Show i IN MUSIC'S jt j DOMAIN l 2 Prof Proto Evan Stephens left lett this morning for tor California to complete arrangements for the visit of ot the Tabernacle choir to tote the te coast The Itinerary has been ben arranged but it itis itis I is important to secures rates for their meals and to have the contracts contract signed sIge beforehand beforehand With four hundred to provide for tor a saving of ot a few cents a meal mel amounts to a large saving In the agge gate It Is not necessary to secure BleepIng sleepIng sleeping sleep sleep- Ing accommodations as they will il occupy their berths In the sleeping cars during the entire trip The he Itinerary is a very well wel selected one In including the most interesting and beautiful beautiful beau beau- points in the State of California excepting excepting ex ex- the s southern part of ot the State which they will wi not be able to visit It ItIs Is planned that the choir shall leave Salt Lake on the tha morning moring of ot the of ot MarchOn March On the following Saturday morning they will arrive In San Francisco where they will wi spend five days San Francsco Francisco and other cities that can be reached by ferry about San Francisco bay probably offer orter ortere more e ol interesting r sights and scenes than any other locality In the United n States excepting New York On Thursday afternoon they will wi drop dropo a o day to visiting Palo Alto Leland where Stanford they I university will Mil l spend f ry and the beautiful grounds of ot the Stanford estate t Tie The e next night i they e will continue on south to Pacific c Grove v where h t they et will I breakfast From this point they will wil go goby by wagon to Monterey and the beautiful Hotel Hote Del Monte The Southern Pacific railroad Is spending spend spend- ins ing vast sums of ot money In making this the most beautiful spot in America The They y party will then go north et again I to San Jose w where e they will ln breakfast kf and spend the morning By noon they will wi be b on the way to Sacramento On Saturday night they will wi say good-bye good to California and return home arriving Monday morn morn- ing While at L Leland and Stanford university they may give a recital recial but it probably I Iwi will wi be the only one given on the trip Prof Proto Stephens said that the idea of ot giving concerts was given up when it was found that the tho necessary two hundred choir members could not be induced to take the trip Only one hundred and fifty choir members will wi go on the trip and the rest of the four hundred will be made up of ot others who will wi take advantage of ot the great opportunity that Is offered It I I lg guaranteed guarantee that for 50 5 the tho ten-day ten trip will wi be given and all expenses as as- Choir members however will wi only have to pay 15 The balance of ot the 50 will wi be made up from the different concerts given by them and under under under un un- un- un der their the management the Gates recital recial the Italian band and the Chicago Sym- Sym orchestra One more concert is to tobo tobe tobo bo be given by the choir on the of ot February Feb Feb- Feb It I is to be the occasion of the piano raffle for which each member of or orthe the choir coir has had to sell sel twenty tickets at EO 50 cents each The arrangement is s for each c ticket T et to Include ea admission f oe to fg the concert one chance on the piano and one chance on a a free trip to California Prof f Stephens said d previous s t to the concerts concerts con con- ce given tt Jh by the th Chicago i Symphony y g orchestra that there still remained 2500 2 to be ba raised but ho he anticipated no difficulty dl- dl culty culy in culty-in in doing this a O SC Mme famous sneeze is likely likely like like- ly to be one of ot the most expensive on record record rec rec- rec- rec ord as i it has kept e her out of the opera bill m for r ri a week e and dh compelled l the Ot postponement post post- of her New York recital until February 3rd Mme ilme Eames did not have even even the satisfaction of a comfortable sneeze for her Illness Iness in Philadelphia on Thursday She Is very sensitive to the theodor theodor theodor odor of cigar smoke and in the hotel apartments at Philadelphia there was the lingering smell of stale smoke The result re re- re suIt sult was her he Inability to sing in Aida Alda the next afternoon 5 0 e C C Emillo De Marchi March wl will next be heard as the Emio Duke In Rigoletto ln which is curIously curiously curi curl enough a new role for him He lie has never yet sung the part and had not been heard as Rhadames in Aida Alda until he sang the role in II Buffalo last autumn Gustave Charpentier has already p begun e th the u sequel 11 to ate his opera a Louise s and the new work Is to be called caled Marie Marle The heroine is the daughter of ot Louise and unlike unlike un un- un- un like follow Wo her ei a career mother motIer rOe e of t who pleasure re s seii left the her e g girl work rrt turns r to her back on the temptations of ot the city to devote herself to a quiet life There are to be four of the series The effect of the Wagner r Invasion n has already been felt f in Spain f rAI AI A recent nw w work called caled Los by the Spanish composer composer com corn poser was wai said to be b nothing more an Imitation wa Wagner Vagner that destroyed all the national character of the music The audience that greeted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last night was no nor larger t than the night h before r rT T The people Y of r this s city seemed unable n t to o appreciate p the Importance of the event that event event that one of the greatest orchestras in the country was to be heard But what the audience lacked in numbers was made up in Every number on the was heartily encored The was not so popular In character Conductor r as o the one the failed night to before appreciate g elate clate the fact that the acoustic properties of ot the Tabernacle demand more subdued f accompaniment the o soloists l were to drowned the soloists o out s by Invariably 1 the vol volume vol- vol 1 urns ume e of r t the accompaniment o n n especially a anero in inthe inthe the c case e et of the cello fl solo I by Herr Wagner Was Wag a ner nero The cello however proved to be celo better adapted to solo work In the Tabernacle Tabernacle Tabernacle Taber Taber- nacle than did the violin the night before On account of ot the choir occupying two places on the the orchestra was only heard herd alone four tour times One of the numbers might better have been ben omitted The rhe first number Praise Praie the Lord was unusually well executed but the second number the Faust waltz was weak In parts The best work of the orchestra was Wagners Wagner's from Siegfried The orchestra also played another of ot incomparable waltzes the Roses From the South South Beethoven's overture Leonore No 3 wa was wad the opening and Webers Weber's overture to the closing number Mr r. r Towne received a hearty encore on the Hiawatha Wedding Fest Feast but was wa not In as good voice as on Thursday night Madame Linne however was in much better better better bet bet- ter voice than on the previous night and fairlY charmed her hearers The audience demanded an encore and applauded for almost five minutes but she refused to respond |