Two Or Three
Times A Day In Different Parts Of The City One Or Another Of Them
Will Be Playing Pro Bono Publico, And, In The Evening, They Are
Loaned Out By The Authorities To The Proprietors Of The Big Beer-
Gardens.
"Go" and dash are the chief characteristics of their method; but,
when needed, they can produce from the battered,
Time-worn trumpets,
which have been handed down from player to player since the regiment
was first formed, notes as soft and full and clear as any that could
start from the strings of some old violin.
The German band in Germany has to know its business to be listened
to by a German audience. The Bavarian artisan or shopkeeper
understands and appreciates good music, as he understands and
appreciates good beer. You cannot impose upon him with an inferior
article. A music-hall audience in Munich are very particular as to
how their beloved Wagner is rendered, and the trifles from Mozart
and Haydn that they love to take in with their sausages and salad,
and which, when performed to their satisfaction, they will
thunderously applaud, must not be taken liberties with, or they will
know the reason why.
The German beer-garden should be visited by everyone who would see
the German people as well as their churches and castles. It is here
that the workers of all kinds congregate in the evening. Here,
after the labours of the day, come the tradesman with his wife and
family, the young clerk with his betrothed and - also her mother,
alack and well-a-day!
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 133 of 158
Words from 35648 to 35913
of 42395
