The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-01
ORCHESTRAL ROW.
Greenville's Musicians
Threaten to Organize
for Themselves.

The row in the Thiesen Amateur or
chestru, OF Greenvll lie, OF which excius-
i've mention was made III II JERSEY
bitter daily, and now that one emf
has come out in open defiance TO leader
Thiesen, numerous other member are
falling into line, aud at tonight's meeting
il is expected that there will be IA lively
time.
Leader Thiesen. it lis said, will have
something TO say to the members IN re-
gard to paying 1T concsris, and II ne at
Lempts 10 maui over the Goals The menu
bers who played ut the Grace r. f..
Church concert last week. they Will re-
sign and orsaniza Il new orchestra.
ANGRY MUSICIANS.
At present the members ure very angry
because he refused To allow them 10 play
at the entertainment. aud as They ignored
him entirely III the matter, IL IS not at all
unlikely that he will warn them not TO do
90 again.
Mi G. r. Cox, who manipulates the
cornet, ~ very Indignant over The matter
and he says that If Mr.. Thiesen does not
mine his cues, he Will organize a new
orchestra. He is being backed up by all
concert.
INT. Thiesen,' said he, "has been
n
neglecling our orchestra. He gives all
his time TO The Juvenile Orchestra, which
he organized sol;:e time ago. we joined
the orchestra in order to Iva our
selves, but Mr.. Ihiesen kept Us tied down.
Rehearsal after rehearsal we play the
same airs and learn nothing new. That
IS enough to discourage any one,a II the
members are all dissatisfied with MT.
Tniesen as u leader. He has advanced
the Juveniles wuile we are neglected.
The children are learning lew music all
along, and as we We're organized Years
before the Juveniles came into the HELD,
we think that Mr.. Thiesen should give
our organization the preference.
WHAT HURT THEM.
But this is not the only fault we have
to fnu with him, Two weeks ago our
orchestra arranged ior q concert u
dance. Invitations were sent oeG to all
our friends aud we expected 80 have a
big time. Mr.. Thiesen. however. al
though knowing that we were to haVe
the CONCERT. arranged for and held u
juvenile concert d few days previous TO
our affair. This, of course, hurt us, ana
although none Of the members said any
thing to Mr.. Thiesen about the matter
still they did a heap of thinking. Taxing
all these things into consideration d
not blame the members for feeling
harshly towards their leader. Unless
the leader and members pull together we
CANNOT expect TO make any progress"
The squabble has brought out the fact
that a year ago., The orchestra sdopted a
resolution that the members would not
lake part in any entertainments unless 1t
was for a charitable purpose. This action
was taken because so many requests
were made by societies for the mber
to play. AT the time the resolution was
presented it stirred up quite a rumpus
aud Two of the most talented members,
Isaac G~oldenborn, the violinist aud
William W the pianist resigned
from the organization.
ATRAIGN1NG THEIR LEADER.
The rumpus was hually suudueL as the
majority OF the members were III favor OF
the resolution. But now that Mr..
Theisen orders them not to play at CHAR
liable concerts they declared that he Is
going too far and should be given to
understand that he. by no means, OWES
the orchestra.
The residents of Greenville are much
disturbed over the ~dissensious. and fear
that they will result in the disbandlnent
of the orchestra. The orchestra is very
popular and has always received the sup :
port of the Greenyille residents.