| Show 5BAHATIO AND LYRIC The Daughter of Jainis 1 rEl1ES rING LETTER FRO i B = B YOUNG oratorios and CantatasMr Youngs PlansA lifes Reyenge leavitts peculiarities Bandmanns Disgust c ic The difference between the Eim Ii9h and American appreciation of music is nowhere so widely sLown as in the degree to which ciatodos and cantatas are cultivated in the two Gentries in England the announcement an-nouncement of the Messiah or the Creation is suflioi nt to draw aJ au rlience 30OOU Into the Crystal Palace Pa-lace and a look ever the vast assemblage as-semblage a gentleman who has often of-ten taken part on such occasions Informs in-forms us thowa that nearly every person In attendance has ought along a score of the work from which to follow and criticise tre performance > In America the little love of oratorio or cantata muic that exists is confined to the circles of professors and amateurs the mas without fondness for seS ate not t a music but if it comes in any extended ex-tended fotm it must be accompanied accompan-ied by such condiments as bright costuming thrilling plot and stage mountings to make it palatable la Salt Lake we have never had many opportunities for manifesting the or a disl ke for th s chsmcer Jf musc to or credit be it daiJ however that the t four occa iots m which such works have been pressure hre the rendering of the Messiah by Mr Careless in 1875 Bucks 46th Psalm given by the ame gentleman some time later Mrs Haydens Queen Esther and Professor Blakes Belshazzir were all decidedly and deservedly popular with the Salt Lake jublic Early in the coming rcojtb we are to have another opportunity op-portunity for hearing and judging of the popularity of cantata music io the rendition of the Daughter of Jairus by the new Choraldociety under un-der Mr Careless the work is by Dr Stainer organist in St Pauls London and teacher of harmony in the Royal Academy of Muaic ue are not aware that it has yet been given in the United Stages and it was only rendered in England in the year 187S3 when i wa < perform per-form ° d at the Worcester Triennial Musical Festival The narrative is from the gospels of Matthsw M trfe snd Luke and treats of Christs raising from the dead the little daughter of Jairus one of the ruiers of the synagogue Among the most nsaJole numbers are a Chorus of Unbelievers Un-believers mala voices The Wailing Wail-ing chorus of women Awake thou that sleepesi5 mixed chorus Love Divine duo for soprano and tenor My Little Daughter bass i ariat and My Hope is in the Everlating eons for tenor the i i 5nale is a trio and chorus U To Hm Who left His Throne on High The people who will assist in rendering ren-dering the Daughter of Jairu < n i tuber tu-ber ab ut sixtyfive vo ces with an orchestral support of lifoen or twenty instruments Mrs C rt less will of course be the principal I soprano Edith Claw on render several 1 beautiful I recitative Mr McJIstr is the temr Mr Thoa Crawf rU the bsss Mr L L Van Prase a most invaluaole addition will p rom one solo during the evening and besides play the cello in the o chestra the double trio for i the unale will be Miss Glawsou Mrs Cumin ng = > M Pyper Mr < Whitney Mr Spencer and Mr Barnes be whole will be cm duce j by Mr George Careless The I date will be Monday June 2 J at the Salt Lake Theatre and if the present I inention is followed seats will be on sale one week in advance at Geo ge Careless COd tore The prices will be reduced for the occaion in order to make the affair entirely cne of a popular nature rILETTER FROM 3IR YOUNG The followiui letter thoogh it comes to the writer as a private corutnurica ion will be of mteret to those readers of THE HERALD who have followed Mr Youngs carter and who feel interest an in contemporaneous musical events 7 HACLISE ROAD VY KENSINGTON PARK LONDON J April 27 h 3t II y r itt of me coure tInt my w fe is ii j ie musician ad tIl1t i is from Hr t that I have l r ntfl r 0 ba v i may know tithe ar fjf S1nOr to con l ernp att sKUmg < flSttL K and If ve do we tupe io w hh there uthorotuhlv 1 g od t < 1 I III LaIc and to rIo somet n x > mIl i there as well a somehin Yes London is siil rh l tv jn the w ld tlivt 111 j iB my knowledge gJt t F sturally there ii iUlllitLS Onll ll Zion 11 rv I I t H 1Ui n f aIA n MI ht r 1 uv f nil mrirn tP1e who are rich and ww have all J the vantages that wealth can Debase My business is constantly improving and so far as concerts the concerned I must say that in e last three months I have done 1flore than any year before but the highly h remunerative work is in the keep bands 1 f of two or three teie who y always tmpJyin < the me artists Thee ariiss are laas r al Kin Lloyd Santley I Fl1 ncj ling 1 Who and ortije thoiaa Jor t tiers t to die are waiting f r omM of these neVer for lIke o Sic holders tIv rtire the maj Irit iUPPDrtedu are half 0PpOrte by tbe1r and trie dzY lheir richer relatives friends while a large number J give up the profession from time to time and do something else Notwithstanding all this I behave be-have that Beg and is one of the be3t if not the best country for singers There are thousands of concerts given in the sand s-and that is s here all the money is made The public concerts in London Lon-don do not pay sngeis very nauc but serva their purpcse by giving the j eces < arj advertisement for the pjcvi rCt S for of course the provincial managers and con cet givers are eager to engage en-gage a man who makes a bg mark In London Drawing room concerts in London pay veiy well provided one has a very large can nectiun among the aristocracy There are eome drawing room tin gers who are never heard in public such a one is the baritone Da Soria He has a small but very beautiful VJfC and is one of the most expressive expres-sive singers in the world Formerly he was only a wine merchant but now I believe he combines both businesses he never sings for lees than 2 10 and during the season sea-son is singing generally three or four times a week You never see his name in print for he has a large circle of ar qnaintances among the I richest and most arisocratc people I peo-ple ane he makes all of niB engagements engage-ments with them When the season is over he goes abroad and sings at the watering