Show Oratorio a at t Tabernacle 1 4 in Choruses Friday 1 1 1 s St 8 t t. t Paul E mma management o of tho choir definitely announces th the thi i of ot Mendelssohn's oratorio i St St Paul at the thc Tabernacle Friday afternoon June C G at 5 i L c This work was to have c been boen given in April but on account of or health condit condi- condi t ons at that time it Il was vas deemed ad- ad to postpone it H. H in order that thc the great number of or visitors to Salt SaH Lake City during June might have o havethe the privilege c of oC hearing this great work ork ork Professor Prossor Lund states that h ho he 1 will have over in the choruses which will be ac accompanied by br an or- or hestra of oC twenty five men and the or-I or Tabernacle organ C C. C A 1 i W win Will II IU mo Iw jt ice ln Ing parts Popular prices priceR will pre pre- vail and a rare treat t is ts promised bf S St Paul the first of the oratorios dC Mendelssohn was finished by him at atIn In 1835 In a letter dated Dec Dee p. p 19 1831 the young oun composer wrote I C from Crom Paris that unIe unless th there ro was some Improvement in the thc moral tone of or opera librettos he would forsake opera and devote his energies to oratorio And within short strange to sa say a er very ho was commissioned h by the a musical organization org of or Frankfort to write an oratorio Mendelssohn scents to have made a definite plan of i it H at once and the tho j result was little different i from hl his ori original intention On account ac- ac count of many mal Interruptions and prior Occupations the work took much longer er jhan he hc had anticipated ML Il Comment w Te Tc e wrote to his mother Nov 0 4 1834 1831 c St I Paul aur I 1 have hayo now no- reached a point at which I should like to play Ilo it Il to o someone only I cant can't find tho the right person peron 1 My friends here arc quite delighted delighted de de- de- de i lighted with It but that docs does not prove C much I 1 miss the cantor with her thick eyebrows 3 arid and her critical sense ense re referring re- re ferring to his sister Fanny ann Mendelssohn was barely 26 G 6 at the time Finis was written on the score but bat tho the public did not marvel mancl that a work so masterly had come como from the thel l pen of or one of comparative youth for tor or orbo ho bo had been long long- before the music He lie d in Jn world rhal rivaled Mozart precocity and nd had matched Mozart's feat of or writ writ- k Ir ing an opera at the age of 1 12 writ writ-I And nd I Yen en that should be no ground for Cor or as astonishment as- as when we remember that ht at at S he found the det detection tion of of I I J fl e f fifths in the works worl s of his idol Bach llach an exciting diversion The rhe composition of St Paul was hastened after the death of or his father which affected him greatly and h he writes to Pastor Dec e. e 1835 My Mr especial aim Is now to sot about the completion of or the St St Paul with fth double zeal for Or m my fathers father's th rs r's last t. t letter urged me mc to it Ho Ito awaited the 1 of or this la last t work with Mith In- In so it is to me as U though I J must throw myself into Inlo making the SL Paul a as perfect as I can and aid thus think nc ne h has hs s still a share In it t I 4 St St St. Paul was produced at Dussel- Dussel Id dorf May fa 22 2 as a part of oC the i program of or the lower lowr Rhino festival And It was as received cd with groat enthusiasm 1 sum and delight But notwithstanding found lit little little lit lit- ing tug the fact t that tho the public tle tic to criticize Mendelssohn was not noton noton noton on this account too ea easily sati satisfied Cled and al altogether altogether al- al made many alterations alteration cutting out to together fourteen of the original num nuni- bers It was shortly after tho the festival festi festi- val cal by the wa way that he met the beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- Cecile whom he married mar mar- ned ried at Frankfort March 1837 SL Pauls first hearing was wasat wasat at al Liverpool Oct 3 3 1836 under the di direction direction di- di of Sir George Georgo Smart and Sept 20 W. W 1537 ho he himself conducted It at the tho festival al at Birmingham whiCh he re reluctantly re- re re-I re had h left Idt his brides bride's side to attend From that lIa day to this his tho the I Mendelssohn oratorios ha have been popular popular popular lar in the land of the tho oratorio and England has be been n almost willing to reckon them as Sir George Grove says The rhe younger ouner brothers of If the tho Messiah Mos Mes siah and Judas J I The production of oC St Paul began besan the tho revival o of interest in sacred choral I composition which had hall given place since da day of oC Handel to the thc more I 1 brilliant and taking t. opera It reached I j I a a. culmination ten years years later in Elijah Elijah Eli Eli- jah tho the even brighter product of Mendelssohn's Men Men- I del sohn's genius Mendelssohn and his 1119 friend dolf doH Marx arx the German Gorman composer and author made a compact whereby Mars Mar ar was to write tho text of St Paul 11 and antl Mendelssohn Men Men- a a. text on Moses for tor Marx I cn-I Mendelssohn carried out his pas part but I the same Is not true of oC Marx who refu refused refused re- re I fu fused cd to countenance th the project of I i I I using chorales 1 between the airs air and choruses chorus s on the ground that they would I be an Although fohn had been criticised cri crl- for listening too to the advice of oC friends he seems to have been resolute upon this point V With ith tho the assistance of his friends Furst and he selected his own text from tho Bible which he declares Is 13 always best o of all Of or Je nr tr Mendelssohn was of Jewish stock but his family had embraced Christianity Christianity Chris Chrls- which will explain the circum j i stance stanc of or his choosing for or his biblical heroes two such staunch Christians as Stephen and the converted Paul Paul Paul-na nay more moree vc we can see sec In this Poa way probably ly I the history of If Paul made a deep appeal to him I Stephen and Paul are not especially definite but that Mendelssohn ohn was by byno byno byno no means menns deficient In the art of or characterization char char- is proved b by the individuality allt nitty of the choruses expressive of the three rival rhal religions religions Christianity Christianity Judaism Ju and Pa Paganism Mendelssohn was a disciple of or Bach Bachand Bachand Bachand and Handel whoso whose Influence is readily discerned especially that of or thc the former form form- er whom he has followed Jollow d In the use i i of the Lutheran chorales or hymns j I The narrative c is given in the recitative I live U for for or soprano or tenor with an a ao- ao j compa of oC strings J |