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his sudden departure for Europe, and Franz Rem-tuertz, basso. The chorus will be under the direc-tion of Carl Sentz, and the Germania Orchestraunder the lead of William Stoll, Jr.

Second day—On Friday, at 10 A. M., there willbe a rehearsal at the Academy of Music by all thesingers, some fifteen hundred in number, assistedby the Germania Orchestra. At the matinee at2 p. M. there will be a mass chorus, and competi-tive singing for prizes of the first and third classes.In the evening, at 8 o'clock, the main concert ofthe festival will be given, at which the artists ofthe previous evening will be reinforced by MissZelina Mantey, a Western solo violinist, and bythe choruses and soloists of all the different socie-ties, the vocal part of the programme being inter-spersed with musical selections by the Germania•Orchestra.

Third day—On Saturday morning there is to beanother rehearsal at the Academy, similar to thatof the preceding day. In the afternoon, at 2o'clock, the second matinee will be given, whenchoruses will be sung and competitive singing forthe prize of the second class will take place.This entertainment will close the concerts. OnSaturday night "commerces" or social entertain-ments will be given by the respective local socie-ties at their headquarters, each society having oneor more visiting societies as special guests for the•evening.

Fourth day—On Sunday morning delegatesfrom all the societies will hold a business meetingat Maennerchor Hall, at which the date and placeof holding the next Saengerfest will be decidedupon. In the afternoon, at the Schuetzen Park,the three-days' festival or picnic will begin.

THE PARADE AND PICNIC.

Fifth day—On Monday, at 7:30 A. M., the socie-ties will assemble in front of Horticultural Hall for& street parade, the line being formed at 8 A. M. ,^fter the reception of the flags of each society byits members and the placing of them in theirproper position in the line. The column will then-countermarch on Broad street, from CheBtnut to-Christian, returning to the former and proceeding"thence to Fifth, where it is expected the line willbe reviewed by the Mayor and City Councils;thence to Noble, to Third, to Fairmount avenue,And then to the depot at Ninth and Green streets,where cars will be taken for Schuetzen Park.

The parade will be under the command of LouisJ . Ladner, as Chief Marshal, with a number ofaids. Following these will come a detachment ofmounted reserves.

The first division will have John Welde forMarshal, and will comprise mounted music, theBunde's flag, escorted by a mounted guard ofhonor, bearing American flags; a citizen's guard of150 mounted men, and the Executive Committeein carriages.

Second division—Marshal Charles Mehler andAids; music; the new and magnificent music wagon,bearing allegorical representations of the goddessof music and eminent composers, and visiting andlocal societies, with music.

Third division—Gus Widmayer, Marshal, withaids. In this division are to be placed the TurnerRifle Company, the Turner Society, PhiladelphiaRifle Club, the delegates of the visiting societies,and the Honorary Committee in carriages.

In the afternoon the distribution of prizes tothe successful competitors in the several classeswill take place. These prizes are diplomas, hand-somely engrossed and richly framed, and procuredat a cost of several hundred dollars. They are tobe exhibited at Horticultural Hall during the fes-tival, so that the competitors may be stimulated togreater efforts. The judges are Messrs. Wm.Wolsieffer, Leopold Engelke and Emil Gastel, ofPhiladelphia; Mr. A. Paur, of New York, and Mr.Henry Schwing, of Baltimore.

Sixth day—On Tuesday, the Fourth of July, thelast day of the festival, there is to be a grand pa-triotic celebration, with English and German ad-dresses, and fireworks and illumination in the-evening. During the last three nights of theSaengerfest the Schuetzen Park is to be illumin-ated.

THE DECORATIONS AND EMBELLISHMENTS.

