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 MAINE MUSIC FESTIVAL
 
(1) Emma Calve of the Maine Music Festivals of 1907.

(2) Maine Music festival composers.

(3) Maine Music Festivals featuring "Three Great Prima Donnas." This postcard features Geraldine Farrar, Jeanne Jomelli, Mme. Nash-Stover, Mme. Langendorff, Frederic Gunster, and Reinald Werrenrath.

(4) Staff of local conductors.

(5) Estelle Harris, soprano. Maine Music Festival of 1910.

(6) The auditorium where the Festivals were held.

(7) The Maine Music Festival of 1909 featured Jeanne Jomelli.

(8) The Festival of 1910 featured Marie Rappold.

(9) A 1906 postcard of the concert hall in Portland where the Festivals took place. The orchestra, chorus, conductor, and singers are seen here.

(10) Souvenir of the 1907 Maine Music Festival, featuring Emma Calve.

(11) Artists for the 1907 Festival: Amelita Galli Curci, William R. Chapman (Founder), Margaret Wilson, Percy Grainger, Ethel Frank, Vernon Stiles, Olive Marshall, Duncan Robertson, and Mary Warfel.

(12) All Star Soloists, 1911: Mary Garden, Alma Gluck, Lois Ewell, Lilla Ormond, Lambert Murphy, Mildred Potter, Ernest J. Hill, Ethelynde S. Smith, and Royal Dadmun.

(13) Staff of local conductors.

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(16) The program cover for the first Festival in 1897 with Lillian Nordica.

(17) The 1909 program featuring Geraldine Farrar and Jeanne Jomelli.

(18) The program for the Festival of 1915 featuring Nellie Melba and Emilio De Gogorza.

(19) The program for the 1925 Festival featuring Lawrence Tibbet and Margaret Matzenauer.

(20) Look for programs that contain autographs of the singers. This particular program (1925) contains many autographs, including Caterina Gobbi, and a young Lawrence Tibbett, who had only just made a triumphant appearance at the Metropolitan Opera that same year, as Ford in Falstaff.


   Emma Calve  Festival Composers  Three Great Prima Donnas  Local Conductors  Estelle Harris
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   Festival Theater   Jeanne Jomelli   Marie Rappold   Concert Hall  1907 Festival
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   Artists for the 1907 Festival   All Star Soloists, 1911  Local Conductors   
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   1897 Program   1909 Program   1915 Program   1925 Program   Festival signatures
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Last update: 1 Mar 2011: 

Maine Music Festivals

The Maine Music Festival was established in 1897, and thrived for many years under its founder and director, William Rogers Chapman (1855 - 1935). Over the years, the Festival has featured many great singers such as Evan Williams, Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar, Jeanne Jomelli, Nellie Melba, Emilio De Gogorza, Margaret Matzenauer, Lawrence Tibbett, Emma Eames, Ernestine Schumann Heink, Hipolito Lazaro, Amelita Galli Curci, Louis Graveure, and in the first Festival, Lillian Nordica.