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. mm U. S. MARINE BAND. “ Peerless and Unrivaled on the American Continent.’’— P. &■ Gilmore. V _ The U. S. Marine Band is now on its annual tour throughout the United States, and will return to Washington May 9th. UDOZLT’T TO IT. I Read What the Famous Gilmore Says About this Band : MR. SOUSA AND HIS BAND. (■llmorc’i* IIIkIi Compliment to tlii« Splen- did HI 11 Mica I Organization. The following letter from Mr. l\ S. Gilmore is in reply to one received from the chairman of a committee of prominent business men of St. Lcuis interested in the concerts soon to be given in that city by the United States Marine Hand : New York, March 1. 1892. My Dear Sir : I am frequently asked, as you now ask, my opinion of the Marine Band of Washington/ Well, the ■band cannot help being a splendid band, for three reasons. First, its permanent location in Washington is a great in- ducement for first-class musicians to join the baud, musicians who could not be induced to join the regular army, fearing that frontier life might be their fate. Second, the members of the Marine. Band are obliged to attend a long rehearsal almost every day in the year, which alone is sufficient to make them play splendidly together. Third, they are under a director. Mr. John Philip Sousa, who is a most accomplished musician, whose own compositions, as also his admirable arrangements of other composer.s’ works, give abundant evidence of his genius, originality, and artistic ability. With such a leader, whose aim is perfection, and with the beauty, the culture, and the brain of the nation at the Capital for his audiences— enough to inspire both him and his men to bring forth the most charming effects of which the divine art of music is capable—is it. not to he ex- pected that the Marine Band of Washington should stand peerlem and unrivaled on the A meri- can continent t Go, then, and hear them play when you have an opportunity, and you will doubtlessly he convinced that Uncle Sam lias a hand of which the Government and the people ought to feel, and do feel, justly proud. Very sincerely yours, P. S. Gilmore. Before the band left we piled up an immense stock of records, Thus, by the aid of the marvellous phonograph, the band is always with us. Send for new Catalogue, embracing about two hundred Marine Band selections; also, Vocal and Piano, Vocal and Orchestra, Cornet and Piano, Clarionet and Piano, Unique Auction Records, Humorous Recitations,. Shakesperean Recitations, the Brady and Casey Series, John Y. At Lee’s marvellous Artistic Whistling, and his new combina- tions of whistling and singing. WE SELL MORE MUSIC THAN ALL OTHER DEALERS COMBINED. COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY, 627 £ Street, Washington, D. C. t I s