Show SAYS HE IS A DEVOTEE OF LIGHT OPERA Leader of 1 Minneapolis l Orchestra Or Or- chestra Upholds Composers Compos Compos- ers of Present Day Dav The most sincere music lovers rl are lre nearly always catholic In their tastes That accounts for the breadth of ot musical view entertained b by I Emil conductor of the tho Minneapolis olis Sn Symphony phony orchestra which will m appear on Thursday night at the Auditorium Auditorium Auditorium Audi Audi- on Richards street also at nt the theLo Lo Logan an and Provo Tabernacles Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- da day and Friday nights u under der tho the management management man man- of ot Fred C C. Graham Ho He was naked asked not long long- ago why h he ho and other conductors conductor never gave performances performances performances per per- of some lome of ot the tho finer light opera scores man many of ot which have been boon full fully recognized as na musical masterpieces masterpieces master master- I pieces In to their class claS It Is 18 not ho he explained because use I dont don't appreciate and enjoy them Victor Victor Vic Vic- tor Herbert Herber Is brilliant and enjoyable always His Babes In To land and Mlle Mile Ue Modiste and ever so 80 many others are arc trul truly delightful So are The Tho Merry terry Widow Ido and The Pink Lad Lady and The Chocolate Soldier and a number of others I could name name- They are arc not In inthe tho the least trashy and tho the better bolter schooled the tho musician the tile better ho will appreciate them But ul for performance on a purely In Instrumental instrumental in- in In-I In program ram the they would fall tall short hort and n Inevitably Ine prove a disappointment disappointment p although h I grant you that several sc of or those thoo I ha have named are aro orchestrated or orchestrated or- or I with astonishing skill and beauty The thing I is IR though that they are arc essentially meant to bo ho sung not to be played and the absence of ot the voice In III Insolo insolo solo or combination would grow wearisome wearisome some and sounding empty in tire time That really Is 15 the chief objection to playing them on orchestral programs of oC a or popular character Believe me It Is no musical snobbishness that makes maltes me Ignore them for nobody enjoys enJo's a good light Us-ht opera or good oo l musical comely comedy lh more shore than I lo lo 10 I The t sale bale ac of fl seats peats for the th appearance of the Minneapolis linn orchestra here begins begins begins be be- gins at the Daynes Music com com- company pany tomorrow morning |