The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-04-07
NNEAPOl
ORCHESTRA
STARTS OUT ON A NINE WEEKS
TOUR.
DATE IS MAY RI
GREAT ORCHESTRA Is TO GIVE
TWO CONCERTS HERE.

The Minneapolis Journal of Sunday
stated that the Minneapolis Symphony
orchestra left that day for a nine
weeks tour, during which it will visit
twelve states and Canada. They will
appear in Brookings May q for after
noon and evening concerts, and VIII
visit five towns in this state. They
are Vermillion, Yankton, Mitchell, Alb
erdeen and Bookings.
Organized eve years ago, under
the leadership of Emil Oberhoffer the
career of this orchestra has been one
sonnet and ability. 1t has now reach
ed an invulnerable position among the
great orchestras of the country. Early
in it's existence the liberal supporters
of the Minneapolis Symphony orches-
ira recognized the soundness of Mr..
O~berhoffer's principle that a good or
chestra cannot be made from eight or
ten capable musicians, sprinkled
among fifty or sixty players of med.
OGRE attainments. Realizing that a
perfect whole can be made only of
perfect parts, Mr.. Oberhoffer has EN-
ployed only talented and intelligent
musicians for his orchestra, drawing
them from nearly every well known
orchestra in Europe and America, and
TT is this liberal policy, combined with
of the conductor, that has placed the
Minneapolis orchestra at the head of
western musical organizations. With
such a foundation to work upon, and
with Mr.. O~berhoffer's exceptional and
apparently ,ntuitive talent for attrac-
tive program construction, it is little
wonder that Minneapolis is blessed
musically as few cities in this coun-
try are, or that her citizens appre.
ciate this blessing to the extent of
gladly subscribing an annual guar.
anty fund of fifty thousand dollars for
maintenance of the orchestra, and OF
crowd ng the big Auditorium, with its
seating capacity of nearly three thou.
sand persons at every concert.
During the season a symphony con-
cert is given every two weeks on Fri.
day evening, and at each evening con.
cert a solOist of worldwide reputation
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every Sunday afternoon at which ex-
%cellent soloists appear, and the wide
and sustained interest that the general
public has taken in these lighter pro,
grams has been as remarkable as
gratifying.
Emil O~berhoffer, conductor of the
Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, is
an exceedingly interesting, and in
many ways a unique figure, in the
broad and attractive musical field of
this country. He was born near Mu-
mich, Bavaria, his father being a we'll
known musical director. He conduct
ed orchestral concerts early in life
and had two years experience as con
ductOr of opera, besides which his
early training included experience as
an orchestral player. He became a
PRESIDENT of Minneapolis about fourteen
years ago, and at once, by virtue Of
his forceful talents and intelligence,
took a prom. nent place among the
musicians of the city. A leader of
the Apollo club and the Philharmonic
club his rare endowments as a direc-
tor We're recognized and when he took
the conductors desk of the new SYM
phony orchestra 1t was realized that
he was not only a musical director of
unusual qualifications, but that he pos
sessed. in rare combination, the other
characteristics necessary to- build up
so complicated and delicate a mechan-
ism as that of a great orchestra, and to
create public interest, confidence and
enthusiasm. These Mr.. Oberhoffer
estabA shed by unexcelled energy, per-
sistence and determination. His re-
cord of artistic industry is unblemish-
ed by sensationalism, though the re-
suits he has attained have been IN
a way sensational.