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Pietro Mascagni will conduct, for the first time in the U. S., his opera, II Piccolo Marat...
...raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient seat; after a premonitory groan, his brass assaults the tune. . . . The piccolo players, the drummer and the flute stroll in, smiling and chuckling; one of them is trying to get a pack of cards into his waistcoat pocket. Obviously a game of penny ante has delayed them. . . . Mr. Stokowski stops while the last of his audience parade down the aisle. . . . Haydn...
...instruments which are eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the ten or banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Clubs the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol...
...recalls several important occasions in his 50 years of piccolo playing when he has played before celebrities, and in contests of various kinds. Forty eight years ago, as a boy of 17, Bob rendered several of his tunes at the home of Benjamin Butler, at one time governor of Massachusetts, and famous lawyer. In commenting on this memorable occasion Bob was full of praise for the "poor man's lawyer" as he termed the late governor...
...most interesting incidents in his many years of playing the piccolo, was his contest with a "fancy dancing girl", long before the advent of the "marathon dancers...