Evening journal., 1897-05-24
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS


another concert tour in the United
States, season of 97-9S. having just
signed a contract with r. e. Johnson q
Co., his New York managers.
John Frisch, the trombonist now
playing with the band at Shellpot Park
is one Of the finest players that has
ever been turned out here The quality
of tone he produces is something diff
ferent from what is usually heard, and
It is a pleasure to listen to him, and
great credit is due his teacher, S. II.
Compton.
Professor w. j. Parry will again go
to Rehoboth, Dell for the season.
The music furnished at shellpot Park
last Sunday evening by the Haydn
String Quartette was quite a novelty |
and was highly appreciated by the peo-
pie. Not since the days OF the Bee
thoven Club. has high class chamber
music been performed here in public by
wilmington men. The most important
feature of last Sundays programme
was the introduction and first move
ment of the twenty concerts Of Viotti,
the solo part of which was artistically
played by Samuel T. Compton. II is
seldom our public hear this class of
music performed, and it is hoped this
venture will be encouraged.
The eantata Ruth" was repeated Fri
day evening at Epworth NJ E. Church
under the direction of David Constan-
tine. Mrs. Emma Lake was the lead
ing soprano, and made hit as Ruth
The antacta was given with organ ac-
compartment
The orchestra Of st. Paul's NJ. e.
Church has been enlarged by the add.
tion of several new members.
The performance of the Snowfall"
. a three-act comedy by Sidney Grundy
was given by the Wilmington Dramatic
Club Friday evening in the Grand
5 Opera House. The performance was a
= good one. Grace Orchestra furnished
the music. The four hundred were
! there, and had a splendid chance to
r talk while the orchestra was playing
Was it the enlivening effect of the mu-
e sic. or was it the deadening effect OF
4 so many kinds OF perfume? The or
chestra was all right; the dramatis
e personae were all right, but the audi
- ence seemed to be more interested in
y themselves than anything or anybody
else Upon several occasions have
IS heard good music in the Operi
= House and have noticed this, but tn,
is audience OF Friday evening should b'
N a representative musical audience. an,
le above the average Opera House audi
enoe in intellectual appreciation. It /
no easy task for a leader to pleas
everyone, but a good listener is bette
= than a poor performer, and the effort
ne Of our local orchestra should be NOR
IS appreciated.
Ie Modern stagecraft has been a prim
5e factor in bringing the few great con
II. cert bands in this county into popu
m larlty 1t explains some things tina
70 have not been understood. Old show
m men have been astonished at the sue
er cess Of one or two leading bands onth
ut road. in times when the best Operati
as and dramatic companies could scarcel
keep moving. While those bands ar
under greater expenses than the big
gest theatrical or operatic compan
s. they manage to make money year afte
IN year. 1t is true that the bands visit
ID are few and far between, the countr
rg being large and the number of regu
IN larly organized bands limited to tw,
ne or possibly three, il takes a long tim
,e- for them to cover it. Innes, who come
n to Union Park next Sunday, moves o
circuit for nine or ten months ever
year. His band gives excellent musi
,lv no doubt, and being strange in soun'
at may be more than ordinarily fascina
lrs ing. But that doesn't wholly explai
I, his success where other attraction
at fall The thoroughly equipped concei
III band is rich in mechanical effects.
Nn utilizes the illusionary forces Of tn
stage 10 lend imagination to the aud
ence and fire their enthusiasm. Son
'a- people like music. Others have to
.S 10 aroused to an appreciation of it. II
no. last constitute the larger class, an
ion once stirred they become the most pc
her silent Of patrons. In his sacred COZ
'"u certs Innes introduces set Of churC
bells and chimes that ring and play
loudly as New Yorks Trinity. Meal
'er' while a section of the band gives
'hn perfect imitation Of a pipe organ Upc
ate other occasions, his electric batteri
aad throw sparks and flame, anvil al
mt forge being used to illustrate VIII
my might be called the story of the musi
rks In a piece that refers to war and val
vas the sound of horses clattering hoo
is heard and the rattle Of the knight
armOr in the saddle as well. The
there is the thunder-making machir
d and there is the musical genius,
on. man Of all work who plays the kettl