places and in winter is always very busy at Nice and Mentone The drawing room conn certs that ara given in London are really very nice and very useful for us all Of course when people want to give a big and expensive concert I they engage such artists as De Soria but there are thousands who must give their two or three At Hmes curing the season and whd cannot afford to pay big terms These people are very useful to us less famous artists and I generally manage man-age to get a great many engagements from them with fees varying from three to five guineas This season ia spoilt by the death of the Duke of Albany ana I fear we snail all feel the difference especially as everybody every-body was anticipating a good sea sonLsst Monday night I went to hear Villiers Stanfords new opera The Canterbury Pilgrims The plot had its origin probably in Chaucers tale but it is very unlike it in everything every-thing except the outline I think I that Stanford is by far the most promiein of the young English composers He is serious and instead in-stead of following the old operatic models endeavors to make his work Wagnerian in form and treatment without forsaking entirely melodic writing for the voices You will probably see an account of the opera in the New York Art Journal from the London correspondent so I enall not trouble you any more with it here We have no new sing ere of note Maaa is now the tenor who gets the highest terms on account ac-count of his beautiful voice but his style is not nearly EO good as Lloyds Santley smetimes braces up and is in good voice but usually his voice sounds like an old crow Foils voice is always good and his singing soso Kings voice is not strong enuigh he always sings well however mong the singers en IRoed for the Italian Opera the only goo 1 singer of the men is De R ski He has the mos beautiful < high bass voce you can imagine He is asp a-sp en id looking elow and a fine acor The tenors are not very good Mieiz inski has a wonderful voice but generally sings roughly and out of tune except in the very high notes his high C and C sharp are the finest notes I ever heard and it is on these that he chiefly relies His voice might perhaps be the finest in the world if he knew how to use it Londoners are sighing for the return re-turn of Gyarre but Patti costs so much that no company can afford an expensive tenor also My kind regards to all old friends Believe me always sincerely yours B B YOUNG A LIFES BEVENGE This drama with which the HomeDramatieClub open their brief pring season of theatricals has been thoroughly rehearsed ana wInnow wIn-now probably be laid aside to allow the company some leisure on the piece which is to follow itA VJfts Peril The absence of Managers Man-agers Clawson and McKenzIe renders it impossible to speak with certainty but if Decoration Day can be obtainedthe Club will secure that as the opening date of their season The other plays in he repertory A Wifes Peril Nobodys Child Infatuation In-fatuation Marriage by Moonlight etc will follow In as rapid succession succes-sion as the oren dates will allow STAGE NOTES DeS leville will play the leading part in the Silver King The Hoop of Gola Company were ttached in San Francisco The Pop season has ended in San Francisco Kate Catleton had to share her honors with the four dudes The Cincinnati Dramatic Festival ha been a dire failure the total receipt were 11000 against 891 000 for last year Ben Cotton the first man who gave us an idea of good minstrel I performance is starring with his daughter in a play called True De I votion It took all Abbeys profits on Irv ingof MaryAndereonandhi benefit of 36000 to liquidate his operatic losses he will start afresh to gain anew a-new fortune beginning with Mary Anderson in the fall Bronson Howard has telegraphed to Gsa S Knight permission to reconstruct re-construct the play of Baron Rudolph Ru-dolph to suit himself Whether tomorrow nights versien will bs the old or the new is not known MrMarkCroxalJ performed in the stage band when Excelsior was rendered ren-dered at the Opera House and he rccsslonally plays the cornet in the orchestra at the same place Enaelie Melville has again been heard from the mails from Melbourne Mel-bourne Australia bring news that she is in the bankrupt courts with debts of 15000 and assets of 51000 The Dramatic Times states that Ines Sexton and Alice Oates are singing in a San Francisco street concert cellar As regards Gates this seems so incredible that we must believe some of the Times queer proof reading to be responsible responsi-ble for the statement On the first evening of Herr Band manna engagement neither the audience nor the orchestra knew when the play was over After the fall of the curtain on the last act both sat still in an uncertain eort of way for several minutes and someone some-one from behind had to convey the intelligence that the entertainment was at a close The house pro grammes for that night were entirely en-tirely lacking which partially explains ex-plains it I There ara apparently two Lea I vitta Gigautean Minstrel Joni panies We had one at the Theatre last evening and one was performing perform-ing in Tony Pastora Theatre New York last week this latter is not flatteringly spoken of There are some methods in Mr Leavitts managerial tactics which are queer to say the least the liberal billing of Cool Burgess in this city may betaken be-taken as an instance This gentleman I gentle-man who is a minstrel of some I note is seen in posters and cuts on every dead wall in the town and he is no more a member of the company than Henry Ward Beech er is Off the stage the manners and appearance ap-pearance of Herr Bandmann do sidedly suggest toe crank a number num-ber of gentlemen the other day of whom the writer was one were introduced in-troduced to the tragedian by Mr Lindsay one of the party mentioned that he had not seen the performance perform-ance of IJTarcisse but that it had caused glowing remarks Ach Gatt testily responded the Herr but vereisyour money Your bapers praise the piece say glowing remarks nd the house is beggarly If they were to call it bad vile rotten rot-ten the audience would flack t3 the play It is money we want not glowing remarks |
