The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
soUsA'S BAND.

''SOusa has done more to cultivate a
taste for good music among the people
than any other single individual in Amer
ica." was the statement made by some
one at the tabernacle last night at the
close of the SOusa concert. The remark
was heard by several persons and While
they all looked thoughtful, no one seemed
TO care TO dispute II. Certain II is tIat
the March King was greeted BY a great
crowd last night and smaller but most
enthusiastic audience at the AFTERNOON
concert The afternoon attendance was -
not so great as that last night, but II
takes a sizable audience 20 look at al
crowded in the great tabernacle.
IL is worth noting that while both au-
diences were most enthusiastic over the
more classical selections rendered by the
soloists, yet il was the marches that nave
made Sousa famous which received tiie
most applause, and the audience dld not
seem to get even mildly excited until the
great band PLAYED THE Stars and Stripes
Forever at the full strength OF its brass
lungs. SOlemnly marching from tner
chairs. the cornetists and the trombone
players lined up on the stage facing the
audience, and when the great strains or
that famous march rang out through the
room, the audience seemed TO get TO the
full what it really wants from John Phil
ip SOusa and his band.
Miss Florence Hardemann, the solo vio-
iinist probably scored the greatest IN
dividual success of the afternoon ana
evening concerts. She is reputed TO be the
can readily believe it. She played with
touch and skill that one seldom sees
equated among the feminine opponents or
the violin, and her most delicate strains
were heard in every section of the taber-
nacle. She was most cordially received
and was forced to respond to two en-
cores before the audience would permit
her to bow her farewell in her finished
manner.
One wonders why Mr.. Sousa chose Iris
tan und Isolde" for his afternoon Wag-
ner selection. A Wagner selection, OF
course, is inevitable, no concert is COM
plete without one, and no audience would
be satisfied if it did not hear at least one
Wagner choice, yet one is consumed with
wonder AT this particular selection. iris
tan und Isolde is perhaps the least mu-
steal of any of the Wagner operas, it is
least liked even by the Wagner devotees,
and the average human being who wants
the March King to play marches was
rather disappointed in it, The Wagner
expert in the first row of the balcony de-
elared. however. that Mr.. SOusa and his
band understand Wagner just as well as
they do 'Harrigan, That's Me-
Mr.. Sousa's friends are glad to note
that he has not changed his method of
directing. Many of his competitors have
seen fit to take course in calisthenics
in order to be equipped 10 divert their
audiences by their gyrations, and others
have used bottles of hair tonic TO grow
long hair, which they can shake at the
ocarina player at Intervals. Mr.. SOusa,
however, is the same dignified musician
as of yOre. He realizes that the people
want TO hear his band and they don't want
any vaudeville Mr.. Sousa's Salt Lake
engagement was a huge success. His vO-
calists, the Misses Hoyt, contributed ma
terially To il, although their voices seemed
lost in the vast fastness of the taberna-
Gle roof His cornet soIoist, Herbert L
Clarke, is as able as of old to coax sweet
tones from his brightly shining instru-
ment. 1t is doubtful If one can find Mr..
THmna ~haDw nawaHv
SOusa never has or he would employ
him.