The Star

Our May Musical Festival this year can not but be the greatest triumph ever achieved in America in this particular branch of science. The commencement of the last week of preparation finds everything connected with the affair in the best possible condition. The committees have been fortunate in securing the very solo singers they desired, the choruses have been satisfactorily filled up, and the rehearsals have been so well attended and everything is working so smoothly, that nothing is anticipated short of a triumph that will be remembered in musical circles and referred to for all time to come. And the attendance, too, will fully justify this great effort. The affair has been so well advertised that there is scarcely a man, woman or child in the whole country who is awake to the importance of cultivating a taste for music that is not familiar with all the details of this great undertaking. The advertising, local and telegraphic columns of newspapers everywhere have so thoroughly made it known and it has been so fully discussed in all its bearings and probabilities in their editorial columns, that not only in musical circles but in all others it is a familiar theme of conversation. The management went into the work with a determination to see everything connected with it done thoroughly. They have spared neither pains nor expense, and it is most gratifying to their friends and to those everywhere who rejoice in the awakening of such interest in a feast of music and see in it much more than the dollars that will be spent by the people whom it will bring to the city.