The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-03-23
RousINa OVATION.
A Vast Concourse Hear and Cheer
the First Concert of the Hawai-
ian National Band.

the First Ooncert OF the hawai-
ian National Band.
Long before the opening of the
first public concert by the Hawaiian
National Band last night, all the
streets leading to the Hawaiian
Hotel were swarming with people of
all nationalities on their way to the
concert. When the bandsmen took
their places in the Moorish pavilion,
all blazing with colored electric
lights, they were loudly cheered. At
the opening of the concert there
was concourse of five thousand
people in and about the Hotel area.
The verandas of the building we're
crowded with foreign visitors and
residents. On the lawn the people
stood in a packed mass over all the
available standing ground. Richards
and Hotel streets, respectively flank
ing and fronting the Hotel, were
also densely throngcd.
Everybody expected a long-missed
musical treat from the veterans of
the disbanded Royal Hawaiian Band
composing the new organization.
The expectation was based not only
upon the known capacity of the
musicians, but upon the reputed fine
quality of the splendid Belgian in
struments, specially imported for the
Hawaiian National Band by Mr.. w.
F. Reynolds, proprietor of the Col
den Rule Bazaar. There was danger
of disappointment in reality from
excessively high anticipation. The
result proved that the expectation
did not even reach the realization.
In fact, the "boys," as they have
commonly been called, outdid their
farfamed reputation, earned in all
the years that they have been play
ing for the people as we'll as for the
royal court.
The instruments proved to possess
remarkably fine tones-strength
without harshness, sweetness, sur
passing anything heard here before
in the utterance of delicate passages
In their singing as we'll as their
playing the boys added new claims
to the public regard. They we're as,
sisted in the vocal selections by the
tuneful Quintet club. As this was a
notable event in the musical annals
of Honolulu, the program is here
given for preservation with this re.
port:
March-Ola Hou, new............Lib LiborniC
Fantasie-Una Soiree Monaco, new.
.............:... :......... ..Blegcl
Cornet Solo.
W ATTN NOlSctte new W............. Andrew
| lt-,.r .rt,, N rn1 10,
Songs-Aloha De. Lei Ohaoha. Livel!
Mikahala. Hooma-u. Red and
Blue. Aloha Alma.
Air-Romantic, new ............ Thornton
Clarinet Solo.
Polka-Badewitz Trumpeter, new -.
Cornet Solo.
. Mazurka-Hawaiian National Band e..
;a Kaiulanii il,ii'''.'..,..i iib0rni, Liborni
harc'les ID. Mai Poina Oe Ia'u. .Liborni,
; Star Spangled Banner.
God Save the Queen.
Japanese Anthem.
Hawaii Ponoi.
, While the playing in concert wa
up to high water mark, the solo.
we're particularly delightful. Ros
Sihi . oNOittiC. w lllldIl L clls wa
played for the first time in Homo
,,lkudiit,, it is said. Leader Liborni,
rendered it's solo on the saxophon
5 with beautiful effect. Among th'
d. vocal efforts was one to a hui;
: melody, which recited in Hawaiian
> warm national sentiments fitted t(
the present situation. 1t was wha
: the magnanimous morning murmur
= er would call, if it deigned or dare(
: to report the news" of really popu
lar occasion, a "black flag" song. |
3 was half-past ten o'clock when tn
concert closed with the American
. British, japanese and Hawaiian na
tional anthems. Upon every hand
, amidst the dispensing throngs, wer
: heard the most enthusiastic prais
! of the debut of the Hawaiian Ma
r tional Band.