Connecticut western news., 1920-05-06
JUNE FESTIVAL AT . NORFOLK MUSIC SHED
Committee Outlines Program for the Coming
 Concerts

 field County Choral union will A held at the Music shed, Norfolk, on the evenings of June 1, 2 and 8.
 The first concert will open with the singing by chorus and Audience. with full orchestral accompanimen1 of the Festival Chorale" by Rob bins Battell, to honor whose memory the union was founded. When Arthur Mees mounts the conductors stand he will have under his cona- mand 415 voices, an orchestra of 70 players, the cream of instrumental ists in America, selected by Henry R- Schmitt, and the four principal ora torio soloists now on the stage, Florence Hinkle, soprano; Merle AL cock, contralto; Orville Harold, tenor; Clarence Whitehill, bass. This entire force will unite in the rendi- tion of the Redemption" by Charles Gounod. This spiritual and uplift- ing work is certain to have full jus tice done to it's beautiful passaGes for chorus, solo and orchestra. The chorus has been trained to tho highest degree by Arthur Mees, and may be expected to sustain and evan surpsss its high reputation. Nc soprano can equal Florence Hinkie in oratorio work and the contrafto, new to Norfolk audiences, Merle AL cock, is taking high position in all the festivals during the coming year 0rville Harold, who achieved such significant and emphatic triumph last esason in Samson and Delilah" and who was directly afterwards'cn- gagged by the Metropolitan opera company and has been the greatQpf musical success of the season in New York, will sing the tenor parts. Car ence Whitehill, many times a soloHs at Norfolk, has met with unqualihca success in all of the principal parts for bass in the same opera company during the winter. -.rge-,s.-
 The second concert will be ts honor the memory of Horatio Hy- ker, late professor of music at Xhts university on the BattsIl foundstion. who. was the eldest honorary rnsfn- bcr of the union and he'd writtAx several works for its special use Two of his favorite ,composers w1rs Bach and Beethovs1, and araona their competitions he greatly s1y, mired the "Air for springs". by rBsck and the "Leonore Overture Ne. Sg, by Beethoven, both of which win make, up the first part ,. of the, pfU-, gram. These orchestral works will be followed by Parkcrss Floral .No-l vissims," which is slowly and surely being recognized as the most glorious piece of oratorio, work written during the past 50 years The chorus win again consist of 415 voices, not en- tirely the same as on the first night in order to give all of the sectionsof the union an opportunity to sing at least once during the season. 'tH & concert, The same quartet of sdto- ists which is to sing in the ''Redeonp- ton" will also De used in 'Hora Novissinla," as well as the orchss- rtra which with its superb eqdipn,eIrs of strineed instruments may be ex- pested to give a splendid rendiuo. | of Beethovcn's dramatic overtpnc and do justice to the singing quslR- tics of the "Air' by Bach. The con- duetcr will Dc Arthur Mees and the audience vii have a rare opportunity to guase the versatility of this able musician, who appears on the slime evening as an orchestral and choral director. Many tributes have beea paid to Parker, both in this country ard Europe, but none on the scale with which this memorial concert has been planned.
 The third concert will be >orches- tral, with instrumental and .vocad so]oists. Edward Burfingame Hill of Harvard university has written a new work for this occasion, entitled Prelude to the Trojan Women" which will be the opening number. under the direction of Chalmers Clifton, who has been delegated by the composer to act as conductox. Mir. Hills work is the result of view ing performance of the drama by Euripides in the stadium at Harvard university. Henry Hadley, well known to Litchfeld county, has ar ranged two numbers from his, new. opera, "One of Cleopatra's nights,.s which consists of 'Tntermezzo" and ''Ihe Ballet of the Desert Girls" both of which will be directed by the composer, who will also produceS the South" from his Norfolk Sym. phony', written for and first produc- ed at the festival of 1910. During the past winter Hadley conducted this symphony twice in New York and his opera at the Metropolitan, opera house, all within a week, an honor which has been accorded thus far to no other American, and to but few foreign composers. .I.
 There are many concert and operatic sopranos, but only one Frieda Hempel, who has no rivals; nnIy pradacaaaoru AdaI;na Da++, .v.A