Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1909 — Modern Music. [ARTICLE]

Modern Music.

The snare drummer happened to get hold of a selection that called for the use of half a dozen instruments. It took some lively work to shift from one to the other on time, and the persons who sat near him were mightly impressed. When he had.' finished the lively operation he would be puffing and blowing and perspiring in streams.

One evening a man just outside the orchestra rail leaned forward, and pointing to th 6 score, remarked: “That was good work, old man, but you missed one place.” “I did?” replied the drummer in surprise. “Why I thought I played everything that come my way.” “No,” the other resumed, “you didn’t do it all, and I saw the leader* glance at you. Right here in the middle of that measure, is a place where you should! have gone down cellar and shaken the furnace, ahd you didn’t pay the least bit of attention to it.”—Providence Journal-