Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-15
ADJUSTMENTS,

| HALEY'S BAND CoNCERT.-The con-
| cert given at the Columbia Theater last
| night by HaieSs Band Orchestra was a
| highly successful event in every respect
! except that of the attendance While the
theater was comfortably filed, there were
many vacant chairs which should have
been occupied IN view of the effort that
Mr.. Haley is making, almost alone, to pro-
vide washington music lovers with really
merltorious musical entertainments. The
audience, however, was quite demonstra-
i've IN It's applause. In fact every number
on the program, save the opening and
closing selections, were eneored, the pro-
gram pelng thus strung out almost to
double its original length. Mr.. Haley has
assembled this year a most creditable body
of performers, and while his band Is not
quite so large perhaps as in former years,
sun 1t Is, on the whole better balanced
and more satisfactory. The strings are es-
pecially capable. The features of the pro-
gram We're a pleasing selection of gems
from faust,' in which delicate shading
IN the Strings and some excellent effects in
the wood winds and BASES were brought
OUT. and the overture to Weber's "Oberon."
t,iienbergs gavotte, First Heart Throbs."
was also well played as was Halls beauti-
1ul waltz, Wedding of the Winds A
descriptive, Orths Clock Store also
OF airs from Herbert's new opera, "The
Singing Girl" brought the concert to a
close in line style. For encores Mr. Haley
ueait chleny IN marches, although one of
me most enthusiastically received selections
was collection of rag-time airs that had
10 be repeated as a double encore. Mr..
Haley also introduced new march of his
own composition, '1ncarnatea," which
should make its way very quickly into
popular FAVOR This number was also
oplged to be repeated. The soloists were
Mr. r. Muhlhausen, who played fantasia
by Pague for the trombone Mr.. A. Cello,
who gave a Neapoiitan song as a flute solo
and Miss Blanch Wood, who sang the
HOLY city, and, as an encore, "Then
1 aou IL remember Me-" In all the selec-
IONS given Mr.. Haley showed his thor
eush command over his men and demon
strated anew his real capabilities as a con-
ductor Not the least enjoyable feature Of
me concert was the manner In which he
Went through the program with as little de-
iaS as possible between the numbers It
was Mr.. Haleys idea to give his first con-
cert as an orchestra, and it is probable
as a military band.
A SEASON OF OPERA.-A brief season
OF opera by the Strakosch Opera Company
"hlch mas Just had a successful season of
nine weeks at Music Hall, Baltimore will
be given at the Lafayette Square opera
House, beginning tonight, with a double
MI, consisting Of Gilbert & SulMvan's
'A'a- i.ih6 NoLhlC opera, ii. NJ. >. PlnafOre,"
and Mascagnis great tragic masterwork,
Cavalieria Rusticana-' The stage settings
1oi both operas will be handsome and realis-
nc. Both operas Will be given entire and
with splendid casts. In "PinafOre'' Miss 10
sephine Kent will be the Josephine; Miss
Amelia Fields. Buttercup; Miss Grace Mey-
ers Orr, Hebe; Mr.. ]. X. Murray, Capt
Sorcoran: Grafton Baker, Ralph Rackstraw;
EDWARD Webb Is Sir Joseph Porter and
John Read, Dick Deadeye. In "Cavalleria
Rustcana," Clara Lane will sing SantuzZa;
Eleanor Kent, Lola: Amelia Fields Lucia:
m. stephens, Turiddu, and J. X. Murray,
Ai1lo. The company has large chorus Of
young and fresh voices, which have been
well-trained in the repertoire by the direc-
tor Mr. Joseph Tressi.
VIM. H. CRANEs-Crane began the pres
Ont season under what seemed happy au-
spices: He had play by two of the brain
:est dramatists in this country Brander
Matthews and Bronson Howard, and its
success seemed as certain as the DEGREES
OF fate 1t was called Peter Stuyvesant,"
and the actor presented it in the most Law
Ism and artistic manner possible. The crit
les saw it. said the actors success in It
was the greatest he had ever scored but
The comedian Immediately produced an
duced another play and it did what Its
predecessor did not-score the biggest kind
OF success. The work is called "A Rich
Mans Son, and 1t is said to be one Of
the joiiiest farcical works the stage has
had in years. Its financial returns in New
YORK were enormous, and In view of its
popularity the comedian has decided to
make it his chief Offering for the rest of
the season. The play is by Michael Nor
ton, and cleverly satirizes questions in
metaphysics and sociology. It will be at the
New National next week.
Mr.. ViNCENT'S LECTURES.-Mr. Leon
h. Vincent will deliver a series of lectures
at the Shoreham for the benefit of the
Foundng's Summer Home. The first viii
be next Wednesday, the subject being "Ho-
tel de Rambouillet and Its Famous Peo-
pie. The other dates and subjects are as
follows: Monday, I'D instant, Victor Hu-
CO. Wednesday. 31st instant Nathaniel
Hawthorne" and Wednesday, February Z
Barrie and the New Scotch School"
These lectures will be delivered at II
oclock am. and should prove attractive to
a large number of people.