Show i 1 i j c I MAra MAN THAT TT H NO N MUSIC IN M W iq I I r I 1 NoR OR IS 15 5 NOT Nor go MOVED WITH CONCORD Of O w RT aT SOUNDS 15 13 r T POR r OR On TREASONS TREASON MS AND SPOILS I I L 4 1 Wednesday y evening the Sympho Symphony ON ny fly orchestra em a will give its I s second concert at the Salt Lake theatre The first work w of the orchestra has has not 1 1 beo ten and the only regret o ot of at t a att former f occasion caSion is that the audi audience audIence ence enc was wl s rIot not larger Those who love lov music and remained away realized aft that they had missed some something something thing thin it is safe to venture that they Mil 1111 not repeat the mistake Love for forthe forthe the artistic in music is too and too in Salt Lake It has dawned upon devotees of the Muse that the thO th Symphony orchestra stands lor br all that Is Js s best in music Since the November concert the or orchestra orchestra chestra hestra has been in itt constant rehearsal The members have become accustomed tomed to one another and the work w rk is notice noticeably noticeably noticeably s ably smoother Transgressions fi are re very apt ap to creep Into work at ata a first ap appearance appearance and while they are not al always always ways apparent to toS the t e per forme r feels them and they thOy th y do Q doot not ot add to his easiness These Th se faults are elim eliminated mated by association and Arthur Shepherd who Is responsible for f r this fine fin organization has lt ri pa ns to gee ee that this association asso laUon has been fre frequent frequent quent quest I IThe The orchestra has ha also been Deen augment augmented ed In numbers members being present at the last rehearsal 1 The organization Is one the city has a right to be proud of and nd Salt Lakers should lend their encouragement and nd show their approval by turning out ou in num numbers numbers bers hers And there thero is the bes t of rca rea r a aSon Son tr in believe that th the fi S alt lt Lake e the w ill b fill g J pr en I Ii i In O nc cir la ot of the public a re rc n has been made mad in n the former prices The following will willbe willbe be Interpreted Symphony No 2 Z Beethoven Concerto G minor for Violin Max Bruch Slavonic dance No 1 Dvorak Carmen selection Bizet For s Alone Alonea a Ases b h Dance from Peer Teer Pe r G nt Suite S Hc 3 f Grieg Gries f M I Andante from froni On il ii 4 Overture to Oberon Weber r rPaul Paul Egry one roc of the greatest vio violinists violinists yb of ot the country co ended his re remarkable remarkable career with a dose of car carbolic bolic acid the other day ln n San Fran Francisco cisco He was a slave drink dr k and an his ungovernable appetite clouded what wh t promised to be a n brilliant career c re r Egry was ivas 31 years old He came came from the Chicago exposition n to the Midwinter lI fair at the beginning of 1894 as the or orchestra orchestra orchestra chestra leader in Papa Old Vienna His violin work at that time was a great attraction at the conces concession concession sion Later he traveled with opera companies The Th real name of ot the violinist was Paul Weiss Velsa but since he came to this country he was known only as Egry EgiY His father came from Hungary the native country of the dead musician about a month ago The elder Weiss tried to reform r Egry but hut the musician was wa unable uI abl to change hange his ways and in order to obtain liquor he pawned his clothes and a very fine violin which bbs bis father had brought from Europe I On July 28 1598 Egry married Miss I Emily Emil M I Boulon but hut his wife a divorce from n him n soon after atter his re I turn turg from Australia in 1901 Habitual intemperance wilful neglect and fail fall failure failure ure to provide were the charges Mr Egry making no answer to the com corn complaint complaInt plaint 1 As the mechanical devIces deices for play pIa ing the piano Improve one cannot but wonder what effect these machines will have upon future genius I have heard people p ople express e press the fear that human fin tin fingers fingers gers will will lose their skill ind that the pianist of the future will be a R curiosity I doubt it Mechanically they are per perfect perfect feet and while they the play the beat and most difficult works of the great com corn composers composers posers in faultless style one is con conscious conscIous scions of a lose loss There is expression there but no feeling The movement is accurate but there is no soul Mechanical genius will never coun counterfeit counterfeit counterfeit human emotion Of ot all aU the modern playing machines the pianola a and Its Imitators are perhaps the best It is perfect The pianola Is severely sever harmonious yet at Its best it lacks Jacks 4 There is pathos but no tears There Is gladness in its mu music musiC music sic but the he laughter is missing Its It beauty beauf Is 1 like Uke that of the statue which has neither warmth nor life Ufe nor feel feeling feelIng ing It will produce music that is grave sad d I or playful but Us ts mirth is not sadness Is not real And 1 the human heartstrings do not respond to its appeal 4 I do not mean to say it Is a failure J The reverse is true and these auto huto automatic hutor r matic players are bounding into popularity popularity rity at a surprising rate But they t will ill never