Show Good Music P PROVIDING good music for the masses in our large cities is urged more and moro more by br thinking men not only as a substitute for some somo of the places of amusement closed as a result of prohibition but as a great reforming reforming reforming reform reform- ing and cleat elevating ng agency of or the morals of or a community Jt It was Bernard Shaws Shaw's idea that enough good music music would prevent pre tho formation of all bad habits thus eliminating eliminating elim elm mating the poorhouse aRid and lU the jail While this may be regarded as an extreme view ew tho the uplifting tendencies CJ of good music are arc not easU easily In New York ork last year in spite of the intense heat of July and August people attended the stadium symphony concerts conceits This year ear the performances beginning beginning begin begin- ning fling next Saturday June 20 will continue continuo nightly until the first of September The Tho orchestra is trained durin during the winter months under tho the leadership of Arthur Ar Ax- thur Bodansky who is also a member of the executive committee e for the Stadium concerts This year the orchestra will be led by Walter Henry Rothwell who is is the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra orchestra or or- chestra and nI is known throughout the country as a musician of tho first order The programs will include classical music of the highest t. t type pe but will also contain con con- tam tain selections from the lighter r operas and stars of grand grund opera and of the concert platform will sing The J price rice of admission for those who pay will range from 25 23 cents to 1 1 A particularly commendable feature is that at every ery performance many seats scats will be free being distributed by various Various organizations ran ranging in from hos hos- a r d t t pital to the Garment Workers Workers' u unions UnionS ions Though privately private private- ly managed and financed by private funds the enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise is c civic cie ie in the tho highest sense of tho the tor term terni l. l More than half a dozen other cities have established lish d summer orchestras where tho the masses may hear good music every night or two or three times a week at either cither a nominal charge or free as tho i-ho air Considering its finances and arid its population Salt Lake Like has made a praiseworthy beginning in iii the same samo line by providing Sunday and sometimes W Wednesday ay concerts at Liberty park for tho the benefit of tho the public publio entirely at municipal expense In course of or time no doubt these Ulese wilt wilL be extended to every night in the week So that We wo are arc not far behind in the movement Tho The Tabernacle organ recitals too which are provided free to the public every day the year round by the Mormon church demonstrate that our community is in inthe inthe inthe the vanguard of the new and beautiful thought that art in its higher forms is a builder of character and an incentive to mor morality lity and virtue Senator Johnson has gone home to sit on his bis front por porch h and look down n the bay and Senator Borah has gone home hornc to get geta a a br breath ath of good Idaho air and reflect T The e war department since the Bergdoll delivery is isso isso isso so skeptical skeptic l it wont won't relieve men from rom the army who have been proven dead |