Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-16
IN OUR
VALLEY
nIRECTOR JOSE NJ. BARRIENTOS
- tapped smartly with his baton, on

Il was the command of attention.
a second smart tapping.
And the Brownsville Municipal band,
composer OIL zS men, virtually all OF
them seasoned musicians, men largely
self-taught for the pure love of music,
launched into the first number of their
first program at the Washington Park
bandstand last night.
1t was a highly successful concert,
successful as to the ability of the band,
and successful as to attendance.
That Brownsville is highly interested
, in its municipal band is indicated in the
attendance. Fully 1900 persons gath
lered around the bandstand in the center
OF the double square that is Washington
Park.
As many more were seated in auto
mobiles parked along both sides of the
four streets bordering the square.
And at least a thousand more in auto
MOBILES, finding no place to park, tar
ried moment to catch a few bars and
sped on.
So 1000 people heard at least some
parts of the numbers rendered by the
band.
Policemen were kept busy at all corn
err directing traffic. The universal
suggestion was that drivers he stopped
during the rendition of numbers. Cars
make noise. Noise interferes with the
music.
critics came a-plenty. They came
near the stand to hear. They came to
dissect the work of the various instru-
ments. They gave ear to the cornet-
fists, of whom there are four-all good,
at least one soloist of rare ability.
They selected the notes of the bari
tone And gave him word of high
commendation. The men of the reed
Instruments" splendid" said one man,
cant be beat anywhere.
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The wonder of it, to most folks pres
ent, was that band could be gotten
together in SO short a time in a city the
size of Brownsville, and yet play so
well at their very first public appear
ance. II s.. taa...t..ai.ts. ..rr-v
there was commendation everywhere.
William S. West, who as chairman of
the Rotary Clubs committee on the or
ganization of municipal band, was par
tieuiarly delighted with the program.
r. B. Creager was a highly inter
esled listener to the program, and APP
plauded every rendition.
Mexican Consul A. c. Vasquez also
congratulated the band through the di-
rector.
Mayor A. B. Cole, on the outskirts
of the crowd, was another who spoke
in commentator of the program, and
City Commissioner b. L. Kowalski also
was delighted.
Brownsville Municipal Band will be
looked forward to by many thousands Of
Brownsville people.
Brownsville has recently become
known as "The City of Opportunity.
And we might add that it is also the
city Of Music"
lnere is plenty Of music in the soul
of Brownsville. A city so strongly
Latin-American could hardly fail to be
We have a municipal broadcasting
station, over which artists from the city
and all over the Valley have given
their abilities to the world.
We have the splendid Brownsville Mu-
nicipal Chorus. There is the Browns
vile Music club, and scores of other
organizations interested in music in one
way or another. There are several
small orchestras that play together pri-
vately, purely for the enjoyment.
And who will deny the ability of our
ukeleIe corps that nightly scatter their
notes of JOY along the highway and
by-ways.
The Twelfth U. S. Cavalry band at
Fort Brown is another musical oiganl-
za,ion that for several years has been
delighting Brownsville audiences.
The Brownsville Municipal Band was
financed partly by the city and partly
by private subscription the city acting
under the authority of a law passed by
the last legislature.
1t is probably the first municipal band
SO organized in Texas.
The Rotary Club is to be congratu-
lated for its efforts in this direction,
and the city commissioners for their
enterprise in joining in the movement.
in its natty uniforms, in its good mu-
sic, the Brownsville Municipal is des-
tined to become a great factor In max
ing life worth while in Brownsville.
Fort Worth, suffering under temper
atuies of well over a 100 daily, has
become jealous of the Valleys salu-
brious climate and has discontinued
showing the weather report from
Brownsville.
This is the advice to Mr.. and Mrs