Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-03

excitement Dunston Collins
has been here from Chicago
HI3@Yy helping Mr.. BirchmoTe with
the working up OF the guaran-
lee iGnd. Thus far their efforts have
been successful.
Do Omaha people realize Just what they
have in the Mendelssohn choir? How
superlauvely good Il is? Better than al
most any organization Of its kind In the
country: ranking well with the Mendels-
sohn choir of Toronto. which occasionally
makes short flight to New York and
Chicago. and you can't get even standing
room for a week before Its concerts. II
takes tremendous amount Of courage
for our choir to bring the Thomas orches-
ira here, giving them q guarantee OF
nearly sseoa. The benefit to the city OF
festival conducted on such a scale Of
artistic merit Is untold Omaha Is grow
ing and We must develop along esthetic
lines as well as material ones. 1t Is a
vast satisfaction this week to think of the
exhibit of pictures at the library, which
BY the .fay cost the women Of the Society
OF Fine Arts close to 1900. Every city
hhoN 10 49, " A4hO AANS~ AN'S N--N-~
things.
The screw that Is loose in this town Is
that the business men have not yet
walked UP to the fact that good pictures
and good music are municipal assets.
Transient visitors come to city for what
they can see and hear.
q
This little squib from the Metropolitan
Magazine expresses great truth.
When are our John Stones going to turn
up: And when will our boosters begin
TO support orchestral concerts? -
The deep wave Of enthusiasm for music
Is In the country; the crest Of the wave
is In the cities. Every metropolls-we
have more than one-is n mammoth con-
servatory. Six cities support symphony
orehestras Of the first rank. They are
Chicago, ST. Louis. Cincinnati. Kansas
City. st. Paul and Minneapolis A SYM
phony orchestra, be ii known, is the ne
plus ultra Of music center. To support
such luxury Is impossible save with the
help Of many well-to-do John Stones. II
Is also impossible without a solid founda-
tion Of music-lovers-enough to fill the
hall nearly every time. The city that has
one has something that its commercial
association can use with large effect in
advertising literature. For II has come
10 be recognized in the west that musical
achievement is a municipal asset. The
boosters of city now call attention
10 its banks, Its newspapers, its wharves
Its factories and its symphony orchestra,
Every artistic venture has TO have two
ends, the artistic end and the business
end. 1t is too bad when Mr.. Kelly gives
his whole strength and devotion to his
~ h. - a.
inspiration. that he should be worried
into actual physical illness by the prac-
teal aspect of the festival.
Mr.. Collins said this. and II sounds
like good sense: The first festival year
Is easy; the second year is very hard; the
third year not quite so hard; after that
II is easy again. and the people wou,on't
for anything give up their festival"
In some way the business men OF the
tity must be put back OF the Mendelssohn
Choir and the Theodore Thomas Or
chesua.
Does anyone here In Omaha really
know anything definite about Jules
Hubbard? Articles stifl seem to be COM
Ing out in the papers saying that he is
very poor and In need OF help. have
leiephoned to various people who used
TO know him well. but they seem TO have
lost any Intimate knowledge Of him since
he went TO Chicago. Now, know abso-
iutely that there are great many music
lovers here who would consider 1t priv
hege and the discharge OF q pleasant
no5t to have the opportunity Of helping
Jules I.umbard. How many years, we
Who OF US has not thrilled at his singing
tf Are Ye Sleepin'. Maggie?" There are
those of w still left who remember the
quartet at Trinity cathedral composed Of
Mrs. ]. W. Cotton tnow Mrs. Herman
Eountzel. soprano; Mrs. MOeller. con-
traito NOW q prominent worker In mu-
slcal circles in Oakland. Cali; Walter
wilkins. tenor (who only recently re-
signed his posp, and Jules Hubbard,
basso. Personally. ! love every one Of
E them. They are all deeply bound up
In the musical life OF this city. They
were pioneers Of the true type who did
their work conscientiousiy and well. In
spring young talent was not the least
part Of their service. To think OF Jules
Hubbard, old and in need. hurts. Won't
somebody who knows wake up and say
something, so that those Of us who want
10 can either make a relief plan or be
assured that he is comfortable and does
hot need our help.
Fifty years ago in the bitterest Of the
civil struggle. when the ranks Of the
union army had to be recruited by the
draft Jules Lumbard and his brother
toured the country with the Arlington
Ministries and demonstrated that 'one
blast upon the bugle was worth 1000
men" They made the Battle Cry of
Freedom" so great an instrument for
the inspiration Of patriotism that Abra-
ham Lincoln once said at public ban
quet LET mo tell you that two men
and they are not military men-by their
singing have got more men to enlist
In the United States army than fifty
times $50 Of our best recruiting officers
ever addressed"
on Monday afternoon at I o'clock Mr..
Kelly gives the first Of his wagnerian
lecture recitals at the residence Of Mrs.
Joslyn. "Des Rheingold" being his subject
The demand for the extra season tickets
has been very gratifying. No single ad-