The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-04-26

On December 16, 1920, Mr.. Bennett
gave recital in Jordan Hall, Boston.
and received fattering notices from
lie leading critics. Philip Hale, dean
of the Boston critics, writing in the
Boston Herald said: Louis Bennete
gives recital; Baritone ably interprets
Aesthetic values of nicely selected
rrogram; Mr.. Bennett is musical He
has definite ideas of Interpretation.
He has fine, viril voice, and he
fnows the value of light and shade. -
While in England, Mr.. Bennett made
two efforts to volunteer for service.
although America, as yet, had not en-
tered the war; he was refused both
times for physical reasons.
Nearby Towns.
Since taking charge of the festi
val chorus, Mr.. Bennett has invited
"r.d received members from the fol-
sowing towns: Union, Gaffney, Inman
and Greer, each town sending a num-
;er of its singers to swell the chorus,
and extend the feeling of good will
and musical influence and uplift, that
is one of the objects of the festival.
The chorus this year will number
over three hundred, and while the
works to be performed are more diff
cult and complicated than ever before
attempted at these festivals, the
chorus has responded splendidly, and
Mr.. Bennett sells that the result will
more than repeal all the effort and
labor he has expended. The Ora
tor:o chosen by the director for per-
formance on the opening night of the
festival, saint Elizabeth" by List,
has not, owing to it's choral Difficult
ties, been given in America for twenty
years, and Mr.. Bennett has received
letters of thanks from musicians IN
New York for bringing this beautiful
work once more to the notice of mu2ic
lovers. Mr.. Bennett will conduct this
work in person.
Among the operas that will be sung
this year are the following principal
five:
"The Legend of Saint Elizabeth"
TanZ LlSZC (lSll-lSS6).
The Legend Of st. Elizabeth is a
tolerably familiar one-at least, to
Roman Catholics. For English read
crs, who have not made themselves
acquainted with it either through the
late Canon Kingsley dramatic poem,
The Saints Tragedy" through Count
de Montalembert's "Vie de Sainte
Elizabeth" or from other sources, it
seems sufficient to recall the follow
ing facts: st. Elizabeth, the daugh-
ter of King Andreas II of Hungary,
was born in 1907; at four years of
age she was brought to the Wartburg
as the affianced bride of Ludwig, son
of the Landgrave Hermann, of Thur
ingia. Here the two children were
carefully and religiously brought up
as brother and sister, and in 1920 b.
came man and wife Wondrous stories
are told of the manner in which, by
devoting herself to the poor and prac-
t!cing extreme austeries, she exercised
all the Christian virtues. On becom-
ing widow, in 1927 she, with her
four children, was driven out from the
Wartburg by her mother-in-law and
compelled to resign the regency. Af-
ter long and cruel wanderings in the
neighborhood, taking refuge among
the poorest of her dependents, she re-
tired poverty-stricken to Bamberg, in
order to be near her uncle, the bishop
CT that town. On being at length re-
.nstated as Landgravine, she renounc-
ed her rights in favor Of her son, Her
mann ii. She died in 1881, and was
tanonized at Marburg, by command
of Pope Gregory TX, in 1884.