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Show SOME KINK PRACTICE. Rehearsing at Assembly Hall for the May Musical Festival. . About three hundred members of the chorus who arc to participate in the grand musical festival to be given Friday Fri-day and Saturday of next week, mot in Assembly hall last evening and made souio very line practice. Professor Kadcliffo presided at the organ and Mr. Stevens acted as director. Among the numbers recited was a chorus from tho opera of "La Belle Heleno," a rather worn selection, but stirring in its composition; com-position; the "Miserere" from Verdi's "Trovatore," in which Miss Lizzie Thomas excelled herself; tho "Hallelujah "Hallelu-jah chorus," from Mendelssohn's oratorio ora-torio of "Elijah;" a chorus from Verdi's Ver-di's "Traviata," and the Czar's chorus, The practice was very good Indeed, considering the number of voices, and Mr. Stevens certainly deserves more than ordinary commendation for the masterly manner in which he held the singers in line. Miss Lizzie Thomas has an exceptionally excep-tionally sweet and powerful soprano voice. Her notes are true and clear, and hor range of voice is excellent. It is understood, however, that tho part in "Trovatore" which she sang last evening is to bo given to Miss Bertha Bayliss of Omaha, who will arrive in Salt Lake in a day or two and join in tho rehearsals. The tenor of Mr. George D. Pyper is very sweet and markedly correct, but he lacks force. In the Tabernacle his voice will have to bo increased in volume, vol-ume, else it will be lost. Tho singing in chorus was especially correct, and with more practice will give a delightful feast at the festival. These rehearsals will be kept up regularly regu-larly during tho follow ing week. |