The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-06
MUSICAL ARTISTS IN NUMBERS COMING
 FOR THE BIENNIAL
National Festival Will Be Great Boost for Birming- : ham and Will Be Given
 Wide Publicity

As the eyes of the musical world in America were turned toward Los An geles two years ago, when the National Federation of Musical clubs held it's great festival convention there, so it will be Birmingham's opportunity during the week of April 15-21 to place herself on the musical map of the United States
 The entire week will be given up to a gala musical celebration. Hosts of famous artists from far and wide, re- nowned soloists, and the Russian Sym phony orchestra will make Birmingham a mecca for music lovers, and thus fur ther establish the fact that the biennial conventions of the National Federation of Musical clubs are the greatest musical festivals ever inaugurated by any musical organization in the world.
 The National Federation of Musical clubs is the musical public of America. It embraces all the wide awake, progressive musical clubs, state and national organi- zations in this country. It's aims are to promote and make effective the great movements that have been brought for ward by this organization, the great edu- cators and the individual clubs in the musical world. Organized effort and solid arity of purpose are the essentials that have made this organization the greatest factor in the world for the advancement of music and the development of musical appreciation.
 The National Federal tion of Musical clubs exists for the promoting of all that is best in music in this country.
 One of the most vital movements in- augurated since the last biennial has been that of state organization, whereby state federations of musical clubs are be- ing formed on the broad lines of the Ma tional Fedora ton of Musical clubs and are carrying to completion the many new plans of the national body.
 Alabama has, during the past season, federated g clubs in their state muslcal organization and is now second to Cali fornia, which has the largest number 32 The coming of the great biennial festival stimulated Birmingham to a splendid membership campaign for the Music Study club, 1500 members being secured, making this one of the largest musical clubs in the country.
 The biennial festival convention has proven great stimulus to the musical and artistic life of the cities that were fortunate enough to secure it. With the great SIrlueS blFnlnSna nam mas made musically and the coming of the biennial as climax to the greatest musical sea- son Birmingham has ever had, the de- velopment of symphony orchestra great choral organizations and genuine musical atmosphere is but matter of time, and that not far off.
 This is Birmingham great opportunity to do "big thing in a big way an opportunity which will not present itself again for years. and which will enable her to make herself known other than as a great industrial city,
 And even from purely commercial side, the gain will be enormous, when one considers that Los Angeles in 1915 re- ceived more than $650.0OO worth of ac- tual free publicity as estimated from the crippings of the Associated Press
 The work of entertaining hundreds of visitors. among whom will be America s leading artists, who will participate in the various programmes is already well in hand and the indications are that Bir- mingham's biennial festival of the Ma. tional Federation of Musical clubs will surpass all those held in the past.