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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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herefore in the chapter on Liberal Arts will be found the descrip-tion of all such exhibits as pianos and other musical instruments,and literature and other material things pertaining to music. Butin this chapter it is desired to make plain the scope of the musicalinterests as represented in the actual rendering and production ofmusic, vocal and instrumental, within the Exposition itself. Thereis then ample material to engage attention. First as to the e^eat auditoriums which house the musical featuresof the Fair. There are two of these, both triumphs of architecture,measured by the purposes for which they are intended, thoroughly (405) • 4o6 CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. suited to the demands made upon them, and ornaments to the Cityof White, of which they form a part. One is Music Hall, and theother Festival, or, as it is sometimes called. Choral Hall. Music Hall is one of the buttresses that flanks the great portalof the Exposition, the Peristyle. As one approaches the limits of
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l^HEODOREJ THOMAS, MUSICAI, DIRECTOR. Jackson Park from the water side, the Peristyle, Music Hall andthe Casino form the water gateway. It is one of the architecturalglories of the whole display. At this point, just to the south ofthe Manufactures Building, there is an inlet from Lake Michigan CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. 407 into the inner Lagoon, byway of the Great Basin. Onthe north side of this inlet, atthe edge of the water, standsthe temple of Music On thesouth is the Casino, the centreof the system of Public Com-fort, and connecting them,bridging the inflowing waters,extends the Peristyle, a com-manding array of monolithicpillars, supporting a greatroof, a magnificent arch, andthe Columbus Quadriga, oneof the most worthy of all thepieces of sculpture on theofrounds. The location ofMusic Hall is thus an idealone, with the blue waters ofLake Michigan almost wash-ing its walls to the east andnorth, and the view to thewestward passing over thesparkling basin to the build-ings whi

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