Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-03-27
A New Departure For The Spartanburg
Music Festival.

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The recent announcement of the
18th annual South Atlantic states
Music Festival, which will take place
at Spartanburg, S. C. on April 80, May
l, and 2. is especially interesting, be-
cause of the marked changes in the
%personel of the orchestra and assisting
artists. The Damrosch orchestra has
been the instrumental body for the
past years; the coming Festival
will marke the introduction of the cele-
brated Metropolitan Opera House or
chestra, of New York, to the music
lovers of this section. The fame OF
this body of musicians has spread all
over the United States and the oppor-
tunity afforded by the Spartanburg
Festival to hear them in connection
with the greatest roster of artists who
have yet appeared at these concerts,
is an epoch in the history of music
in this section.
This orchestra has, for years, furn-
ished the accomplishments for all the
operas produced at the Metropolitan
Opera House; 1t has played these un-
der the conductorship of the greatest
orchestral conductors in the world,
Among these are DR.. Karl Muck, Felix
Mott, Mr.. Hertz, Mr.. Toscanini, Mr..
Sturani and others of equal celebrity.
It will be under the direction of Mr..
Sturani at the coming Festival.
It is interesting to know that the
weekly payroll of the Metropolitan
Opera House is $4,000, not including
rent. This sum represents the amount
paid to star. orchestra, Chorus, bal
let, stage hands, and other wokrmen
employed about the opera house. OF
this sum,the orchestra receives $500.
there are eighty men in the orchestra
the average is over $4,000 per man, q
weekly wage. which may well be CON
sidered worth while.
The amount received by this orches-
ira is an indication of its. musical
standing; none but thoroughly compet-
emit players can hope to receive such
salaries. The orchestra as It will be
constituted for the .Spartanburg Fest
wal, will include the best of it's regu-
lar force; there will be no "Fillers-in,'
but each ,man on the stage will be in
vital part of the ensemble.
The music which will be presented
by this specialist. orchestra will also
be of particular interest, as the
orchestra and soloists have been prin-
cipally engaged in producing the
great operas, so they will present
to the Spartanburg audience unusually
excerpts from the operas with which
they have so long been familiar. evil
liam Tell "The Masked Bali, Ill
Tro~vatore," The Barber of Seville,
"Tosca", "Lohengrin"s ia DRmna-
ton de Faust, Der Frei-Schutz"
Samson and Delilah", The Flying
Dutchman", ia Gioconda", "Tann-
haueser'' "Euryanthe", "Meistersinger'
"Wilkuere", Rheingold," "Gotterdam-
merung", will all be represented on
the Festival programs by numbers for
orchestra and for soloists. This is an
offer that has new before been made
at the Festival, and certainly should
arouse the interest of those who went
to hear great artists in the greatest
operas that has ever been written.
The Festival management has appro-
priated a large sum for orchestra and
~loloists this year than have ever been
used for this purpose before, and it is
safe to say that the 1913 Festival will
Fbe the most attractive in the series.