The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-06
SOUSA IN Topeka
Band Plays at the Auditorium
Last Night.
As Usual Music Gives Best of
Satisfaction.
A REAL BRASS BAND.
Mere Attention Given to Regu.
lAti0n Band instruments.
Plays His Own Marches In Old
Way.

John Philip Sousa. dean of the
worlds corps of contemporary band
masters was at the Auditorium last
night with his band and with the same
SOusaisms which have helped to place
him at the fore. 1t was a good audi
ence, judging from the previous audi
ences which have greeted the band in
years gone by at the local theaters,
although the Auditorium was far from
crowded The audience must have
numbered about twelve hundred.
One man is gone from the Sousa
ranks and his absence is quite notice
able The absent one is Arthur Pryor.
the wonder OF all from bonists, who has
started q band of his own For years
he was the star of the SOusa aggrega-
ton and as he made his home in 81
Joseph and had played in his fathe RS
band there, he was acquainted with
musicians in Topeka Sousa is the
same as OF old His last Few seasons
playing before the crowned heads of
Europe, to use the circus and theat-
rical expression, has not changed him
a whit Sousa still wears the beard
that won't come of and his chest load
of medals. He still moves and directs
his band with those snappy, business
like movements and gestures which
distinguish him from lines the
dreamy, Sorrentino the artistic and
Creatore the erratic-
Comparing Sousa's band with those OF
Innes, Sorrentino and Creatore II might
be said that SOusa's is more OF the gem
uine brass band than any Of the others.
lines Instrumentation places mis- band
practically in the orchestral class. Sor-
Tentinos reed sectfOni is SO large that his
organization is not OF the regulation
brass band order Creatore's band has
plenty of the crash Of cymbaIs and the
Dlare of brass and for volume he sur
passes all when he plays such as Wag-
her q FraW Is
OF the military band and his programs
are arranged accordingly with few
selections of the Wagnerian class or
style and plenty Of marches and lighter
selections. From an artistic standpoint
an lines concert is superior to the con-
certs of all other bands enumerated
while from a popular standpoint with
the average concert goer who does not
understand such as The Ride of the
Nalkyries" SOusa's concert appeals the
most.
Sousa began his concert with the well
tried and tested overture William
TELL one of the selections by which all
bands OF the concert class shall be
Judged SOusa-s men played il well.
All Ihe great concert bands play il well, B.
ana as 10 which plays il the best is a
matter of taste and opinion. One IS apt
TO think that the last band to be heard
playing il did better than the bands
heard months previous. William Tell
is a selection that mas been played so
often that II appeals 10 the ear Of those
who know little about music from a
technical standpoint, SO the overture
Is always a safe number to begin on
It was when the encore for the first
number was played that the difference
between Sousa's band and the bands of
lines, SorrentinO, Creatore ct al was
up the stirring strains of The Stars
and Stripes Forever" the SOusa march
which was played during the Spanish
war. Three piccoIO players stepped to
notes of those instruments ''whistled''
the air shriller and louder than the
mighty volume of the band.
The SouSa marches played BY Sousa's
band make the one distinctive feature
or his concerts 1t has been for years.
and will be so long as Sousa leads, that
when his band plays a concert there
must be a liberal offering of the com
positions Of the march king and
whether they be new or old tneapplause
starts with the first strains of Ell Cap
score of others.
SOusa always has a new march.
This time ii was Jack Tar" TYPICAL
~ Sousaerish with the time accented
by the booms from the bass drum and
the crash of cymbaIs. Sousa has a
way OF 1mpressing his new tunes on
the minds of the audience. He sends
MS trumpeters, cornetists and from
Donlsts to the front. a Ia fanfare, to
point the bells of their horns directly
at the audience and to blow with ali
their might and blow an impression of /
the new march right into the musical :
bump OF every head-just like a blown (
In the bottle advertisement.
Sousa has inaugurated a system of /
announcing encore numbers that is
appreciated by the audience. When (
the encore starts a placard bearing the I
name OF the selection is held aloft on /
the stage and the audience knows .
what II Is listening to. When the band
played as an encore 'sBedelia'' ar !
ranged by Sousay the audience knew
from the placard what 1t was
Herbert l. Clark, the cornetist. now 4
takes the place of Pryor as sOIoist. 4
Clark is known as one of the foremost /
cOrnetists- The soprano soloist was
Estelle Liebling- While she has an ex- 4
cellent voice il is not of the power to I
be heard to the best advantage in q I
hall as large as the Auditorium. Jessie /
Straus. violinist, played in a simple /
manner which greatly pleased the I
audience.
The Sousa concert was under the
management of the CrawfOrds a fact
that was impressed upon the minds of
the audinece long before the concert
opened, for as usual the very limited \
edition OF programmes was exhausted I
before half the audience was supplied. /
The concert was announced TO be /
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