The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25

Of the Philomathan Society last Wednesday
morning. The members OF the organization
can feel proud of the reception they received,
as they were encored again and again. The
following students constitute the orchestra:
Darlington Davenport, William C. Semple,
Casey Rand Harry Shull, Lynden, King,
Ralph Shull, Logan Stone, with Professor W.
G. Margeson and Professor v. H. Schoffel
mayer director. -~ .@
The quartet is made up as follows: D. DAY.
export, second tenor; Ralph Shull first tenor;
Logan Stone, barytone; Stuart Lane, basso.
The class of 'O2 in the piano department
of the Johnson School of Music will give a
recital Thursday evening in the school hail.
The pupils taking part will be Max Cole,
Lillian Giles, Pauline Gardi, Malinda Skog
lund, Grace Gagnacki, Ella Broberg, Ger
trude Dickinson, Alice Swanberg and Alma
Lampe Assistance will be given by Miss
Ethel Matson, who will sing group Of songs;
Miss Ina Millward, who will read From a
Far Country and Miss Virginia Jarman,
who will read ''Jack Horner's Pie
1t has been said frequently that the band
was not capable of playing the finest music.
Its scope has generally been supposed to be
limited to military marches and the lighter
pieces. This Is the case with the ordinary
band. But occasionally life produces an ex-
traordinary bandmaster, just it does an
extraordinary electrician, whom folks tenn a
wizard. Innes is the wizard of the band.
He has an organization which does play the
finest Of music, and plays it as written; yet
it is band as well. How does he do it? He
gives it study and attention; he always ex-
perinents and works When he and his
band come here, folks will see the results
of years of this work. Genius is heaven
born, it Is true, but it has to be nurtured
or it. will die Innes has not died yet, and
that speaks worlds for him. -.
When one hears the anvil Chorus" usu-
ally, there is job on hand for the man who
plays the cynbaas in the band. He Is
the whole anvil chorus. When Innes and
his band play the "Anvil Chorus" as they
will here, one really hears what the composer
intended he should. What with full corps
of blacksmiths, in red shirts, caps and leath-
ern aprons, and anvils, attunded to perfect
| chords, and electrified, so that they emit
sparks of fire as they are struck in divine
harmony, . will be worth while going just
to learn what an anvil Chorus" really is
Innes and his band give three concerts al
the IAyceum Feb. Ii and ~. ....
The Richard Wagner festival opera season
| at Munich this year will begin Aug. in the
Prinz- regenten theater, built according to tn,
| Wagner idea, and opened last. year. Thu
| operas to be given are 'The Mastersinger.
| VI nuremberg, 1flStau anu 1SOlQe, auu
hauser' and "Lohengrin." These will b.
given in eight cycles, in which the order will
be varied. Among the artists are Nordica
| Ternina, FRITZ Scheff and Olive Fremstadt
! The seat for entire cycles are now being sold
| and single seats will be sold after March
! Special facilities for securing seats will b.
| afforded to Americans who contemplate visit
| ing Munich.
! While the Wagner operas are being give
| a ofoH TO +
| Royal National opera house there will b
performed complete cycle of Mozart's op
| eras-"The Magic Flute,' "Figaro's Wed
ding" Don Giovanni and "Cosi fan Tutte''
1.-THE Nibelungs," by Hebbel; "Wallenstei
Trilogy," by Schiller; .'Manfred,' by Byron
schumann; Faust" by Goethe; "Oresty 9
Aeschylus.'' ~
The new house has eliminated all the draw
backs which belong to the building in Bay
reuth. 1t embodies in stone and iron Was
ner's wishes-a monument to the muses. c
drama and song to last for ages.
The auditorium is an amphitheater, who's
seats are so arranged that from any one {
them view of the whole stage can be oh
tanned. Over the auditorium are boxes fo
the court, which correspond to the Prince
gallery in the Bayreuth house On the lei
wall stand in four inches the statues of Glucl
\ beethoven, Mozart and Wagner, and alon
! the right-hand wall are statues of Shall
spere, Goethe, Schiller and Leasing.
i The ceiling is painted in gold and blue
the modern or impressionistic style. The O,
ehestra is underground.