Show It YEAR WIT TUE MUSICIANS Once again It can chronicled that the music of the year was almost entirely en-tirely furnished by local musicians and It Isa pleasure to note that tn Improvement was apparent in all classes of vocal and instrumental work performed by the clever artists In musical celebrities or musical organizations there were few engagements engage-ments the notable ones all coming Inn In-n bunch early In December Mme Maconda Miss Carrie Bridewell and the Royal Italian band three artistic triumphs but each a failure financially finan-cially owing to three reasons holiday season approaching all coming together to-gether and bad weather During the year the great organ In the Tabernacle Taber-nacle was rebuilt at a cost of nearly 15OOO and It Is growing sweeter intone In-tone with every performance Owing to the entirely new arrangement Increased In-creased power and other changes It was no easy matter for ProC Mc Clellan to adapt himself to the new organ but he has practiced assiduously assidu-ously and has mastered it to his own satisfaction as well as the publics The greater part of the year free recitals re-citals were kept I up nnd these were greatly eclated by the thousands of tourists passing through as well as by 1 many Utah music lovers The choir which was referred to In the last New Years review as showing an apathy in Its work took on re neved Interest and the work at recent concerts has been marked in Its improvement im-provement One fault of the choir Is that a number of Its singers are backward back-ward in taking up new woik They arc satisfied when they sing the Hallelujah chorus with spirit and dash and vim but the next number may be something new and the result seems to be a trine lagging with little spirit and dash In other words its work Is not even und Prof Stephens has been trying with all his might to prod up his sleepy ones This is i referred re-ferred to In a spirit of friendliness for Utah Is proud of the choir but It must be remembered that the singers will make a tour of California this coming March and In San Francisco there are critics who can discern the difference between vim and snap and slow funereal singing If the choir puts Its Hallelujah In every one of its numbers speaking figuratively of course It will receive some fine notices but If not look out for severe criticism So the laggards must wake up or the tour of the choir will be to a certain degree spoiled The choir will be followed with Interest in its trip and It Is safe to say that every citizen of the Slate hopes the tour will bean artistic success The Salt Lake Opera company Is an organization of which every citizen of Salt Lake Is proud From tho very first it has not had an artistic failure and as to finances every house has been packed Its latest success was The Wedding Day It is now preparing pre-paring for a year of light opera and arrangements will be made with Eastern East-ern managers for rights to produce here some of the great hits of New York of the last two seasons THE ORPHEUS CLUB Tho Orpheus club will celebrate Its tenth anniversary In February at which time a formal gathering will beheld be-held to recall to mind the pleasant things of other days and former members mem-bers now residing elsewhere The club was originally organized by about fifteen men for mutual Improvement Improve-ment and enjoyment of malo chorus singing A number of Its charter members are still active and they point with pride and pleasure to the clubs achievements For It is a matter of pride that the club has reached Its tenth year a proof of the pleasure to be found in male chorus work So many musical organizations have started in this city and continued enthusiastically for a time only to become afflicted with a sort of ennui or musical lethargy and tho work has been abandoned But tho Orpheus club has been more fortunate Naturally during ten years such clubs change considerably in personnel because active ac-tive young men move about as business busi-ness calls them and occasionally prcs suie of local business causes resignations resigna-tions Because In chorus music it is highly desirable for successful ensemble en-semble singing to have the same voices In regular attendance this is a drawback but an unavoidable one In an organization composed of business and professional men At first it was Intended that the club would not appear ap-pear In public Later this was deemed selfish nnd Inadvisable and having Improved to a degree warranting its public appearance and public work offering an Incentive to the members I for greater effort and regular atend fahcp < the first public recital was given at the Templeton and another at the Knutsford which were warmly received re-ceived and Induced subsequent events of the kind The membership was maintained at under twenty until 18915 when tho Eisteddfod of that year announced an-nounced a contest for male choruses of forty voices It was voted to recruit and enter this contest and as is I well known this was done and the first prize won In competition with three other similar choruses A stimulus was thus added to the work and in the succeeding years the club extended its concert work and by aid of gen r Gus friends was enabled to give several sev-eral series of subscription concerts presenting the best local talent and also such high class outside talent as the Knelsel quartotto of Boston the Spiering quartette of Chicago Mr Glenn Hall the Chicago tenor Miss Catherine Bloodgood contralto of New York Adam Owen and Mr Crajnpton bassos of Denver and a number of others These concerts have been uniformly successful and have contributed much to tho cause of good music here Last year owing to the removal from the city of four second basses and tho resignation of two others owing to pressure of business tho club found Itself decidedly out of balance musically because of the loss