take the place of ot the gowned ar artist artist artist whose entire being quivers with the life fife that she may be e transmitting Into the Ivory keys in front of her In homes where there Is a piano and no artist in public halls hans where sound must be ground out by the yard at n where there Is a lack Jack of variety at these and other places it will supply a want It will do service as a temporary substitute but It will never crowd Its living competitor out of at the field of or harmony 4 An English artist of note who passed through this city Thursday on his way to Honolulu Hn spent several s hours at the with Organist Org J J McClel McClellan Ian lan The stranger is Ernest Etnest G Meers t of O Shepherds Green l t Lon Len London London Lene e don England and he h is la accompanied I t S by his wife on n his tour halfway around the world ThIs 1 Is Ia the thee fourth trip Mr Meers Me rs has made from Eng England England England land to Honolulu and he says he finds fa b a higher state of a progress upon each succeeding this th country Mr Meers is a graduate of Qt Oxford a great musician and a rare organist At his home heme is an organ organ with nearly pipes and stops upon which he spends a large part of his time in study and recreation He was much impressed with the tonal variety of or the organ in the tabernacle cle and pronounced its tone unequaled Especially beau beautiful beautiful beautiful ar arthe the diapasons as they roll and reverberate through this great build building building ing said he I have never heard such tone toned Mr McClellan played a 3 recital for Mr Meers and in turn he performed veral several s numbers showing his mastery over ov r the king kirg of instruments instruments Instruments I ments It has been his desire for sev several several several eral years to play upon this organ but buthe buthe he never succeeded succeed d before e in having his bis I ambition n gratified He H considers the improvements improvement made by b the Kimball company about two years ago as nearly perfect Mr and Mrs Irs Meers left Friday noon for fo San Francisco from where they will lif sail san their destina detina destination tion l v vOne 4 One of the so 50 gS in The Billion air the latest New York success was written by bYl William Willlam E a aste stenographer ste m hi the St Paul railroad office at Omaha Omah The song is entitled Glory Gloz The Billionaire is the pro production production in which Jerom Sykes is star starring starring starring I ring at t the Dul Duly theatre and is to con continue there th re until late In the th spring Glory by lullus Steger who wh plays the par r He is assisted by a chorus chor S Of f forty per persons persons perSons sons in military 4 The Th band which 15 is i booked bo ked for this city has created a furore f rore wherever v r it has ha appeared It takes its I name nane n e from the Hie t fact that the High Highlanders Highl landers lnders l ar are at ed in their national I costume which made a hit when hen the band played ep at ithe the Buffalo B exposition where surrounded the bandstand members are Scottish Canadians and are under the leader ader l William Wllliam F Robinson Cameron Brown is s president of ot the association and T f P J T Power is directing the touts tours of pC t the company The band has played to immense audiences in all aU the large eastern cities ci ties tiesA A concert announced by b an Italian band at Padua on Jan 6 had to be given up because of oC the Inhabitants were suffering from influenza 4 The performance of the Ring of the at tit the Metropolitan opera house has once more called at attention attention to the wonderful advance In dramatic made by Wagner over his predecessors and the novel nov l difficulties he imposed on the ingers In operas with the tion of Don Juan Tuan there thOre Is hardly any difference in the style of the sev several se several eral singing characters whose melo dies might be exchanged without seeming inappropriate What tre I dramatic progress in Wag Wagner Wagner ner ncr Imagine the goddess of ot love In Rheingold singing like ike the giant 1 nt or the Rhine maidens like Wotan Wot n Imagine the rude Hunding in Die or r Hagen in Got Gat t singing like Uke the for forest forest I est bird in Siegfried SI Sf or the th kiss awakened B singing nS like Uke the I II horna wakened dragon or like the I fierce and quarrelsome Mime and Al Alberich bench berich In the art of orchestral char characterization the th e progress ss in the direction direction direction I tion Of dramatic realism and impressiveness impressiveness is equally striking I 4 I The private impresario is the th latest I adjunct of oC the millionaires house He Heis Heis HeIs is an efficient instrument in disposing of the superfluous oua wealth to be spent in entertaining His business Is to arrange musical parties part es for his h hI 3 pa patrons patrons a He tells them have on J the ff It they do not know and he suggests what singers shall shan be I engaged And of course couise he looks out for the part that he Is to play In n the affair If he cherishes an ambition to tobe tobe tobe be an orchestral conductor he lie will nill suggest numbers number suited to the th kind of orchestra hEt h plans to lead If It he Is also a composer he will have at least 1 one of his numbers on the It may be an