Articles on music festivals proposed for New York City

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12 January 2020

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03 Jul 1869
12 Jul 1869

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Article: New York Post, 03 July 1869.

“Encouraged, we presume, by the successful precedent of the Boston Jubilee, the Philharmonic Society of this city have resolved to hold next year a grand musical festival, to which all the most prominent musical artists of this country and Europe will be invited. It is proposed to call this gathering ‘The Empire State Musical Festival;’ a title which is objectionable, as limiting the affair to the state of New York; whereas the Philharmonic Society ought to aim at securing a national celebrity for the undertaking. The fact that the Philharmonic Society is interested in the matter is sufficient to ensure for it a character that must satisfy the most exacting musical amateur; but to make the enterprise a pecuniary success, it will be requisite to impart to it a popular character as well.”

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Article: New-York Daily Tribune, 12 July 1869, 4.

“All projectors of Music Festivals on the Brobdignagian [sic] scale should take notice that next year occurs the centennial anniversary of the birth of Beethoven. This will afford an excellent occasion for a National Musical Festival with no noisy nonsense about it. Probably, outside of Germany, there is no country in which the great symphonic works of this master can be more nobly rendered than in the United States; for which we should be much obliged to our musical population of German origin.”