The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-23
WOVE LEIS
Of ROSES
Oregon Girls Gifts to
Hawaiian Band
Leaders.

The Portland Ore gonian of June :
gives poeticaI writeup of the first ap-
pearance of the Hawaiian Band in that
city. It is an appreciation of music,
or the naturalness of music as the
writer puts it. Six of the Oregon Jour
nal young ladies who visited Honolulu
last February were present at the open
ing concert and present ID Miss Lehua,
Captain Berger and John Ellis with
leis made Of Oregon beauty roses. The
Oregonian s writeup is as follows:
The kanakas, like Baltimore orioles,
concern themselves more with melody
than with technique. They sing and
they play music because it is their ma
ture to do so. The product appeals in
all its fundamental beauty to the poet,
the lover, the philosopher, and magnif-
Gently sweeps over and beyond the
head of cold analysis or special erudi-
ton. The technical jargon of the Pc
DANTE vocalist or instrumentalist is
brushed aside by the God-sent gift of
song and passionate dreaming that is
born only in the soul and can find
music alone for its expression.
A concert like that given by the
Royal Hawaiian Band and Glee Club
last evening at the Heilig Theater
brings out with strong emphasis the
truth that music is worth just what it
does to you-that it's Importance is its
effect upon you. It is the language of
the soul, and it is universal-open to
every human heart, existing for
everybody as long as life has sorrows,
as long as life has joys. 1t is not the
property of lettered few. Tt is a
message for all ears that are open.
In last night IS concert, Miss Lehua
took US to the isles of the Southern
seas, bore US on filaments of poesy and
mellifiuous cadence to the land where
that little kingdom basked in the sun
shine and flowers always bloomed. Her
soothing, grooming voice is the essence
of caress. What cares she about the
word "coloratura''? She could burn
you with kiss. Her song could lull
you into dreams without bothering you |
about how it is made.
The glee club, with their many gui-
tars and their sweet voices, launched |
and harmonies into that |
.heater that reached every normal be-
ing. The abundance of brass, the |
pitching back and forth of themes from
he horns to the reeds, the occasional
sound of the pipes of Pan, the flute
md piccolo embroidery at passages in
some of the numbers, the playing of
airs, the spirited rendering
If our National airs, the inspiring
'plendor and volume of the full band
n. triumphant fullness-all these re-
suits, as they impressed my mind and
sensitiveness throughout the length
md breadth of the concert, filed me
With a prayer of thanksgiving that
music is as it is, that / am constituted
80 that it moves me to thrills and to
ears and to ecstaey, and that every
me in the whole world can share such
Hiss if they will but listen.
"Nakiri' IS Wedding by Paul Linlse,
hat is, the overture of this new opera
'ouffe that has just made a hit in Der
in, was musical news of interest in
he program. The enthusiasm and
ize of the audience were a compIi-
nent to Mr.. Berger, the fine, temPera-
nental conductor of this characteristic
lily genuine band Of natural musicians.
hey play at the same theater tonight
nd give two concerts Saturday CATER
Don and evening" I would not miss
hem, and / know You viii enjoy them,
you attend. A. II. BALLARD.
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