orchestral number or a song it may be on the or ormay ormay ormay may appear as an encore but it will willbe willbe be heard somehow 4 One may bring much musical train training training training ing to the concert hall haU and listen to the symphony ony or the oratorio without in the least understanding whether the work in question was written early or late in the composers career or what it represents in the history of music Among whether they the are musicians or not the same fiame confusion exists although opera op is the branch of musical composition whose development is the easiest to understand Not to know for exam example pIe that Weber came before tore Wagner that hp h must have come before Wagner Js like Uke being Ignorant of the fact that Lessing Was Wa a a predecessor of Goethe Not to realize the artistic abyss that s between n the th second se 9 d and fifth symphonies of Beethoven Beet yett or ber b tween tn een Verdi Verdis V s RIgoletto and an v vis is like failing to realize the th like dis distinction between Comus and nd Edra 1 ra dise Lost L si or Romeo arid Ond nd Hamlet as a heroes of tragedy gedy 4 Pietro Mascagni Mas met iet for the first time recently Jaroslav KocIan Shyly i the great composer and the th master r of ot the violin gazed at each then they fell in each others oth rs arms arms is isAh I Ah Kocian Oh Maestro Then they broke away way a Afterwards Pietro Mascagni heard Jaroslav Kocian play and wrote the th following criticism I Ah Ab that boy hoy Kocian He is good goodHe goodHe goodHe He is great He is wonderful He knows That expresses it perfectly p he knows One has but to listen to him to understand and believe belleve His music In his life his all By his act he makes it speak He interprets it with the sure touch of the master the understanding of ot a great soul For the thet I I first t time I heard him play It is be beyond beyond beyond yond my power to express how deeply J I he fie Impressed me I had expected great things but not so 50 great He Is greater I than Kubelik His future is secure He has hands like Uke Iron but he plays plas as a I I if It they were feathers Never have I spent an evening more delightfully The boy still so 50 young is a genius and he lie will go on His des destiny d destiny S Stiny tiny is mighty His name will live liv among the greatest violinists that the thc world has h known It is to the credit of Chicago that they the received hint him with I such hearty enthusiasm The Th audience delighted me They showed a keen and cultured knowledge of music that marks Chicago as asa a center It will live lh e eto to produce great musicians of its own own Two master minds of the musical world combated for superiority r in lit ChIcago Chicago Chi Chicago cago several days ago The battle was waged not with the implements ts of their profession but with words It Was as proposed to Kocian the violinist and Mascagni the composer oser that they meet Both assented but neither w would waive his 1215 claims to eminence and find go goto goto goto to the others room in the same hotel A compromise was nas happily effected e f when a a thoughtful arbiter proposed that they meet In an apartment mid midway midway way Wal between bet een the two Ah happy happ thought thoughts That was wa satisfactory and the claims of ot each were satisfied 4 A violin owned by the leader of the Metropolitan theatre or orchestra orchestra orchestra chestra of St Paul was destroyed dur during during ing log a performance of ot At Cozy Cor Corners Corners Corners ners in that city last Friday night The accident was caused by b the instrument instrument ment meat being mistaken for the property violin which Francis X N Hope the leading man was supposed to smash to pieces in i the third act Claxton manager of the company was obliged d to deposit d with the thee man manager manager manager ager of the Metropolitan the amount of damages claimed by b Mr who owned the pending a fu future future future ture settlement 4 The concert tour which Adelina PattI is announced to make In this country next winter is to begin In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City in November There will be sixty concerts and nd the tour will wUl extend to the Pacific coast and Havana Each concert will consist con of one orie solo olo one I I J I 1 y 4 tt 4 t f 4 t I 9 d t L Lt i T ti u T c 7 r 1 I 1 4 i iI I b a t 1 t I 4 5 4 S 4 t THE HE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 4 4 t 4 t 4 1 i I I I J I I I I Concerto number and a scene from either ither The Th e Barber of Seville Linda I d dl II Cham or La Traviata Ro Ho Romualdo Romuald SapiD will probably bly be he the con conductor on 0 ductor Mme e PattI will travel with ith her ler husband Baton Baron Cederstrom ederstrom In 11 a a special car that Is Isto to be built on plans designed by herself e t v 4 Emma Jorgensen r Sanders Sandra and andY W Y H Hi Leslie will be the so soloists at the t concert ort rt this evening at atthe atthe atthe the Grand raP Q Miss Nora rad Gr n gave gaye an enjoyable recital tl at her t on Friday after atter for her rf young pupils A Ai i of the t r cital was the excel en work done lotie h b Miss Lillie Thomp Thompson son aged a 11 Among the numbers played pl ed by byh her r were ei Arietta by Lack Lacko 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