Show A MUSICAL PEOPLE THE mormons cormons Mor mons have always been a musical people it Itis is pleasing to note the improvement in musical taste which is continually growing among them teem it is not confined to the cities it extends to the villages and hamlets and even the ranches throughout the territory the following which is dipped clipped from the brooklyn N Y beagle will be news to a great many people who have formed their ideas about the mormons cormons Mor mons from the misleading accounts concerning them that appear in the public prints A salt lake city man informs the american art journal that they may be mormons cormons out there but they are not philistines by a considerable majority He says there are four music stores where more guitars are sold than in new york k two drum corps a mandolin club of forty a band a big organ that when rebuilt as it will be shortly will be the lar flost in the world a choir of voices a chorus club of a may festival with do de vere whitney and Thursby hello has she been discovered again an orchestra of forty an organist who used to officiate in st pauls london a violin soloist a musical society an apollo club and a public that plays on pianos and goes to operas and concerts evidently the doks does not fasten itself on salt lake city with any great avidity A people among whom the divine art to ie so extensively cultivated cannot be as coarse brutal and depraved as a masny many editors and preachers represent the cormons mormons Mor mons l to be vocal music forms a prominent feature in the religious exercises of the latter day saints and there is scarcely a settlement in this whole territory however now new and small which cannot boast a choir of trained voices more or less advanced this has con much to the general taste for music which prevails I 1 instrumental mental music is also quite common nearly every choir has an organ brass bran and string bands are to be found in many places and some kind of instrument will be heard in the most remote regions not only are am there houses in this city which do a thriving business in musical instruments but in all the larrer larger towns similar stores though on a smaller scale deal in the same wares from the cheap mouth organ up to the first class piano music has a powerful effect upon the multitude it is refining and elevating and its high cultivation to is a mark of advanced civilization with all that may be said about the kind of i people who make up the ranks of mormonism or monism it must be admitted that the mormon people of this territory are musical and wedded to the divine art arl the big choir of the tabernacle is a mormon choir advanced musicians and composers in different parts of utah are mormon artiste and it will be found that the tendency of niam 1 is not only to encourage musical progress pro grees butto but to stimulate advancement in every department part ment of practical and scientific education |