The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-29
MUSIC FESTIVAL
BEGINS TONIGHT
Famous Singers Arrive by Spc-
cial for Wednesday Club
Concerts.
You MUST BE THERE EARLY
Doors Will Be Closed During
Each Number to Avoid
Disturbance.

Eeginning this evening tho eyes OF
| musical America Will Tor the oriet
Lctiod II two days ne centred upon
Richmond. y group of famous artists
garncred from the music-lovinG ma
lions of Europe and from the best
! talent In America arrived in the city
in q special train from Atlanta last
night to take part in the nineteenth
annual musical festival of the Wedncs-h
day Club. probably the most eminent
! musical organization in the Southern
States
While it is admittedly in doubtful
taste to attempt to reduce pure art
to a basis OF dollars and cents. the
magnitude of the Wednesday Clubs
undertaking can scarcely be fully APP
prcciated without II backward glance
at the toll these world-renowned ar
lists exact for their two-day sojourn
| in Richmond The clubs first concert
is said TO have cost only $1,000. With
| the Increase in membership and at
hucncc came u corresponding increase
! IN the annual expense of the festival.
| until the hign-water mark was reach
ed in the present one. which, 1t is
stated Will cost the club in suaran
| $4,000
| Important to DE on Time.
| This evenings concert at the City
Auditorium VIII he at $50 o'clock upon
| the minute, when the doors will be
! closed No one will be admitted until
| the first number is ovr. The man
dScment is particularly anxious that
J ticket holders come as early as posi-
BILE, so that every one may be seated
before the performance begins. The
confusion caused By late Corners would
seriously interfere with the enjoy
ment OF the concert by the rest of the
audience. and strict orders have been
| to
! lance during the performance of any
number.
! There Will be an intermission of ten
| minutes between the first and second
parts of each concert, and trumpet
call Will announce the close of the in
Permission. Women in the audience
| VIII be expected TO remove their ants
| The same rules will apply to both
! evening pcrforma noes and 20 the single
afternoon concert, which begins to-
morrow al 2;3O o'clock
/ Musical Virginia VIII Attend
The festival. which is easily tho
| premier musical event of the State.
! VIII attract lovers OF the art from
| every section of the Commonwealth
| Hardly Il conservatory OF music or
woman's college in the State will be
without liberal representation. Large
! reservations made for these months
ago indicate that there will be no lack
OF amateur artists and critics at tho
! three performances. y number or
| tickets have been sold to persons in
| North Carolina. Maryland and other
nearby States
On the subject of the artists them
selves and tie quality OF their art no
reader of newspapers q musical Jour
| nails need further information.
| Wherever music reaches It's noblcst
| expression, be ii in London, Berlin.
New York or Vienna. the names Alma
G!uck, Louise Homer, Riccardo Martin
and Henri Scott are as well known
as the names of the rcgning mon
archs. The fact that all of the artists
| who appear in the Wednesday Club
! concerts rank high as principals In
the metropolitan Company is in itself
SUFFICIENT assurance of their standing
| in the world OF music.
! The singers will be assisted bv tho
celebrated orchestra OF the Metropoli-
tan opera House. 1t VIII @ under thc
| direction of Josef pasternack. one of
the principal conductors
Artists Who VIII Sing
inc soloists at the concerts will be
! Nine. Gluck. soprano: Nine. Louise
iiomcr' contralto; Ricardo Martin.
tenor; Karl Iorn. tenor; Clarence
| Whitehill. baritone. and I.enri Scott
passo. Zfmbalist. the famous Russian
Nloiinist. VIII appear at the afternoon
concert tomorrow. John Powell. the
l,lc:,nond piano virtuoso, who will
perform at the matinee concert has
peen In the city for the past two
| weeks having come from Germany
especially for this occasion
The Wednesday Club chorus CON
tains gao voices, and is under the d.
rec'oh OF Louis l.. Weitzel. The 9th
or principals arc: Ernest H. coshv
accompanist: Mrs. Florence ID. ueo1nm'
bourg and Miss Katherine Thurston
v!o!inists, and Ben BrockenbrouEh. W
: fleming and w. s Jackson, IL
| brarians.
Thc Official Prarrnm.
| Foiiowing is the detailed program of
the first concert:
FIRST CONCERT
Monday Evening. April 20, Mt $50
| O'Clock.