Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-06-04
INNEs' BAND
To Spend the Summer at Ten
nessee's Great Centennial.

One of the best features of the
Tennessee Centennial is the music.
The Worlds Fair had hardly as
good an auditorium as Nashville.
The building is one of the most
beautiful on the grounds and its
acoustic properties are said to be
the finest of any great Exposition
auditorium erected in recent
years. The achitects had all the
old plans to mold into perfect
ones.
One of the great, if not great.
est, concert bands in the world
will take its turn in giving con.
certs in this great auditorium
early in June. That is Innes' con.
cert Band, which opens its en-.
gagement June 9TH, and continues
for two months. knowledge of
it is of particular interest to the
Southerners, it's engagement GOV.
ers that period Of time at the Ex-
position when it is expected the
majority of Southern people will
have leasure to attend. One of
the reasons that Innes was given
such a long engagement and as.
signed the Summer months was
his popularity in many of the
Southern States where his band
has been most successful on tour.
Probably no band ever scored
such artistic success as his did at
Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia,
and st. Louis and Pittsburg Expo
sition. Two million people in
the aggregate attended his Will
low Grove concerts and during
one of his great Festivals the at
tendance averaged moro than one
hundred thousand people day
for eight days.
The success of lines as q con.
cert band director seems natural.
His latent talent had been devel.
oped before he organized his band
and the dazzle of his old achieve.
ments on the trombone is very
strange. The facts, as brie fly re.
lated here are in musical annals
and have become historical
When he was lad in England
Innes used to follow the gorgeous
ly uniformed cavalry band known
as Her Majesty's Life Guards and
it seemed to his young mind thai
the soldiers with tombone was the
head and front of the monarchy
and the soul producer of the weld
ed mass Of sound given out by
various brass instruments. He
} induced his father to buy him {
} trombone and he was laughed a
for his first effort to play popular
airs and passionate bits on an in
strument that was built solely 70.
percussionary effects. But, tn,
boy, in his persistent Ignorance
of that fact, blew on, and at 1.
years he was himself the frs
} trombonist in the band Of He
+. Majesty'S First Life Guard and a
: II already known as the creates
I trOmbonists in Europe.
Pat Gilmore, the once fam0u
band master of America 500
t heard of Innes and made him tn
8 solOist of his band in which cal
n acity Times become a sensatio
e throughout the country and Gil
t more's great drawing card.
lines is unlike musicians i
general. His hair is cut in regl
h lar style and his cloths are lik
+ those of t he we'll to d
q business man. His manner
|, easy and affable that on railrOa
trains where he is usually the Iii
of the party, he has been eye
;, with suspicion by cautious trave
;. ers who 60 warned against me
with smooth manners.
y For all his genialty Innes is
profound student. Some of b
rnusiU has been placed by crit,
among the work of the masters.
There is probably not an0th
. organization, of the kind, of sui
u magnitude as Innes' in the wor
~ to-day. 1t is one of the thr
largest bands in America. 1t
probably the only one who
a. or ganization remains intact al
81 which tours the country in conce
Is work year after year. With t
te exception of such changes as {