The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

| longer and more tiresome than any of
the week. They tried to explain it by
| saying: But they didn't play rag
time; there wasn't a piece of ragtirne
| on the programme. The fact is,
however, that the people of Topeka
are getting educated, unWittingly and
perhaps unwillingly, to better music
than the programme last night offered.
They tired of the medIeys of old folk
songs and ballades and national airs
with which the programme abounded
and although they clamored for rag
time, to excuse their ennui, if they had
been obliged to sit through twelve
numbers of coon songs they would
probably have gone stark raving mad.
In a few years more, with occasional
visits of the good bands and or
chestras, one will be able to find a lot
of people in this country who will have
discovered that it isn't particularly
smart to make fun of good music, who
won't be ashamed to own that they
like it, and who will be able to prove
their assertion by recognizing and ap-
preciating the merits of the classics.
However, there were some good num-
bers on the programme last highland
the Faust Fantasy of Gounod, the only
| classic" received about the warrnest
encore of the evening. Then there was
the Prince of Pilsen overture, which is
good popular music, and Wrights Vio-
let's and Ethelbert Nevin's Narcissus
and Victor Herbert's Pan-Americana.
All I1SIDSIl luuS1C Is ROOQ. 1t IS real
Iy classical, but it is popular in effect
and the people like it. Mrs. Partridge
the soprano, sang Balfe's Merry Zingara
and in encore Arditi's Love in Spring
Time. Mr.. Kryl, the cornetist played
Marriage Bells, a piece by O'Reardon
and two encores, Killarney and Nation
al, fantasy for cornet arranged by
himself. Two new pieces by Kansas
composers, America Our own an ar
rangement of America, and the march
I 4TalN tod
were given. The first is by w. L. Hofer
of Topeka, formerly with the musical
department of the State Agricultural
college at Manhattan, and the second
by man named Lieurance, a musical
amateur and a travelling salesman with
headquarters in Kansas
Ihe car on which Mr.. Innes went out
to the park last night was delayed and
in order to start the concert on time
Mr.. Bohimur KryI, the solo cornetist,
took the baton and conducted the band
IN the first number and encore. Mr.
hryi mas been conducting the afternoon
concerts for the past two days in order
10 give Mr.. lines, who has recently re-
covered from severe illness and is far
from strong. a chance to rest
Consequently the afternoon pro-
grammes have been changed good
DEAL The Greig Peer Gynt suite an
nounced for yesterday was omitted and
the numbers given were Liszt's Les Pre-
ludes, Herbert's Babes In ,royIand
Wagner's Rienzi overture and a Scotch
medley. The cornet solo by Mr.. Kryl
was Paganinfs Carnival of Venice and
his encore was the Sweetest Story Ever
Told.
There has been much inquiry, owing
to the tremendous success of the Innes
band concerts at VineWood park whether
the band would not hold over Sunday
mere and play at the nark on that day
This is an absolute impossibiIity and
no hopes need be built upon it The
oand must leave at the earliest moment
after it's Saturday night concert in order
to reach Cleveland, O., in time to open