St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02

duced during 1895, together with brief
account of each, besides other items Of
interest and information.
John Philip Sousa and his peerless
concert band will be seen and heard
at the Grand opera house next Thurs
day afternoon and evening. Sousa' s
coming Is undeniably one Of the
events of the musical season. This
from all classes. He appeals to the
cultured ear and to the casual I'm
der his able direction the aggrega-
ton OF artists composing his band
interpret the choicest, as well as the
simplest, compositions Of the masters,
with an expression and spirit that
captivate all hearers.
But Sousa's reputation does not rest
alone upon his achievements as a
musical conductor. His dashing and
spirited marches have rendered him
famous as composer. He is easily
the King of march composers. The an
nouncement of a new march by Sousa
invariably awakens the widest inter-
est. His latest composition for full
concert band is a dainty suite, writ
ten In the chara cteristic Sousa style
full of the delicacy and rythm that he
always lnfuses into his writings. The
new work Is entitled Three Quota
tons. The first consists Of the we'll
known couplet: 1.
The King Of France, with twenty
thousand men, ss'FH-'
Marched up the hill, and then marched
down again.
Of course this coupIet is treated in
cheerful vein Of comedy, represent
ing the army going up the hill few
steps at a time, sometimes sliding
pack, then up a trifle higher, and final
~ attaining the summit with a tri-
umphant fanfare by the trumpet
corps. The king, flushed by his
achievement, then returns again-the
upward experience being reversed. The
second part of the suite, 81, too, was
born In Arcadia" consists of an ex-
ceedlngly graceful and musical melody
In the style of the =gavotte in its
quaint rythm, suggesting the pandean
Z pipe, taken by the corno anglice.
Charles Kunkel, the distinguished pi-
anist, was so charmed with this num-
Der that he has written the transcript
ton to 1t for the plano.
The third number Of the suite is en-
titled I'm Darkest Africa" and is an
illustration of2negro music, pure and
simple. The suite will be g. feature of
Sousa's programme on his present
tour. The afternoon programme will
be as follows:
Napoleon from Moscow" Jschackowsky
suite-''Last Days of Pompeii'.., :sousa
(a) In the House of Burbo and Shatonice"
(b) "Nydia, the Blind Girl."-
(c) The Destruction and Death of Nydia
Grand Fantasia-"My Old Kentucky
Home" new ...................,...D aIbey
Bell Chorus-From Il Pagliaeci''. .Leoncarailo
Soprano Solo-"Romeo and Juliet. :. Gounod
Miss Myrta French.
intermez zo, Forget me-not'' new Macbeth
March-'The Directorate Sousa
Violin solo-'.Rofido Capriccioso. st. Saens
Miss Currie Duke
Variations on Yankee DOODLE Reeves
THE EVENING PRoGRAMME.
rture-"Tannhauser'' Wagner
Second Hungarian Rhapsody ........ Lstz
Trombone solo-"Air Varied" ......... Pryor
Suite-''Three Quotations" new. .sousa
(a) 1.-The King Of France with twenty thou
sand men,
Went up the hill, and then came down
again"
OBJ And I.rtoo,e was born i'm Arcadia
(c) I'm Darkest Africa
Soprano Solo-sDeightful ovalse''. :.Luckstone
Miss Myrta French.
Caprice-"The Water Sprites" new Kunkel
March-"King Cotton new. .......... .Sousa
Violin solo-"ziguers Weisen" ....... .sarasate
Miss Currie Duke.
Humoresque-"The Band Came
BACK .Sousa
Creston Clarke will appear in a Shakes
pearean repertoire at McVicker's thea
ter in Chicago during the coming two
weeks. Mr.. Clarke is the son of John
S. Clarke, the famous English come
dian, and Asia Booth Clarke, the sister
of Edwin Booth. Mr.. Clarke has ,ap-
peared in almost all of the Shakes
pearean characters that made his uncle
famous. He will begin his engagement
in Hamlet ,~~
The laughable comedy, "Charley's
Aunt" made an immense hit last sea-
son. A success Of such proportions,
achieved during long and continued
period Of financial depression, is little
short of phenomenal, and demonstrates
pretty clearly that there is something
in "Charley's Aunt" that the public
wants. That something is good, whole
some fun, and plenty Of it.. 1t is very
simple thing, too, which causes it; man
masquerading in deliciously droll and
awkward manner, in female apparel,