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Show ti wont you be my valentine?" that wo might mention, and unless the SaH the whole note to the half. Ills opinion as to The half looked down to that added line gentleman changes Stranded below her staff. breaks, we predict that when be hears these artists his critique will be lull of "Your valentine? You empty head! Without a stem beneath my clef! breaks (or rather, that will record nuYour valentine?" with scorn she said, merous breaks). "Id rather take a rest!" Mr. Mitchell used what is known in The Home Opera Company meet in singing as the "aspirant, which Is very and often done to heighten the dramatic eftwice a $ week, Wednesday rehearsal Saturday evenings, in Calder'.s Hall. The opera is"A Trip to Africa, and will be a Washington birthday entertainat the Lst ment. A critic who was rehearsal, says the work f thls opera will decidedly excel anything the company has done before, meritorious as their preceding work has been. Indeed, there are numerous instances where this effect is specifically called for. fect. No Privileges Due. When Handel was told by his sovereign that the performance of the Messiah had afforded him pleasure, Katherine Bloodgood was to have the composer replied: Your majesty, or afford been our valentine, had not Denver in- - I did not intend teriosed. A piece of Impertinence just pleasure; I meant to make the world better. like Denver. $$ to-amus- e i v $ and accompanying friends visited the Tabernacle Thursday forenoon, looked over the interesting structure and listened to the great organ under the hands of the regular organist, J. J. Daynes. "Yon Yonson 'i Miss Emma Ramsay has come to Salt Lake, is continuing her advanced vocal work under Mrs. Knappen, and will in future probably locate here permanently. $ $ S Communicated. There is evidently a difference of opinion in regard to the Tribunes criticism of Mr. Mitchells singing in the late concert given by the De Vere company. The Tribune stated that Mr. Mitchell broke "three times most distressingly in the "Trovatore number. This statement is not only rather rough on Mr. Mitchell, but also shows that the critic has yet to hear some of the finest singing in the world. If it ever falls to the gentlemans o good lot to hear "Otello,"' with Tarnag-nin. the cast, or a performance of "Pagliaeci or numerous other modern operas, let us hope he will not commit himself as he has done in his criticism of Mr. Mitchell, for if Mr. Mitchell broke in the "Trovatore scene, Tamag- no is certainly guilty of the same offense, and numerous other artists also, If "his majesty had promptly sentenced Mr. Handel to punishment, right then and there, he could have explained that he acted neither from malice nor injured dignity, but to make the world more bearable. Unless the King meant his compliment as an Insult, Handel should have received the courtesy, whether happily phrased or not, as a gentleman. Because he had composed the Messiah was no excuse for boorishness, and it was more- important that Handel himself should conduce to making the world better than that Handels composition should. The remark in question is not so heinous, but it is an example of a self-indulgen- ce valuation that the world has found very irksome, and artists themselves, when confronted with it in others, well nigh intolerable. It is the spirit, in little or big, that presumes because of unusual possessions. It is the boy who struts because he has and "hit it It is the millionaire who demands special privileges because of his diamond pin. It is the artist who off. inllicts eccentricities and unpleasant mannerisms upon others because of the appreciation due his special gifts. But superior to any of theise is the person without any splendid possession who could remain unspoiled, and add grace to endowment were he the talented, favored one. 1 1- -: )!:!: And It Is utter nonsense to contend Is that dignity? Has Leschetizky ever that whims and outlandish character- become a man and put away childish istics naturally aeccmpany fenius. They things? Is a pettiness like that to ho are perhaps the natural outgrowth of glossed over nay, unnecessarily rethe adulatory atmosphere often sur- ported ami spread ahtoad? Rather, is It not a great, a tremendous pity that rounding genius, when (please empha- a person who will "let himself go to size the when"), when genius has that extent, should he the possessor of or so a gift the glamor of which constantly coupled with It so much self-lov- e little good sense and good judgment as stands between him and the nutural of such sioil(d, to take up with the spoiling process. consequences ways? And Is The grt viler the genius the more se- not the Injury an Indlscrlmlnatlng. unverely should he and his friends hold conditional admiration does, clear? Yes, it is clear. Clear In a hundred him exemplary in the everyday of life. cases. Witness the case of celebrated musiShall an Inspired magic-touche- d Patti, who, without her pretty face and cian exalt men by the perfection of his beautiful voice, would have landed in works, and then fill them with a sorry some reform school In the lusty days of contempt for his .uncontrolled, unbal- her youth. Witness also Melba who, anced self? Are we to excuse Beetho- after raising others to the very threshold of heavens door. Is herself willing . ven his t can pests, Handel his Samuel-Johnso- n to descend to billingsgate and Its actable manners, Wagner his companying coarseness. narrow Justice to others? Are we to Then let us, the commoners, the un? do our own part , forgive these traits? Not because they gifted,a the listeners, with little more truth and nobleness. . wrote fine music, never! but we are Let us candidly expect from great ones, to forgive them although they are sad great examples, and be an influence defects, where splendid nobility and un- that helps a talented brother to live to usual human excellence would shine so his highest in all things. Instead of the blind worshiper that aids all the Innate gloriously still common charity covers human weakness, tending to drag him their case. For we are commanded to down pitiably toward his lowest. judge not, and also to lend our attention I , to the beam in our own eye. un-wort- self-indulge- . w PROFESSIONAL GARDS Yes; they are to be forgiven, but we, their admirers in general, should disV criminate a little. We should know that cJoln cJ what we admire about artists aside Pupil of the eminent pianlsV Alberti Jaa. (iraduate of snd Professor'Tb nwvtrsity admiis from their 1895-9- : rvcletan greatness, worthy ration. Not prate about traits in them that would be faults in others. That spirit is not only unworthy us, but unworthy our day. And yet Not many weeks ago there appeared in a popular journal an article upon Paderewskis teacher, Lesche.tizky. It told things about Leschetizky nobody but an enemy should have given out, and for even the bad turn of clipping from this article I make the excuse of using the extracts "to point a moral. "There was a student from the West, a young man of undoubted talent, whose ear annoyed Leschetizky through some peculiarity in its shape. " I cant bear his ear! said Leschetizky (to the preparatory teacher, a Tell him to do sort of something with his ear. The preparatory teacher and the young man consulted and reached the conclusion that as the pupils hair was long, he could brush It down over the offending member, but this maneuver simply precipitated "His hair is too straight and shiny. Tell him to do something with his hair. DAYNES Music Company, The go-betwee- n). School of Music, Ann Arbor, Mich. 6. PIANO, THEORY and ORGAN. STUDIO, 12 S. First West St Willard to 12 A. M a to 4 P. M Thurs. Friday and Satys. HOURS, 10 Weile, , Instruction for the Beginner as well as the Advanced Student in Artistic Style of Violin Playing. STUDIO 214, 215 rtfUr Constitution Build ing deperd, Graduate of New England Conservatory, Boston. Teacher of PIANO FORTE. STUDIO 229 Constitution Building THOMAS RADGLIFFE, A. G. O. Piano, Pipe Organ, Harmony. Studio, 838 E, South Temple St, SALT LAKE CITY All our goods are p rfes are the D, 0, Cdldsrs Sons WE DEFY COMPETITION. Salt Lake Music Dealers. PIANOS, ORGANS, BOOKS AND SHEET MUSIC. 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