Horticultural Hall, which is to be the head-quarters of the visiting societies, will be con-nected by a covered bridge with the Academy ofMusic. Upon the fronts of both buildings, form-ing one complete design, is to be placed an or-namental facing composed of shields, banners andflags, all of the newest and best materials. InsideHorticultural Hall banners and flags are to be dis-played from the galleries, while each delegationwill have its headquarters designated by the.Society's banners. The stage will be embellished

with flowers, vines, and growing plants, and thehall, which will contain the offices of the prin-cipal committees and officers, will present an at-tractive sight to the public, who will be admittedupon payment of a small fee to cover the cost ofthe embellishment. The Academy will not bedecorated, the only space available for the purposebeing the stage, whereon seats for fifteen kundredpersons are to be erected, behind a bank of flowersand foliage. At Schuetzen Park two handsometriumphal arches are being erected—one at themain entrance and the other at the carriage gate.Inside the enclosure, the pavilions and otherbuildings, with the headquarters of the differentsocieties, will be gay with bright-colored flags andbunting.

THE COMPETING SOCIETIES IN THE SINGING CONTEST.

The following is a list of the competing So-cieties in the prize singing contest, with the titlesof the pieces to be sung.

Class 1. Friday afternoon—Arion QuartetteClub, New York, "The Trumpeter on the Katz-bach," by Ferd. Moehring; Arion, Newark, N. J.,"Love and Mercy," by Franz Otto; GermaniaMaennerchor, Baltimore, "Night on the Alps," byFranzt Abt.

Class 2. Friday afternoon—Saengerbund, Wash-ington, D. C , "On the Rhine," by F. Kuecken;Saengerbund, Brooklyn, N. Y., "Fair Rothtraut,"W. H. Veit; Harugari Leidertafel, New Haven,Conn., "The desire to wander on the Rhine," byAlfred Dregert; Orpheus. Buffalo, N. Y., "Starsare like Seals," by Louis Liebe; Frohsinn, Pitts-burg, Pa., "The Singer's Tomb," by Franz Abt;Eintracht, Albany N. Y., "Vineta," by Franz Abt.

Class 3. Saturday afternoon—German Lieder-kranz, Brooklyn, N. Y., "Vineta," by Franz Abt;Frohsinn, Baltimore, "The Minstrel's Song," byS. A. Zimmermann; Harmonie Maennerchor,Reading, Pa., "Singer's Home," by J. B. Meyer;Concordia Maennerchor, Carlstadt, N. J., "Vi-neta," by Franz Abt; Virginia, Richmond, V*.,"How Came Love," by M. Frey.

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

The Saengerfest Executive Committee is com-posed of William Mechelke, president; Ed. Faber,first vice president; Fred. Lindhorst, second;Ernst Ludecke, recording secretary; C. Lang,corresponding secretary; R. C. Loewe, financialsecretary; Henry Schwarzkopf, treasurer; M.Richards Muckle, president of the honorary com-mittee; Louis J. Ladner, chairman of financecommittee; Edmund Wolsieffer, chairman musiccommittee; C. Marius Bowman, chairman presscommittee; Jacob Hirner, chairman decorationcommittee; William Maurer, chairman of com-mittee on order.

PHILADELPHIA, June 10.

XN an ideal state of society we should all of uspossess country houses, an unlimited numberof servants, and an inexhaustible exchequer; butsomehow or another, clever though we be, suchthings do not necessarily occur "in the day's work,as the huntsman said when the lion ate him."The favored ones of our city who command theseattributes of pleasure have, or are about to hiethemselves away to "fresh fields and pasturesnew."

Our amusements take unto themselves wings atthe same time. The season is practically over,and the "leafy month of June" offers no attrac-tions.

The soprani cease from warbling, andThe tenor is at rest.

Anent this exodus, I have often been surprisedat the attention paid to the music attempted onthe promenades of our popular watering places.It is little short of impertinence to invite one tolisten to a company of musicians who flagrantlyviolate the most essential elements of a good per-formance.

Generally, with a correct vieing in force with thenoise of the waves, a clarionet emulating thescreech of an owl; with a bombardour and trom-bone competing with each other as to volume ofsound, and an unduly wavy thumping of thedrum—poor, indeed, must be the musical earthat fails to resent such atrocious execution.

No doubt it is quite true that many promenad-ers care little or nothing for the entertainmentoffered; but, on the other hand, there are many towhom it is a great attraction; and if the manage-ment were but alive to its best interests it wouldnot only provide efficient bands, but would alsosee that the repertoire was extensive and varied.

FESTIVAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION.

A number of prominent gentlemen recently metin the Library Room of the Horticultural Hall, tocanvass the feasibility and effect of an organization

of the Philadelphia Musical Association. Amongthose present were: George Burnham, S. DecaturSmith, Clarence Bement, John H. Converse, J. T.Audendried, Charles W. Schwartz, Richard A.Lewis, J. E. Mitchell, S. C. R. Matthews, FrancisD. Lewis, A. W. Harrison. Mr. Harrison wascalled to the chair and Mr. Schwartz was chosensecretary. It was resolved to appoint a committeeof three on incorporation, and Messrs. Francis D.Lewis, S. Decatur Smith and Charles W. Schwartzwere appointed and requested to secure incorpora-tion as early as practiablo. The first festival sea-son will be in May, 1883.

Mr. W. W. Gilchrist, by invitation, gave muchinformation as to the organization of the Cincin-nati and other Festival Associations.

The gentlemen present at the meeting, and suchothers as the Committee on Incorporation may addto the number, will be the corporators. A guaran-tee fund will be started by public subscription toinsure the financial success of the undertaking,and considerable sums have already been pledged.

We bid them God speed in this most laudableundertaking.

THE NATIONAL SANGERFEST.

Every preparation is being made that can add iothe art side of this the Thirteenth National San-gerfest.

The programme as made up is as follows:On the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, the

societies from other cities will be received by theReception Committee and conducted to their res-pective quarters. In the evening the oratorio ofthe "Creation" will be given by a chorus of maleand female voices. The following morning will bedevoted to rehearsing, the afternoon to the secondconcert by the united choruses, solo and prizesinging, and the evening to a third chorus, and achorus from the individual societies. The remain-ing programme is as follows:

Saturday, July 1.—Morning—Rehearsal. After-noon—Fourth concert by the Grand Chorus; solosand prize singing. During the evening socialentertainments at the various individual headquar-ters of tke societies, both resident and from abroad,will be held.

Sunday, July 2.—Morning—Meeting of the dele-gates from the attending societies. In the after-noon they will proceed to Schuetzen Park.

Monday, July 3.—The societies will all assembleat headquarters to receive their flags and banners,and then, in procession, over a route yet to beselected, will march to the Reading Railroad depot,Ninth and Green streets, and proceed to theSchuetzen Park, where a monster picnic willengage them during the day. The picnic will becontinued on the following day, Tuesday, July 4,and will be of a national character.

THE MAENNERCHOR GARDEN

will open on Monday next for the twelfth seasonof summer night concerts. The orchestra oftwenty-five musicians will be under the conductor-ship of Carl Sentz, who wielded the baton lastyear.

That he is the right man in the right place, thereis no doubt, for no conductor in Philadelphia hasintroduced into concerts such well-selected mor-cenux.

Mr. Robert Tagg, the lessee, has secured theservices of the veteran and most efficient Mr.Charles W. Campbell as his business manager.Mr. Campbell most thoroughly understands hisbusiness.

He has been connected with more first-class,large-sized entertainment enterprises than anyother man in Philadelphia, and withal is a mostkindly, urbane, courteous gentleman.

The garden and whole establishment has beenredecorated. So, with all these prospective arrange-ments to please the ear and eye, a successful sea-son may be confidently anticipated.

THE ENCORE.

Our remarks concerning the propensity of Phil-adelphia audiences to encore everything have excited the wrath of the illogical. The question isbeing generally discussed, and high authority saythe same as we.

By what right does an auditor cheat and rob anartist by encoring. A play-bill jsroniises that if youwill pay a specific sum you shall have a specificsong. You pay the money (or go in on a pass) andyou demand twice the music you have bargainedfor.

Do you serve anybody else so except an artist ?If you buy a pair of pants, and they please you, doyou encore your pants—that is, require the tailor togive you another pair?

Do you encore a dozen oysters, asking the secondlot for nothing because the first were to yourtaste?

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