Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1915 — Lyceum Course Starts Off With Exceedingly Fine Number. [ARTICLE]

Lyceum Course Starts Off With Exceedingly Fine Number.

The Old Colonial Band, of which E. Carmeliny is director, gave a most delightful performance here Friday evening, it being the first number of the lyceum course which is being supported by the churches of the city. The audience was large and appreciative. The program was well diversified, combining classical and patriotic music in a pleasing manner and having a number of solos by Mr. Ambrose Wyrick, whose numbers all called for hearty applause. The program concluded with a rendition of “The Spirit of Seventy-Six,” ia which three members of the band, the first playing a fife, the second carrying a flag and the third playing a snare drum, marched across in front of the state while the band played many of the patriotic American tunes. Mr. Carmeliny is a soloist of widely recognized abiilty and has before he became a director been a soloist in a number of the great bands of the country and of Italy, his native home. His selections were enthusiastically received.