The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-26
THEATRICAL NEWS
The Coming of SCREENINGS
Italian Banda Rosa
At the Auditorium Saturday
For Two Performances.
THIRTEEN SOLOISTS
Has Added Several instruments
Since His Visit Here.
Other News of the Plays and
Players.
THIRTEEN SOLOISTS

The first amusement engagement OF
moment since the close of the regular
theatrical season will be the appearance
of the celebrated Banda Rosa in the
auditorium Saturday of next week for
a. matinee and night performance
Reinforced by a corps of thirteen solo
lists, the largest ever carried by band.
Sorrentino is this year exceeding even
his triumphs of last year In addition
to the ever popular trumpeter, Bottega;
the baritone horn, Barilotti; the fiutist-
Cioff1; Lodato, trombone; Palmieri.
French horn, and Tedeschi, clarinet.
there are Marchio, solo bassoon, from
the famed San Carlos theater, Naples,
and the solo oboeist from the same
place; Sabatelli, Corti, Fanelli. harpist,
and others new to this country but
famous in their own land. AS a solo
organization the Red Band stands I'M
rivalled
Besides oboe, basscon and harp the
Italian bandmaSter has added two sax
OphoneS and two contrabasSeS. The ad-
dition of these orchestral instruments
gives the band a tonal balance that it
never had before. With SO wide a
variety of instruments, SCREENINGS
programmes should be wonderfully
brilliant. Sorrentino has a finer band
this year than at any time before.
Sorrentino is rounding out a month in
Denver. That he has not outstayed
his welcome is evidenced by the follow
ing from the Denver Republican:
ITO the regret of all, the announce
ment is made that this is to be the last
week of the Banda Rosa concerts.
have given two delightful concerts
daily. No such music, from similar
organization, no such novelty of musical
programmes, and no such crowds to
hear them, have ever been known of be-
fore in this city.
1.-THE Banda Rosa is strong in many
features. The character of the instru-
ments, in many cases unique, their
s<v>
soloists, the perfect control of the leader
over his men, and the years which the
band body has been together, with
slight changes in it's individual make
up; these are the important factors
which have helped stamp the Banda
Rosa as the foremost organization OF
it's kind which has ever been heard in
the United States. Denver may be
proud of the distinction of being in the
list of cities visited, and is to be con-
graduated upon its good taste in rem
dering the band the support which its
high artistic merit calls for. The re-
naming concerts will undoubtedly draw
immense audiences, for Denver will not
be behind other cities in her farewell
homage to the Banda Rosa In the
east it is no unusual thing for 5000 and
10000 people to be present at a Banda
Rosa concert. and the citizens always
make some public demonstration to the
leader and the band.
.-Signor Sorrentino has medals in
numerdDie, Wnlcn nave peen presented
to him, both in this country and in Eu-
rope, among the number being one
from the emperor of Germany. The Red
Band of Italy has made many friends
and admirers in Denver, and as the
present engagement may be the last for
years, its going will be regretted by
ALL
This is the only town between Denver
and Kansas City to get the big musical
company. The programmes for the
auditorium concerts have not as yet
been made up by Sorrentino, but that