Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-05
1900 TO COMPETE
IN SAENGERFEST
Newark's Great Two-Day Fes-
tiYal of Song Scheduled for
July q and s.

The local saengerfost takes place
saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5,
at Reins Colosseum and Park, 457
Springfield avenue, Newark. Forty
six societies from New York Brook =
lyn. Jersey City. Paterson, Passaic,
Perth Amboy, West Hoboken and
Union Hill have accepted invitations
TO be IN attendance OF these eleven
nave up TO date announced their en-
try into the prize singing contests.
For the first time anywhere ladies'
choruses will compete.
The prize singing is divided into
four classes. No society has entered
the first class, in which the number
Of singers was to have been between
forty and sixty, but six societies have
entered the second class. and these
are: Deutscher Liederkranz, Brook
Ign, Conductor Hugo Steinbrush; NJ.
G. V. Aurora, Brooklyn, Conductor
Ernst Scharpf; Arfon, Passaic, Con-
ductor Professor jain; Gruetli Maen-
nerchor Paterson, Conductor DR..
Horn; Concordia, Perth Amboy. Con-
ductor Hugo Speck; Arbeiter Maen-
nerchor, Perth Amboy, Conductor
Valentin Jungmann.
Each of these societies sings with
forty voices, the maximum number,
and their prize song is "Amselruf,"
by G. Angerer.
The third class to date has three
entrants, but, as in the ladies' classes,
others are expected. The maximum
number of voices in this class is
twenty-four, and the obligatory song
prescribed is "Es Steht Zine Maech-
tige Linde," by J. Pache.
The entries are: Junger Maenner-
Choir, West Hoboken, Conductor +.
W. Menges; North New York Lied
ertafel the Bronx, Conductor Rich
ard Wolf; Forest Quartet Club
Brooklyn, Conductor Hans Bruemm.
In ladies' class No. there is en-
tered the Schweitzer Damenchor No.
1, Brooklyn, Conductor Benno X.
Maskos. They number forty voices
and their prize song is "Waldeinsam-
keit," by J. Pache.
In the second class for ladies'
choruses, in which he prize song is
"Waldhuettelein," by Otto Won Wal
den, the Damenchor Frohsinn, Con-
ductor Richard Wolf. of West Ho-
boken, has entered twenty-four
voices.
The contest judges are Professor
Heinrich Bauer, Dr. Nicholas ]. FL
senheimer. Emil Reyl, all of New
York, and Carl Fique of Brooklyn.
DIR. Bauer is the originator OF
new system of judging choral COM
petitions, and this system is to be
utilized and tried out win a view to
using the same at the national saen-
gerfest of the Northeastern Saenger-
bund in Brooklyn next year.
The League of Choral Directors,
consisting of musical conductors and
pedagogues, will be in attendance to
observe the adaptability of the Bauer
system to the big music festivals
elsewhere, inasmuch as the one in
use at this time has proven intensely
unpopular.
The prize singing occurs on July
at p. m, although the reception to
the visitors will be in progress dur
ing all of Saturday morning. There
will be approximately 1880 singers in
attendance during the festival.
After the contests on Saturday
there will be a garden festival and
at o'clock the grand ball.
Sunday afternoon at o'clock the
Phoenix. in conjunction with three
New York societies, Schweitzer Maen-
nerchor, 20 voices; Arion Liedertafel,
IS singers, and New Yorker Saen
gerrunde, with "a members, under the
conductorship of Professor Emil
Lender, in a massed chorus, and or
chestra of twenty-five artists and
several noted soloists, will furnish
the festival concert in the audi
torium.
At s o'clock Sunday evening the
prize winners will be announced and
the trophies awarded.
The festival committee Is composed
of: Honorary festival officers. August
Goerts, honorary president of the
Phoenix; Carl Lentz, president of the
Northeastern Saengerbund; Jacob
Haussling, mayor of Newark, and c.
W. Heilmann, president United Sing
ers, Newark.
Festival president, August Willms;
vice-president, Hans Baer; recording
secretary, H. F. Willms; correspond
ing secretary, Francis X. Duenwald;
treasurer. Harry Huelsenbeck; F.
willms, F. Langemann, c. Mueller.
c. Flernm. F. Valentine c. Schott.
L. Scherf, ]. Bicks, L. Vetter. Max
Lemmer. F. Lemmer, E. Dassing G.
Knopf, H. Maumeister, E. Gorge, h.
Herrinper E Lender.