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Show MUSIC AND MUSICIANS Mmo. Marcella Sembrich has been engaged by Manager Pyper to sing in the Salt Lake theatre December 9th. America has always bent the knee to Mme. Marcella Sembrich. Thisj)rima donna is taking into her retirement a refined, elegant and beautiful beau-tiful style of singing which is now too rare, and which will be greatly missed. Sembrich became the great singer that she is because she has always been a profound student. stu-dent. Her parents were very poor. It is said she began to play the piano at four, the violin at six, and sang a few years later. No public singer has ever had a vaster repertoire reper-toire than Mme. Sembrich. As Elman interprets the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, or Rosenthal the Liszt, so Sembrich has sung the soul of Mozart, Puccini, of Schubert and Schumann. ' Her musical intelligence has made her a great interpreter. inter-preter. With Marcella Sembrich's retirement the world loses perfect music and flawless beauty of ex- Frank LaForge Pianist with Mme. Sembrich pression. Her recitals always require the loftiest art. The extent of the tour which Mme. Sembrich is malkng may be appreciated when it Is understood under-stood that it will consume the entire season, every section of the country being included. The tour is under the personal management of Loudon Lou-don Charlton, the well-known New York Impresario. Impre-sario. The singer's assisting artists .are Frank La Forge, pianist, and Francis Rogers, baritone. Miss Mae O'Neil will bo the soprano soloist at St. Mary's Cathedral for the 11 o'clock mass on Sunday. The bazar for the benefit of St. Mary's Cathedral Ca-thedral will open next Wednesday. The affair will be held in the Cathedral hall. Miss Nora Gleason, organist and director of the Cathedral choir, has entire charge of the fine musical pro-pram pro-pram which will be given each night. On Wednesday Wed-nesday night the Cathedral choir r 30 voices will sing two numbers; on Thursday night, the German Ger-man Harmonic will appear; on Friday night many of Salt Lake's leading vocalists will sing, and on Saturday 100 children of the Cathedral will present the program. |