The herald., 1895-03-05


| afternoons many whose visits nave be-
come daily.
The thoughtful courtesy and considera-
| ton of the Citrus Fair management is
| evidenced in many ways, not the least OF
which is the placing of two ballot boxes
in the pavilion where votes may be placed
by patrons naming their choice OF music
for the band to play.
The contents of these boxes are signifi-
cant of many things. In the first place
they are nearly filled every day, which
shows that the visitors go to the pavilion
as much to hear the music as to see dec.
orations and display. But alas and alack
the majority ask for Sweet Marie, After
the Ball, Boulanger March, Alabama
Coon, Her Golden Hair was Hanging,
etc., and other seductive and mellifiuous
ditties. Home, Sweet Home, is also clam
ored for-4but perhaps it is the tourists
who pine for that reminiscent and
| ubiquitous composition.
These requests are written in question
able chirography and the spelling IN
many of them is queer, to say the least
| showing that they come from people who
are more inclined to music-that class of
musician to literature.
The next most popular demand is for
operatic music--the overtures OF Stradella,
Tannhauser, Martha Lohengrin, William
Tell, Bohemian Girl, Carmen and the Fly
ing Dutchman, which shows strong
| in taste. 80
Then come Moskowski's serenata, the
| intermezzo from Cavalleria, Paderewskl S
minuet, Schubert's serenade, La Paloma,
the Marsellaise and Mendelssohn's we'd
! ding march, of the latter group about one
| request for each.
What does such a showing illustrate?
That the people who like and want good
music are too bashful to ask for their
favorites, or that they are missing an OPP
portunity as rare as it is good by staying
away? Or what? 1t is very seldom that
as fine band as the one now playing at
! the Pavilion each day and evening is
heard here. Never before, and probably
not again will such one be accessible
for SO little money.
When Sousa, or Gilmore, or the other
bands OF this kind come the prices range
from rs cents to $3.50 for each perform
ance. People flock to hear them, and get
nothing but the music. At the Pavilion
there are good seats, and plenty of them
in the afternoon, or, if one goes early, in
/ the evening; the music is very superior,
| and besides the music there are beautiful
surroundings in the way of decorations
the display of fruits.
There are at least forty eleven music
| teachers here, all of whom manage to
make living, so there must be a good
many people who not only like music but
study it,; the papers have been unani-
!
| playing of Cassasa's band, and there is
| no question of its superior ability.
| The musicians play popular music with
verve and go: that is exhilarating;
they play operate selections with much
discrimination as to expression and light
and and shade, and they interpret the
better class of music with fine artistic
care and excellence.
Their reading of the Peer Gynt suite on
the opening night was a revelation. 1t is
big composition and really needs strings
for the finer effects, but the manner in
which Mr.. Cassasa handled his woodwind
in those movements was mastery, and
there will be at least one vote dropped in
the ballot box for repetition of that
number sometime during the week.
Thursday afternoon and evening the
programme will be made up entirely of
request numbers, and in every pro-
gramme there is enough that is popular to
draw a crowd.
Last night S programme was particularly
fine, and the audience on the floor and
both galleries seated themselves to
listen to it with apparently unreserved
pleasure, after the excitement incident
upon the arrival of La Fiesta delegation
had subsidized.
1t was La Fiest day, yesterday, and in
the evening a hundred and twenty of
the noble sons and adopted sons OF the
Queen-elect assembled at their head
quarters on Main street. Preceded by
band they marched through the streets
amid the admiring gaze of an excited
populace, and upon reaching the pavilion
entered with martial tread and naughty
mien, and flashed themselves and their
regalia of badges, and futtering tri- col
ored ribbons, once around the hall, when
they disbanded and joined the throng in
formally
Then it was that they were discovered
to be: Director-General Max Meyberg,
M. r. Owens, j. S. SallSey, T. A. Eisen,
]. 7. Steward, f. K. Rule, Fawcett Rob-
inson, DR.. Holland, L. G. Behymer, DR..
VIM. Kennedy, T. E.. Gibbon, John II. P.
Peck, III. G. Limbrock, G. A. Sumner.
M. S. Severance, Louis Thorne, Ed Web
X. II. Wade, L. G. Brown,
William Rommel, E. c. Haskell, Perry A.
Howard, J. Sunderland, W. W. Robinson,
Mr.; Wilder, Dr.. Fleming, A. Jacoby, DR..
stein, Godfrey Hollerkoff, L. Loeb, W. D.
Woolwine, r. W. Burnham, John Keller,
r. W. Pridham, Louis Uhlfelder, Prof A.
Wilhartitz, DR.. Carl Kurtz, John Kuhn,
DR.. J. B. Owens, T.. H. Avery, N. P.
Bailey, Henry Dockweiler, s. H. Boyn-
ton, Herman Lichtenberger, J. ?. Ander-
son, James X. Kennedy, Z. Tufts, Mr..
Fairbanks, Colonel Schrider, William
| Meek, Robert Sharp, A. Ii. Voight,
James II. Smith, Edward Lloyd, G. H.
Aydelotte, j. r. Newberry, Maurice S.
Hellman.
The ice cream booth, presided over by
the ladies of Simpson Tabernacle, is still
doing a thriving business and the lunches
they serve are very popular. All the pro-
ceeds go toward the organ fund. The
| candy and flowers seem to lose none of
their attraction, and the list of ladies who
will serve the rest of the week promises
! continuation OF patronage pour less
pauvres.
This morning Mesdames Wesley Clark,
Thomas Brown and Joseph Banning will
serve; this afternoon Miss e. w. A lden
and Mrs. o. H. Churchill; this evening
Misses Wills, Patton, Van Dyke and Grace
| Cole.
Tomorrow morning Mesdames J. H.
Utley, j. S. Vosburg and Hugh Macneil:
tomorrow afternoon Mesdames Shoemaker
Butler and Churchill; and tomorrow night
Mesdames f. S. Hicks, i. X. Ainsworth
and Misses Edith and Ramona Shorb,
Ruth Childs and Marian Patterson.
Thursday morning Mesdames Charles
Monroe, q. Wiley Wells and j. f. Sartori
afternoon Mesdames j. ii. +. Peck and
Hopkins, and Thursday evening Mrs.
Hugh w. Vail and Misses X. Sandt, Besse
Alexander and Dorothy Croft.
Friday morning, Mesdames Albert c.
Jones and G. G. Carpenter; Friday after
noon Mesdames Sumner P. Hunt, Ed D,
Silent, J.. +. Sartoris; Friday evening,