Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-21
MUSIC FESTIVAL
PLANNED To AID
PHTHISIS FIGHT
Six Hundred Voices for Benefit
at Shubert Theatre Week
of May II.

A grand music festival is planned
for the week beginning Monday, May
II, at Shuhert's Theatre. 1t will be
for the benefit of the Anti-Tubercu-
losis Organization of Newark Emil
Hofmann will be director.
Mr.. Holman says that. except for
one prima donna, Callerina, from the
Metropolitan Opera House. the talent
at the music festival will be exclu-
sively "domestic"-that is. of Essex
and the nelghboring counties. New
arkers will, of course, predominant
In orchestra, song and dance.
The title of the great performance
In which Mr.. Holman says he eX-
poets 600 to take part will be Legend
of the MUSES." a lyric fantasy. 1t is
to be in five acts, and wilF portray
the evolution of dance. Mr.. Hof-
mann is the author
Each act is to have separate seen
cry, and will be constructed and
painted by Max A. Schmidt and DR..
Anselm Goeltz. Mr.. Schmidt was
brought to this country from Munich
by Oscar Hammerstein.
The first act will represent the life
Of the Athenians in the year 500 B.
c. AS the sun rises and its rays fall
upon the beautiful Acropolis. girl
carrying a water jar on her shoulder
will be disclosed in conversation
with q young shepherd. The con-
versatlon, of course, will be carried
on in classic song. Indeed, there are
to be no words at all uttered through
out the performance. 1t will all be q
libretto-less opera, the voices merely
molodically suiting the action. Pres
emily the portals of the great marble
edifice are thrown open, and heralds
step forth and make announcements
in a musical fanfare. Priests and
priestesses next step forth, and finally
the king, who ascends his throne.
Mr.. Holman says the king VIII De
represented by a basso, whose name
will be announced later He Will
sing an extract from the Magic
Flute" The water-bearer and shep-
herds Catalogue" will be drawn from
samson and Delilah."
ballet of thirty girls will then
appear, each carrying a palm. At
the end of their dance there will be
a chorus ensemble, winding up with
a terrific storm scene, during which
oil flee to shelter except the water
girl and her shepherd, who ind
refuge in each others arms on the
steps of the great edifice. And when
the storm has passed by the shep-
herd, too, passes on, leaving the girl
to pine alone.
Act II. is in the garden in the rear
of Golden Palace of Nero in the year
A. ID. IS. Tho emperor is thanked by
two senators on each side to con-
stitute a quintet A chained princess
is dragged in by slaves. She sings
n pathetic plea, to which the crrel
Nero turns a deaf ear. Then a cham
pion arises and adds his plea to hers
and the emperor releases her and
celebrates the event by a stupendous
banquet In the course of the feast
ing and reVelry there will I've gladla-
torial contests and other enterta MIN
features, including dancing.
Act III. will move the action for
ward to the time of the Niebelungen
saga. Wagner's art win here reign
paramount. SiegfTied, Siegurd, Gun
Their. Kriemhild, Brunhild and all the
ather heroes and heroines and the
eods of Valhalla will appear, each in
vested in the grandeur assigned him
or her by the wonderful master of
music. singing the deeds immortal
tied in legend as we'll as opera.
In this place it may not be map
propriate to say that, for artistic
effect, Mr.. Holman has decided to
eliminate footlights.
Act ". will take us another move
forward in time. We land amid fes-
tive scenes of the RENAISSANCE and
Rococco periods. A minuet in the
style of the days of Louis XIV.
opens the act. And all through VIII
run the stateliness in song and dance
characteristic of those times.
Act " finally brings us to the pres
ent day. Dances as wei as songs of
all nations will be shown. And the
dance will attain its perfection in
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