Music: In Milwaukee

Milwaukee used to be known as the beer capital.

It also used to be known as the "musical Athens of the West." For many years, Hugo Kaun, famed German composer, lived and worked there.

Of late, Milwaukee has fallen off in musical prominence; but there is every prospect of a speedy revival.

Carl Eppert, picturesque and able conductor of a union orchestra which last year played for 15,000 people in ten public concerts, is backing a campaign for a $50,000 guarantee annually for three years in the interests of a bigger and better orchestra...

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