Evening star., 1928-11-04
NJ u SIC
BY HELEN FETTER.

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each applicant for membership.
MuSicianShip is the first require
ment, but that elusive and valu-
able quality. esprit de corps
or, in American, team works.
also a foremost consideration.
Constant rehearSing and much
hard work are emphasized and
there is no clock in the rehearsal
room: time is not measured, only
reSultS-achievement-are count
ed. AS result their concerts fire.
quently are "Sold-out" affairs and
in the Spring at Keene, N. H.,
LeginSka and her orchestra took
top honorS from other events at
the festival.
A MOTHER orchestral note is
sounded in the announcement
that when Leopold StokowSki,
popular conductor of the Phila-
delphia Symphony Orchestra,
leads the one program he will
conduct this year in Washington,
November 13, at the Washington
Auditorium, he will present an
all Wagner program which is to
include the VorSpiel and Prelude
to Act III of die MeiSterSinger";
VorSpiel and LiebeStod from
Tristan and Isolde; Wald-
weben from "Siegfried";; Sieg-
fried'S Rheinfahrt, Siegfried'S
Tod and finale from "Die Gotter-
dammerung."
THE members of the United
States Marine Band who are
on the nine weeks tour certainly
are seeing the world, particularly
New England. It is nothing for
them to pile into motorbuSSeS for
a ride of go miles to give an after
noon concert in one town and
then to ride another 68 miles to
the next program. One of their
latest jauntS was from Williams
town to Saratoga Springs through
the beautiful mountains which,
according to a report from one of
the members, was one of the
lovelieSt on a trip which has in
cluded towns with French Cana
dians among the inhabitants,
others typically New England,
and others with colorful touches
of mountain life. There have
been those in the audience who
had heard the famous ColdStream
Guards Band of England and re-
nowned continental bands, who
handed their first choice to "The
Presidents own"
A writer in the United States
Navy Band, which also is on
long Fall tour before beginning
the Winter orchestra season in
Washington, gives some colorful
comments from another part of
the country. He says:
"One-night stands and long
jumps have been the rule so far
on the Navy Band tour. What
leisure there has been was given
over to the doctoring of colds.
We got into Fargo, N. OAK, how
ever, early enough to let the folks
back East know where we are.
THE local papers tell how the
Indians are strolling into the
towns to be locked up in the
warm jailS over Winter, but / |
have seen no Indians or cowboys !
since the last delegation from |
Oklahoma visited Washington. !
The prairieS look about as bleak |
as they are supposed to and live !
up to the publicity they get In
the film houses.
We've had fine houses every
where we appeared. I believe we
were favored in Chicago because
of the Navy-Notre Dame foot
ball game. We played in the
Auditorium and it certainly was
thrilling to see that audience
when the curtain went up
perched up there on the highest
tiers. The new Municipal Audi
torium at Minneapolis is another
building worth writing home
about and the mayor himself in
troduced us to the natives. At
st. Paul they could have used
larger auditorium. The papers
have been very nice to us and
Lieut.. Benter will have reason to
be proud of his Scrap-book when
he gets his last clipping pasted
down. Our itinerary now takes
us through South Dakota, Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri"
The United States Army Band
also is out ION the road" but no
clippings or other data have yet
found their way back home as
from the others. 1t may well be
assumed, however, that. as usual.
the Army is holding its own and
getting a due share of glory from
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