New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-30
The Season Of Spring
Music Festivals,

This is the season OF the spring
musical festival There are probably
a dozen meetings either DOB progress
or in preparation Indifferent parts Of
the United States ~ now, and the
promoters Of each ale big with the
thought Of its tremendous significance
TO music in the United States The
annual festival at Ithaca was held las
week. This week Cincinnati viii hold
its twenty-second biennial meeting. all
the forces now being local except the
solo singers The orchestra will be the
regular band Of the Cincinnati o.
chestra. Of about eighty men; me
chorus will number three hundred
voices. Dr. Kunwald will conduct ana
the feature Of the programme over
which the public will be expected 20
become most wildly enthusiastic is
Richard Strauss Alpine symphony
which the New York Philharmonic ana
PHILADELPHIA orchestras had planned 20
give this season. bu, which was po''-
poned by both till next year or never
The latter contingency IS suggested ty
tho intelligence conveyed by looN
through the score. The work is paireI
with Edgar Stillman Kelley ALADDIN
suite. in which the Genius or the Lamp
crunts and groans like any coalheavef
while pulling up by the roots inc palace
which he had built in the twinkling 81
an owe. The suite follows Strauss
now work and Bcethoven's ninth sym
phony IN the festival scheme, winch
also embraces Mendclssohn's "St-
Paul" Beethoven's Mass in u. Piernc's
"Children's Crusade" and Brahms's "a
German Requiem The solo singers Of
the festival will be Miss Florence
Hinkle. Nine. Frcmstad. Mrs. Edith
Chapman Goold, Nine. Schumann-Heink'
Miss Sophie Braslau. Morgan Kingston
Lambert Murphy, Clarence Whitehili
and Arthur Middleton.
This week will also hear festival
AZ Springfield. Mass. at which the
chorus will number 400. and for which
the orchestral music will be provided
By the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
which. under Theodore Thomas, used TO
nlav at the Cincinnati meetings. Inc
choral numbers at this festival VIII DC
Mendelssohn's Elijah" Wolf-Feraris
.yi.a Nuova" and Bruch's Fair Ellen.
The solo singers will be Nine. Marie
sundelius. Miss Grace kerns' Nine
Matzenauer. Miss Alma Beck. ivan
Williams. Giovanni Martinelli, Reinaid
Werrenrath and Marion Green. Harold
Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsen Will
nIav a concerto for two pianofortes by
Mozart and Saint-Saens's variations
on a Theme BY Beethoven
The fifteenth annual Spring festiVai
~ the Keene Choral Club. choir OF
o5o voices. will take place at keene'
New Hampshire. on May u and IT,
Gounod's "Gallia" will be performed al
tho first concert tlltN '''N'
Olaf Trygvasson" at the second ana
Verdi's Manzoni Requiem At the
fourth. The Boston Opera orchestra
will take part and the solo singers VIII
be Nine. Carrie Bridewell. Miss Belle
Gottschalk. Nine. Clara Sspin. Nine.
Hud.on-Alexander. Miss Mary Jordan
Lambert Murphy. Frederick Martin
Willard Flint and Pasqusle Amsto. The
conductor OF the festival is Nelson ?.
Coffin.
The annual meeting Of the Litchheld
County Choral Union will be held IN
Norfolk. Conn. this year on June s. Z
snd s. There will be the usual chorus
81 over 400 voices and the principal
choral number will be The German
Requiem" b. Brahms. Mr.. Richmond
p. Paine, the regular conductor of tho
choir. composing the Union. has this
season been enjoying his Sabbstiesl