Show t 4 t 4 1 i i MUSIC sf 1 I 4 4 4 4 4 4 Continued From Preceding Preceding- Page Vase with popular favor ol Ills his continued continued con con- success and especially on his recent tour of oC the world has proved him to be bo the greatest bandmaster of C the age EVet Everywhere where tho the band has appeared ap ap- ap- ap to crowded houses and jud Judging from rom the Interest manifested In his coming Salt Lake appearance the general gen gen- eral rule will win not riot be broken Sousa can cnn stir stir the hearts heart of ot the people to dramatic Intensities One Ono reason for tor Sousas Sousa's popularity Is that all nil classes can understand his music People who do 10 not understand music can appreciate ate ato tho the unusual and an telling effects obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed by Sousa anti and his musicians To reach tim tho public and to make moke It possible for all to hear thise famous organization organization organization or or- the thc festival management has bias decided on popular prices of oC admission sion slon a special price of oC 25 5 cents being e extended to school children under 15 years cars at the tho matinee maUnee which will he be arranged especially for tor th the children of or ortho tho the schools The following belated criticism m appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap In the San S Ir Francisco co Examiner EXl of April 23 3 two to days after Prof Prot John J. J McClellan concluded his series of oC re recitals recitals re- re In Festival Festl hall ball It appears that the time critic attended tho the Wednesday noon recital In Festival hall hail tho the fourth given b by Mr Ir McClellan for Cor which event tho the organist had bind purposely lI lightened his program at tho the request of ot Superintendent of Festival al hall Mr Ir remarked early In the week to Mr Ill McClellan that ho lie hoped he would give gl at least one popular program On this account Mr McClellan McClellan Mc Mc- Clellan changed hi his program considerably consider consider- I abl ably performing however several strong During his recitals at atthe atthe atthe the exposition Mr Ir McClellan played from Bach several times this Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- dl day noon recital being one of two vo ro- ro which had no Bach representation tion Tho The Musical Courier New Sew York City San Francisco correspondent ranks of ot says Time The Th newcomer comer to tho the organists during the week weel was John J. J McClellan the organist of the Mormon lonnon Tabernacle Salt Lake City McClellan plays as one to handling tho the monster Instrument with clear technique technique tech tech- and tolling effect He hero horo makes tho the quotation from the tho San Francisco Examiner In ln my capacity of oC roving commissioner commissioner commis commis- of or music I attended two recitals yesterday and only a n. feeling of sa satiety satiety sa- sa a- a prevented pro m in my going to a n concert concert concert con con- cert In the tho evening o But there comes a time when the brain Is no longer lonser re- re and then In the Interests of oC musicians public and himself the tho critic who cares for tor his hla work worl blots tho the whole tribe of ot music makers out of or his thoughts In the tIme morning I heard an organ or-an re recital recital recital re- re cital In Festival hall Tho player was vas John J. J McClellan McClelian organist of ot the Marmon Mormon Mar Mor mon Tabernacle at Salt SnIt Lake City I IWas Iwas Iwas was as aB much Interested In the composition composition com corn position of ot tho the audience as In the tho per per- Musical San Francisco was sas wasat at work and the auditors wore ore visitors tors torn from rom far tar and near and I could not but think while McClellan was pla playIng playing play play- In Ing Chauvet's ets Marche f rehe du Saint Sacrement Sacrement Sac- Sac rement what an nn influence tho time music made In Festival hail must be exercising exercising exer exer- on thousands of people who from force of circumstances have ha been starved in tho the matter of ot music for tor the time greater part of their lives lI I could have wished Indeed that McClellan McClelian Mc Mc- c- c Clellan Clelian had played fewer arrangements and confined himself more moro to compositions compositions compositions which wore conceived in tho the nativo na- na tivo lIvo speech of ot tho the organ But McClellan McClellan Mc Mc- fc- fc Clellan has given recitals In Salt Lako for years cars and should know leno what tho the average tourist best likes To me It seemed that ho lie condo condescended a n little too tOG much Tho The Gothic suite of ot Boell- Boell mann inane Is good Ir organ an music especially the tho t toccata and amid McClellan played It finely But Hut when he played tho the Thalo Thain Intermezzo the familiar prelude In C e sharp minor Sullivans Sullivan's Lost Chord and hi his own arrangement of oC Nearer My fy Go God to Thee m my aesthetic tic soul protested that he was rating the public at too cheap a rate My Iy own experience Is that tho the common people can appreciate t Bach Handel Wider follins and th the rest as well as ns your our musical amateur If It only the time works of ot these great men are aro played with spirit The trouble with cla classical music Is usually In th the tho player not In the tho listener lis lis- tener I will dare to affirm that If U McClellan plays Bachs Bach's G minor fugue nn and puts putI lii hi his heart Into It It ho will find his audience Just as much Interested na nay more Interested than thon In transcription lion tion of ot such music as us Dvorak's D HumoresQue Thore There Is IB more true romanticism of the Humoresque type In a n fiddle 1 than In all the pIpes of oC our magnificent m civic organ c jj Mrs Emma Emm Ramsey Morris will present present pre pre- sent her hem pupil Miss Lillian Phelps of ot Seventh Se avenue in song recital at Consolidated Music hll Monday evening even even- ing In- May fa 24 Miss Phelps will be bo assisted as as- b by Miss Rowena flowena Korns Rums as accompanist accorn- accorn and piano soloist t. t |