Excerpt from Official Programme of the Music Festival to Be Held in the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, May 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1882: Under the Direction of Theodore Thomas Side from the healthful interest in music generally which is stimu lated by these affairs, Music Festivals, when planned with a clear eyed purpose and held to an intelligent aim, are of great value in the development of appreciation for certain of the highest forms of the art. This purpose and this aim must be something besides mere sensationalism something more than to create a popular excitement by bringing together vast numbers of performers and vaster audiences. In a city like New York, Where permanent organizations provide, every season, sets of con certs, in which nearly every want is met and every taste gratified, Music Festivals are only needed when they give that which is beyond the scope of these concerts it may be in the character of the pieces, or in the style Of the performance. In music like the most of that in the following pro grammes, masses are required to give it the highest attainable effective ness; While in some works - Handel's Israel in Egypt, for instance greater numbers than are controlled by single societies are necessary, even for an adequate exposition of their musical contents. It is from this point of view that the Festival goes out. Several of the monumental creations in the province Of choral music will be given in a manner which Will bring out their full potency, with 5010 and instrumental forces commensurate in all respects with the magnitude and magnificence of the choir; masterpieces of the symphonists Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt will be performed by such a body of trained instrumentalists as will publish all their beautiful strength; unfamiliar works, the production of which involves a greater expenditure of money than can be borne under ordinary circumstances, will be produced; and a corps of solo performers be brought together which only extraordinary inducements could enlist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."