The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-14
MUSIC POLICIES
OF WORLDS FAIR
Chief Markham of That Bureau
Says Bands Will Pre-
dominate.
CONCERTS IN FESTIVAL HALL.
There the Orchestra, the Chorus
and Organ VIII Appeal 10
Those Who Have Time
TO Listen.

George d. Markham. Chief of the Worlds
air Bureau of Music. has set at rest all
nfgiviDgs, through newspaper agitation, as
to'he music policies Of the Exposition.
Bads Of the highest grade will be simply
the pedominatiug musical expression. The
plans { the bureau DO not stop there. 1t
has conrol of the Festival Hall. the cen
terpiece o the Cascade-Gardens.
There tn orchestra, the chorus and the
organ will ,lease the most fastidious ear.
Such perforiances must of necessity rise
above the nor liberal holiday spirit which
peryades the boyant crowds in the open
air.
The beautiful Ichitecture Of the Festi-
val Hall has been created as the shell OF
an interior which WI be modelled alter the
ideas of the BI,rearo If Music" says CHIEF
Markham. "The DanS VIII have tuli sway
Sbout the grounds OF Jne noriH fatr'
Music Hall will only btkon 10 those VINO
care TO hear a concert gnu the c4dHiOF u
an Exposition.
The de,alls of this potion ae OF ddr9n music
programmes have not " peeh compteteo,
they are, in fact, only N emoryo- Muse
Hall stands for the hihesl types OF must
1t will house distinct AuSicaI events, wholly
apart IRON the daih band concerts. The
impression that baraS would form the only
application of tn Bureaus plans was a
ManufacturinF a musical policy for the
st. Louis Expedition has been done by the
ONLY method. Will EttLElEu LEdSADAt u
chief Niarkiam. This was the method CT
comparison with Chicago and the last eN-
position at Paris. He says that he has
aimed TO produce results better than those
shown by the records of the Columbian Ex-
position with its indifferent a music
and its expensive Thomas concerts, for
which the rushing crowds found no time
10 listen; better than the unparalleled sue
cess Of international bands at Paris.
The study given to musical results at
these expositions has convinced the COM
mittee which formulated the general scope
and plan of the bureau, that the high spirit
of the pleasure-seekers at these shows feed
upon the band rather than upon renditions
of difficult music, which depend on quietude
and undistracted attention for appreciation.
Yet the committee mas bJrne IN mind tnat
the underlying aim OF the coming WORLDS
Fair. to produce the highest impressions.
could not be carried out in the sphere of
music unless il expressed the best grades
of so-called classical as well as popular
music 1t has provided for this in the idea
OF Festival Hall.
First of All we must please the people
the people who come from afar and pay
to be pleased" says Mr.. Markham. I'VE
the music as they did after visiting Chi
cago. The question OF money has not af-
fected the management Of the st. Louis
Exposition. The bureau has plenty of
money at its command.
w have sought out what the verdict
has been on the part of visitors to the
two greatest international fairs in the
world.
This has given US our cue. Bands of
eighty pieces under famous directors will
furnish the great flood of melody at this
Fair because the temper of even the most
musicafly educated people has been tested.
At intervals. frequent enough to stamp
themselves as features of the Exposition
on the memory of visitors. great choral
events, with orchestral and organ accom-
paniment. will delight those who have time
to tear themselves away from the thousand
and one other attractions to sit calraly
show of which, remember. music is only
one of the features"