The evening times., 1897-03-04
THE INAUGURATION MUSIC
Many Famous Bands Will Par
ticipate in the Parade.
PROGRAMS TO BE RENDERED
Herbert's Twenty-second Regiment
Band TO Play the Ball Concert,
nish the Dance e-Music-Republican
Glee Club and the Grand Chorus.

This is the day OF the great pageant,
the day when the bands begin to play.
Music is the soul OF all such great oc-
casions. 1t takes men away from the
dead Level OF the commonplace. 1t
gives them a glimpse OF paradise, exalts,
inspires and ennobles them.
We win have music today In Washing
ton. Such music as stirs men to deeds
of valor; such music as sends the blood
gushing through I be veins and makes every
nerve and fiber OF the body tingle with
electric thrills.
The whole country contributes to the
music. From the North, the South, the
East, and the West come the bands.
Drum ma Jors ma lestic ia ST ature, gorgeous
ia uniform, win lead the scarlet-coated,
the blue-coated, and relocated gentle
men VINO viii draw martial strains from
silveT-throated instruments.
At the head OF the procession will
march the United States Marine Band in
their scarlet coats and under the leader
ship of Francesca Fanciulli.
Among the clubs which viii furnish
bands are the following:
First Mckinley Club OF the United States,
Philadelphia; Americus Republican Club,
Pittsburg; Hell Gate Republican Club, New
York; william K. Leeds Association, Phila-
delphia; Shenandoah Valley Patriotic Le-
gion, Hanisonburg, Va; David A. Martin
Clut, Philadelphia; Union Republican Club,
Philadelphia; Young Men Blaine Club, Gin
cinna:i; Allegheny County Six Footers'
Club, PittsbUrg: M. $. Quay Club, Philldcl-
plia; Young Mems Republican Club, Balti-
more, Md; Henry X. Boyer Republican
Marching Club, Philadelphia; Har-
mony Fire Company, Philadelphia;
Alger Republican Club, Detroit;
Mckinley and Hobart Uniformed Club,
Washington; Minneapolis Republican Flam-
beau Club, Minneapolis; nppecanoe Club,
Cleveland; Stamina Republican League, Gin
cinnati; Unconditional Republican Club, Al
bany, n. Y; James L. Goodall Republican
Association. Philadelphia; Frelinghuysea
Lancers, Newark, n. j.; First Ward n. s.
Quay Club, Philadelphia; National Ere
mont Association, Pittsburg; Commercial
Mckinley Club, Chicago; Cook County Re
publican Marching Club, Chicago; Mckinley
Tariff League, Washington; Hudson
County Delegation, of New Jersey;
a. c. Harmer Club, Philadelphia;
A. C. Harmer Club, Germantown, Pa;
Riverside Republican Club, New York;
Tippccanoe Club, Fort Wayne Ind: John
Mcknight Republican Club, Covington, KY;
Elkins' CaGets, Wheeling, w. Va; Council
No. >, Union League OF America, Baltimore;
Young Men Republican Club, Wilmington,
Del; Virginia Republican Association, WASH
ington: Continental Club, Phila delphia.
Il has been the almost invariable custom
for the bands To play "Ilail to the Chief
as they pass the reviewing stand, but
this year tie music committee has Ie-
quested the band leaders 70 occasionally
favor Nh. Mckinley with some other air.
a new, but important, feature introduced
by the musical management OF this in
auguration was the appointment of an
examining committee, composed OF Messrs.
E. u. Droop, John Dudley, Frank Met
zeroJt and u. c. Rakemann, all musicians
OF recognized ability. On previous in
augurals the leaders of the orchestras
and bands have furnished the stipulated
number OF men and pieces, but not all the
members oreither orga nizatiOn were actual
musicians. The uniform often disguised
simply a musical iEnoramus, or, as the
committe designated them, dummies
The committee has done away with this
and demanded strict rulfillment of the
musical contract.
Victor HeFbert's, formerly Gilmore's,
famous Twenty-seoOnd Regiment Band, OF
New York viii play the Introductory con-
cert and promenade music for the in
augural bali. The dance music viii lie by
William A Ealeys Washington Concert
Orchestra.
Victor Herbert is one of the greatest
band leaders in the world. Like his great
predecessor, he has an the natural bril-
liancy of wit and keen perception so
charming and so characteristic of Irish
birth, for Notwithstanding his name he was
born in Dublin aud is the grandson OF Sam
uel Lover, the famous author of Handy
Andy
For years Mr.. Herbert was cello soloist
and associate conductor with Theodore !
Thomas and Anton seidl, and he has been
themusical director manyimportantm musi-
calfestivalsin New York, New England, and
elsewhere As. performer on his chosen
instrument, the violoncello, he is almost
without n equal. and he is at the head CT
the 'cello department in the National
Conserva tory of Music, OF which famous |
institution Autonin Dvorak is the director |
AS a composer. Mr.. Herheit is pre- |
eminent. having received great praise for |
his many valuable and successful works. in |
cantatas, operas, concertoS, and reper- /
toire music for hand and orchestra. His !
comic opera, Prince Ananias,n produced |
atthe Broadway Theater, New York, blythe |
Bostonlans, will carry his fame throughout |
the whole country. His latest opera. The |
Wizard of the Nile.'' which had a run of |
15O nights in New York city, is destined /
to bee ome one of the most successful operas |
sf the age, not alone in the United States, i
hut also in Europe.
MI william A. Haley, conductor of
washinrton's concert orchestra, is known |
az ;rn excellent musician and organizer
He was born in Washington, ID. c., In |