The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-01
IT Is CONCERT NIGHT.
And the Weather Man Has
Promised the Right Thing.
IN THE WAY OF TEMPERATURE.
The Programme Prepared IL Fine
One, and Bandmaster Wagner and
His Musicians Are Known.

The First Regiment hand will play be-
fore a great audience tonight. and about
the raised platform sn front Of the fos.-
Tntelligencer Office. from which harmony
Will float. mass OF people wifi press, WITH
upturned faces, their Individual souls
moved and swayed as one by the music.
even as their forms are merged 10 the
vision on the approach of darkness. Every
one IN Seattle will attend the concert to-
night-.with the possible exception or one
or two. who, not having music IN their
souls, would feel 1t TOO much exertion TO
stand for q little while while band
played. Those who delight in harmony
ind il no exertion- They probably forget
they are standing save during those inter-
walls between selections. when the listener
comes back 10 earth with a sigh, and tbs
musicians struggle for breath.
1t used to be customary for the average
citizen to worry and wonder and plan over
the best means of spending Saturday even
ing. Now this difficulty is obyiated, for no
one who has attended one of the Post
Intellsgencer open air concerts would ever
think of making an engagement that
would deprive them OF renewing such an
enjoyment. And then 1t costs nothing; IL
is gift freely bestowed, not only on one
occasion. but for a season. and IL is hu-
man nature TO like that better which is at
tended with no financial setback. VINO
likes TO associate music with money? How
much better TO think that the band IS Gre
ating melody for melodys sake, that the
musicians did not come together particu-
larry for the purpose of playing certain
pieces, but that each. stroiling along with
his instrument beneath his arm. CHANGED
10 meet others Of his clan, and seeing
platform and a listening throng, they
seated themselves and In the fullness OF
their hearts discoursed sweet harmonies.
Cherry street is at present in a condition
but little suggestive of high sentiment, and
possibly its ruts and ridges have caused
more than one TO have unpoetfcal Thoughts
while the band played. But this is all 10
be remedied, and when tempted 10 feel IN
comfortable 1t need only be remembered
that before long the rugged surface OF the
streets Will be smooth and Clean No DOUBT
in the pleasure of anticipating future
footing on a great cheekerboard of cedar
blocks, present disconfofts will be for
gotten. While the weather has been
trifie warm for the past two or three
days. the nights have invariably been
cool, and this evening will probably prove
no exception. An agreeable temperature
has much 10 do with the enjoyment of the
open-air concerts, and IL has been matter
for congratulation that the weather man
has so kindly withheld the rain on the
Saturday nights since their inauguration.
a
on the steps OF the Post-Intelligencer office
and exclaimed: II could wish for no
better position than this from which 10
deliver the browning address of my lie.
The fiat surface OF the Bailey building
opposite would act as a giant sounding
board. and TO throng of listeners filling
the entire street and extending down
First and Second avenues, every word ut
tered would be plainly audible. The
acoustics of this block could have been
made but little more peffeet by the most
careful attention TO details" The Won
derfuliy clear tone of the band music when
uIayed in front of the Post-Intellgencer
Office has often been remarked upon, ana
intricate passages are rendered with
greater effect there than from any other
out-of-door spot In the city. This is I'M
douh,ed,y the cause of the extra appre-
eiation shown for the more delicate ef-
fects attempted by the band when II plays
on Cherry street.
Following is the programme:
March--.Twentieth Century Woman"
overt.i,re-"Poet and Peasant" -. Suppe
Concert Piece-"Goldeu Blonde" .F1lenberg
Selection-'Journey Through Africa
.......-... ........-...-...,.-.--.... oupPs
Cocoanut dance sr''iaiii'
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Steckmest
Sig. ID. Duranti. :,
Selecfion-"Il Trovatore" ...-....... Verdi
"lnvitation a la Nalse" ............ Weber
S~uegee Polka ..............-..-....s eassy
Mediey@"The Night Owls ....... Rocker
a. "Tse on the Road 10 Rainbow Land
b. THE Little Alabama Coon" ..Jaxone