Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1894 — THE CINCINNATI MUSIC FESTIVAL. [ARTICLE]

THE CINCINNATI MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Its Terrific Effect on a Local Scribe. Cincinnati Exchange. A myriad mystic lutes, breathing low and luscious sounds, have made Cincinnati atmosphere their local habitation to lend their unctions aid to the carnival of song. Mingling with the lutes are voices, sweeter than the thrush or nightingale, distilling celestial melody, which floats upon the air like stardust in the ether. When battles are fought the elements are drawn, though tardily, into answering unison, and rip the deathly silence with their energies. So it would seem that tb,e kindlier powers unseen are wooed by earthly manifestations into harmonic accord. and the May Festival is tho inter lessor. And why should not tire Queen of the West participate in the music ot the spheres, when she herself stands on the overtopping pinnacle of this mundane atom of the universe, from which she sends her musical messengers athwart the land? Her people feel the dint of music, and when such a jubilee of art is on they feel a, mounting pride as well, despite the humility of their motives in giving art in its simplicity an impetus. And so the city is stirred from minaret to ifloat, and the heritage of divinity they know is theirs, even though its enjoyment is but transitory.