The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-16


Bologna, Florence, Rome, Genoa. Milan.
St Gottard, Lucerne. Zurich, Stuttgart.
Heidelberg, Wiesbaden. Mainz, Cologne.
Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam and Lon
| don."
Acquisition to tie Musical Contingent
Q. L. Rominger, one of the best
Known and most accomplished tympan-
| lists in this country. has recently taken
up his residence in Birmingham, He
was formerly with Hermann Bellstedt's s
| band at Colorado Springs. About two
seasons ago he was a member of Mr..
SHOWS orchestra employed at one of
| the Birmingham theatres
| "Birmin CHAM has made great strides
since I last saw it," said Mr.. Rom
niger II have now been here two or
| three weeks and I can see that the city
is growing at very rapid rate
| Musical conditions are improving in
all the large cities There is unques-
tionably an increasing demand for
high class music. l have played in
grand opera orohestras and in num-
Der of large concert bands under able
conductors and I am glad to find here
| in Birmingham a conductor who will
| hold his own with any of them | re-
fer to Mr. Memoli. I attended one of
his rehearsals recently. He has a fine
band. There are conductors and con-
ductors but the leader who interprets
with authority and impresses his ideas
+! upon his men belongs strictly to the
| first rank. Mr.. Memoli easily fulfills
all the requirements. Those who attend
his concert have great treat in
| store"
Mr.. Rominger will manipulate the
tympani for Mr.. Memoli this afternoon
| when the new band makes its premier
appearance at the Jefferson theatre
The Parsfal music requires four
tympani, two of which are of special
size.
While all musicians know that a.
| kettle drummer must be not only skill
full but must have an accurate ear
for pitch and must be something of
musician the lay public has no idea
! perhaps, how exacting his work is. The
| Kettle drummer is rated as an artist
Menhelssohn himself played the kettle
| drum in a performance of one of his
works DIndy, one of the most dis
tinguished of contemporaneous conduc-
| tors and composer of high standing,
| Immediately after leaving the conser-
vatory accepted the position of kettle
drummer in the symphony orchestra at
Cologne and held that position six
years. In the endowed orchestras of
| this country all the players receive
large salaries but only few com
mand as much pay as the tympanist.
Worried by Officescckers
president Wilson has rule against
receiving officeseekers, but from all ac-
counts the department heads arg besieeed
with applicants and their friends" said
| Elliot G. Brown of Baltimore. Il was
\ in Washington few days ago and met
no less than 20 men, who informed me
| that they were applicants for federal po-
| sitions. The fact that there are fewer
places to be filed because of the extern
| ison of civil service rules make those who
are after jobs all the more persistent.
| "A clerk in one of the departments said
he had estimated that for every vacancy
which might occur the number would av-
erage about 30.
| II have never been an applicant for an
orice-of any sort, but some years ago |
was mixed up with politicians and OBJ
served the zeal with which party workers
attacked the pie counter. The filling of
offices will go on very slowly, am told.
and I suppose that majority Of the
out of funds within the next few weeks
and go home"
| BlIly sundays Columbus Campairn.
"The Literary Digest devotes nearly
two pages to Billy Sundays Greatest
Campaign which was recently brought
to a close in Columbus, o." said a law
man. "The noted evangelist conducted a
seven weeks revival The Columbus IA
pers refer to it not only as Mr.. Sundays
most successful campaign, but as the
greatest demonstration of its kind of
modern times.
1.-THE number of conversions reported
,totalled 1S.149. About sls,6oo was raised
evangelist. The State Journal, in descrih-
| ing the campaign the morning after it
closed said, among other things: For
more than seven weeks hundreds of busi-
ness men had neglected their private ar
! fairs. for an equal period social engage
,,,cnts were disregarded or sdetrackcd
far that length of time 60 churches had
1 c1oscd their doors, their pastors had de-
voted the bulk OF their time to advancing
the work or the campaign, and during all
1hose days Rev. Billy Sunday-the base
j