The table was covered with red and yellow flowers and splendid gold plate, and a very good orchestra of guitars and mandolins played all through dinner, the musicians singing sometimes when they played a popular song.

Mary and I are to sit next the orchestra in the pit, next the tweedle-dees.

Her interest increased as the admirable band played the first number with the precision and feeling for which the orchestra at the Queen's Hall is famous.

* * * * On some occasions of special enthusiasm the crowd take up the leader of the orchestra with the most frantic plaudits, and in more than one instance have carried him in triumph round the theater.

Then he leaned forward over the rail that separated orchestra from audience.

[-7-] He introduced in the orchestra among others knights and women who were his peers, who had been accustomed in the reign of Gaius so to appear regularly.

A few minutes later the meeting adjourns, "Happy New Years" are exchanged, and the church orchestra on the iron balcony over the great half rose window on Broad Street breaks into music.

Most of the German music that has been written during the last three centuries is played by the orchestra during these intermissions.

At the same time, a violent storm burst outside; the roaring thunder, the rain beating in floods upon the windows, the flashing lightning which turned the gas-lights pale, formed a tremendous orchestra for Gluck's music, and a fantastic frame for the sublime actor.

He played his organ still,the instrument which was then above all others to his taste; he entered the Orchestra as player upon the viola; received the appointment of chamber-musicianpianistto the Elector; and besides all this, engaged in the detested labor of teaching.

They took the enterprise into their own hands, abolished the calliope, put a symphony orchestra into the bandstand and, eventually, transformed the shell into a stage and went in for opera; opera popularized with a blue pencil so that no performance was ever more than two hours long, and at the modest price of fifty cents.

What a vast, incomparable, nay, priceless discovery, especially for the rest of us wretched listeners to pianos out of tune, to violins and 'cellos out of tune, to harps out of tune, to whole orchestras out of tune!

There is no such band on earth as Sousa's, no better orchestra than Theodore Thomas's or the Boston Symphony, and we hear the Metropolitan and French operas.

It's awfully jolly!" Curtain falls, and Baker wakes up to lead his orchestra through the mazes of "Shoo Fly." Appreciative Lady.

THE WHOLE ORCHESTRA (fortissimo) Flies and midges all unite With frog and chirping cricket, Our orchestra throughout the night, Resounding in the thicket! (Solo)

The veteran composer, on his way home, came to Bonn, and there accepted an invitation from the Electoral Orchestra to a breakfast in Godesberg.

At the most, she might take pins at the doorfor at such a trifle we displayed our talentsor play upon the comb as orchestra before the rising of the curtain.

There was the orchestra against the back-cloth, rendering selections from popular Pekin revues on the drum, cymbal and one-stringed fiddle.

For the new position was quite an unusual one; it brought the tail of the piano nearer to the audience, and gave a better view of the keyboard to the occupants of the seats in the orchestra behind the platform.

As you looked at his severe, thoughtful face, surmounted by a shock of beautiful white hair, you instinctively respected him; and when you heard that he lived by cobbling shoes by day and playing a violin in the Theatre Royal orchestra by night, occasionally putting off his leather apron to give a music lesson in the front parlour of an afternoon, you respected him all the more.