Wanting for Something a Little Stronger in the Afternoon Sun
‘Loitering with Intent’ on the Streets of London
Gallery: Lollapalooza 2009
It was not the first music festival in the country. There had been festivals in Cincinnati and Chicago, and a monster performance in Boston, and the admirable Damrosch Festival in New York. But the legitimate grandeur of the Festival this year, the symmetrical precision and perfection of the orchestra, over whose wonderful richness of the effect the spirits of the great masters might well have hovered, satisfied and approving; the vast chorus gathered from distant cities, which, suddenly brought together, blended under the magic baton of the conductor in a majestic and inspiring volume of sound; and the solo singers, greatest of the world in their various kinds, from the grand dignity of Materna to the exquisite delicacy and grace of Gerster, and from the broad, manly, fresh vigor of Candidus to the sweet and fervid charm of Campanini — all these combined to make the first week of May memorable, and to indicate the high-water mark in the musical annals of the country.
Excerpted from ‘Editor’s Easy Chair,’ appearing in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXV. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1882.
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