Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-23
COLUMB|ASUMMER
C0NCERTSCR0WDED
WITH MUSIC LOVERS
Five Dollars Buys Reserved
Seat for Over 40
Programs.

where's your ticket?' asked the
gatekeeper at the summer concert gate
up Columbia campus way, relates the
New York Times.
Il haven't a ticket" blandly n
swered the uninitiated, but I'll pay
the admission"
You can't pay. You have to have a
ticket. Stand aside: you're blocking
the linet' And the harassed inspector
of badges of eligibility waved the un-
initiated aside against the high iron
barred fence. Here they stood-all of
them-hundreds of u~nfortunates who
had not been told or who did not I'M
derstand that they must write to OBJ
tain tickets for the summer concert
season 'On the Green"
The crowd around the outside of
"the Green wherein the wh%ite-uni-
formed musicians of the Goldman band
are tuning up their Instruments. bids
fair to outnumber the crowd inside the
gaily lighted enclosure. But the gate
men are obdurate. None go through
| without tickets. For once in this privi-
legged world MONEY is powerless.
These summer concerts at Columbia
university which are given three times
a week from June to September de-
pend. however. upon voluntary cOntrl-
buttons. Experience has proved to the
founders hat a more selectlve choice
is made by requesting those interested
to write for tickets. rather thar allow
ing the general public to drift in and
out at will. Five dollars entities the
contributor to one reserved seat for
| the season of forty-odd concerts and
an additional number of free season
| tickets for distribution. Programs are
| 10 cents. There is no intention of linn
iting the audience by not charging a
general admission fee at the gate. The
present system was inaugurated to
protect the holders of season tickets.
who are naturally entitled to first
choice of the rather limited number
Of seats. Warm evenings bring out
from ten to twenty thousand people.
From the top of the terrace-the
terrace back of the library building
one gets the best view of this outdoor
concert hall. Small lights blink out
among the heavy foliage of the great
trees. Five thousand hard wooden
seats. arranged in a~mpphitheater half
circle, fill up. Nearby flat dwellers
bring their gay blankets and gayer
cushions 10 sit upon. Many bring
camp stools. The younger crowd
boys in squashy caps and girls in varie-
gated sweaters-sit on the grass or
lounge against the iron ratings. Three
Japanese students drift by in staccato
conversation. two Spaniards. a young
Turk talking about his home in Con
stantinople.
%greenery. a large figure l is showed
into place on the musicians platform,
the conductor raises his slender IA
inch baton: out blare the horns in the
lyrical "Marche Lorraine by Louis
Came. The overture from Gluck's
"Iphigenie in Aulis' follows, and then
the enthusiastic listeners demand an
encore.
oh. that's his-Goldman's WI COM
position" volunteers a nearby student.
as a rollicking fox-trot tune sets the
youthful members of the audience TO
humming. The new composition fea-
tured the coquettish piccolo with its
comical pipings. This tickles every
one. A child jumped up and down and
squealed with delight. Her grand
mother smiled indulgentIy. There was
n general relaxing. People began to
move about. Another black number on
its white pasteboard background was
strains of the Pilgrims Chorus
brought its usual heavy applause and
closed the first half of the program.
Johann Sebastian Bach's Choral and
F'ugue" and the aria from Don Car
los sung by Frieda Klink. bring a
concert of this summer series to an
end; much too early, apparently, for
the 5000 or 1000 eager ones who
would not have done with applauding
the band and the %soloist.
At last the listeners began to slowly
gather up cushions and camp stools
and move away reluctantly under the
shadowy trees. An old man stamping
by. leaning heavily on his wooden cane,
said shrilly:
II didn't miss one of them concerts
last year, and | amt goin' TO this.