The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-15
WAS A WONDERFUL CONCERT.
Wichitans Now Have Kindlier Feeling
for Classical Music.


The Theodore Thomas Chicago orchestra
was greeted by the largest house of this
season $ tour at the Toler Auditorium last
night. and there was not a more enthu-
siastic crowd than listened to the Won
derful music produced by this wonderful
organization The Toler Auditorium is a
pretty large affair. and a good many
hundred people find seats in it, and the
vacant seats last night were like the pro-
verbal hens teeth.
There were people from nearly thirty
towns besides several hundred from
Wichita in the audience, and there was
not person in the audience who can say
they did not enjoy themselves and the
music. There has never been anything
like il in Wichita and with many il will
be a long time before they hear it again.
IT was a concert par excellence, music
by the best masters interpreted by the
finest symphony orchestra in the whole
wide world. 1t was considered by all to
be musical treat; it was far more than
that, ii was an opportunity The Thomas
orchestra comes around but seldom.
Many people cannot go to Chicago to hear
came long distances to listen and to be
thrilled.
The emotions find it's best expression in
music. every shading. however delicate.
can be produced more accurately in music
than by any other means. The song is
far more expressive than a conversation;
it means more. it is not so abrupt. and to
those who know and feel what is given
them through music. that produced last
night was revelation.
The Theodore Thomas orchestra exer-
cises a wonderful influence over its audi
ence. Their music is so smoothe. the in
terpretations so pronounced. that those
who even have no cultivated ear for music
could not fail TO understand what the
composer was telling, what his feelings
were as he wrote the score. During the
numbers the audience last night gave
their undivided attention. The beauty and
purity of the songs as produced held the
people spell-bound. During many of the
passages, had the orchestra stopped sud
denly, a pin dropped could be heard
throughout the house, so quiet were the
people. Everyone was intent on catching
every note and expression. During the
eethoven and Wagner selections espe-
cially was this noticeable The latter
was taken from a grand opera. and as
each of the different themes was begun
the audience followed more closely. and
so intense was the feeling at the close Of
each that il seemed a relief from the
strain when the orchestra began on an
other theme. There could not he an aud
fence that gave more undivided attention
than the one last night. They were
present 70 hear expressed the most deli
cate and grandest OF human emotions ex-
pressed as only men who are possessed
OF the fine senSiblities can express IT. and
the audience was satisfied One instru-
ment IN the hands Of a master can hold
the audience cnthrailed as runo Steindel
did. but no instrument has vet been de-
Niscd that can sway the feelings as a
symphony orchestra can. and 20 instru-
ment can give expression TO the in
spiTations u the men who departed this
life leaving as monument the best ef
forts Of their genius. as symphony
orchestra composed OF past masters in
the art
Did you ever hear such musicq" was
a common expression Of friends to neigh
hoTs as they passed out ~ the han. No
one dared say they Gid not enjoy the con-
cert Even the most urcvltfvsts,3 could
not say this. Those who went 10 The
concert with dislike for classical music
left the hall with a desire tor more. The
did not know there was 50 much heaut,-
60 much feeling in music a : the Thomas