The San Francisco call., 1908-12-16
MUSICAL WAR TO
RAGE IN THE PARK
Theodore Vogt Seeks to Sup=
plant Brasses With Orches=
ira Of Fifty Pieces
" jealousy" ROars Cassassa,
and Promises TO Treat Pub
lie TO Augmented Band


SaR Francisco is to have a war of the
brasses and the strings. Musical battle
is to wage between the orchestra and
the b.tnd Theodore Vogt has advanced
his baton in hostile attitude against the
stick of Charles Cassassa-
The contest viii be fought in January
and decision VIII be rendered by the
thousands who gather of a Sunday to
hear the music in Golden Gate park
'Tis a question of parlous import that
is TO be decided by the arbitrament of
Sunday pops with the beginning of the
new year
Does the music loving public of San
Francisco prefer the fevered beat of
syncopation or the intricate harmony
of labored counterpoint?
Is the soul of the city attuned to the
vigorous overture from William Tell"
or to the mournful wall of Tschaikow-
skis Fifth Symphony? Does it beat
in unison with the Tilt of a Waldteufel
waltz or throb to the discords of tone
poem by Richard Strauss? Does it want
Mascagni or Beethoven, Won Suppe or
Schubert. Bizet or Debussy?
Sitting in his ivory tower, Theodore
NoSt. bohemian and musical theorist,
has come to the conclusion that San
Francisco has had an intolerable surfeit
IOpuldL iuuSlC WHICH Al6TlcS
Cassassa wheedles from the park band
stand every Sunday afternoon. vogt
has read the yearning of the crowd for
better things. Away with the clarionet,
the cornet. the trombone and the tuba,
Let Us have the violin. the cello, the
oboe and the English horn to ravish the
ears of the gayly dressed benchers.
WOULD EMULATE SCHEEL
To the Imagination of Theodore Vogt
there rises the triumph of Fritz Scheel
and his symphony orchestra, or DR..
Wolfe and his al fresco victories in the
Greek theater. These examples he has
adduced to the park commissioners and
with such success that they have prom
ised TO allow his experiment on Sun
day, January 10.
Vogts invasion OF the park with an
arsenal of stringed Instruments has
excited the Indignation of the park
band master. Charles Cassassa. His
finest irony plays about the proposition
of Nogt; his musical mind is tangled to
a discordant charge of jealousy; but.
best of all. his fighting blood is
aroused. Theodore Vogt will bring an
orchestra OF 80 pieces to the park on
January 10. viii he? Then Charles
Cassassa will bring an augmented
band Of so pieces on January II.
So January is TO bring two musical
treats to San Francisco and all who
will may enjoy the battle of the
brasses and the strings. With bated
breath the cognoscenti will strain
their ears while the English horn pipes
up with the oboe and demands a hear
ing with the fddles in the swell of
Schubert's exquisite unfinished sym
phony. The dilettanti will differentiate
the tenor tones of the ceIlos from the
soprano of the hddles in Thus Spake
Zarathustra."
On the Sunday following there will
be blood on Cassassa's stick when he
slashes the air to the strains of Poet
and Peasant or Wine, Woman and
Song" Twill be a struggle of har-
monies. with the discords carefully
tucked away in the angry brains of
Maestri Vogt and Cassassa. Some fu-
ture Burney OF Grove will write the
history of the epochal contest.
~JEALOUsY,- SAYS CASsASSA
While Vogt is gathering his orches-
ira and Cassassa is augmenting his
band the latter finds time TO breathe
his soul as follows:
so it has come at last. I long ex-
pected it. Professional jealousy, sim