Arizona republican., 1921-08-07

struction of Director Venne. A. J.. Kisselburgh, baritone, rendered The Holy City," to accompaniment of the band at the last Thursday evening concert. and won hearty ans well merited applause. This body of mu- sicians are not otherwise employed during the evening like mosS other local instrum entalists, and have time to practice and stay with the good work so that we have hopes of a broad development that will soon give us band of which the city and the state may be proud. They have nice band stand, good location, ma- terial to work with and an experi- enced tutor. The intonation is not so good, but this is not wholly the fault of the players During the last few years the question of pitch" has been changed so frequently that absolute perfect tuning is impossible. The old minstrel and circus band high pitch" gave way some years ago to what was known as low pitch" or 435 A (vibrations per sec ond on middle A, and recently the leading band instrument makers, in- cluding Deagan. leading authority on pitch, raised the standard to 440 A, or five vibrations per second higher than 435 A, international pitch. This confusion has left lot of instruments on the market ofsvar- ious pitches, and it is impossible to bring them to unison on certain registers, and doubly so on account of the sensitiveness of musical in- struments to changes of temperature. A modern set of band instruments would make both playing and lis tening a joy in this band. Probably the city will loosen up and buy the needed instruments. Good enough to learn on" does not apply in musi- cal instruments any more than it blunt edged dull ax and tell him to learn how to fell trees before he gets nice sharp one.
 To promote music in a community all things pertaining to music must have careful thought. The attrac- tion is not the whole show. The audience has its part to perform, and one of the main reasons why musical progress is not advanced more rapid ly is because the audience does not conduct itself properly. The best musical attraction in the world will not retain its high standard and morale very long if it plays to emp ty seats and an indifferent audience While it is true that many audiences get "stung" on an attraction, yet on the average many artists get 'sstung'
 on their audiences. It must not be judged that the audience is the
 whole say-so. The travelling artist
 is an excellent judge of audiences
 and when they leave city that turns
 out an uncultured, indifferent and l otherwise unresponsive audience l their comment at the next stop or | their tour, and every other town oi
 their itinerary. is such that the ar ! tist can injure the town far more
 than the indifferent audience can in- 1 jure the artist. By this it must not
 be inferred that an audience must gc wild over a poor performance. Ap- | plause will, however, bring out the best there is in the performer. Jus l last week a local performer played 2 1 harmonica in a local movie house 1 His opening numbers were very ordi-
 nary. in fact poor in harmonies tc
 which the harmonica is naturally
 limited. Some were pleased and oth.
 CTS were merely amused at tht l nerve" of the thing. Generous ap. 1 plause followed, and then the per former felt at home. and he came ou l and played Turkey in the Straw
 and "Cacklin' Hen" in such man
 ner that brought down the house