St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-01
AN ASSURED SUCCESS.

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AN ASSURED SUCCESS.
A Large Attendance at the Strauss
Concert.
The public appears to have awaited
the popular verdict as to the quality of
the Strauss orchestra, for the attend
ance last evening was far in excess of
that of the night before, the seats being
we'll filed. and the aisles about the en-
closure absolutely impassiable. The
promenaders were compelled to take
the outside aisles. where the music
came to them none the less sweet from
its being heard from distance. Each
number was received with great APP
pluSe, and an encore demanded. It
is 10 wonder that these encoreS are
called for, as in many cases they are even
SWeeter than the regular numbers.
The programme awas an improvement
aver that of the previous evening be
cause there was more of Strauss to it,
and that is the sort Of music the public
wants. In the rendition of a national
anthem or heavy march the OrganiZa-
ton does not especially shine, but when
it comes to waltz, Thomas or any of
the great leaders must yield the palm
to the brother of the great composers.
He seems to feel that movement in his
soul, and, as he yields his baton and
the orchestra follows him, he puts into
the composition a movement thatit is
is Impossible to describe, only that the
vast audience will in some manner keep
time to the music with hardly an excep-
ton.
When it at last stops there seems to
be something lost. 1t is like the feeling
that comes over one after taking mild
and pleasant current of electricity. 1t.
has carried you with it, and you long
for more, and consequently applaud.
Aside from the Strauss compositions
played last night. there were some num-
bers from Beethoven and selec-
tions from 1.-The Mikado," but
they had all been arranged by
one or another of the Strauss family,
and the soft touch was visiblel all
numbers was the entr' acte and Pizzi-
cato polka from the opera Sylvia"
The waltZes Doctrines" and New
Vienna" compositions of Eduard and
Johann Strauss, showed some of bis
finest qualities as waltz leader. The
polka numbers were delightful and filled
with sprightly Wotion, but it was only
after the waltz numbers that the audi
ence went into its transports.
The success of the Strauss engage
ment is assured past all dispute. and it
is reasonably certain that the EXPOSE
tion will close with an immense attend
did success which the Vienna orchestra
has achieved. Tickets are still on sale
for reserved seats at the salesrooms of
the Century Piano company on Fourth
street. corner of First avenue.
There are people, and it looks very
much as though there were some of
them in Minneapolis, whose main bust
ness it is to not only find fault with
great organization like that of Eduard
Strauss, but who in reality know moth
ing about his organization, and less
about music.
These people, and to the credit of the
city it Is to be hoped they are few, have
been circulating the story in Minneapo-
lis that the Strauss orchestra is largely
composed of men picked up in New
York city, poor old hacks who had
played out the youthful fire of en-.
thuslasm, and were willing to accept
anything that would come to their hand,
ready to play for any price and for any
body. The same story has run its race
in the East. and Director Strauss HIM
self gave it death blow in communi-
cation to an Eastern paper, but it has
been resurrected again in the West by
some one whose business it is to try and
belittle the work of this greatest leader
and musician of the day.
Any one who keeps posted on the cur
rent affairs of the day knows that one of
the most serious difficulties that lay in
the way of the bringing of the Strauss
orchestra to America was the law in re-
gard to the bringing into America of
foreigners who were doing contract
labor. Every one knows. too, that, after
much discussion, the famous orchestra,
in spite of all opposition. was allowed
to land, and land they did, nearly fifty
strong, to play their way into the heart
of America.
Out of the entire orchestra there is
but one American, Carnsi, the lady
harpist who was engaged in New York
because the regular harpist soon after
landing Was obliged to return back to
Germany. All of the Others. came from
Vienna with Herr Strauss and are his
own picked musicians. Some of them
have been with him longer than others,
but not one of them but is StrausSan
from sole to poll. One of the first5yios
linists has been member of the orches-
ira for thirty years, and many have been
with him ten and twelve years.
The endeavOrs of those who are try
ing to belittle this famous organization
will be frultleSS, for Strauss has entered
upon what will be one of his mosfsuc-
cesstul American engagements. A
Manager Blakely was seen last night
in regard to the matter. He pronounced
the whole story malicious canard
which had been exploded Ill the East
only to be revived here. He said that
Director Strauss printed a card in a
Pittsburg paper which was so positive
and explicit denial that it was sup
posed the lie had been put to death. -
st. Paul at the Expo.
All through the exposition there has
been marked and growing patronage
from st. Paul This was shown most
ignifcantly' during the "Last Days of
Pompeii," when the late trains were SO
heavily laden that it was well nigh i'm
possible for the engines to pull them
home. Yesterday afternoon and even
ing the same most gratifying state of
things existed. During the afternoon
every seat that was lett on sale in st.
Paul for the Strauss performance was
closed out-There wasn't one left. In
the evening there was another big
crowd from st. Paul, many of whom
had to come over without tickets. and
secure them here.
There is mighty big moral in this.
and it can be put in this way: First,
that st. Paul people are not unwilling
to come to Minneapolis, despite all the
newspapers have said on the census;
and, second, that the attraction of the
famous orchestra is limited by no geo
graphical boundaries. Strauss is
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