The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-17
CARLISLE BAND CONCERT.
A Musical Evening mt the National
Rites ArmOry Hall.

The CARLISLE Indian Band gave concert
last ght at the National Rifles Armory
Hall. The numbers OF the following pro-
gramme, with several encores, were rem
dered:
Overture, "Jubel' won Weber,, conlud-
ing with the national anthem; Idylle,
Gypsy Life lie Theire); song, The Two
Roses" (Wernerl, Glee Club; suite.
Aboriginal (Wheelock) Morning on
the Plains; (b) Festival and Dance of the
Red Men; selection, Faust (Gcunod);
Stabat Mater. "Infammatus'' (RossinD,
euphouium obligato by Robert Bruce.
Sioux Burlesque The Arkansas Trav-
eler" tReevesD-A scene in the band room.
The instruments have dispute as TO how
the cid melody should be played, the par
Elephants in the argument being the pieco-
10. saxophoues, bassoons, sarTusophones,
comets, clarionats. oboes, trombones, eu-
Dhoniums basses. alto, and bass clarionets.
Grand scene from the Huguenots, The
Blessing Of the POignards'' tMeyerbeer);
violin solo Vision de Jeanne dare"
CGounod), Zitkala Sa: patriotic anthem,
star SpangIed Banner" (Arnold).
The Carlisle Indian Band is an aggrega-
ton OF musicians consisting Of fifty seven
niscn Wheelock, mrsica! instructor at the
Carlisle School. The rucleus of this band
played in Washington IT the inauguration
of President Mckinley. 1t then consisted
Of only twenty-three pieces, and was
thought decidedly amateurish. Since then
it has been strengthened by additional
talent and trained to artistic efficiency by
Prof WheelOck. The Indian boys of TWEEN
ty-three tribes have been drawn upon for
Ill nd 1, 10 cd n fs
band VIII be one of the interesting fea-
lures Of the Paris Exposition.
Prof. Dennisou Wheelock. "A fUll-biooded
Oneida Indian, told a Times reporter yes
terday some of the difficulties he had over
come in finding his musicians and in train
ing them 10 play artistieaily. 1t must be
remembered, he said. that there is not a
man in the band who is thirty years old.
They are all young and few of them had
any training. he said, until he took hold
of them. Under the circumstances, there
fore the band merited the testimonial
given il at the suggestion OF Senator De-
pew in Lafayette Theatre, that its per
Torrance had been most satisfactory and
remarkable.
Zitkala Sa, who accompanies the band as
a soloist on the violin, and who recited
The Famine at the Longfellow memorial
meeting yesterday is a Young woman OF
pleasing personality. Her name in English
signifies Red Bird. She is a Sioux, and
was born in Dakota about twenty-five
years ago. She-was .takeh when ten years
old to Whites Institute, Wabash, Ind
where her educdtion was begun. Later she
attended Earlham College in Indiana, TAX
ing there the highest honors in oratory
She taught one year in the Carlisle Indian
School, and is now studying violin in the
Boston Conservatory of Music.
Zitkala Sa has portrayed in recent ar
ticles published in the Atlantic Monthly
her own life. She has a talent for writing
as well as music, and she modestly stated
to a Times reporter yesterday that she was
ambitious to excel in both, for the double
purpose of showing that the Indian woman
is capable of acquiring the accomplishments
own people.