Show SHEPHERDS PRIZE WORK DOES NOT PLEASE NEW YORK CRITICS Sm H Is at nt pr prent A ent In tho rare to him of being grilled by the Now York critics After Aft r having enjoyed tho distinction of ot seeing his composition COl win In the Pad competition and pocketing tho GOO by the had the further pleasure of hearing orchestra t his work and andor of or ue ln It placed on the program for tor tho Symphony con concert COl cert given In Carnegie Hall March 10 All this evidenced that the composition something out of at tho ordinary but something WHO Wil tho long halted gentry apparently have not been Leen Leeni i n able f to a V The fhe News Is fur i the following In summary of I tur turi opinions by hy Mr Ir Shepherd himself who laughingly says san ha ho In tho Iho Ie st mind nn occasional oCca roust An All for tor tho Ihl opinions he somo lomo of ot them are true and ald gome Hore of ot them not Ills ll closest musical friends hero heo think the un favorable tu tone of Romo of or tho Iho Is If due to Mr Ir Shepherds having wilt ton tOi over heads a habit It I must be bo said Bald to tu which lie JU In Il no are the th press ns 1 far as hao hau been uy Mr Shepherd I l The Tho by Arthur Arlhur Shepherd that gained the prize Just year begins well wel with a 1 and expansive bril proclaimed by hy tho orchestra hub bub the composer Is 1 not lot well wel able to BUS tain his hl nt this level and ho s Into Inlo laborious treatment of ot hil material to too great grat length New York Vork Time The final the tha was Overturn Joyeuse of Arthur Shepherd which won wan the tho 1 n few fel months ago There Is no original message In Inthis InthIs this but the orchestra Is 18 on tho Iho whole cleverly Mr In II a n native of ot Idaho and n a resident of ot Salt Halt Lake I The Tho s of ot his overture suggests the animal spirits of thu tho Utah Post The much Overture Joy JO CUO of ot Arthur Arlhur Shepherd proved to bo more ambitious that successful sUt Why Wh a composition by 11 nn American living Mt lt Hull Lake City II should hear bear a II French I title tl not explained Thu Ooh Young Sir Ir Shepherds overture which came lout on un the program Im Impressed pressed pres ed one as 1 music that needed filter filtering ing If one ont maybe ma bo allowed the term It was u a musical stream n bit bi clouded muddy not so 80 much probably from lack of ot clear cear Ideas on the composers part as 11 luck of ot technical In expressing his Ideas Tho h was exactly the opposite site of what UN IH promised The Tho tact fact that this meager piece which Is nut not even 11 I could win tho first filst In III the kl contest In a 1 stid Int on the en enl productiveness of ot this country The he Mr Ir Shepherds overture which closed lo lc tho program lacked In clarity of ot due expression lIlO evidently to the composer conceptions In n con can contrast Ira t to thIs number tho Indian by hy I Mood out Olt ns al th work of ono who knows and can con control Cal hiM medium and lud Is nt tho same ale time master of his Musical I America Tho N York Musical 11 Courier which has never any nuy friend friendship ship for Mr Shepherd and which In Inthe Inthe the present Instance In shows lem than ever eer et It Mill 1 bo ho remembered that tho person who tried to hoax the Judges In tho competition with a n work I from WIS an ni of ot that paper has the tho following account In the case CIt of at young oung Arthur Shep herd criticism from frum us lS were In bad baJ ns n certain veiled accusation aton were made the tho Musical Coupler Cou ler when Overture Jo u o was Waa given the prize last autumn over Corsair over overture ture to have been heen by b John nice ce Jr circulation J manager manageri r rI i of ot tho Courier However il I though Berlioz Berloz was WIS not present last Saturday Mr r was and wo we asked him for his hil unbiased opinion of ot tha Shepherd work Mr signed crit criticism crl ho Is not It a II mu be bo It ex explained reads 18 foil tol wo Ip Why Wh the judges of the prize contest should award the first to the composer compo er of ot tho Iho Overture ns IS the best musical T com composition cOl position is moro more than I 1 can conceive The composition sounded to me a Hoyal band on the right side of ot otI the hull hall the Hot Jot Time In Inthe Inthe I the Old 1011 hand on Oi tho left let and the Salvation Army Arm band bani I In the rear The entire composition sounded unmusical I I tn In me II Perhaps this Is s real mu music IU I sic elc I dont dOlt know Ito If 1 the SIY 00 EO It must lust bo ho so I now nov convince that If It Berloz could jn write better music than that of at the Joy euie then he lived Hel In II vain and chain cho the tha wrung wrong vocation Signed JOHN mCG JR In |