The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-16


with her comments She disturbed
everyone near her. but her knowledge.
or supposed knowledge, had to be aired.
She had been talking for some time
when woman sitting next to her said:
Are you Mrs. So-and-so. from En-
po1ia2"
NO am Mrs. NJ from Hutchin-
SON., replied the woman.
An elderly man was sitting near her.
He had been continuously disturbed
since the opening of the programme.
Where is Hutchinson. Mrs. M"
asked the elderly man.
Sir" said Mrs. NJ
i asked where Hutchinson is,'' said
the elderly man.
IT'S on the map said Mrs. M
Mrs. M kept on airing her knowl-
edge. When Nine Nordica came on the
stage she informed the people about her
mat she had heard Nordica eleven
Times times ana De Reszke several times
lhen. as an encore number. Duss men
PLAYED The Blue Danube" waltz
49,. rms orchestra under Mr.. Duss plays
The Danube very we'll" said Mrs
a., but 1t is not being played Is
well as 1 heard it played in Denver two
years ago when the author of the music
strauss, led his own orchestra while
playing it. OF course the composer of
the Danube Waltzes could conduct
them better than this man.
There was where Mrs NJ revealed
the limitations of her musical education
II II she had looked at the programme for
FESTIVAL she would have seen that
Johann Strauss wrote THE Danube
He died in June. 1899, and therefore was
not IN Denver two years ago. unless Dro.
duced there by a trance medium #
was Edouard Strauss another member
OF the family, who led the Strauss or
Gnestra, from Vienna. in Denver and il.
- opeka- Johann Strauss was in Boston
IN 1872 to act as conductor of the mn
s1clans in the Peace Jubilee, but he was
never in Denver.
J. S. Duss was talking Of tho sro,+
musical festival being held at Scran-
ton, IA 1t lasts a week and Bach's
music prevails 1t is know as Bach
week Il is pronounced book" A
person standing by thought that was
nothing unusual. why. they have a
week of book IN Kansas Citv every
year" said the man who knew more
about beer than music.
A woman was looking over the pro
gramme of the Tuesday afternoon con-
cert She saw one number was
Funeral March of Marionette" by
/ Gounod why do they persist in pIav-
/ ing these sad pieces at concerts. . ex
claimed the woman. The music is al
ways heavy enough without having any
mournful numbers on the programme
The woman was in earnest. She didn't
know that this funeral march, was a
droll composition and belonged to a set
! of burleSque music and that a marion
cite is a puppet, made to perform by
pulling string.
Kansas scored. pretty well in the re-
cent festival. J. s. Duss formerly
worked at the reform school and owned
and operated a ranch at Burr Oak
which he still owns. Mabelle Crawford
is formerly of Topeka young woman
and Manager Vessels. of the Thomas
orchestra, lived in Topeka some 20
years ago. Glenn Hall, the tenor who
sang with the Thomas orchestra, is
native son of Kansas He was born at
aGrden City and lived there until he
was six years old.
There was a surprise at the Duss con
cert. The cymba1s had not crashed un-
til the prelude to "Lohengrin" was
played Then came a clash of brass
1 People looked from whence it came and
there sat the cymbal player, his head
erect the cymbals poised in air and
his hair as red as a spring neclztie- Mr..
Cymbal Player looked like a red poppy
/ just bursting into bloom. His hair was
cut pompadour, at that. Great style
/ for q musician.
On the tour of the Metropolitan or
chestra Duss bears the same relation
to the enterprise as Jones does to the
scales; Duss, he pays the freight and
doesn't care for expense. Where are
you stopping, on the train or at the
4 hotel2' was asked Of Duss as he sat
/ in his private car. "Oh, both places.
he replied Mighty few travelling band
masters afford a private car and also
a hotel
Leopold Kramer, the bald headed lit
tie concert master of the Thomas or
/ chestra was very finicky- At the Tues
I day night concert he demanded that the
only window in the building, which was
open, be closed. The window was not
within 100 feet of Kramer. He cOuldn
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he had tried but he said that open win
dow would affect his violin strings and
cause them to break. The window had
to be closed before Kramer would pro-
ceed. Then came Nahan FranlSo, con-
cert master of the Metropolitan opera
house orchestra. He was told of kra-
mer's ideas about the window. open
them all If YOU want to-. remarked
+ Franko with a chuckle Break the
strings2 Let them break we'll go right
on" He haW haWed at the hnlcky
ideas of Kramer. Sure enough while
/ the Metropolitan opera house orchestra
was playing THE Danube" the E.
string on his violin snapped. FrankO
had another in his pocket He had It on
/ in minute and went right on playing
/ as if nothing had happened. Kramer
would have had to stop the concert If
the accident had happened to him.
Duss complimented the Auditorium
1T is one of the finest buildings for
concert that / have ever been in said
Duss. 1T is far superior to Convention
hall in Kansas City. 1t is grand"
Max Hirsch. treasurer of the orches-
/ ira on tour and the man who occupies
the same capacity at the Metropolitan
Grand opera house. New York, has is
sued a set of rules for the box Office, as
follows:
J. You must be a mind reader.
3 You must always be polite but
not familiar.
g. Never assert your rights.