of so many voices of one part and was unable to proceed with concert work during last season This year however the work has been resumed on new lines and good work is being done and It Is expected that definite plans for concerts In tho spring will soon be announced Christensen Orgnnization The Christensen organization was kept up by L P ChrIstensen and his body of players They furnished the music at Saltalr for the dancing academy and all tho leading social events of the year Tho brothers are now separated one living at Salt Lake and one each at Brigham Boise and Seattle but thc company Is still the same and It Is their Intention of goIng go-Ing on with I their plans for the Fine Arts building to be elected by them on State street this city The Flanders Amateurs The Flanders Amateurs have been In existence for about eleven years Tho first part of the past year the clever organization gave several concerts con-certs but since the return of Miss Flandqrs from Europe no public recitals reci-tals have been given The organiza tlou however has been kept up and its members arc hard at work for some splendid piogrammcs to be given giv-en this Bpilng Miss Flanders Is preparing pre-paring for a recllul by her younger pupils and one by the more odvannod classes Sho has been very busy since her return It will be remembered that early In Juno she went to Europe accompanied ac-companied by Miss Osterberg and Miss Geneve Ellcrbeck The purpose of their trip was to hear all the good musIc mu-sIc possible and in this they were successful for they not only heard the best of grand opera at Paris and Berlin Ber-lin but were fortunate in being able to attend the festival at Beyrouth which was i glorious treat During their tour they also had the pleasure of meeting several world renowned musicians and all returned in September Septem-ber amply repaid for the long Journey and well equipped for the new season Holds Band The leading bund of the city Is that one led by John Held It has had a busy and prosperous year at Salt Palace Pal-ace Grand theater and special work New music and new Instruments have been purchased and the band Is splendidly splen-didly equipped and was never In better bet-ter condition than at present During the winter season it has been giving Sunday night concerts at the Grand and the music has been of a very high classical order combined with enough of the popular music to please all classes of people Mr Held Is a good leader and under the business management manage-ment of Mr Zimmerman tho band Is row recognized as one of the strongest strong-est musical organizations in tho > city I i4 t iqh t I I SHARPS AND FLATS Oh for a symphony orchestra S J The Orpheus club Is again practicing 00 V Tho Euterpe cl bhas ceased to exist ex-ist i S 0 Utah Is j a homo of natural musicians musi-cians S ij S J J Daynes Jr returned home from Germany k I o Tho Sunday night concerts by Helds band arc grSat grSati i Spencer Clawson J Jr a splendid pianist is still in GermanyS Germany-S S Arrangements arcfcompleted for the California tour of tile choir u J I Miss Rosemary Qlosz of New York soprano lias I Come hero to reside j v Prof John J McClellan visited New York and Eastern cities last year 15 Even the fmuslc at the resorts last summer was well selected and well rendered I S S The Battery band the K of P band and the Elks banU were not heard of during the year 000 Miss Silence Dales of Provo delighted de-lighted several Salt Lake audiences She is a rare violinist f Pearl Rothschild the clever young girl pianist was heard at several musical events of the yearS year-S S Miss Mary Olive Gray passed the summer In Boston and New York perfecting per-fecting herself as a teacher of pianoforte piano-forte S S f Prof Stephens went to California to make arrangements for the choir tour early in November meeting with splendid splen-did success x c S 0 Fred Sands has resigned his position as basso In the First Congregational quartette and his place has not as yet been filled S A 5 Miss Eleanor Burrows passed the summer In Europe where she visited the musical centers and continued her studies on the piano W R Slbloy who has faithfully studied for several years with local teachers will soon leave for Chicago to continue his studies e u Karl Scheid is entitled to a great deal of credit for his hard work In bringing St Marks choir up to Its present standard of efficiency I A H Peabodjs communion service ser-vice in F which was sung at SL Marks at the Christmas services was well rendered and very satisfactory A new muslcioom is being fitted up by Feigus Coalter for tho use of the Orpheus club Salt Lake Glee club and Chamlnade chorus for rehear als Salt Lake Is also the center of the music trade of the Intermountain region Ilore arc a halfdozen music stores and the trade during the year has been cry heavy A new sHar has arisen In the person of Emma Lucy Gates ot Provo She will slug throughout the East under the direction of Maj Pond and great things are expected of hero her-o 00 Prof Radcllffc appealed In the Buffalo Buf-falo exposition as organist and won high praise He also gave a recital In Ogden early in the rear assisted l by tho Oregon soprano Winifred Stuart 4 S Through the efforts of Organist Jack Berkhocl of St Pauls church a superb Kimball pipe organ has been placed In that house of worship and Is consldcied the third organ in the city S S S Organist McClellan was Invited to open a hugo organ in Spokane Wash last September but owing to his East cm trIp taken for rest and business combined he had to decline that fine affair S S a The tpcra company presented Fat Inltzo The Mandarin and The Wedding Day during the last year to immerse business and the standard of Its I J work is considerably higher than ever before Mlsn Margie Webber Miss Lillian Oliver Prof J A Anderson Prof C A Lund Karl Scheid Jack Bcrkhoel Prof Cook Miss