Connecticut western news., 1920-05-27
AT MUSIC
 SHED NEXT WEEK
Festival of Music Will Open Tuesday Night at
 Norfolk

Tuesday nightly June 1, Gounod's
 Redemption" wifi be sung by a
 chorus of 45O, assisted by Florence
 Hinkle, soprano, Merle Alcock, con-
 tralto, Orville Harold, tenor, and
 Clarence Whitehill, bass. An or
 chestra of seventy will be directed
 by Arthur Mees.
 Wednesday nights program will
 be a service of music in honor and
 memory of Horatio Parker, who was
 a great lover and admirer of Bee thoven and Bach, and two of his favorite works by them will be given
 They will be Overture Leanore No.
 B." by Beethoven, and "Air for Strings" by Bach. The second part of the program will consist of Pro- lessor Parker's "Hora Novissima," which will be an unique memorial. Verdi wrote a noble tribute in the form of a memorial mass to his friend, Alessandro Mazzoni, the ccle- bated Italian author. Tennyson spent seventeen years building the monument of "In Memoriam" to his friend, Arthur Hallam. The" Litch- field County Choral Union proposes to pay an equally beautiful memorial tribute to Americas principal com poser, Horatio Parker, by letting him speak for himself in "Hora Novissi- ma."
 Thursday night will probably be the piece de resistance of this years festival, though that may depend on ones taste. 1t will be orchestral in character, with Edward Burlingame Hill of the music department of liar yard University presenting "Pre- Jude to the Trojan women". For the first time Henry Hadley, the we'll known composer, will give two ex- tracts from his new opera, "One of Cleopatra's Nights, and also a movement from his Norfolk sym phony, 'North, East, South and West," which was composed for the 1910 festival.
 Frieda Hempel will sing operatic selections by Verdi and the great Russian composer and pianist, Sergel Rachmaninoff, will play Concerto No. 2", with orchestral accompani- ment. His orchestral symphonic poem, "The Isle of the Dead," writ ten on viewing the celebrated paint ing by the Swiss artist, Arnold Boecklin, will be played by the or chestra, as well as symphony by another great Russian "Pathetique No. 6'', by Tschaikowsky. ">
 AS is often the case, perhaps the most interesting phase of the now famous Norfolk May Music Festival is not the great chorus or the spread of love of music not the imposing array of American and foreign com posers who have given first presen- tations here; not the fact that up here in the hills of Connecticut is presented perhaps the finest music festival of its kind in this countyr; not the interest which it arouses and not that it brings audiences of 4,00O to town of 1,500 inhabitants three nights each year.
 The most interesting feature of the festival, in our mind is that one man and his wife, out of love for music and to honor a man who possessed that love before them, have given nobody knows how many thou sands of dollars, as we'll as their time and care, to developing this institu- tion. Almost all the big sums of needed for the festival-and l a vivid imagination is not needed to compute them-have come from one man, from one family. That | man is Carl Stoeckel of Norfolk, who with his wife, has lavished his care and time and money on the Norfolk Music Festival, now known through | out the world.
 It is, furthermore, an example of l the finest type of memorial, one that does not rust or grow weatherbeaten | or ancient. It is living monument which, erected in reverence of the | dead, conveys to posterity the real advantages and inspiration which | the dead gave when living. Liter ally, it is a memorial whose blessings go showering and singing down the ages.