| Show TRIBUTE TO ORGAN BUILDER + Testimonial Concert Given in Honor of Joseph Ridges Will Provide Him With About 1200 Joseph IT Ridges tho man who built tbo Tabernacle organ many years ngo > was honored last night by a testimonial concert given to him Approximately 1200 was raised by subscription and I tickets Tho audience however was note not-e but made up with enthusiasm the lack of numbers Naturally tho great organ wns tho chcfdoeuvro of the pro gramme Prof Thomas RadcllffC AGo 0 Prof J J Dayncs and Prof TJ Mq Clollan presiding at tho keyboard Mr Jladcllffo gave Bachs Taccato and Fuguo In D minor an organ work composed 200 years ago He also gave Batistes Grand Offertolrc Prof Z > uyne9 selected tho overture from William Tell Rossini and Prof McClellau gavo Lemaroa Andantino An-dantino And at the request of many organbuilder himself went to tho keyboard key-board and played Old Hundred Tho soprano of tho evening was Mrs Pike formerly Clarlbol Ridges a daughter of the organbuilder who sweetly sang Queen of tho Earth by PlnsUtl and for encore Bonnie Sweet Bessie Tho other soloists were Miss Arvllla Clark who splendidly Bang A Madrigal by Victor Harris and for encore GoodBye Good-Bye H S Ensign who repeated Her berts Gypsy Sweetheart Bong with chprus Thomas Ashworth who gavo DenzuLB Come to Mo and Bcllo Brandon Bran-don llttlo Miss Williams who repeated Southern Tennessee The Tabernacle choir WitH In excellent trim opening tho programme with Praise tho Lord by nandagscr and closing with Hall to the Victor by Auber A burst of applause greeted Joseph IT Ridges when ho appeared the stand It was a genuine welcome to a deserving man who had long been overlooked but who had made it possible for Salt Lake to have the greatest organ In the country at a Umq when this was little more than a wilderness far removed from civilization civiliza-tion Mr Ridges bowed his acknowledgments acknowledg-ments and In a wollconsldcrcd speech told of the building of the organ and described aUlt6 early details At tho conclusion of his remarks there was more applause and then It was that ho had to play the Doxology The success of the concert financially was due In a large measure to tho hard work of Apostle Heber J Grant who solicited so-licited the subscriptions Prof Stephens had charge of the artistic end of tho ortcrprlse |
