Show RETURN OF THE CHOIR Our Musicians Won Honors for Themselves and Utah THE EISTEDDFOD REVIEWED WAS A GREAT SUCCESS AIUTISTICX ALLY AND FIKAXOIALLY Obstacles flint the Denveritcs Met and Overcome l > y Their Wonderful Wonder-ful Energy ami Generosity Effect Tlie Business Mnnasenient Vas WreiclietlSalt Lake Gets the Next One i I We went we saw we conquered and returned This can with safety be asserted byte by-te men and the women the boys and the girls who started for Denver a week ago and returned yesterday afternoon ternoon As I have before stated in these columns the Eisteddfod was a great success both artistically and financially financial-ly and it is a miracle that it was soT so-T start in with Denver had no suitable building in which to hold such a festival and it was necessary that at least 4000 be raised But some of the leading Welsh spirits of Denver saidLet Let it be raised And it was raised That these enterprising men over seemed almcst insurmountable came obstacles that seme almkSt surmountable cani be easily believed by all who had the good fortune to be present during the week just closed That they seized hold of chaos and out of it brought order was most evident evi-dent no matter which way one turned That they fulfilled their contract with the Salt leakers and did many things in our favor besides is also a matter of history That the people of Denver o are among the mcst hospitable who bear the honored name American will 0 testified to by all who broke bread with them or were sheltered under made other their roofs The choir has trips but never such a one a thisit r was unique and original In itself The excellence of the Salt Lake musicians Sal Lae I Th excclence el te sicians ha been shown i the prizes might naturally gained in a city where one mdght turally expect some favoritism would crop out for Denverites be it truly out said take great pride in their city and in the achievements of her citizens citi-zens Taken al1 in all the resuits as I have stated WERE MARVELOUS The lack of an organ was one great drawback and the average Salt Laker will be liable to have nervous prostration prostra-tion were he told that all the accompaniment accom-paniment to the massive choruses was a Chickering piano The visit of the choir to Denver and its success there must be ranked among the notable no-table achievements of the year in the west in a musical way ad an adver valuable far tisement more yaluabo more reaching in its effects than all the palace exhibition cars that could bern be-rn out of the railway yards in this city in a year 1 was an appeal to the souls of the people not to their cupidity It was intended as a education educa-tion nor a mere moneygutter it representedl much of that which is the noblest and the best in human nature it pointed out to th8 cultured and other people of Denver what the mu sicallyinclined men and women boys and girlsand be it said Denver has many of them what they may reason aibly hope tOI accomplish by the same study and the same application and a i similar bending to that which our choir has the advantage of here J has I verily believe created a new er in the musical world of our sister city which while greater in many ways aye far greater in those ways than we can reasonably expect to be I for years t come yet HAS MUCH TO LEARN I ere she can be placed alongside so far as music is concerned her humble and lowly sister Salt Lake I say this with the best of feelings towards Denver or towards those men who ten days ago were mere strangers to me but whom I now feel I have a right to class as I my friends No one who was with the choir knows better than I how heartily they received into their households the I boys and girls and men and women and gave these the freedom of the I houseeven entrusting the keys of their doors to them I laughingly ra i marked to one good lady the other day when she told me that She had a couple of the members of the choir with her and she had given them the keys of the house only to return home and find herself locked out That comes of entertaining strangers strang-ers perhaps you will find the china and the silverware gone when yQU finally break the door in My humor was apparently of the concealed kind for she fared up in an instant and said Young man you can believe what you choose but I want to say to you that I have had two members of the choir in my house ever since they I came here I never saw them before 1 but their conduct has been such that l whenever I shall hereafter see a tabernacle taber-nacle badge I shall have the utmost I confidence in the wearer S I firmly believe that just such 11 sentiment I sen-timent animates each and every resident resi-dent of Denver who entertained any I of the Salt Lakers who have just returned I re-turned home flushed with victory but n victory well earned not only by had I work during the Eisteddfod but also II years before its occurrence ITS EFFECT I The effect of the late musical carnival I car-nival on the people of Denver cannot but be for the good of that city For years the men who made and are mole yea a ma I inS Denver have reakz that they sorely needed an auditorium of a I larger and different kind than has yet been built They have opera houses I halls and theatres galore but not such gore a building as is absolutely needed The I Eisteddfod and its results I believe has proved to them that action in this respect must b taken at once There I is much musical talent in Denver but musc even if that city had ten times more it can never be developed until a suitable buiiMinsr shall have been provided THE MANAGEMENT As to the business management at this end and at the other it must be said in all candor that there were numerous nu-merous sins o omission and commission commis-sion there was much left undone that should have been done and much done that should have been left undone T enumerate them all would make a book so it is probably best a they lie buried A one of the memibers truly sid I was botched from one end t the other The next affair or secular affair should be paced in the hands of a competent manager it is a matter in I which friendship should be thrown to the four winds There should be no pets and no favorites pes ortes Under the circumstances it is no little wonder that out of so much of chaos so great an amount of order was evoked evoke S But the Denver people were abundantly abun-dantly satisfied withi the results and their pleasure was of prime importance THE NEXT The next Eisteddfod will undoubtdly be held i this city If that be true them it will be a charity t all to invite in-vite Professor Apmadocto remain at home I II Wen the musicians returned yesterday I yes-terday afternoon the K of P band with members of the choir following marched up town discoursing splendid music and all were warmly welcomed wel-comed home again |