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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 188, 12 August 1869, Page 2

Further particulars of the Boston.' Mammoth Musical Festival have reached ■ us. One AmeWcan journal describes the enterprise'" as "on the top wave of triumphant success,"- and auother says it/ " promises to be almost as brilliant in the , dulcimeric firmament as was the aurora : borealis in nature's sky, on the night of the 15th inst." The festival building now iu course of- erection will cover nearly four acres, and, we are gravely assured, contain 50,000 people. The "enrolment of vocalists is. heavy; 2900 having been : enlisted in the Hub (Boston) . alone," and "whole regiments," elsewhere, for whose acc'ommodation, as well as that of the ; audience, excursion trains will run from.; all the chief towns east of the Rocky Mountains. In short, ihe affair is to be; "a miracle of musical grandeur," reaching its climax when "Yankee Doodle" is symphpnied by salvos |of artillery discharged by electricity at the .wave of the '■ baton of the accomplished ; conceiver /of ,) r this wonderful spectacle. The mystery: of ; the anvils is at last explained; for ,we ar;e ■ told thai' " The > Anvil Chorus? :<from 'II | Travatore') will;be^erfor^ .'.;;pgeratiprsy,Lwho^are Jno%^ ithlpte:|cerci^ 56V'A !;^xan ; :gemu8:se^yCo^ r cnahtable-I- articlfr^rllirif