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Show STKAUSSOUC!IKST!A. The First Concert Will be Given Tonight in the City of Culture and Baked Beans. A NOTABLE MUSICAL EVENT. i New Daparture in Architecture Other Special News of Special Importance. Im-portance. l'.HSTox, May 14. Special. The lirst concert to he given tonight in Music hall by the Strauss orchestra, will be a notable musical and social event. The last of the concerts in this eily will be given Sunday night. Tho 'orchestra will thun commence its tour, visiting Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, fin-e'mnati, fin-e'mnati, Chicago. Cleveland, Buffalo ami Albany, reaching New York in time to open the new Madison Square Oar-den Oar-den on June 0. The concerts of this tour are given by subscription only. Tho tour was widely advertised by the New York musicians who sought to prevent the landing of the orchestra, by the United States authorities, under the provisions of the contract labor law. The authorities, however, declared that the orchestra did not fall under the ban of tho law, and it was permitted to land. Kdw aid Strauss, the lea der of the orchestra, is a sou of the celebrated Johann Strauss, the original Strauss, who brought the name of the family into prominence in the world of music. Johann Strauss, tho elder, was born in Vienna March 14, IS04. The orchestra w hich hears his nanii! was organized in Vienna in 182U. and he was its conductor con-ductor from 18.'S to 184H. The fame of the orchestra rests chiefly upon its remarkable re-markable interpretations of dance music. The elder Strauss had three sons, each of w hom has distinguished himself in the samo (ield of work as the father. Kdward, who leads the orchestra, orches-tra, is the youngest son. His first public pub-lic appearance, after leaving the university, uni-versity, was as a harp virtuoso. In 1803 he conducted the Strauss drehestra for the lirst time. In tho course of his ca-career ca-career lie has been the recipient of many tokens of appreciation of his services ser-vices from the emperor of Austria and other European sovereigns, such as orders or-ders of knighthood and personal decorations. deco-rations. i . . |