The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-10
6oenes Now Ready for Greatest
Concert Richmond Has Ever
/ Witncssed--Receipts to Date
i Guarantee Success.
Two Performances
and One Matinee
Hempel. Homer, GIuck. Amato,
Kline and Other Famous
Singers to Take Part, and
Musical Richmond Is Prom
ised a Treat.

The final detail of the great May
Festival of the Wednesday club to-
morrow and Tuesday has been worked
out and the scene set for raising the
curtain on the most ambitious musical
performance ever staged in this city.
Seven stars nj the grand opera stage
whose services command almost an-
.oeilevahle figures. the fifty piece or
chestra Of the Metropolitan Grand
Opera corn pany. and the we'll drilled
chorus of the Wednesday club will all
figure on the extensive program.
The first concert Of the series will
begin tomorrow night at $40 o'clock
promptly in the City auditorium. The
board Of directors Of the Wednesday
club has announced that the doors
viii he closed on the minute, and nc
orc admitted during the performance
of any number on the progra m.
Nothing like the record established
Icy the advance seat sale has heen
known In the long history OF the We'd
nesday clah. which has for twenty
years been the foremost musical eciu~
cationaI organization In Richmond,
About s 0,aea in cash has been taken
into the treasury OF the cluh by the.
advance sale of seats The box Offices
tomorrow morning Will he transferred
from 2l3 East Broad street 20 the
lobby Of the CITY auditorium, opening
a. o'clock and remaining open untii
the hour If the first concert
Some iGea of the musical excellence
Of tho concerts To he staged by the
Wednesday club may be gained from
the announcement that fhe three con-
certs will demand an OUTLAY Of ap-
prnxim3tely s15,0oe. or $4,000 a con-
cert. Needless TO say this marks the
high-water mark OF musical prodnc-
ttans In the South In return for such
en- expense, however. the "Wednesday
club has engaged for Richmond grand
opera artists whose fame Is interna-
tonal. stars who are known wherever
opera is sung.
operate Stars.
Three Of the seven opera stara en-
gagged will receive for their services
more than $1,000 each for a single
performance. The wonderful erches-
ira 10 play here under the baton Of
Richard Haxaman. gets s3.5o0 for It's
performance,
In Frieda Hempel. the remarkable
q prano Of the Imperial Opera COM
pany Of Berlin. the Wednesday club
has engaged fer the festival a star
who In foremost t1st now N the public
eye. Her voice IL wonderful. For
Years sha has been the sensation Of
the German opera world. and last
winter was loaned 10 the Metropolitan
Opera company for a season in New
York, She will return 10 Berlin short
~. after having scored one ~ the
5sost unqualified successes ever al
tanned by foreign artist In the United
States.
Her services are IN demand in all
sections Of the country, and the club
was forced To bid high for her servfce
Memhe ~ the board who heard her
sing In New York predict that Miss
tIempel will be the sensation of the
1914 festival.
The Richmond musical public. al
ready won by the beauty and art n
Miss Alma Giuck. will receive with
pleasure the news If her return this
week "A was recently announced,
she II To be married this summer To
Efrem Zimbalist. the Hungarian vio-
llnist who played at the May Festival
cf 1912 with our own John Powell