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BETWEEN TWO BRASS BANDS.

A TYPICAL "CAMEO" FROM LONDON.

AN UNWILLING AUDITOR IN NO-MAN'S-LAND. MA

SEEKING TO OBTAIN A BALANCED JUDGMENT.

In the street below my window five sturdy men are contributing their que to the charm of Con don with the assistance of two horas, two cornets, and a huge bass drum, writes a correspondent to the Christian Science Monitor. An other contingent, similarly but even

formidably equipped, has been playing one and the same tasteless tane for half an hour without intermission in the street Behind the house."

Between these contending parties I sit in the no-man's-land of the unwilling auditor, assailed from both sides by fragments of jejune melody, striving to induce that peace at the heart of the whirl wind which is necessary to literary concentration. If any hint of im- patience, not to say of rancor, is to be detected in these subsequent remarks, the circumstances should be considered and allowances chagi- tably made.

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those who like noise and those who more upon the athletic prowess of do not like it. To this we may the conductors, but chiefly it de add, that the first group is fundends upon the energy displayed. of crowds also, of pomp and.eir When one sees" the cheeks of the cumstance, of parades and civic horn-blowers puffed like red apples, display, whereas the second group sves the eyes of the cornet players regards all these as rather child- bulging, and sees the burly man at ish things.

the basa drum obviously putting his heart into his work, then he may know that he is witnessing a brass band exhibition at its best.

People who like brata bands are pleased by almost, any kind of noise. Popping of firecrackers, salutes of cannon, yelling of foot- ball crowds, rattle and scream of elevated trains, blasts from stesin whistles-nothing raucous or sten- torian comes entirely amiss to them. I have known one of them to, sit sounding the claxon of his automobile "for half an hour at three o'clock of the morning in a city street, merely for the sense of abounding energy that it induced in him..

Nothing Languerous,

Here are none of the languore of the string quartet, none of the moody meditations of the piano, but all is brisk, bright, efficient, and muscular. There may be mo ments of sentimentality, but these serve chiefly to act off the grand crash of trumpets and roll of drums that always follow, rending the welkin, setting the feet to tap ping, making for the moment every ind a President and every lass a Queen.

Scathing Criticism. And yet even these people do dis- tinguish between one noise and an-

Something depends, no doubt; other, although chiefly on the upon the conductor's choice of se pre-quantitative standard. A thorough-lections, for there is nothing more

Only Two Classes, From one point of view my sent and it may be said that there are only two classes of people in the world on the one hand those who like and patronize and main- tain brass bands and, on the other. those who do not. I can think of

other several

clasifications of human beings, but none of the seems quite so significant and far reaching as this one, and certainly no other concerns me so deeply at the moment.

The division between these two

groups is extraordinarily clean eit. People who are fond of brass bands appear to be very fond of them indeed,,, even going to the length of listening to them by the hour and contributing money for their maintenance; but I observe that persons of the other eines do not like brass bands at all. Ap parently, then, it is impossible to Le indifferent on this point and to preserve what is called a "balanc

d judgment."

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One may be enthusiastic or vitrio- lie, it not Laodiceaa. You will find people who ponder, for years over a question of politics or a problem of society, forever hesitat ing the premture result draw, who will tell you at a moment's notice and with uncaual vigour of expression whether or not they like brass bands. Here, there fore, is que thing about human nature that we can pin down and he sure about, and if we are

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to make the proper deductions we may arrive at dependable conclu sions, decidedly interesting and significant.

Noise and Music,

In one respect these two classes of humanity are almost agreed: the che does not belligerently - as- art and the other will not allow that the brass band innkes music. The more I consider the question the less I think that musical' taste and discernment are involved in this question at all. 1 am even willing to admit that some of the people who like brass bands may like genuine music too--or would like it if by chance they, should hear any but they do not show their fondness for music by their fondness for brass bands.

No; we may simplify the problem. A good deal and come at once to the facts by admitting 'that the brass band is not a musical or ganization but simply an unusually intricate engine for making a Doise. Thus we see that the two classes of people distinguished above are actually composed of

ly satisfactory noise, in their ears, Int needs be a very big noise, and the more expensive it to make the better. This is the reason why they love brass bands.

We may carry this distinction aut into our study of nationalities. I am obliged to say, in spite of the noble efforts now being put forth in the streets below, that England is comparatively feeble in the matter of brasa banda; Ger- many does decidedly better and and would do positively well if she could train her bands to play something beside "The Beautiful

Blue Danube.'

dismal in the world of sound than brass band trying to perform classient music unless it is a brass hand trying to perform music of the contemporary schools. What the brass band needs is something. with an honest tune, something to put big logs and muscles into, above all something with a good, clear, not-too-tripping but boldly marked rhythm.

Verdi, if not quite the only wear, is always safe for he is neither a classic nor a futurist but a sensible and highly emotional patriot of re- cent times-worldly yet boyish, clever but not sophisticated, and An American baud under the for the most part pleasingly de- fervars of a July sun will take, as void of ideas. When they come to the English say, a lot of beat the Verdi selection, observe how ing. But it is in Italy that the all the members of the Italian brass hand atains the height of its brass band seem to take on new glory, and the Square of St. Mark'i vigor.. Their faces flush with im in Venice provides for it the per-agined conquest. feet setting. The Venetians know this well, and every spring, and summer afternoon they get free fifty strong men armed with bur nished brass to work their will in that place upon the echoes.

And then how gloriously the strains of Verdi beat and rever

berate back and forth from the Old Procuratic to the New and from the Palace windows to the blazing mosaics of the Duomo !

The Sack of Rome,

They remember Attila the Hun and Alarie the Red. They re-en- act the sack of ancient Rome with the French horn booming, the cor- drum thumping, and the saucy little nets snarling, the bass piccolos screaming on before.

In listening to such performan- Ces I have often thought that the pacifists and all those who have at heart, the great cause of interna- tional peace might well pause for a tie in their committees and of the brass band. Peace and pic- council to consider the influence as close as possible to the very mid- coins can scarcely be made to har

In the Square.

of brass bands plant their chairs Ah, what a gorgeous din! Lovers

dle of the Square so that they cannonize, and the bass drum does hear the echoes from every side and be engulfed in the tides of uproar.

not speak in tones of conciliation. Persons of the other class are wont view and one that does not allow Yet perhaps this is too gloomy a to take refuge in the pinnacle of enough for the marvels of tolera the Clock Tower, over three hundrtion that humanity has already ne ed feet above the ground, from complished. What may we not rea whence the strains of Verdi are to sonably expect of human nature be heard, they, think, to advant when we consider that the two age, and from which point the an- classes of persons I have distin- ties of the conductor sawing the guibed those who love brass bande air two full measures ahead of the and those who detest them--have Bounds that reach ofe are unques managed thus far to dwell toge tionably diverting.

ther on the same small cities and streets, without open breach 1

If these persons had their choice, however, they would prefer to lis ten to the strains of Verdi from a sisted perhaps by a telescope so as distance of some twenty miles, aa

not to miss the athletic display. They give a grudging consent to the assertion of John Keats that heard melodies" may be sweet, but they agree with him entirely that those unheard are sweeter.*

The excellence of brass band per- formances depends somewhat, of course, upon the uniforms and the gold lace of the players, and still

Does not this fact speak well for us all I have not attempted to been entertaining me all this while molest the six strong men who have

in the street below, nor have I tele- phoned to the police about the still continuing uproar in the street be- bind the house. And can it be ac curately said that even these two brass bands in apparent collusion have entirely prevented me' from writing an essay?

Others may think as they like, but I say "Obvi. ously not.'

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