The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-17
The BAND BEGINS TOPLAY
SOUSA, WITH HIS MUSICIANS, AGAIN
IN INDIANAPOLIS.
GOOd-Sized Audience Enjoys the Pro-
gramme at TOmIinsOn HalI-COncert
at the State Fair Grounds.

diana farmers at the state fair he is
when winning laurels before 'the crowned
heads of Europe as the correspondents
always put it. And, too, Mr.. Sousa is al
ways delightfully."- Indifferent TO surround
ings; it doesn't seem TO make one bit of
difference to him whether he and his musi-
clans playing in a big, crudely-built
grand stand in the open air or in the
most magnificent concert hall in all the
world. And he doesn't care how hard the
rain may fall, either-and it always does
rain, you know, when Sousa comes 10
town.
When the inclement weather sets in as
it invariably does the moment the cele-
brated bandmaster begins one of his out-of-
door musical entertainments in Indian
apolis, he just beckons his men in out of
the wet. sees to it that they are all safely
and comfortably situated in good dry
places, and takes up his programme where
he left off. swinging his arms as of old.
leading his players of brass through stormy
harmonies and his players of reeds through
delicate passages-and coaXing forth from
all the instruments combined inspiring
renditions of both classic and popular COM
positions The first concert of his present
local season was given yesterday afternoon
at the fair grounds and under weather
conditions that were exactly the same as
those of last year, when he presented his
initial programme. n band platform had
been prepared for him and his men in front
of the grand stand, but the rain began TO
fall the moment the concert opened The
musicians repaired TO the big covered pa
vilion with their instruments, and sur
rounded by a large crowd of state fair
visitors, gave a programme that was en-
Joyable from beginning to end.
The concert was one of variety and well
suited to the occasion. 1t began in most
dignitied manner with an overture by West
meyer, founded on Haydn's immortal hymn,
the work being given a grand interpreta-
one of the leading cornetistS of the band,
followed-a piece composed by Mr. Rogers
himself and called "A Soldiers Dream
This number was an excellent one and was
warmly applauded. The next band num-
Der was Bizet's suite, "L'Arlesienne." and
the four ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS minuetto,
adagietto and carillon-were given in a
mastery style that commanded the most
earnest attention. a new piece, Souvenir
de Yradier," by Morena, followed and from
then on the programme was given up to
the more popular class OF band music.
Sousa's own Songs of Grace and Glory"
and his stirring new march, Jack Tar"
were played for the first time in Indian
apolis and We're enthusiastically ap-
plauded that the conductor was obliged to
respond with some of the old favorites,
OF which he is the composer and by far the
A well-played trombone solo by Leon
Zimmerman, Strauss's ever beautiful Blue
Danube" waltz, an idyl by Myddleton
| called by the Suanee River" and an ar
rangement by Chambers of the good old
negro melodies of other days, completed
concert that was well worth tramping
| through the downpour to hear, and the big
audience made it's way out into the rain
| at the conclusion of the entertainment
more impressed than ever with the ex-
| cellence of SouSaS Band.
THE EVENING CONCERT
There was good-sized audience at Tom
| linson Hall to hear the evening concert of
| the great band but the crowd was not so
| large it would have been had the
weather been more favorable Mr. Sousa
| is notoriousy catholic in his musical taste
and the second programme of the day was
typical Sousa programme. There was a
| little of everything in it, the selections
ranging from magnificent overture of the
| highest class to the seemingly everlasting
| Hiawatha," which the bandmaster threw
| in as one of his encores after almost ex-
| hausting his supply of bright and breezy
| original marches.
| The overture alluded to-''Mysora' by
| Wettge-was the initial number on the even
| ingS menu of music, and it was splendidy
| performed. j. III. B. Moeremans, the star
| heard in his own arrangement of several
| American airs and proved to be an artist
/
| Looking Upward" made up of three move
/ ments of a widely different nature, and a
| composition which possesses remarkable
| Instrumentation, rendered in admirable
| fashion, and in answer to the loud demands
| for an encore number Sousa showed just
| how the popular syncopated band number,
THE Passing, of Rag Time" should be
| performed. This piece has been played in
| indianapolis all summer long by bands and
| orchestras, but to hear it in all its glory
You must hear it given by Sousa's band.
hn fyUn cts rhn
| travelling with Sousa this season met with
misfortune yesterday. The trunks con-
tanning their concert gowns were carried
| 1.-The miserable railroad company as one
of the ladies put it, and both Miss Estelle
| Iiebling, the soprano vocalist, and Miss
| Anna Often, the violinist, were obliged to
| appear before the audience last night in
| their street clothes. The fair musicians
| We're very much concerned over the matter
| and they succeeded in getting Mr.. Sousa
| himself TO make short explanation to the
| audience. Excuses were unnecessary, how
| ever, as both of the young women looked
| charming in their walking skirts and shirt
waists and probably performed just as well
| as If they had been garbed in their most
| elegant costumes Miss Lieblngs voice is
| particularly sweet in Its upper register, her
| highest notes being very much like the
notes of the bird Of which she was singing
in her solo, Thou Brilliant Bird from
| which required skilful execution and care
| full phrasing. Her second. number. not
| mentioned on the printed programme, was
| one of Mr.. Sousa's original songs-'Maid of
| the Meadow" and this too she gave a
praiseworthy rendition. Miss Otton ap-
peared late in the programme, playing
Saint-Saens' "Rondo Capriccioso." tre-
mendously difficult violin number and, as
| an encore little melody that was ex-
| quisite in its simplicity. The young vir-
| tuoso showed a fine technical equipment
| and much feeling in her work, and both of
| her numbers gave great pleasure.
The remaining band numbers on the pro-
| gramme were "Chris and the Wonderful
| Lamp" an arrangement of airs from
| Sousa's opera of that name, which had a
| successful run five years ago, Cigars inter-
| mezzo, '.Salut d Armour" the new Sousa
| march, Jack Tar" which scored a hit at
the afternoon concert, Massenet's theme,
| variations and carnival time" from his
| Scenes in Naples" and Ciordanos grand
scene and ensemble from Andrea Chenier.'
| all of these compositions being played as
| only Sousas Band could play them.
There will be two more Sousa concerts to-
| day-one at the fair grounds this after
| noon and the final one at Tomlinson Hall
tonight Very attractive programmes have
| been prepared and lovers of music should
| by all means be present at both of