Show MUSICAL MATTERS Progress is being made in preparation prepara-tion for the grand charity concert on Feb 5 Mrs Plummer will sing an original solo by Professor Stephens with orchestral accompaniment An octette will sing an arrangement of Annie Laurie by Dudley Buck As previously stated in The Herald the programme will be a choice one including in-cluding selections > by two bands It is possible that the tabernacle choir will assist The concert will be held in the tabernacle Mr H S Krouse is In receipt of a letter from Arthur and Johnson asking ask-ing wihat Salt Lake city is prepared to offer Ytaye the Belgian violin virtuoso vir-tuoso for an evening of bowing Eugene Ysaye is creating a furore in New York The critiques of his performances per-formances arc all of the nature of eulogies eulo-gies Witness nvhat De Koven says Not since Weiniawski whom M Ysaye recalls not a little in personality and style has so great a violinist been heard in this country Marteau delightful de-lightful and talented player as lie isis is-Is to Ysaye what a child is ito a man what the sketch which nevertheless displays genius is to the finished work of art The recent arrangements with reference refer-ence to the tabernacle choir and especially es-pecially to the leadership require that Prof Stephens give almost all if not all of his time to the choir He will probably close his school of music this week much to the regret of his pupils The professor Is much gratified with the action of the First Presidency and expect through that the awakening awaken-ing ofa greater interest in musical matters than has ever been felt before be-fore in Utah He believes the bishops of the wards will follow theexample of the Presidency In taking an active interest in the choirs of their respective wards The music for the Brownies was simple but light and sparkling and well adapted to the performance Mrs F I B Hamilton acted as musical director and accompanist at the rehearsals and deserves much credit for the thorough thor-ough training of the young singers I The tempo was excellent That is Why I Love Thee and All Thats False Surely Flies are two new ballads at Coalter Snelgroves and The Sidewalks of New York a song and chorus that has become popular I especially in Chicago is to be found at Daynes Coalters A B Saltzer oT Worcester Mass 3s in the city He represents the Mason and Rich VocaTion company Messrs H G Whitney George D I Pyper Horace Ensign jr and Petersen will form a quartette that will fee heard at the funeral of Mr Isaac Groo today In all probability the Thomas orchestra orches-tra will iba heard tin the tabernacle during dur-ing the spring I At the Twentysecond ward assembly hall on Wednesday evening the young people will give an interesting entertainment enter-tainment The comedy Two Flats and a Sharp with musical and literary numbers will be given I |