Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12
THE MUSIC WORLD.
The Local Summer Concert Season
Has Been Inaugurated.
AHINT FOR SOME BRIGHTMANAGER
Arrangements Of Musical Services In
Pittsburg Churches.
CHANGES SUGGESTED BY THE POPE

The regular musical season being past
"summer night" music is now in order
Not BY Mendelssohn, however. Pittsburf
! gets no such programmes during the dos
days as those Mr.. Seidl has given q
Brighton Beach, or the lighter but higf
class orchestral music so we'll played a
similar concerts in most of the large cities.
| The instrumental forces for such pro
grammes are not at our command, even If
| all other favorable conditions were present
So we must make the best of what We can
command.
That includes this summer two series Of
suitably informal concerts, followed by
dancing. One series is given by the Great
Western Band, augmented to 40 men, at the
Gycloroma Auditorium, Allegheny. It was
Begun successfully last Friday evening and
will continue every Monday and Friday
until further notice. Considerable sums
have been expended, it is said, in fitting up
the hall and the adjoining ''park" under the
same roof
The other series IL MI. William Guenth-
er's six GUNNER night festivals" at Silver
Lake Grove, East End. These will begin
next Thursday evening, and be repeated BIZ
weekly on the the same night of the week.
The music will be by small orchestra,
which will play the first evening Wallace's
Mariana overture and selections by Ofen-
bach, DeKoven, Wiegsnd and others. Miss
Celestia Mcdonald, the contralto lately
from Boston, will sing the cavatins from
Rossini's s'Tancredi."
In both of these enterprises there crops
out again the curious idea that music on
summer nights must invariably be followed
by dancing. It is an idea wholly peculiar
to Pittsburg managers Other large cities,
where such concerts are exceedingly popu-
lar, prefer on those occasions especially to
take their chops" in cool, liquid form. But
even if our Judges will not license Gam
brinus as music's summer night assistant, it
is not necessary to call in the aid Of pant
ing, perspiring Terpsichore. What's the
matter with Hebe and her innocuous
nectar?
Seriously, though, summer night
promenade concerts have never been given
o fair trial in this community. The dancing
tail has always wagged the musical dog.
Because you cannot have dancing at such
places without attempting or pretending to
draw lines of social exclusions, which pre-
vents the affairs from standing on the
proper basis as simple, public concerts. The
result is not satisfactory from any stand
point; neither social nor musical success
can be had to any marked degree in such
hybrid entertainments.
Someday bright manager will see that
comparatively slight expenditure on one of
the Exposition buildings and the surround
ing grounds and river front would provide
Just the place for summer season of low
priced orchestra or band concerts with ap-
propriate accessories in the way of ''sott"
refreshments and promensdes under cover
and al fresco Then everyone will wonder
why Pittsburg SO long Jagged behind the
times in the matter of providing such de-
lightful source of enjoyment and recreation
for all respectable people, whether socially
eligible" or not