El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-26
THE PLAZA CONCERT.
A SUcce essful and Pleasing PERI Armance
Last Night Before Large Crowd.

A Successful and Pleasing PERI rmance
Last Night Before a Large Crowd.
The concert last night by the Nc
Giuty band turne d out tbirty-siX men,
the largest number in its history, and
the program was made up of different
classes of music, so that the admirers
of. the heavy, medium and light comp0-
sit; Ons could all hear according to their
respective tastes. The Instruments
tion of the band was as follows: Con-
ductor, piccolo, flute, one fiat and
four B fiat clarinets. one oboe, i've
saXaphOnes. one basSOon, six cOrnetS,
four altos, ,One trumpet, two from bones,
one baritone, four BASES, and three
men in the battery. Every uniform
but one was in use, and other uniforms
have been sent for from Philadelphia
so that forty one musicians can be pro-
vided for.
The scores for the evening were well
selected. For the heavy music, there
was one of the most popular cOmpOSl-
tions written in the Simiramede over
ture, and the ever welcome march from
Tannhauser, while for those VINO might
not be satisfied with these, there were
gems from Stephen Foster such as
Suauee Ribber, Come Where my Love
Lies Dreaming, My Old Kentucky Home
and negro melody that might not
have been ''Old zip cOOn," but suggest
ed it And then there was the Danube
Waves Waltz which men and boys
whistled as they went home afterwards
The Turkish patrol is always welcome,
and is standard selection everywhere,
and Gilmore's March was well recelv-
ed. But it is interesting to note that the
heaviest numbers on The program ret
ceived the most applause. The Nigh
Alarm, the descriptive piece, was ruin
ed by the S. p. yard engine and dou-
BILE header freight. The runner OF the
first engine on that freight seemed to
think it was such cold weather that
he must keep his cylinder cCcks open
until the cylinders heated up so that
the steam would not cOndenSe IN the
frig: d atmosphere. and work the water
hammer rack ket on him. The Internal Sh-
Ssh sh-s-s sh. sh-s sh. with the changing
of bells, and the following running up
and down of the yard engine did their
work and the Night Alarm mum Der was
wind and talent wasted.
II will be good thing for p aza con-
certs any how, when freight trains are
run over the new levee and the wild
fiendish whoop and clangOr OF that s.
z. yard engine will no longer be heard
in the heart of the city. The band
played in good form, time and tune,
the horn quartet from Simiramide be-
ing given better than even the players
thems elves expected. The new E fiat
clarinet player. Mr.. Her, local
attorney, is an acquisition to the band
and he will do very well.
The wind was strong and gusty, so
that people on the east side OF the park
could not hear the softer passs ges, and
the young people while not 30 trouble
some, were not as quiet as would have
been desired. Girls of IS and II Were
ro-iced amoog he offenders. or course
acre were kickerS, SOn kicked be-
cause they were on the side of the
plaza the wind came from and evideat-
" thou2ht the band and band stand
should have been moved over onto
Mesa avenue for their particular bene-
fit: and others zone eff whom had taken
the pains to write complaint to this
office) are kicking because the music
was 100 classical" for their altogether
immature musical Dalates. If the
Stephen Foster selections were too
classical for them. they had better
stay at home concert nights, and di-
rect their attention to matters not as
| liz ely to cripple the m under the hat as
Swanee R.ver-if they think that the
| hand is gong to play pop goes the
weasel, sing a song of sixpence, a
pocketfull OF rye, the queen OF hearts
she stole some tartsal on summer
day, humpty dumpty sa, on wall,
Jack and jill went uD the hill to get a
pail of water, fathers pants are baggy
at the knees, moth or's teeth are plug
ged with tin, etc. these captious pee
pie are going to get left. They had
better save their wind, writing pa
per and postage stamps.
| By general request the McGinty
band will play next Friday night,
The Cocoauut Dance" and it will be
in order the next day for some bumpti-
Gus person to write to the papers pro-
te>tirg against the plaza programs be-
ing loaded down with such intensely
classical aad heavy music as The
| COcOanut Dance"