GERMAN WAR MUSIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 54, 6 March 1915, Page 5

GERMAN WAR MUSIC.

A double Dutch Agency circulates a report of a great patriotic concert recently held in Berlin. The programme, which is printed on a mere scrap of paper, was as follows:

GRAND PRUSSIAN PATRIOTIC

CONCERT

In aid of the German Government

War Fund Will be held in the Dismantled British Embassy

Programme. 1. Selection—“ Hail, Smiling Marne.” Band of the Imperial Prussian Guard. 2. Song— “ Father, dear Father, come

Home with me now. Words and music by the German Crown Prince. 3. Banjo Recital—“ The Sally of our

Ally.” Words and music by the Emperor Francis Joseph. 4 Chorus— “Forty Years On.” Setting arranged by Count Von Moltke the Second. 5. gong—“ Oft in the Stilly Night.” Words and music by Count Zeppfelin, composer of “What docs little Birdie say.?” G. Recital— “ The Blue Carpathian Mountains.” The Viennese Orchestra.

7. Humorous Song—“ The Bonny Bonny Banks.” Arranged by

the Imperial Minister of Finance. g_ Song “And Nobody cares for Me!” Respectfully dedicated to the German Emperor.

9. Grand Patriotic Chorus (in which the audience is requested to join—“ Prussia Expects That Every Man This Day Will Grab His Booty.” —Punch.