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Show PEEPAKE 10 HEAR SOUSA. The ereatest'of military bands, with John Philip Sousa, that "famous conductor con-ductor and composer, at its head, will be hereon Friday afternoon of next week, with its grand concert music, to the complete delight of all. Among its many other triumphs, the Sousa band made a great record at the World's Fair. Mr. Thomas had offered him the entire season, but other profitable profi-table engagements offered, which had other years in them as well as this, so Manager Blakley had to accept them. When he went to New York he came to a piece of strategy upon the newspapers. He inyited all the good" musicians" down to Coney Island to hear the band upon a certain day. When he had them there he asked for opinions. He got them. Composers, conductors, singer? and pianists to testify thev had n?ver heard such a band. This was not entirely strategy on Mr. Blake's part. He wanted to know the worst. If tuere was a flaw about the band he wished to know it. And if the newspaper critics had been evilly disposed, which, of course, they were not, there was all that expert testimony for them to contend con-tend with. |