will come to Richmond next
Sunday night. travelling In a special
Pullman train from New York. All
OF the celebrities, with the exception
OF John Powell, who Is now in the
city, will arrive on this train, inelud-
ing Nine. Gluck, Nine. Homer, Ricca-
rdo Martin, Karl Jorn. Clarence White
I hill. Henri Scott, Zimbalist and Joseph
Pasternack.
Several OF the soloists will begin
their annual concert tours with their
engagements in this city. John Pow
ell. who was brought here from Ger
many especially for this occasion. will
return to Europe after the festival
and resume his tour In Germany.
The business agents OF the Wednes-
day Club are prepared for an UMPIRE
cedented rush for seats for the three
great concerts Of the festival season
this week.
Additional iicket-sellers will be adj
dcd to the corps Of busy men now on
the Job should the conditions make 1t
desirable for the expedition of busi-
ness. The directing managers OF the
festival are making every possible eff
fort to prevent the discomfort and in
convenience of waiting in line and
patrons OF the festival are assured OF
prompt attention.
Mail orders from out of town are
given immediate attention. There are
many hundreds of good seats yet avail
able and the rule Of First come, best
served" is being rigidly adhered to
By the men in charge of the sale.
The sale will be resumed tomorrow
morning at . o'clock and will continue
daily until 6 in the afternoon preced-
ing each concert at the Corley Com
pany Building, 213 East Broad street.
An hour preceding each concert the
sale of seats is to be transferred to
the box-oifice OF the City Auditorium.
The appearance Of John Powell, the
Richmond artist. who is calssed by
many music critics In Europe and
America as second only to the great
Paderewsk. will be feature OF the
matinee concert April 80. Powell has
not played in Richmond in many years.
He will play here for the first time a
composition dedicated to him by his
old music master. Prof. Frederick
Charles Hair. of this city.
The chorus this year includes a
volume OF 80 voices, picked from a
list of more than 800 singers, many OF
whom have had the advantage OF tech.
meal training. The choral conductor,
Louis e. WeitZel, is coming in for en-
thusisstic congratulations upon the
excellent results OF his indefatigable
efforts in the long season devoted ia
rehersals. The conductors enthusi
s. assn seemed TO infect the singers from
.a the beginning. The big chorus respond
ed encouragingly when the rehersalt
we're once under way, melting the
melting the conductor to make his
demands ON the splendid choir OF
voices more aud more exacting, The
mutual enthusiasm combined with the
faithful attendance of the singers a,
~ rehearsals was fruitful beyond the
fondest anticipations Of the festiva
managers. In the opinion of many
judges of choral singing the Wednes-
day Club may boast safely of the most
pretentious organization of Its size
N the Southern country this season
ii not In America.
Few of the cities Of the United
States have an organization Of this
character so large and vocally efficient
IL Expectations for the Wednesday Clul
Chorus are large, but there is no rea
son To doubt that they will be full,
a. realized when the singers make thei
appearance before the vast audience
u that will fill the City Auditorium q
each OF the concerts OF the festiva
q series.
VI Among the choral numbers program
med beautiful setting of Herrick'
old poem when You Sing" by Hug
Bath: Fly. Singing Bird" by Elgal
tuneful song OF light character an
n = setting Of r. b. Alfich's poem. .Se
DFift. BY Coleridge-T Taylor, an exceet
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