Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — MUSIC IN MID-SUMMER [ARTICLE]

MUSIC IN MID-SUMMER

Largest Orchestra In the United States and Many Popular Bands at Winona Lake. Visitors at Winona Lake this summer will have an opportunity to hear some of the finest music that is produced in this country. The Assembly program opens with music. The first number on the program at 2:30, Monday, June 28, is Whitney Brothers’ Quartette. This is one of the best known male quartettes in the country and the Assembly management feel that they have a very strong opening number. This quartette have two numbers on the program Monday, and two Tuesday. The boys’ band from the Muncle Conservatory of Music, under the management and leadership of Prof. E. W. Garrett, is a very prominent juvenile musical organization in this s’ate and will be on the park every afternton and on the big steamboat in the evening. Prof. Garrett’s five-year-old is the cornet soloist who made such a hit at Winona last summer. A feature in the musical line that pleases the masses Is the chorus work under the direction of Prof. E. O. Excell. Prof. Ex cell will have charge of the music at the devotional meetings every Thursday night, and his earnest and effective personality wins the admiration of all his audiences. The Dunbar Quartette and Bell Ringers open the second week, Monday, July 5. This quartette always pleases its audience. It is a feature that appeals to all classes. The leading band attraction for the summer is the great Italian band under the leadership of Marco Vessella. This popular Italian band will fill the dates formerly assigned to Creatore, who broke his engagement with the Assembly, on account of a previous contract which Creatore could not readjust. Mr. Howard Pew, the great band manager, whose reputation as such is known from coast to coast, endorses Marco Vessella as the coming band leader of the age. His band is composed of soloists selected from the best bands in the country, and the organization is attracting the attention of the music loving people everywhere. The band will be on the program the entire week of July 12. The Indianapolis Juvenile orchestra will be on the platform Saturday afternoon and evening, July 17. This young aggregation of musicians always pleases its audiences, and the one regret is that they could not be secured for a longer period than one day. On the afternoon of Friday, July 23, Master Hayden Owens, pianist, and Margaret Owens, vocalist, will give a recital. Prof. H, W. Owens, who has been director of the Winona Conserv-

atory of Music for & number of years, has drilled and trained his children so thoroughly that they are professionals. They are so well known locally that they cannot be endorsed too strongly. This engagement will be a very pleasing afternoon for all who love young musicians. w The great New York Symphony orchestra, under the leadership of Walter Damrosch of New York, will give two concerts each day during the week of July 26. This great orchestra needs no commendation to the people who appreciate high grade work, as its reputation as the greatest orchestra of the day is already too well established. The Indianapolis Newsboys’ band will fill the week of August 2. This hand is a regular fixture on the annual Assembly program. During this week the vocal contests will take place Friday afternoon, directed by Prof. H. W. Owens. Rogers’s Band will fill the week of August 9, assisted the first three days by Paul Morphy, “the man who sings to beat the band.” This novel attraction Is something new on the Assembly program and promises to be very attractive.