The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-04
ELLERY'S GREAT BAND
NEW LAulG1S. ADDED AT
 GRAND SACRED CONCERT.
Large Audience at Auditorium Sun
 day Aftsrnoon to Hear Famous ! Italians-Eilsnbsrg's March 1 Makes Decided Hit.

 in. Elleryss Royal Italian Band culminat- ed on Sunday afternoon in magnincent house at the Auditorium for the sacred concert. steadily increased from the first. To hea. such playing, clsesic, finished and at the same time inspirationaL constituted liberal education in music.
 Many who came icsssiess,y a,n,e ct stic Sns st S every performance and brought tneif friends. Az public appreciation grew the musicians themyelves seemed encouraeei to even finer efforts and they gave most generous response to the ecpstant call for encores. Sundays sacred concert. therefore. not only capped the climax Tn point of attendance, but was unooubted. iy the finest performance given. Ths concert vas added to & the ogiTns. Soa. RTo, %ho had 70 thoroughly enjoyed the others and the evident eagerpess af the public. cyl. denced by Saturd iy's attendance. jusuned Mir. Ellery in assenting to the arrange msn' fien to ~ see wai the i%%sns. crowd which gathered on Sunday afternoon at the
 x mumSs.- % of. the choicest sslessicns which had been rendered In previous Der. that order of greatness which constltutes sacredness. The thundrous, -gpdlike rer- dering of wasner.s vaikyrtes was again reproduced in sound. and through the sounded the irrssistibls spiritual music of
 The audience was moved aud rapt by Creatores extraordinary moulding or the music: he would literally beckon the ence, press it, back into the exact modu- lation necessary, sometimes hardly above . breath. although all the music thers was in the instrument seemed behind it. out rsr distant sh sGSno ,%fs Dd ff1I snd swifter motions of his baton. draw the whole band up to climax. till. with 2 fling forward of his whole body. as well as his arms, he would stop the burst of extraordinary ana startling feat as stopping dead charge of Cavalry at full
 Musicians wno have heard Wagner S:ysa ser G ss sss sa 1er ess sss Ss na interpretation than this band. under Gre atore's leadership gives to it..
 The audience was awed into absolute by its extraordinary performance on Sun day. It seemed, even more perfect than on the preceding day.
 Musicians noted with wonder the cissrness and steadine.s with which the 
 pilgrims march. emblem of purity and good. though the witching. sensual, dew ilish music of the Venus themes which rose , higher ,s and srrnwsr,ns higher; nood'ng, save that insistent threat which in its turn rose and rose. beating back the other, pressing forward. conquerinE, one rnatchless burst 1t breaks forth trt- umphant. over the fiendish tumult, which sobs away into the silence of, the yan-- quished. Listeners seem absolutely nffed into the awe and wonder of heavens ex-
 To the regret of the audience Madame Bareln's clear. sweet soprano was not heard as she had taken cold: but the beautiful sextet from Lucia, repeated by request on Saturday, filled her place very aeceptably. and the players fairly outdid themselves In delicacy. power and finish of execution.
 Not she least interesting event of the afterpoon was the performance of Mir March," Creatote was so delighted with 1t that he insisted on making 1t part of the afternoon's program. although al the cost of two and a half hours he- hearsal in the morning.
 The performance of this rare compost ton may become historic, for musiciaps in Europe, New York and Boston predict a famous career both for the march an1 itS composer. MOHlBuulSTt 10 hVi tunate to have heard 1t rendered for the first time in orchestra form. and by such matchless musicians. who interpreted 1t with intimate comprehension of It's beau ties and possibilities.
 The march Is very original, in parts quite Wagnerian, and. intensely moving. The sense of loss and lamentation in US minor harmonies Is touching in the ex- treme. while there Is classic restraint and resignation in, its form. Perhaps even greater than this is the subtle expression of triumph to which 1t rises gradually, as though Shelley's, immortal song, begin ming He hath outsoured the shadows of our night" reaching through the ia- mentation for the dead Adonais. were given musical expression--an expression indeed denied to words. for as Sidney Lanier has put 1t ''Musie begins where words leave on" Then after rising to the spiritual height 1t returns sighingiy to earth. and the desolation left by the departure of some great or greatly be- and speechless sorrow on the dear form as left to repose in its auaiet resting place.
 For a moment after the termination the:e was the silence of deep apprecia- ton, and then repeated applause. re- newed again and again. both for per formers and composer. There were loud cries of "EileRberg. Eilenberg." and new bursts of clapping. Although Mir. Ellen berg modestly refused to appear on the pIa atform, he was evidently gratined by inc reception accorded to his beautiful competition by the people of Montgom- cry