The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-10-12
MARINE BANJO HEARD
BY LARGE AUDIENCE
THE PRIDE OF UNCLE SAM EN-
TERTAINS TWENTY-FIVE
HUNDRED PEOPLE.
Lieutenant Santelniann and His
Talented Musicians Render a
Magnificent Program
Short History Band.

Band, is now not only the pride of
the chief executive of the nation and
the people who reside at the nation
al capital, but when 1t returns to
Washington at the close of this
southern tour it will number it's
friends by the hundreds at every
town included on the itinerary This
great organization OF talented mu-
sicians came to Waxahachie Wed
nesday evening and entertained a
large audience at the Chautauqua
Park auditorium with a program
that can be described only in the SUI
perlative degree. Fully twenty-five
hundred people passed through the
park gates to hear the musical treat
which they knew was in store for
them. The auditorium was filled to
overlooking and hundreds of people
sat in the windows and remained In
their autos which We're drawn up In
a circle around the building The
| audience was the largest ever assem-
bled in the auditorium at a paid af-
| lair, except during the eneampmen.
of the Chautauqua assembly. There
| were visitors from practically every
town in the county, large crowd
coming from Ennis in automobiles
| Young men of the city acted as
ushers and the large audience was
| handled with perfect ease, and not
an accident occurred to mar the
pleasure of any one
This is the first long trip the
band has taken in sixteen years, and
in order to make this tour permits
| sion had to be secured from the
| president and secretary of the navy.
| Senator Culberson of Texas, Senator
| Taylor of Tennessee and other sena-
| tors secured this permission by
making a personal call upon the
president early in the summer f.
Lawrence Walker, formerly mana
ger for Chas. 3. tIantoid :, IS u alr' T.
ed as director of the toqr Having
many personal friends in Waxaha-
chic and feeling a kindly interest IN
the town Mr.. Walker wired propo
, | sition to send the band here for on
. concert. The Commercial Club too
hold of the matter and beiievin
that this would probably be the onl
:. chance in life time for the citizen
: of Waxahachie and Ellis county t
have an opportunity of hearing thi
great band they lost no time in clos
ing contract The success of the
venture is due in a large measure
to the faithful and untiring work OF
Secretary Connally of the CONNER
ciaI club in raising the necessary
guarantee and looking after all the
| arrangements for the concert.
| The band gave matinee concert
| at Cleburne and arrived in Waxaha-
| chic late in the afternoon on a spe-
cial train. Dressed In the regulation
| uniform of the Marine corps the mu-
| sicians presented a splendid en- semble
| view on the stage. From the first
| sweet note of the Rienzi overture
until the musicians stool at salute
and played the Star Spangled Ban
ner as a finale to the program the
large audience was delightfully."- en-
! tertained with appealing and en-
| trancing music Lieutenant Santei-
mann is leader whose work with
1
| the baton is entirely free from any
thing savoring of the spectacular
There was nothing of the blare or
| the ordinary brass band. Every mu-
stefan was surprisingly e!fted acd
the remarkable clearness of tone
they produced reached the hearts OF
all classes. Nothing showed the YER
| ~ than tho
encores, and these were given liber-
ally.
Arthur S. WHIT, )in3, rorne' sol)-
list, rendered that beautiful fantasia
lie Reve glamour" and "as thc-
ed to respond to an encore.
Several unique features were IN
troduced, among them one OF the en-
cores being Dear Old Days,
quaint old southern melody sung oy
the musicians.
| The program in full was as fol-
lows:
/. Overture. "Rienzi," Wagner
q Invitation to the Dance, Weber
Weingartner. Transcribed for Mill
tary band by VIM. H. Santeimann- !
3 Cornet Solo--Fantasia, lie
Reve glamour, Haydn-Mlilaru'
Mr.. Arthur S. Whitcomb.
A. Gar LIST valse. (op. 49, Durand'
(b) Caprice Hearts Message san
lehman.
, 5. Grand scenes from "Lohen7
grin" Wagner.
6. sextette from Lucia DonHet-
; H. Messrs. Whitcomb, Joergel SEN
! Clark, Sanford, Mcintyre and Frey
7. Hungarian Rhapsody No. y
List.
r 8. March "Semper Fidelis, Sou
/, sa. (Official march of the l, : Ma
rine Corpse
S "The Star Spangled Banner
t The Marine Band is an orsarlza-
. tion as unique as praiseworthy. Dat
o ing back TO 1898 for its origin, II
e now has men who. for thirty years