Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

SS There is nothing so healthy,
nothing that tends so much to good
humor as listening amid green, leafy.
cool surroundings to the stirring strains of
a frst-cass brass band. community
which has much Of such music is i'm
mensely the better for 1t. 1t is a good in
vestment in morals as we'll as a pleasur-
able benefit. Think Of the hundreds and
hundreds of people who go to Hanscom
park and Riverview of a Sunday. Among
the crowds are very likely many who but
for the lure of the music might be else
where in places better left unpatronlzed.
Green's band is now delighting large
crowds at Hanscom park and Husters
provides good entertainment at Riverview.
At Rrug is the Royal Canadian band. A
small fee is charged at this resort, but 1t
is worth it. Over at Manawa Nordn's or
chestra is holding forth. Commencing Mon
day. the Royal Hawaiian band of Honolulu
will begin a weeks engagement at the
Auditorium. This organization heard In
Portland last summer and can vouch for
its attractiveness. The Portland people
couldn't get enough of their playing and
singing They have an individuality all
their own-a sort OF a dash and go. The
way those good-looking men sing our rag
time songs is worth the price of admission.
You had better hear It.
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The Auditorium management has ap-
, pointed a hustling committee to raise t4O, 900
to complete the building and pay of the
floating Indebtedness. Glory bel Now, If
they will enclose the stage, rear, sides and
overhead, so that sound will travel out in
stead Of drifting away into space, the place
will be perfect. Omaha is sorely in need Of
a good place for orchestral music Boyd's
theater is out of the question on account
OF theatrical dates, which have first claim.
1t wouldn't take much to remedy the acous-
tics at the Auditorium and make IL splen-
did house wherein TO listen TO the best Of
music expect to be hit with a brick
some dark night for harping on this sub
Ject, but IL Is one that have very much
at heart. If any feeble words of mine
can alter the i'll, they shall not go unwrlt-
ten. Now that the building is to be nm
ished beg that due attention be given the
musical end OF it-expert attention. Have
somebody come from somewhere who un-
derstands the art OF sound and fix what Is
wrong Last summer 1 was In the Nor
mon tabernacle in Salt Lake City. No
body has improved on Brigham Young
idea OF acoustics. What a wonderful ap-
ditorium that isl Seems to me II way back
in the SOS a place like that was built we
moderns ought to hit it exactly, too.
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Great interest Is being manifested in this
country over the coming tour of Saint
saens (and n the power that sets my copy
makes that name St. saens again I'm going
to ''yip'O He will make only twenty
appearances, principally with the large or
chestras of the country, so the opportuni-
ties for the mass OF music-lovers to hear
him will be very limited. The following
squib from the Courier gives a lucid idea
of the great Frenchman's place in musical
history:
Camille Saint-Saeus is one of the fore
most men Of music the world over. HIS
record makes his works classic, and he
enjoys the distinction OF being a classical
composer before his death. When Is a
II is dead, is the usual reply. But with
saint-Saens the niche is hlled with the
living figure, and America will therefore
be visited for a fourth time by a renowned
Saens following Richard Strauss, who was
preceded by Tschaikowsky and Dvorak.
The objects of Saint-Saens' visit Is sim
liar to that OF the other masters although
he has also the distinction Of being. be-
sides composer and conductor, also organisl
Samson and Delilah" at one OF the opera
houses under the direct supervision and
and we would then hear IL as il should be y
heard-whieh has never as yet happened
In our dearly beloved country.
John Morley has been having a little fur
at the expense OF our strenuous president
He recently returned TO England from a
visit here. Some one asked him 70 describe
Roosevelt. He replied that he was a cross
between 81. George and ST. vitus." Not
! so bad!
Nine. schumann-Heink sailed for Europe
last Saturday on the Philadelphia
Or. Carl Muck. the new leader OF the
Boston Symphony orchestra viii sail for
America on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
September S- At present DIT. Muck is in
Bayreuth. conducting ''ParsifaI" reheafsala
for the forthcoming festival.
! Miss Louise Ormsby is a Nebraska girl
who is forging ahead In the vocal art Her
musical education was obtained in Boston
and abroad. She was for four years with
/ Madame Marchesi. and was frequently
heard az her additions. Miss ormsby's first
work in this country Fas with the Boston
I Festival Orchestra. She toured with this