The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-08
Ellery's Band to Fur
nish Music During
the Big Fall Week
NOW IN IRELAND
The Band is Now Playing an
Extended Engagement in
Ireland and Scotland

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Ireland and Scotland
When the corn palace season
opens Sept. 25 the visitors to the
great fall event will have the pleas
ure of listening to one of the great
est bands in the country, and one
that does not take second place to
any band that has ever visited Nit
chell's corn palace-and it is freely
acknowledged that Mitchell has had
the best bands in the country here.
The amusement committe had a
number OF applications from bands
all over the country desirous of play
ing the weeks engagement, and after
Sitting them out the committee final
/ ly decided upon securing Claiming
Ellery'ss magnificent band, and in
that selection it is believed that a
splendid choice has been made, one
that will meet with popular approval
after the FIRST concert that is played
by this band. 1t was the pleasure of
the writer to hear the band last sum-
mer in Chicago, where it played a
good portion of the summer season
at the Bismarck gardens, one of the
high class summer garden resorts of
that city. The band is under the di-
rection of Taddeo di Giralamo,
gentleman who is classic in the di-
rection of big band like Ellery's.
The music played by this organiza-
tion sounds different, with more OF
the harmonic characteristics than
any of the other bands. They will
play aN concerto or symphony with
the same degree of softness and
technique as an orchestra, and this
is an accomplishment that few
bands possess. The music is round,
full and smooth. powerful where re-
quired and of the daintiest charac-
ter in certain selections. 1t was the
most popular band playing in Chica-
go last summer, and it was up
against some fine organizations. The
band is comprised of fifty members
with two soloists, and carrying the
same membership as did the Marine
band when here. One of the pecu-
liarities of the band, if it can be
called such, is that there is not a
slide trombone in it, all of them be-
ing of the valve character. Mr.. Ell
lery said to the writer that he would
not have slide trombone in his
band for the reason that they we're
not true to tone, except in the hands
of the most finished artists in the
country, and these were too few.
Early in May the band started for
trip across the water, touching
briefly at Ireland and going direct
to Scotland for an engagement Of
eight weeks. Five weeks of that
time will be spent in playing at the
great exposition at Glasgow, and the
rest of the time will be devoted to
playing the greater cities of the
country. On the return of the band
from Scotland it will play five
weeks engagement at Seattle, and
Astoria, Oregon, finishing about
Sept. l.. The band will come to Nit
chell on it's back from the coast, and
the people of this city and of the
northwest will be assured of hearing
a band that will make one of the best |
records of the corn palace season.
In his letter to Secretary Ness
written May 21 while stopping on
the coast of Ireland, Mr.. Ellery tells
of his great desire to visit that
country, and it is such neat word
picture that the following quotation
is made from it:
The charm of Europe which I
have not seen for fifteen years years
has gripped me again in the twink
ling of an eye and longed, just now
to bid farewell to the band forever
dash ashore and lose myself in the
lovely Irish hills. Already we see
ruined castles rich in story, country
seats OF the landed gentry and the
picturesque novels of the peasants.
the many eolored fields. the hill-sides
spotted with the bright gold of the
gorse aad all of it illumined by great
blotches Of sunshine varied with the
shadows Of the summer clouds"
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