This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...In this statement he referred to the regular patrons. "Transients" sometimes sent in requests, but he paid no attention to them. The first summer night season, notwithstanding labor strikes and riots, was a great success. As it drew to a close concert goers bestirred themselves to secure another season in 1878. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...In this statement he referred to the regular patrons. "Transients" sometimes sent in requests, but he paid no attention to them. The first summer night season, notwithstanding labor strikes and riots, was a great success. As it drew to a close concert goers bestirred themselves to secure another season in 1878. The agitation at last resulted in a letter signed by many prominent citizens asking Mr. Thomas to return the next summer, and tendering him a complimentary concert. He came the next summer, and every summer but two, until 1891. In a general sense these thirteen seasons of summer night concerts are noteworthy. Their popular success, and the appreciation and encouragement extended to him when his prospects seemed darkest, and it appeared as if the longer existence of his famous orchestra were hopeless, greatly influenced him in his decision to make Chicago his home. Again, these thirteen seasons of garden music judiciously combined with higher music gradually elevated the popular taste, and prepared his audiences for his fourteen seasons of more dignified and more purely intellectual music which were to follow them in the concert-room. From the narrower and more purely personal point of view, who that had the pleasure of attending those Exposition summer night concerts will ever forget the brilliancy of the programmes, their consistency with the surroundings, the familiarity, as it were, between the conductor and orchestra on the one hand and the audience on the other, the freedom of intercourse, the Bohemian informality, and the absence of the concert-room's etiquette of dress and demeanor? Meanwhile, Chicago had its two festivals, the first in 1882, the second in 1884. The first was the result of Mr. Thomas's years of educational effort, wh...
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