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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1908
Page
4
Frederick Neil Innes, renowned bandmaster and organizer, will direct the Ivines Band at Glenwood Chautauqua on Saturday August 15. The program features high level concert pieces and popular encore selections, with a sixty two member ensemble and noted singers.
Gilmore created the greatest American musical celebration and earned international fame through his work. Innes then brought revolutionary changes in instrumentation, giving his band a symphony orchestra volume and tone quality with every string instrument matched by a wind instrument in the Innes organization. This novel combination creates the distinctive orchestral effects that define the ensemble.
An Ideal Director Innes brings his orchestral band to the Glenwood Chautauqua Assembly on Saturday August 15. A self made man from common roots, he combines artistry with natural simplicity and social engagement, earning instant audience interest and regard. Innes is an Elk and active beyond his role as artist director and educator.
Glenwood hosts a rare Tunes Day with Innes leading Orchestral Band in a Chau tauqua setting. Attendance is expected high as long demand meets live performances, though touring wear and sleep loss from last season weighed on Innes.
Directors announce successful negotiations for Marie Florence to perform with Innes Predestiral Band on Saturday August 15. The return of Florence mirrors the fame of Garden and Farrar, signaling strong appeal for American art and the Chautauqua season. Florence trained abroad, enhancing this high profile engagement.
The article lauds a singer's three selections including the Titch Theure Haile from Tannhauser and Saint Saens aria My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice. The Wagner aria is praised for its tonal authority and dramatic sincerity. Miss Florence is slated to perform at least two Chautauqua performances on Saturday August 15 1908 with program details pending.
A chautauqua Saturday August fifteenth features Innes in a lively Merry Widow Waltz skit. Critics praise the musical joke as clever and humorous with influences from Mozart Mendelssohn Verdi Wagner and Ragtime, highlighting a refined adaptation that drew genuine triumph from cultured listeners in Montgomery Alabama.
Chautauqua notes urge readers to buy now with a rush of demand. About 600 tickets are available for adults at two dollars each as the event launches its sales. Unspecified venue and dates are noted in promotional language.
The Innes organization plans a two Pullman special train for travel and lodging on their next Chautauqua tour. Gate receipts last summer reportedly doubled, supporting the extra cost. Florence Marie Florence and other singers are highlighted as principal soloists, with praise from Worcester and New England critics. Local patrons await the performances with strong anticipation.
Newspapers praise Bandmaster Innes as a leading world figure in music. His appointment as Director in Chief of Music at the 1909 Seattle World’s Fair is seen as proof of his standing. He is repeatedly welcomed in cities and admired by fellow musicians.
The famous bandmaster Innes performs Saturday at Glenwood Chautauqua with a cast of superb instrumentalists. His lofty ideals and precise harmonies enchant listeners, rivaling Wagner and Liszt in eloquence, delivering a program of lasting artistic excellence.
The piece extols the Chautauqua movement stressing elevation of thought through education by lectures and reading. It highlights the challenge of unifying programs for broad appeal and notes Democratic Day speaker Claude Porter as a leading thinker expected to inspire and inform attendees.
The Innes Orchestra will be the crowning feature of this season's Chautauqua Assembly on Saturday, Aug. 13. The community shows unusual interest since the first announcement, promising a capacity audience at the Chautauquan auditorium. Innes attracts both masses and classes through his genial personality, straightforward manner, and sincere dedication to music.
Innes Band notes praise Signor Penwebbi voice and Marie Florence soprano. Clayton Watts bass and HH Williams harpist among soloists. A sixty two piece company tours with operatic vocalists in support. Aug 15 engagement promises notable Grand Opera artists and a strong concert program at Glenwood Chautauqua.
A Pleasant Smile is described as the thing that goes farthest toward making life worthwhile, costing the least yet worth a million dollars, reflecting qualities of worth, goodness, and manly kindness in a concise moral note from American Grocer.
A whimsical aside from Exchange describes a fictional town No-Good by the River Slow in Lether-slide province. It portrays a place of old age, idle dreams, discarded schemes, and tears, home to reckless figures and vague addictions.
A Success Magazine passage extols the richest man as one whose possessions lift others, who absorbs world treasures in art and science, faces hardship with cheer, and values a good name above gold, deeming plain living and grand effort true riches.
Poetic fragment recalls a half remembered dreamlike memory that lingers like a tune once heard. The speaker describes a elusive splendor from dreamland and a life felt elsewhere, fading yet close despite not fully naming or reclaiming it.
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