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i ^om*pon5tntf.Chicago Correspondence—The Sanger-m * '■ '-.if*: i if- test . tiChicago, June 23d, 1868. Chicago has put on festive attire and hasbecome a city of booths. The 16th Senger-festof the First German Saengerbund of North America began its exeycises at the Wabash Avenue Rink the 17th inst., with a grandreception Concert. The Rink is large, capable of seating five or six thousand people,and is festooned and garlanded with evergreens,I wreaths and flowers, and adorned With statues, andl busts of musical celebrities and di-vl iMfikij^sad*emblemsfay with banners, mottoes music and art. On eachmusicalside of the stage was a pyramid o instruments harmoniously blended, surmoun ted by a statue of Atlas bearing the world oi his shoulders. In front of the Rink was iof evergreens spanned the streets in various parts of the city, and whole blocks were decorated with a profusion of flags, .evergreens, banners and mottoes, as if joy and music were incarnated and had made Chicago their seat of Empire. Whole forests were cut down to transform Chicago into a bowercity. yT ; • •The reception concert was given on Wednesday evening, of vocal and instrumental music, varied with speeches of. welcome by the Mayor J. B. Rice and Edward Sehlaeger, a presentation of a banner from the retiring President of the Saengerbund to the new Pres-The concertClausenios of this city tn the Star Spangledby the immense audience with a volume of harmony like the voice of many waters. There was a torch-light procession at thedisplay of fireworks. The crowd ► the streets in four squares adja-Rink, and the outside audienceout-numbered the inside many times,The concerts on Thursday and Friday e ven-ings were great successes, and the hall wascrowded to its utmost capacity. On Sundclose and blocked upsands. All the concerts were under the direction of Hans Balatka, whose leadership w as worthy of this great festival of song. There were representatives in large numbers of theGerman musical societies (w this country andalso of the Fatherland. Besides these concerts thefp were excursions, rehearsals, and extempore concerts in all parts of the city.Chicago overflowed with song from all her beer| halls, gardens, and places of public resort, and in a week the Garden City, arrayed in green. has had a carnival of song.
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Chippewa Falls Union and Times
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jul 04, 1868
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