The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-05-07
Musical Entertainment at the Hawaiisn
Hotel.

There was delightful musical tourney at the
Pavilion in the Hawaiian Hotel grounds last
Monday evenings The band of the Pensacola,
and our OWL Hawaiian band, challenged the
admiration of perhaps the largest assemblage y
our citizens we have witnessed within those
grounds, since the days when the gallant Adnll-
raj Amy and his officers called forth the elite OF
Honolulu. And at this time too, an Admiral
and his officers, were the honored guests of the
occasion.
We observed on the balcony of the Hotel, the
Princess Regent, the Princess Likelike, Gov.
pDominis, Hon. Mr.. Cleghorn, Q. g. Minister
Comfy and family, the British Commissioner
Mr.. Wodehouse and family, the acting French
Commissioner Mr.. Ratard, and a large number
of the ladies and gentlemen of the city, who had
assembled on this impromptu occasion, as n
mark of attention to Admiral Stevens and Mrs.
and Miss Stevens, the especial and honored
recipient of official and social attention at this
time and to listen to two excellent bands, who
awakened a lively discussion of their respective
merits, and who turned out to win a mutual
applause from sea and shore.
Our Professor Berger led off in his usual fine
style with an overture from Bach which called
forth warm demonstrations of applause. Then
the gallant MINISTRIES of the Pensacola gave a
selection of Martha by Flotow, which was a
bouquet of musical delight to gem a perfect
tropical eve. The tender and melodious passages
of this fine music, including the Last
Rose of Summer, - were rendered with the skill,
and taste, and finish of true musicians and the
multitude heartily gave a glad and loud plaudit
to the tuneful tars of the noble ship in port.
Now, in response, our maestro waving his
magic wand, called forth the soul of music from
our talented Hawaiian boys in rendering the
" Pirates of Penzance," and they made the
tremulons atmosphere of a sweet night Jingle with
delight, and their final notes of fine finished
melody, were received with a prolonged clapping
of applause.
But the musical boys of Uncle Sam were in
exquisite time and tune again as they capti-
waited all ears and senses with the 9 Flowers of
Alsace.' Had there been space, the gay young
feet present must have tripped through the
mazes of this melodious waltz, but as it was, all
hearts went gipsying, and foated away in aerial
w~altzes, with the tender kissing breezes of the
perfect summer evening air.
1t was in vain that either of these two choice
bands of musicians sought to gain a prominence
of favoring suffrage. They both gave equal and
continued delight and finally united their
splendid execution, and admirable smooth, finish
ed style of music, in rendering a selection of
Boccacio. The fuller swell of the united bands
was now very grand, and the performance was in
perfect unison-the American man-of-war's men,
and our Hawaiian boys holding together a perfect
melodious unity and the inward thought of many
of that large assemblage was, we feel, that thus
may there ever be, a perfect harmony and union
ofkindly intercourse between, not only the gallant
seamen, but all the people of the Great Repub-
lie, and those of our little Hawaiian Kingdom.
After a finale of the Star Spangled Banner,
and the Kamehameha Hymn by both bands, the
crowded, orderly and delighted ~assemblage of
people dispersed to their homes carrying with
them a feeling that they would long cherish the
remembrance of this musical tourney of the
Pensacola's bandsmen, and our own Hawaiian
band boys.