Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-22
ISSUE PROGRAM
FOR BIC EVENT
Marine Band to be Musical
Treat of Year for This
Section

As II nears the time for the APP
pearance of the United States Ma
rine Band, which plays here next
Wednesday, afternoon and night,
and which has been designated as
Visit Perth Amboy Day, enthusiasm
runs high. More than 10000 visit
ors are expected from out OF the
city and special displays in the stores
and shops of the city will be an add
ed feature.
Almost every bill board of the
city declares to those who pass that
the presidents Own Band" Is to
be here on Wednesday. and these
big posters in many colors are also
being put UP in all the surrounding
country. Never has anything as
large as this event been attempted
heretofore and the Rotary and Lion
Clubs under whose auspices the az
fair is being held, hope to make 1t
a great event in the history OF n
city.
The big thirty-two page program
has been delivered by the printer
and will be distributed in time for
the concert. The program of the
selections to be played by the band
at both the afternoon and evening
concert is published today for the
first time. The programs for Doth
concerts consist of eight selections.
There will be many encores of pop
ular selections and marches. 1t Is =
concert that all will enjoy and re-
member for some time to come.
The programs follow:
Afternoon Program
Soloist: Principal Musician Robert
e. Clark.
Overture "Egmont', Ludwig van
Beethoven. The Egmont Overture
offers a combination of the worlds
greatest intellectual and emotional
genius. 1t is the expression of the
master poet, Goethe, interpreted. by
the master musician, Beethoven.
Goethe's tragedy still lives wildly in
this overture. Egmont' the Dutch
soldier, patriot, martyr, breathes his
soul into every measure of this I'M
dying composition.
Serenade-"Spring Morning"
Pierre Lacome
A creation revealing the charac-
t~eristic delicacy of the composer
who excels in the gracefully poetic
styles of melody.
Trombone Solo - Ecstasy of
Spring" ........ Robrt u. Clark
PRINCIPAL Musician Robert Il. Clark
An original composition Of great
popular charm by the soloist him
self. 1t shows in remarkable range
the technical side Of the instrument
of which he is the worlds greatest
exponent.
Grand Scenes from "Manon Les
caut" ,....... Giacomo Pucclnl
While Halevy. Balfe and Masse-
net have made the story OF woman's
hckleness so touchingly told by Abpe
Provost, the subject of marvellous
musical treatment, it remained for
Puccini to give 1t the melodlous
| setting that abides in modern IN
| terest. The opera was first per,
formed at Turin, 1898. Puccin'
| kept in close touch with the Amer
| ican theatre and visited this coun-
trv in 1907 when Manon Lescaut
was produced at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York. No
has studied American
taste in musical art more closely
and deferentially than Pucclnl'
I~NTERMISSION
"Marche Slav" ,
Peter Tschaikowsky
Tscbaikowsky who died in 81
Petersburg in 1898, leaving to the
world a priceless legacy OF art Is
tho embodiment of the Slavonic
snirit in music. The Marche SlaV
IL an intensified creation Of the ne"
| Russian school. 1t depicts the ma
tional temperament with a VIVID
ness which makes it a historic doc
nment. II il a tone drama and with
all its somberness, most popular
| Waltz--'The Beautiful Blue Dan
ube'' ,.,...... Johann Strauss
No waltz has sung Its way int
| heart of the world so completely
az ."rhe Blue Danube" 1t Is the
vary ssence of the Viennese mood
| blending gaiety with sentiment. II
ia this waltz which gave Strauss
the undisputed title of The wait
| King Of the World
"War Fanfare and Kings prayer
from "Lohengrin'
Richard Wagne'
Lohengrin was first performed
August IS, at Weimar under deer
tion of Liszt. 1t Is a typical exam
ple of the romantic phase OF RICE
ard Wagner's gifts as II musician
and a poet. 1t reflects in music tht
story of the Holy Grail. h emerald
chaiice of sanctified tradition from
| whose depth has flowed a wondrou'
wealth of reyerential inspiration.
"Entrance OF the Gods in wal
ha,la" from "The Rhinegold,'
Richard Wagner. 1.-The Rhinegold'
| is a composition particularly deal
! to the admirers Of Richard Wagner
! n is described as the fore evening