Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-14
SOUSA'S BAND TO
GIVE CONCERT IN
AUGUSTA, SEPT. 20
Matinee Concert Scheduled in
City Hall-Band Will Include
IS Musicians, the Greatest
Number SOusa Ever Brought
to Maine Five Distin-
guiShed SOlOistS

The announcement that SouSa is
coming to Augusta will be greeted
with universal interest and enthusi-
asm. Arrangements have been made
/ for the appearance of teh famous
band in this city for a matinee con-
cert at City hall on Sept. 90, the same
date on which it appears in the eve
ming a. Lewiston. Arthur n. Pcttin-
gill, conductor of the Lewiston Bri-
gade Band, will be the local mana ger
for the concerts IN both cities, and has
completed arrangements here through
the office of City Treasurer W. S. Will
! son.
/ This year Mr.. louisa will bring the
! biggest band he has yet brought to
Maine. 1t has been augmented to So
instrumentalists, with the fun quota
! of soloists-the largest band TO travel
under the Sousa baton. 1t will be in
the best trim, and Augusta will have
the band after it has been playing it's
new seasons programs for two
months
From Los Angeles, Cal, to Lewis
ton. Me, Manager Asl1in has made his
bookings, taking in cities as far apart
as Montreal, Canada, and Havana,
Cuba; Mexico City and Portland Me.
| 1T is the most far-fiung tour in the
: history of any band for one season,
and is booked in response to an in
sistent demand forthe famous band
master and his organization" says
Mi, Askin. Next month it will fill it's
|
Park Philadelphia.
| The soloists with Sousa's Band this
season are Miss Marjorie Moody. So
prano. who achieved great success
with the Boston Opera Co. and lately
! III the different concert tours with
Sousa through New England and the
middle states; John Dolan. cornet yir-
tuoso; Ellis McDiarmid, flute soloist :;
! George j. Carey who has achieved
! more fame with his remarkable instru-
ment than any other man in America,
will be xylophone sotoist; and Miss
| Winifred Bambrick again will be harp
soloist this season.
Beginning Monday. July II, Sousa
! and his band inaugurated Wurlitzer's
New Hall with three days of rehea rsal
The new Wurlitzer auditorium will be
one of the most attractive and accous
ticaiiy perfect recital and concert halls
IN New York. During. these de luxe
rehearsals the famous bandmaste
and composer featured his new humor
esque The Love Nest" a collection
OF tunes most popular within the past
decade elaborated in a medley called
| Inc Fancy of the Town" his two
new marches "On the CAMPUS" and
Keeping Step with the Union" the
| latter dedicated to Mrs. Warren G.
harding, and vocal number by him
self called "Non-Committal Declara-
| tons" which were sung bv snecial
trio.
| Keeping Step with the Union" is
being played by the Lewiston bands
anothey pronounce it one Of the best
things Sousa has written in wears. If
it distinctly Sousaesque and recalls
stars and Stripes Forever" Hands
across the Sea- and other early ia
ivorites.
! 1t is great thing to hold the IN
abated enthusiasm and allegiance of
the public for over 80 years. but This
Is what Sousa has done The young
foiks today are as keen for a Sousa
concert as were their fathers and
mothers 20 years ago. when it was the
musical novelty of the day. And al
ways the band king has kept I'D to his
! standard set up in those early DAYS
both as to the music played and the
manner of playing. Surely Sousa NAV
De considered one Of our early educa-
tors in popular music taste