Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — The Mozart Symphony Club. [ARTICLE]

The Mozart Symphony Club.

Rensselaer’s brightest and best were entertained Tuesday night by the Mozart Symphony Club, of Brooklyn N. Y., brought here as the musical feature of the Lecture Course. Never in the history of Rensselaer, has there been given in our city, an entertainment of so high an order, or so entirely satisfactory to the most critical music lovers, as this. Each and every performance was so perfect, that an adequate description is impossible. The choruses and accompaniments were delightful beyond the experience of the listeners, and were encored many times. Marie Louise Gumaer in her contralto songs, was a perfection of a Prima Donna, and had great difficulty in getting away from her audience, so clamorous were the encores. These German musicians played with consummate skill upon most exquisitely toned instruments, and the music embraced the master pieces of the finest composers. Herr Theo. Hoch performances were upon the cornet, and were many of them, master pieces of his own compo-

sition, and this indulgent and obliging Professor, gave in addition dozens of other sqloes, in response to the bowlings of the throng he had crazed with his melody. His Alpine Echo Horn Solo was especially noticable, and was a creation of his own, and at the close of the programme, when, after he had given the Kaiser’s Salute, on the Roman Triumphal Trumpet, he unrolled the Stars and Stripes, and gave our own Star Spangled Banner, the audience almost went wild.