The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-20
They ALL SANG.
Innes Audience Joins in s'Star
Spangled Banner
Largest and Most Enthusiastic
Crowd Of Week.
BAND WAS GENEROUS.
Encores Given After All But
One Number.
This Will Be "Ragtime" Night
at VinewOod.
BAND WAS GENEROUS.

Hundreds Of people Joined in the
chorus which sang the Star Spangled
Banner to the Innes' band accompani-
ment at Vinewood park last night. The
national air furnishes the last move
ment of the lines Dixie patrol and
I when the band started on its familiar
strains 'aiI the people in the audience
to their feet and were soon joining their
voices to the music of the band. A
number of well known Topeka vocalists
occupied seats well to the front of the
reserved seat section and these, Mrs.
George w. ParKnurst, Mrs. Frank J.
Thomas, Mr.. HaTryrPribble and others,
led the chorus of four or five hundred
voices which reflected by the sounding
shell, filled the entire park with melo-
dy. Mr.. Innes standing in front of his
band on the platform entered with en-
thuSiasm into the patriotic spirit which
his musicians had inspired and turning
half way on the podium directed band
and people at the same time.
1t was the most enthusiastic as it was
the largest audience of Innes' band
week at the park The few people who
staid in town and missed the concert
were surprised to hear this morning that
it had rained at Vinewood for there was
no rain in town. The shower, preceded
by lightning, thunder and threatening
clouds, came at about nine o'clock when
the band was just starting on the last
movement of the Faust Fantasy of
Gounod. the fifth number on the pro-
gramme. Some of the audience left
and sought shelter on the veranda of the
cafe nearby and the other park build
ings, but a good part raised their UNI
brellas and remained in their seats.
The rain never phased Mr.. Times and
his men. They went right along with
the programme, finishing the Faust
fantasy and, as the people were still
scurrying for shelter, interpolating 20
Dear What Can the Matter Be-" until
quiet was restored and the Lohengrin
Vorspiel could be given.
The programme was the best yet
given, from all standpoints. The music
was all good but it was also all faInil-
lar and therefore popular. Opening
with the Wilhelm Tell overture it was
played through without change as an
nounced, except in the case of Mrs.
Partridges solo which was the aria
from Gounod's Queen of Sheba instead
of Weber's Ocean, Thou Mighty Mon
ster. The soprano was in excellent
voice and was heard to the best advan-
tage in this exquisite number. In encore
she sang the Last Rose of Summer
much to the delight of an audience
with which she has become, in her
| short engagement here, a marked favor
lite.
The other numbers were verdi's La
Traviate prelude, and the Toreador
song from Carmen, Thomas Mignon
overture, with clarionet solo by Mr..
Sarli, the Faust Fantasy, the Lohen-
grin prelude and scenes from II Tro-
vatore, which furnished a splendid
| finale to an uncommoniy good pro-
| gramme. In the latter the soprano
aria D'Amor Sull' Ali Rosee was sung
| by Mrs. Partridge and the Miserere
was played by Mr.. Bohimur kryl, cor
netist, and Mr.. Cady, baritone. The
anvil chorus, in costume, was a pleas
| ing novelty. The lights gave some
| trouble throughout the Trovatore
number so that Mrs. Partridge and the
band had to finish her aria and accom-
panfrnent in total darkness but they
managed it perfectly.
the rain before the II Trovatore scenes,
that this number will be repeated Sat
urday night.
| The encores last night, and one was
| demanded after each number except
| the last, were Prince Charming, West
erhout's Ronde d'Amour. Mendels-
sohn's Spring Song, o Dear What Can
| the Matter Be, the Innes Patrol and
Strauss Pizzicatti Polka.
| This Is Ragtime Night.
| Clear skies and sRagtime Night
will conspire tonight to take an inn
rnense tfrong to the Innes concert al
VineWood park. Preparations have
| been made by the Topeka Railway
company to handle the largest crowd
| of the week.
/ 1--WE shall send trains after one an
other just as fast as it is possible to dc