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Show 7 THE BEE Arthur, both of whom have shown remarkable training. Although Professor Pedersen is better known by the public generally as a conductor. bis vocation is that of a teacher. A visit to his studio, over Calder's Music Palace, anv hour of the dav, finds him busilv employed with some of the most promising students of the state. lie has one of the most complete musical libraries, with which he is thoroughly familiar, and musicians unite in placing him in the front rank as an instructor. Added to this we quote Miss Lincoln, who is so pleasantly remembered in this city: " Professor Pederson is the most remirkable combination of genius and inoilestv that I ever saw, and I alwavs had the highest esteem for him. 0 0 IKOF. THOMAS KADCI.I I F F. By permission we reprint the following concerning a musician who won his laurels early and who still adds to their number. No comment of Tin: Bek, however, is neces- sary: Prof. Thomas Radcliffe, A. G. C., whose masterly renditions of the works of the great masters wc have all heard and enjoyed, was boin on the Island of Malta. He was edu- cated at the Liverpool College under the Upon bis arrival he was immediately engaged as as organist to the First Congregational Society and is still filling that position. Professor Radcliffe appeared on the I concert stage before leaving England upon a great many occasions, with great credit to himself and to his teachers. His last public appearance was at Liverpool on New Years eve in 1877. when the Festival Choral Society selected him to conduct their performance of the Messiah" at St. George's Hall, with Mr. Best at the organ. The chorus was composed of 300 voices, with an orchestra of fifty pieces. So successful was he in the rendition of that celebrated work, that the press all united in calling it the most perfect he had heard. In 18SS Mr. Radcliffe was invited to Denver to assist at the opening of the Trinity M. K. Church, with its immense organ, which he did. The Denver Republithe most artistic can stated that he did All reports of his work of the evening. performances agree as to his capability to control that grainiest of all instruments, and of his knowledge of the technique and his masterly handling of the stops, and behind all this, a memorv able to carrv score after score of the great masters works. When you come to consider that to perform even creditable, he has to memorize the entire orchestration of whatever he attempts, and perform what is usually done by 30 to 50 men with a conductor to lead them, you will agree with all that has been said of Mr. OUR OMAHA LETTER. 1S80. i 0 0 0 late Dean Ilowson of Chester, and graduated with a strong letter of recommendation from that celebrated teacher. At the age of fifteen he began his studies on the pipe organ and three vears afterwards received Radcliffes playing. In 1893 he was selected by the Utah Ins first appointment as organist and choirmaster at a church near Liverpool, and was Worlds Fair Commission to represent Utah in the capacity of concert organist at Chicago, where his playing created so much favorable comment, that he was requested by Mr. Wil son, Chief of the Music Bureau, to play for Kansas day and also by Director General Davis to play for the Railroad Mens Convention, which he did, performing on the great Festival organ in the Choral Hall. It would not be amiss to speak of the beautiful organ which the Professor plays upon at the Congregational Church. It was built under his direction, at a cost of shortly after appointed church organist, etc., to the corporation of Liverpool, which posi- 811,000. It is one of the most beautiful tion he held for ten years. Of his teacher.s toned organs in the United States. The under whom he studied we might mention connections are all electric and pneumatic, the late Mr. W. T. Best, the greatest of Eng- making the touch of the key board as deliclish organist, who is often styled the Liszt ate as is necessary and the stops very easy Sir Henry Smart, Lefebure to manipulate. The Professor never tires of of the Oigan. speaking of his pet, and to spend an evening Wely andThalberg, the renowned pianist. is an occasion not It was in the fall of 1879, at the invitation with him and the organ of the late Dr. Tourjee, that he came to to be forgotten. Mr. Radcliffe has recently been honored Boston, and while there was put in communication with Mrs. F. B. Hamilton, who with a certificate, as founder of the Amerafterwards became his favorite pupil and ican Guild of Organists, unsolicited, signed who persuaded him to come and make his by Dudley Buck and six of the principal home in Salt Lake, which he did in Aprii, officers of the institution. Tin: Ln Sfkvifi:. isu Before the crowds of people thronging the lagoon the (jfst exhibition of the Governservice was given. In the ment west end of the lagoon, about two hundred yards from the shore, a high pole was planted, representing the mast of a sunken on the mast vessel. Above the cross-piecwas a small platform on which a sailor stood. The signal of distress, a blue and white checked llag above a white triangular shaped one with a round red center, having been unfurled, it was quickly seen from the shore. Straightway a small cannon was hauled by six sailors to the place nearest the sunken vessel and a rope was shot out. At the end of the rope was some heavy projectile, which carried it through the air and missing the straight over the cross-piecmast bv about two inches. The sailor on the platform caught the rope and, fastening it to the mast, began to heave it up. He pulled it until the other two ropes, joined to the first one so as to form a pulley, had reached him, then he made them secure, by a sailors knot, to the mast. The men on shore pulled their end of the rope until it was perfectly tight from the vessel to the was sent out shore. Then a life-savin- g e e, 0 life-preserv- er is formed The of a large round padded ring at the top, and an or rubber arrangement, that resembles nothing so much as a pair of very short trousers. And into this the sailor steps, his legs dangling out at the bottom, and he holding on to the ropes at the top with arms and hands. He is then brought quickly to shore by means of the pulley. All this wras accomplished in about fifteen minutes, showing the rapidity wtth which the service does its work. Next a man was sent out in a small row boat which, being overturned, left him vainly struggling in the water. For a case such as this the lifeboat, manned by eight sailors, is rowed quickly out to him. When it gets within ten or fifteen yards of him, one of the sailors jumps into the water and rescues the drowning man. He is then taken to shore, and by vigorous rubbing and different ways is restored to life again. The whole arrangement is very wonderful, and has saved many lives by its prompt aid. The boat and cannons and all were brought here direct from Washington and are manned by the bravest and most experienced of the Government sailors. It is a most interesting and instructive exhibition and is well worthy of the attention of the many people who flock there every afternoon at four oclock to admire and wonder at this wonderful invention. on the pulley. oil-clot- life-preserv- er h Mabel Helen Baum. |