The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-02

| different handmasters who were really
artists. DO you remember how marked
We found the contrast the frst time We
heard an open air concert by French
military hand? I wish | knew the Titles
of the compositions played by that band
They reminded me of the wonderful
| conceptions uf the once noted Chevalier
! Antoine de- Kowsky. The band was a
larg. one, seventy men | think. but its
, tone seemed to I've all ia the middle The
/ top = "a bottom were lamentAbly weak.
, And II PLAYED almost without rhythm not
! quite. hut almost. never heard any
musicians play alt ogether without rhythm
! till this summer and then you and heard
/ an orchestra Of Swiss nondesoripts play
| the Beautiful ueDanube' az Gregorian
chant. don't know how they did H.,
hut the fact remains that they did. II
was a remarkable achievement and quite
overzhadowed the doings of the French
band that PLAYED on the Paauier At
silence cried has wife. Have we
not vowed that We would never tell Ameri-
cans the name Of that place.
For the present then silence. But I
think We shall tell some day. We can
never keep il to ourselves. But TN"
| Americans will never go there. ! shall
| show them reasons why they should not
/ Half the Americans who go TO Europe
think Arst Of the hotel and afterward
Of tho wonderful sights that are to he seen.
! I could say beautiful things about the
hotels az the temporarily nameless para
disc. hut these secrets shall he locked
in nv heart forever. Thus. thus do foil
the death dealing tourist
Meanwhile casually remarked the
wife. you have apparently quite for
gotten that you were on the eve Of launch
| ing some wise saying alb ut the military
band"
Yes. was about 20 say that ! nsver
| heard more embarrassing music than that
played nv the band az the nAmaless place.
| | have heard other French bands play,
and they too displayed "A marvellous
ingenuity in unearthinR music without
| pth or point But when you hear the
marching music Of the French troops
YOU hear something that has rational
basis In our country We employ com
hination 81 military band with FIFE. and
drum corps The Frenchmen stick to
their Acid music and they keep il busy
You must have noted that their marches
are a continuous playing Of the two forces.
drums and bugles and tho full military
band
Yes. noted that and found the effect
quite inapiriting
The music IL the march never stops
The drums and hugles play for few
minutes and then the military hand breaks
in on the frat beat ~ the measure and IL
plays for several minutes, when again
the hugles and drums take up the march
There IL no dull marking Of the tune toy a
single drum. nor any flourish of snare
drum and hass drum In usher in the
military hands music And all the
French marches ! have ever heard were
written In dual time. have never heard
any in ak eight time, which Is 80 com
mon in our country. In these four cor
nered French marches the big drum ham
mers out heavily the first beat II . cry
alternate bar AID keeps right on pounding
les- loudly the intervening beat. IL u
most interesting
And have you noticed asked the
wife. how fast they march IL seems
To me they go half aa fast again as our
men
I doubt whether they &c, over any
more ground in an hour. said the man.
-but can't say with certainty. But
am sure that the marching cadence -
considerably faster than our 100 steps to
IN. minute
i don't believe our soldiers march 100
steps a minute behind any military band
! Tn. hands IRE too fat
| Hello There spoke the voice ~ the
! lover II true sculpture But marry come
an. believe you are right Tactics pre-
srrib., the 100 steps and suppose thov are
taken IN the drill ground But behind =
| unior hand never IL would he too much
/ for the blowers IL brass The union
would not allow II. There would he
strike for higher rates II paw or n lower
| time schedule
-Ober. noch ainmai- murmuret the
wife anxious t. stay the approaching
I TEMPEST which the word union usually
/ caused. The arrival u the waiter with two
/ fnaminR beakerS u PilseneT s,Illed the
| storm and then the wife said
/ Did w. not once hear band on the
! Pincian'-
We surely did. hut il made such an
/ impression on we that I cannot recall
1 either the nature Of it, performance
or the character OF the music Nhich Il T-sT-
| formed II was a hand Of noble Romans,
/ | suppose. There may have be"n some
! peasants from the campagna in Il. but
while It played upon the Pincian It FOL
I lowed tho eagles Of Mario and blayed
" D. " u on it, standards The
PinCian always gave m" great JOY. Its
( little circle Of drive with the appa llngly
ari-'ocratic Roman sristocracy drifting
around and around ~ IA slow procession
with the cabs Of the tourists aud IN.
strangers brushing shoulders with the
aged vehicles Of a pampered nobility
and the gaping pleleians staring from tn.
walks sas'nei To me TO h. sort Of rpit-
ONE Of the wide. wide world looked
upon the pretty seen" aud thought %
Rooth Harrington : Mine Own People
I wondered n any inc Nperiencsd American
was wandering about chsrishins a vague
hope has he might butt into Roman 40
cirty | feared for him | wanted tn
se-k him out and lead him gently away
by the naps 81 his neck
Here We are again in Italy How IL
it, asked the wife. that whenever We
talk We always land in ltaly;'
who would not land in Italy, II has
been aptly said that modern Europe is in
o -.