El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-24

In an Ell Paso letter to the New York
Mus cal Courier, the local correspond
eat saws: Ell Paso i nO5ed prlnci Da II
for It's inst"um"ntalists aud amOna
these is the McGintv concert band o
thirty-siX young men. including sl>
saxapno1es, two obOss and a ha'-oOn
TIE n me was given the club that the
band b longs 10 in a lark years ago
and the uucauny name has stuck auC
T. fuses 10 be Ohliterat-d. The banC
PLAYS the same style of programs giver
by the big bands up north AMI pays
regularly on the plaza in tn summer
S a-on. In the lat three years IT. has
raised the standard OF its m lsic from
the common b and book marches, polk s.
schOtti -ches etc to the heaviest sheet
music. tn latest acquisition, bling the
Macmillan Robe pierre overture and
the Second Rhapsody. The band claims
to b. tn, b 1t amateur band in the
south. and the management proposes
| in the next two Yeas to increase the
roster to ffty-siX men. The McGinty
club has also an orchestra of twenty
six men in s membership, and the full
musical TO ce of the club is shown at
the McGin'y blow-ou that are known
pr tty we'll in the west.
| To raise the musical standard is the
aim of the best musicians in town, and
| their effort- are melting with sue 'ess.
We hai a choral union here, the max
ing of a fine organ zttlnn, but it died,
poor thing! Bad m mag ment killed
it. But there is excel ent material for
such an Or aniZafiOn in Ell pasO, and
| the union will be resu- cltated later.
Clarence Eddy, now we'll known tn
I I hs,,1
gaulst is sIa I'd t. pass through this
city in few days on transcnntineDtsl
tour. and he wou d Ike to OPP and
give an organ concert here. Now just
h w he is going to 90 this he is a mat
ter of n7iderabl. co lecture Mr.
Z idy can h,,ri y b. expected to Look n.
al o gan with less than fifty stops, and
there is sucn no instrument in this part
of the w brd
Mr. Eddy has risen as an organiSt
worde fully within the last ten years
H was always noted for brilliant
work-in this younger lays more FIR
br l,iaDcy 'ha solid ty, W, ich by the
way Lost him 'hs organ of YIN puth
church Brooklyn When that g'el
inst um mt nad been finished, the
music commit e. looked about them
r. an eXecutaat c tDable of handling 1t.
The two prime pal applicants were old
-Toon L lndell, :. Ru sian, aud Car1nce
Eddy then but a young man fresh from
his European S les. There was no
ques ION b 1t thai Eddy was the NOR
accomplished performer, but M.
Bee her + e thar the old Russian was
vas the more -piritua plsyrr, and h.
wanted II man " no playei through his
SOU IA her than wi mec hanical |
made organist of Piymo ith church. If |
Mr.. Eddy shou d chance 10 read tn S
sta emenr, a d wa1t t. know where i,
C tme from, he i informed il was told
the wri er vas ago by deacon Hiram
G. Combs of Plymouth church,
Sybil Sandarson is singing in St.
Peters 0urg Nth peas ng success. 1t
will be rememb red sue really did
nothing in tn country Her voice is
n 1t strong enough to ill the great aud
o-ium l Ike that of the Metropolitan
opera house,
Local choruses with some local stars
is the talk now in The operat world.
TUere is more money in 1t than at first
thought, as the stirring up of local
prize me ms u whole lot and cOmmun-
nj les AID by home talent.
L
ma now being given in NV York by
he Damrosch ma 'ag -ment, a crit C
here lays: What a be tutiful pOeti
work is this early one of Rich ard Wag-
hers. and now de-e~ving of more fire.
Inent performances than the stall,
'tup repertory OF Italian and French
'pera."
American composers are beginning
u have th-ir day, AID at re ent con-
TT in N w YORK long p og am wa
.iven from works of these Americ N
ON uosers G w. Chadwick, Victor
81 ~, w, c. Carl, f, A. McD owell,
Grit Smith. Sumner Silser, Mary X
Nood Russell K Miller, H nry K Had ;
ey. F. w. Riesberg, Frank f. Sawyer.
:. B. Hawley. ;
Spanish music is becoming more and
more popular in this city.
San Antonio is trying to raise pop
liar >ub-cr ptions for ba I'D concerts on {
he plaza tn coming season, AID quite
, sum of money is promised.
Sousa's band is nov pl lying in Ohio.
To Lowell M-aon we owe much. He
Wa horn in mu-ic in bis SOU. Th4
inc r.. desire of hi. teart was to do
20 d, and in pIrsuing that OF ct he
gatn cred companies of children and
aughr them VOC IL mneic. His juv an
lie cOncer IS We're so novel and 20 sur 4;
D Ising tina his recommended n tina
vocal music Onid BE- taught ia tn
,nbl C S hoo "as a. once ad pte1 in
Boston, and few years ,ate"W mall
4 part of tne sc 90 udje- tn g out
tn natl n. Tn 1T sin lie reform ma,
/ ne more tn n anything else 10 rai.-,
the standa of mu ical culture
/ roughout the United Sites Yet he
,too1 at the thresho d. Others must
90 farther. Mus is so little known,
aftar |. that any lntelliy. Mt must ia
navi g the gooI of tn peopl. at neart
can be a great nefactor Presto.
Prof. Smith VII have good cathe1-
i, T lei, |