New York Saengerfest Organizational Meeting

“The delegates of the fifteen singing societies composing the New York Saengerbund were in session yesterday morning at the Germany Assembly Rooms…The meeting was called to complete the arrangements for the grand Saenger festival, which will take place next summer, in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bund. The festival is to last three days. On the first day the singers from abroad will be duly received, the next day a grand concert and prize-singing will take place; the third day is reserved for a grand procession and open-air festival. An executive committee was appointed and instructed to nominate the subcommittees till the next meeting. The officers of the Bund were authorized to write a letter to Franz Abt, the celebrated composer, requesting him to compose a festival hymn for the occasion. Mr. Abt is an honorary member of the Bund.”