J Eleanor Burrows Prof Magnus Olson and Prof Pedersen Peder-sen are among the musicians who have passed a successful and profitable profit-able year in music III S S The December Musical Record and Review of Boston has a vety favorable article with photo of Schroeder the famous Knclaol quartette cello Ist who gave such pleasure In the Orpheus club concert here In 1900 A IrEd Kimball is pianist of the opera company Held la doing missionary work for tho cause of music Mrs Lewis la doing good work with the Chamlnudo club A very line small Jlpe organ adorns Calders Music Palacc A SIt S-It Is rumored that Miss Ferrln may go on a trlp of study soon 4 In the Wedding Day an orchestra of sixteen men was employed Harold Orlob the young composer has published some new music lately Miss Edna C Cohn returned to New York to continue her musical studies a The music section of the Ladles Literary club had an Interesting year 5 0 0 Mr H E Giles has acted as organist in the Christian Science church the past year Arthur Shepherd Is cosily located In Boston pursuing his studies on the pianot Ji J i S S Tho string tones and vox hu mana of tho Tabernacle organ are perfect S S a Prof W A Wetzcll succeeded Prof Young In charge of music In the public schools S S S The music section of the Ladles Literary Lit-erary club Introduced Mr Woodmanseo of Chicago Miss Lulu Spence Is a rising yung planlstc and music teacher who Is much sought after Salt Lake needs a symphony orchestra orches-tra of about 40 men and a choral society so-ciety < of 200 members 4 C Miss Agatha Eerkhocl returned to Chicago and good reports of her progress pro-gress come from that city Mr Woodmnjisce a splendid young Chicago pianist Is here for his health and likes Salt Lake very much The Royal Italian band may possibly pos-sibly give a series of openair concerts this summer at one of the resorts S S S Miss Glosz is a soprano of fine attainments at-tainments who has made many lends during her few weeks III Salt LakeS Lake-S S Mrs Plummcr is now musical director direc-tor at the First Congregational church Mrs SommcrsCocks having resigned 5 5 The pupils ofMr McClellan will give a recital at the Salt Lake Theater during dur-ing January Imitations will be issued is-sued > Louis W Critchlow and Miss Jane Mackintosh were among those who came back to Salt Lake to open vocal studios i S Karl Scheld returned from his European Eu-ropean tour last February He Is choirmaster choir-master at St Marks while Mr Peabody Pea-body Is organist 1 Miss Arvllla Clark teacher In the B Y academy at Provo has her time well taken up She goes to Europe in February Feb-ruary to study voice I w S I Music In the churches on Easter and Christmas was of the highest order The local choirs are showing great improvement im-provement In their workS work-S S S Martha is now being rehearsed by the local opera company Director McClellan states that the chorus will be verY strong and complete III 00 A string quartette composed of Messrs Skel ton Masterman Woscke and Olsen are doing some pretty work and havo many engagements S S S Prof Mose Christensen moved to Boise to open a branch of the academy and Prof Fred Christensen moved to Seattle Both are missed I o Anton Lund professor of muslo at the B Y academy Provo Is doing some rousing work and has one of the finest music departments in the State o a 0 I Prof Stephens Is In charge of musIcal matters at the L D S university of this city while Prof McClellan la director di-rector of music at tho University of Utah o S 0 Ninetytwo free and fiftynine specIal recitals have been played on the Tabernacle Taber-nacle organ by the organist during the past year The attendance has been great S S S Mr H S Goddard the splendid baritone bar-itone goes to Europe forseveral yeaifl of study next June He will be a great loss to Salt Lakes muslpal forces S S 4 The orchestras at the Salt Lake Theater and tho New Grand maintained main-tained the standard set In the past and added much to the pleasure of the shows I Albert Jones the noted Spanish pianist pian-ist will give a recital here In January Miss Silence Dales the artistic violin Iste will bo heard in a recital during next month < + Tracy Y Cannon Is now in England on a mission for the Mormon church He made fine ogress In his musIcal studies with Jonas at Detroit and left a good business Salt Lake Miss Flanders has charge of the Rowland Row-land hall music courses and Miss Olivo Giey s the teacher of the divine art at the Salt Lake college Anton Peder son occupies a similar post at the All Hallows college a S S Miss Sybella Clayton is one of the coming pianists of the State She appears next month in a recital and then after having studied with Mr McClellan for three years goes to Alberto Al-berto Jonas at Detroit for finishing course o 0 5 Mr Logan a Chicago violinist of high repute who played in a Tabernacle organ or-gan recital last August wntes I Mr Mc Clellan that hp has never heard the equal oCthc Tabernacle organ and pinises oapecjaily Us diapason and string tones o S S When Miss Gates went to German she went to study the piano Previous to herigolng she had studied for nearly two years on that Instrument with J J McClellan of whom she speaks In the highest terms both as teacher and accompanist ac-companist t Mr C F Stayncr the native composer com-poser of muny excellent piano pieces has turned out several fine works this year chief among them being his second sec-ond arrangement of Rubinsteins Melody in F and Ala Valse dedicated dedi-cated to Pad rowskt S S S Mrs Percy SomeisCocks returned from London and reopened her studio Sle l wag heard at several recitals re-citals and concerts during the year and her voice Is sweeter and more perfectly per-fectly controlled than ever before Salt Lake 1 however will lose this cluamlng vpcalist aa she leaves early in the spring tb reside permanently In England 1 |