The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-09-16
BAND AND ORCHESTRA
M. S. p.
By Monsieur Rue.


antry, scorn the phillologer, who
delights to dabble, with aesthesia,
into the traits of philharmonic.
But to the retrospective, or man Of
conscientious integrity, who, with
his collected equanimity, hears not
the obstreperous cynic with his me-
grin gable. 1t has been the writ
ers intent for quite an aeon to laud
the magnanimous efforts of the M.S.P
| Band and Orchestral achievements
who under the able direction of
| Professor Albert Schmidt, are
rapidly falling into alignment with
other musical combinations, who
dwell copiously in the environs.
Sempiternal practice prognosticates
astounding revelations, tentative
measures of harmony lure the meta
physician into maze of seemingly
hopeless bewilderment. which is
apparently heseditable, 80 to speak.
The evolution of music has caused
quite a furore among the people of
to day, but little or no improve
ment has been observed. 1t is OBJ
vious that such knights as the an
cient geniuses Verdi, Paganinni,
Mendelssohn etc with their euphon-
ical renditions, have proven an i'm
possible, or invulnerable barrier, to
the most machivelian aspirant of
modernized productions.
Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Arthur
Sullivan, two of the most famous
composers of England, have pro-
juced unlimited classics but their
bizarric has been abortive. Our
| predecessors have fundamentally
attributed such fructiferous praxis
that modernized aspirants have fail
ed to emulate.-Auctor pretiosa
facit, so runs the Latin aphorism,
and it is to the above prediction that
we should strickly adhere tot is
| the progressive features of the
| M.S.P. Band and Orchestra, who
have attrah ented by their improved
norma regime, remarkable series
of classics, which has emboldened
the chronic hypochondriac of the
institution into a state of blissful
ecstasy.
The Band which is composed of
80 musicians, headed, by a real
Drum Major who is a venerable box
of legerdemain, sounds very SYM
phonious every Saturday afternoon.
The Orchestra which is composed
of eighteen talented musicians is
| equiponderated to nicely. The
| following epitome will enable some
| of our readers to become more ia
miliarized with the musicians. Be-
ginning from the left there are
| two bass fddles. Herr g. who so
skillfully manipulates one is we'll
known throughout the institution.
He is not only first class musician
| but a genial Alcinous, the king of
Phaeacia. who entertained judicious-
| ly at all times. His partner. who is
known by the nom de plume of
Aeqno Amino is practically speak
ing neophyte, with the fiddle, but
he has made rapid progress of late,
and with the assistance of Alcinous,
his partner, he will individually be-
come an expert. Violi ncello Mr.L.
seemingly runs the whole gauntlet
of the finger board with remark
able velocity. 1t would not be
surprising if the inmates were treat
ed with Van Biene's famous Broken
Melody one of these days. Mr.. l..
is our official moving picture opera
tor and he is the keynote to exact
tiude to same. Viola Mr.. F is known
to the readers of The Mirror as
| Otto Mobile" Mr.. f is not only a
first class performer on the Viola
but is musical composer, one of
his compositions was played quite
recentely, he also has to his credit
an invention which has helped to
place the Minnesota Binder the best