Arizona republican., 1918-03-04
GERMAN MUSIC
 WAS NUT PLAYED
 BY INDIAN BAND

If the kaiser had strolled across the Indian school grounds yesterday after noon he would have had to reckon with Bandmaster P. A. venne. for Venne was in a peck of trouble and admitted it. Himself three-fourths French and one-fourth American h. dian, he is nothing if not all American, and he had been censured, not to say criticized, earlier in the day for per- mitting the names and compositions of certain German composers to have place on the Sunday afternoon open air concert program of the Indian School band
 The Republican was in some measure responsible for the discomforture of the doughty little bandmaster, for it printed the program in full yesterday morning. Hardly had Venne finished his breakfast and started out upon the grounds humming the national antehm, when he received a call from super intendent Brown of the Indian Schol.
 Just had a telephone call" said the superintendent, 'and Dr. Broadway ob- jects to the selections by German com posers appearing on your program for this afternoon. Say it's quite un- American. Better make little change, hadn't you?"
 "Mebbe so,' said Venne, "but really, MT. Brown, the music of Schubert and Wagner and Strauss is pretty good, even if these composers were Ger mans, and even so, they died long be- l fore Kaiser Bill ever thought of invad- | ing Belgium, bombarding the coast of Kent. or submarining American and other countries shipping"
 Ten minutes later Vennp again was | summoned. He received further in l formation as to some telephone calls. 1 "Yes, I know" said Venne, "and I'm | just now going over that program, and when l get through with it, it will be so far removed from the taint of the imperialistic government it will hardly be recognizable"
 So, although the Indian school print shop had turned out neat programs 1 the day before for the use of the hun dreds of visitors from Phoenix who at- tend these Sunday afternoon concerts at the Indian school grounds, Venne
 called the Indian printers into con-
 sultation. He showed them the pro-
 gram as it appeared in The Republican yesterday morning. That program was
 March-"Militaire No. 1..... Schubert N"Poet and Peasant" Overture. .Suppt
 Memories" song for cornet. ........
 ................... Van Alstyn'
 Waltz--"Blue Danube. "........ Strauss t"Traumerei' ............... Schumal
 Selection from "Tannhauser"
 ............ ......... ....' " asne "The Dragons Eye. Ga, , "The Star Spangled Banner" Now that must be changed ant
 new programs printed at once." A noon the presses were running again something unusual for Sunday at tn
 Indian school. When the job was don the program came out as follows: March-"El Capitan". ........... Sous
 Poet and Peasant Supp : Memories for cornet. , ! van AlStyn Waltz-"From Il Trovatore". .Verd Celebrated Minuet" .Paderewsk Gems of Stephen Foster" ..... .Tobar
 ''The Dragons Eye. Ga : "The Star Spangled Banner" And that is the program the visitor to the Indian school listened to yester ) day afternoon. There was nothing il l "El Capitan" or Gems of Stephen Eos
 ter that smacked of the kaiser or tn
 German government, and everybod , was pleased and encored every mum
 Der.