The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
BIG Hi At
SAL. 7 LAKE
The Hawaiian Band Is
Given a Royal
Welcome.

Salt Lake City gave the Hawaiian
Band a royal welcome, including d
weeks engagement at saltair Beach pa
vilion on Great Salt Lake. An organ
recital was given for the band at the
big Mormon Tabernacle. An organ re-
citaI there is one of the attractions
Utah has to offer visitors. A letter re-
ceived here by a former Salt Laker
from gentleman who visited in Homo
lulu a couple of years ago explains how
the recital came about:
81 had the pleasure Tuesday, this
week, of meeting Captain Berger, and
of hearing his wonderful band play. /
introduced him to Mr.. Hansen, city
editor of the Deseret News (the Mormon
paper), and paved the way for him to
have the opportunity of playing on the
great Tabernacle organ. l also had a
very pleasant interview with Mr.. John
Ellis, but did not meet his brother. We
enjoyed the concert which was given
by the band members of the Glee Club,
intensely. 1t carried us back to Ha-
wall nei and made US again renew our
vows to some day return to those beau
itiful islands for longer visit than we
had before
The program of the organ recital is
in the form of souvenir brochure, the
back page showing picture of Homo
lulu harbor with ships dressed for
festival occasion, and captioned,
:" Home, Sweet Home-Honolulu Har
bor.'' The title page bore the follow
ing:
Special Organ Recital
Given by direction of President Joseph
F. Smith
And Counsellors, in Honor of the
Royal Hawaiian Band,
Tuesday, July 10, 1906, Tabernacle,
Salt Lake City,
J. J. Mcclellan, Tabernacle Organist.
Then follow several paragraphs, in
Hawaiian, of greeting to the band,
from the church. The inside cover con-
tanned the following program:
Prelude to Lohengrin Wagner
a. Nocturne E Flat Chopin
b. Adagio Merkel
c. Old Melody.
Mandolin SOLO Medley Fantasia
..........( Maori) Walter Smith
Walther's prize song (from ''Der
Meistersinger' .......... Wagner
Quartet. While I have You".
Geo. D. Piper, H. G. Whitney
FL. S. Ensign, J. D. Spencer.
Soprano solo-"O'My Father Gin
Hawaiian) Miss Emma Lucy Gates
March Triumphale.
The organ numbers will be rendered
by Mr.. Walter j. Poulton.
Goodwin s Weekly, of Salt Lake, |
makes the following comment:
The Royal Hawaiian Band, which has
been entertaining thousands of delight |
ed patrons of Saltair during the week, |
gained for itself fresh laurels on the |
Eth under the skillful guidance of |
leader Berger, and played into the
hearts of the vast crowds which gath
red daily to listen to the sweet music
# the Hbrown brothers, from the
beautiful island of the Pacific.
The singing of native songs by Miss
lei Lehua and John s Ellis, assisted
" the glee club, was applauded vigor-
usly, and even with the severely tax
ng acoustic properties of the great pa
ilion, the powerful voices of the solo
SITS could be easily heard throughout
very part Of the pavilion. Thousands
f people listened to the selections on
uly 4th, and at the close of the con-
ert danced away the remainder of the
cliday to the delightful strains of the
oyal band.
THE BAND AT SALTAIR.
The Salt Lake Tribune of July 1Oi !
escribes the bands success as fol- {
TVS:
The chief attraction of the Fourth at /
affair and one of the most POPULAR
,atures ever booked by the .Saltafr !
engagement, was the Royal Hawaiian
ana. The name of this musical COM
nation is somewhat misleading In {
cad of being royal the organization +
democratic. Instead of its members !
ling foreigners they are citizens of I
e United states and loyal subjects of q
e FEDERAL government. The. band be '
nss to the First regiment of the 7
atlonal Guard of Hawaii. The instru- s