Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-04-24
RECEIVED AN OVATION.'
The First Concert OF the Amateur Nus
icaI Club an Unqualified Success.

Ical Club an unqualified Success.
The Amateur Musical club met with
a most gratifying success on the occa-
sion of its first orchestra concert given
at Turner Opera house last Thursday
evening. The large hall was crowded
with a fine audience and a handsome
sum was realized on the venture. And
it is meet that the outcome should
have been so suspicious. The mem
bers are endeavoring to sustain a first
class organization and laboring faith
fully to give our city an orchestra of
which we may be proud. Their efforts
ought surely to be appreciated and en-
cOuraged to the utmost by our citizens.
Although organized but a few months
ago, the club has made rapid progress
in its musical work and the achievement
OF last Thursday stamps it as one OF
the best orchestras OF this vicinity. 1t
is to be hoped that the good work thus
favorably begun will be kept up, and
in the end the Amateur Musical club
will no doubt occupy a position of
prominence in the musical world.
Much OF the success of the concert
is due to the untiring efforts of Edward
l.. 5chempf, who not Orly gave his
earnest attention in business way to
| the enterprise, but most agreeably
surprised the audience by the very
capable manner in which he occupied
the difficult position of conductor
Under his skillful baton the fine points
| Of the different selections were
brought out strikingly and he showed
that he had the players well in hand
1t might be said that the work of
the orchestra was not all perfection,
but for an initial effort the playing
was exceptionally good. The program
was little too long; otherwise it was
thoroughly enjoyable. 1t included
such favorite selections as Sousa's
inspiring new march, 1.-The Man Be-
hind the Cum Herbert's 'sSerenade''
aud ''The Fortune Teller" both pop
ular light operas; Eilenburg's idyll,
The Mill in the Forest" a fine de-
scriptive piece; the beautiful overture,
Bridal Rose" by Lavallee, and
Boettger's medley, Popular Sunny
Tennessee, y all of which were exceed
ingly we'll rendered. The orchestra
was unfortunate in it's rendition of the
selection from s'The Bohemian Girl y
which was calculated to be a leading
feature of the program. The reed in
struments and the trombone lost their
pitch in the solo parts assigned them
and the effect was rather harsh. This,
however, was the only real break of
! the evening. The string instruments
and the comets showed splendid tone
throughout and gave very satisfactory
execution. No doubt with more prac-
tice the other portions of the orches-
ira can be brought TO this standard.
AS leading attractions the club pre-
sented Miss Marie Carter, of Chicago,
soprano; Mrs. Johanna Hess-Burr, OF
Chicago, the noted accompanist, and
Robert Prengel, of Milwaukee, 'cclloist
Miss Carter displayed voice of con
siderable strength and range and sang
her numbers with good effect. She
was accompanied at the piano by Mrs.
Hess-Burr, who is known as one OF
the very best piano artists of the
country and who on this occasion per-
formed brilliantly. For some reason
Mr.. Prenrel in his solo number seemed
to labor at disadvantage. His selec-
tion was not pleasing one and he
failed to sustain the good impression
which his splendid execution in the