The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-20

unexplainable about the playing Of the
Banda Rosa Part of it is in the m
strumentation and part in the tone pro-
duced. Something that is different than
any other band and Just what it is no
one could say but all can notice.
The concert opened with the Funeral
March in Memory of President McKin-
ley, written by Sorrentino. 1t is a fun
eral march that will certainly live for
years and will be heard on sorrowful
occasions yet to come. The second num-
rentinO, so vastly different from the
sombre tones of the funeral dirge at
once caught the audience There IS d
little melody in the march that win be
heard on the streets, Whistled by the
milk man and hummed by the coal
beavers, before the engagement of the
Banda Rosa is over The concert
closed with another march by Sor-
rentino, The Kansas City Spirit Both
his marches are good but the first is by
far the more popular and catchy.
George Washington jackson, q fol-
lower of Orpheus and leader of the
Twenty-third regiment band, sat at one
side of the stage. When the band COM
menced on *'Tannhauser'' Jackson was
sitting upright on his chair AS the
band got deeper and deeper into the
plot of the overture from Wagner'S
opera, Jackson became more and more
enraptured. His hands dove deeper in
to his trousers pockets, he slipped fur
Their and further down in the chair un-
til, when the band ended the overture,
Jackson was about ready to slip to the
floor. A study of the colored band
masters face was enough to prove that
the number had been properly exc
cuted.
AS an encore the band played Ser
enata" by Moszkouski and then Sig
Bottega played as a trumpet solo Ma
Lady Lu" just to show the audience that
Sorrentino can arrange coon songs
and that the band can play them The
trumpet solo was a novelty and quite
pleasing and an encore was played.
Probably the most popular number OF
all the classical music was the grand
selection from Carmen" The stirring
strains of the march chorus, the tuneful
air of the "Toreador'' song, the lighter
melody of the cigarette girls dancing
song were artistically brought out by
the band and in the solos by Signor1
Bottega, Massa, Febbo and Barilotti.
The second part opened with the inter-
mezzo sSalome" and next was the sex
tette from Lucia"
Fred Vandegrift says that Ed Howe's
faVOrite piece is the Sextette and that
Howe has been known to let Atchison
run itself for several days while he
packed his valise with collar and a
tie and Travelled far to hear some band
play his favOrite piece from Lucia.
Howe was not on hand last night and
he missed a treat. There were solos in
the number by Signori Bottega, Febbo
and BarilOtti-
Sorrentino and his musicians are in
tereSt ting Everyone knows of the gyra-
lions of SOusa and the listlessness of
Innes in conducting. Sorrentino has a
copyrighted manner all his own The
greater part of the time he has his
right hand up and his left hand down
jerking away like fond papa working
a jumpingjack for his youngest. When
Sorrentino walks the stage and bows
his six feet and 200 pounds until the
little bald spot at the crown of his pate
is visible to all he is watched by the
audience. It doesn't seem that he be-
comes enthused while directing. He
has more the manner of a bandmaster
listening closely to see that none of his
musicians play a. bum note as some
musicians have been known to do if a