Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-13
THE DOUBLE CONCERT.
Ten Thousand People Present-A Spec
Compliment to the Convention.

Ten Thousand People Present-A Special
Compliment to the Convention.
There was very large attendance at the
special dual band concert given in front of
the Capitol last evening in honor of the
delegates to the Republican Convention.
There were certainly not less than 10000
people upon the grounds, careful and re-
peated calculations and circuits of the audi
ence placing the figure at from 1900 to H.
500 Forty-two musicians took part,
twenty-one in each band, the First Artil-
lery and the Hussars.
The Artillery Band was under the direc-
ton of Charles A. Neale and the Hussar
Band under the leadership of Pedro Cortes.
The programmes as announced in yester-
DAVIS RECORD UNION were carried out with
slight changes. The immediate manage
ment of the concert, which was creditable
in every respect, was under Mp. j. e.
MARITIME, Chairman of the Open air Concert
Committee for the season of 1890.
The bands played alternately and with
out interruption. 1t is to be said in all
fairness that the two organizations very
evenly divided the honors and plaudits.
Each appeared at its best, and while ''the
Artillery" demonstrated that it is the better
disciplined and most practiced band, the
Hussars' organization was thoroughly good
in all its numbers, and probably would
rank in any set contest among the first
bands on the coast, while the Artillery
band certainly stands in the front rank of
the finest military musical organizations of
the country. Ten thousand people testified
to their high appreciation of the merits of
the two, by remaining for two and half
hours listening to the music.
Probably the most critical judgment
would credit the Artillery Band with the
overture by Suppe as its best performance,
and the Hussars with its selection from
Aida" as named in the programme, as
the most meritorious of its pieces.
Nj. Neale and Mr. Cortes each played
piccolo solo; the Hussars intro
duced a saxophone quartet by Messrs.
Cortes, Greer, Hart and Coates, and q
xylophone solo by Mr.. Noack. There
were three descriptive pieces played, much
to the amusement and entertainment of
the vast assemblage but, as musical
creations, that character of performance is
not of high order. In one of these de-
Island,'' the Artillery Band introduced
fireworks, limitations of the passage of rail-
way trains, of storm at sea, of Jules
Levy's method on the cornet, and other
novel features.
| The evening was delightful one, trifis
cool, perhaps. The vast crowd of people
upon the lawns and balconies of the Capt.
toll; the women and children in white
| robes and their escorts in contrasting dark
colors; the electric lights illuminating the
scene just enough to give q moonlight effect:
the promenading of the young people: the
hundreds of beautiful young women; the
order, quiet movement and good humor;
the courteous bearing of the people toward
| the visitors; the excellence of the music
and its variety, excited the liveliest COM
ments of the guests and won for our peo-
| pie the warmest compliments from the
visitors.
One group of Los Angeles gentlemen,
who are 10th to concede that the Southern
city can be socially surpassed in anything
were frank and fervid in their admission
that Sacramento by last nights outpourine
proved that she has more beautiful and
graceful young women to each hundred oil
population than any city of which the Los
Angeles critics had knowledge. d Sar
Franciscan of wide experience and trav-
eled man said to Chairman MARITIME:
II am more than delighted. If this is 9
fair sample of your population / DO Longer
wonder at the love of Sacramentans fol
their CITY. If this is fair sample of you
outdoor summer entertainments, wan
to say that it's worth the trip up here any
time to engage in them"
why, this is not unusual said th,
, self.satisfied Committeeman. We turr
out an audience of this kind, varying from