Show I A MAMMOTH SUCCESS j The Careless Concert at the Theatre Last Evening Professor George Careless last night introduced in-troduced to the public his new orchestra Professor Careless is the old time pioneer of music in this Territory The first orchestra in Utah was formed under his leadership and he has ever since been unremitting in his efforts to give the public orchestral music He has however how-ever always labored under the drawback of having but crude materials to work with Although the orchestra he presented I pre-sented last night is probably better made I up than any he has ever had yet the overture to William Tell was an ambitious ambi-tious undertaking This is an overture that will tax the powers of any orchestra It would be very easy of course to find fault were we to apply anything like a critical standard of measure This however how-ever would be out of place as no pre tentions are made beyond that of giving an enjoyable interpretation of the compositions compo-sitions presented It was evident that Mr Careless had worked hard to get his orchestra into training I train-ing and the audience testified their approval of his efforts by liberal and hearty applause It was pleasant to note the evident disposition on the part of the public to encourage the maiden efforts of the orchestra especially as there is every reason to suppose that further training under Mr Careless baton will develop it into an efficient musical body The soloists all did themselves credit Mr Weihes rendering of the andante movement move-ment of Mendelssohns famous violin concerto op 64 was particularly fine and our only regret was that he did not present the other movements also The Moscheles duet for two pianos was accep tablyrendered byProf Radcliff and Mr C Carrington Mr Gorlinski sang a Verdi aria from Nabuco in which his fine voice showed to great advantage but we liked his rendering of the ballad Never Againwhich he gave as an encore piece I still better Mr Kiouse gave spirited t in terpretation or two movements ot Men delssohns piano concerto op 25 This gentleman has the material in him for a brilliant pianist if he were a little more friendly to hard practice Mr Van Praag for a Cellosolo played one of Poppers Carnival Scenes which he rendered with his usual brilliant effect and was loudly applauded applaud-ed We understand Mrs Careless Care-less hesitated about singing in this concert con-cert on the ground that she was losing her voice There is no fear of this in view of her splendid rendering of Clays wellknown ballad She wandered down I the mountain side Her voice is as beautiful beau-tiful and fresh as ever I There are some small details which should be looked to at these concerts For instance one of the piano stools used appeared to be the great grandfather of all piano stoolsdecrepitworn tottering lopsidedfit for nothing but firema terial and positively dangerous to sit down upon Yet this stool was not only assigned to poor Mr Carrington but it was during the entire performance left directly in front of the conductors desk as if it had been the most brilliant of ornaments The other stool squeaked so horribly when it was raised or lowered as to excite the risibility of the audience Again the conductors desk might certainly cer-tainly be arranged more tassefully than to be draped with red bunting Arrangements should also be made to allow al-low solo artists to pass between the chairs of the orchestra in order to arrive at the I front of the stage Mr Van Praag for I instance not only hail tr rlpsnriho n t Jrvlo around the entir orchestra t when he appeared ap-peared to play his solo but he also had to earn his own chair Heaven knows we are not writing in a faultfinding or querulous quer-ulous spirit but these things are so provincial pro-vincial and ungraceful and might so easily be avoided There should never be anything done or seemipon the concert con-cert stage to offend the eye or ear Taste decorum grace and quietthese should never be absent from the concert room |