The morning call., 1894-01-28

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of the fair. 1t is work which will doubt
less become very popular, for it is bright
and melodious, somewhat operatic in char.
= acter and full of rythm and swing.
: The grand overture TO '"Tannhauser" nat.
urally made more demands upon the arts
tic abilities of the band. In spite of its
lack OF numbers, hampering it as to color,
which In Wagner's music Is such an essen
tlal point, it triumphed over this drawback
and played the overture crisply and
dramatically.
- Sarakoskps Bgarian Dance" and
Spanish dance" were interpreted with
excellent swing and verve and were
warmly appauded.
- W. 7. Chambers, who played solo LOT
'corDet of his own composition. proved
]. himself to be an artist of unQuestionaDle
ability. He was enthusiastically eDcored
and responded by rendering "Promise
g. Me-" from robin Hood" Even then the
audience clamored for more and refused
~ to be satisfied until Mr. Chamber had
given Loves Old Sweet Song.
-. In the Grand American Fantasia. intro
ducine the popular melodies of tile United
'~. States. the band proved itself to be strong
10 solOists.
Part III opened with LISTS Hungarian
g Rhapsodie No. G, played for the first time
by military band.
1t speaks well for the California organi-
cation that it is capable of interpreting
music Of this difficult modern type, instead
of infcting upon US hackneyed overtures
from old Italian operas, that are only
: ;halIowed to most of US from the fact that
our earliest childish recollections are
identified with them, having heard them
.droned out upon the hurdy-gurdy.
The trombone soloist, j. K. Tobin, was
much spplauded for his playing of the
popular ballad, "Alice, Where Art Thou, u
an encore beng insisted upon by the audi.
!: enee. The soloists of the band again
showed their ability in the rendering OF
selections from robin Hood" A ''valse
de concert" by Llmbye and the "W ASKING.
ton Post March" by Sousa concluded a
:. programme that was excellent. both in the
selection of its numbers and the manner
in which they were Interpreted.
The Iowa Importation.
" The Iowa State Band. which played
during the afternoon Oh the grand stand
= gave its usual style Of light or hackneyeo
" SELECTIONS.
:" Auber's "Massaniello," an opera which
was once extremely popular. but which
: like many other of the former idols OF the
lyric stage has now been almost RELOCATED
to the museum along with other monu.
= mems of the past.
= For an organization that has beer
crowned, metaphorically at least. witt
laurels at the Worlds Fair, and has made
a triumphal progress throughout the coun.
> try, il Is astonishing how few of the spoil:
, of modern music the Iowa Importation
brings Us. and those few are of the kline
:: that appeals TO public of the grounding
: sort. Even benighted San Francisco ha:
almost the degree of familiarity that breed
contempt with the overture to "Massa
niello" and airs from the Bohemian
Girl" who. by the way, is long past he
first youth; even the lamented balfe him
self was in the habit of alluding TO her a
''the old girl
There Is much new and successful music
that San Francisco has not had an oppor
tunity of hearing, and that had the lows
. band wished to live up to its character O
- musical missionary it might have pre-
sented to US. The overture TO II Pagli
accl," for instance, which has met witt
such phenomenal success, would withOu
doubt have awakened a responsive echo il
the Saa Francisco breast, but yes terdaN
. we were given. in addition to "Massa.
Diello, the overture To The Barber O.
: Seville" and that to "Semiramide." boti
=. of which the Iowa musicians, had the,
been so minded, might have had the op
portunity of studying from their birth.
The entire afternoon programme con
sisted of
Overture "Massanlielo" Aube
:. Ballet music from "Astorga". Aber
Selection from the comic opera wang. Mors
Mazourks, La Czsrine' ...............,..,,,Gan Gam
Overture, Morning. Noon and Night in vi
emma; Supp
.. Composed by Eugene j. Gregory, ex.Mays
or of Sacramento. Arranged by c. W. Daily
of Iowa State band.
Patrol, THE Crack Regiment ........ Theo Nose
March, Beau IdeaP. .......-.... Sous
In the evening the Iowa State band rem
dered the following selections:
Overture. bar Der OF Seville Rossin
waltz. MA Belle Adoree'' ............,.....Ro ,
Descriptive. Russian Dance ............. Giink
Selection. bohemian Grip. -. BALI
Composed by Eugene j. Gregory ex-MayoF
OF Sacramento Arranged by c. w. Daily
of Iowa State band.
Caprice, Lutzen's Wild hunt. weis.
russian carriage Song" -.-..--........--9 horntol
Overture, "semramide" .RossIn
The Viennese Band.
The string concert given in the Kaiser
Franz Joseph Hall of the Vienna Prater
proved to be decided and in terestinQ
novelty TO San Francisco audiences in the
way of music.
1t was Edward Strauss, one OF the ia
nous family of waltz composers, Who first
populariZed this decidedly national style
Of music out of Austria. His orchestra
has been a popular success wherever it
has played, and the music given yesterday
was Of the Strauss type. although Rerr
Fritz ScheePs musicians varied their per-
formance by making the second part of