Show II v I a am I1 tti Iif1HlrtIJ sr tt pi 4 T CUR 1ST MAS MUSiC I COMING Churches Preparing for Yuletide Ministers Assail Wagners Parsifal Week In Musical Circles o I Ll1J Ja I uj UB n IIa 1f n b s ln SAWiVWmaX rtXffj n r MISS CLARKS PHOQBAMME Is a Collection of Classic and Popular Music Miss Arvllla Clarks recital tomorrow night to judge from the programme will bo one of the best or the season She Is admirably supported and has chosen a programme that should please all sorts of musiclovers Prof Stephens Steph-ens will be In charge of the Tabernacle choir which has been working hard for this appearance It shows too the effect of the drilling it got for tho appearance ap-pearance with Nordica Miss Clark is i said to be In fine voice and at her concert In Ogden the other night delighted her whole audience Prof McClcllan has chosen some selections se-lections that are always popular while lirl ham Is going to sing some very catchy airs as well as some dlfllcult music The programme follows Selection Tabernacle Choir null Organ a Oh for a Hurst of SongAlllL 1 b Lain La In Brahms c Oh Don Fatale from Don Carlos Vcrill Miss Clark a I AYIU Love Thee Grice b Murmuring Zephyrs Jensen c The Dawn ITJImdclot Mr Kirkham Grand Offeitolre In D i Saint Cecelia CcccllaRa Patlstc I MrMccVellan a Selected 0 b Tiatiemc Tristan and Isolds IsoldsWagner c Home Sweet Homo I Ties Clark n Selected b 1 Come Into the Qiirdcn MaudBalfc Mr KIrkhain Select Ion Tabernacle Choir Ducts a Still ns the Night Gootico b 1 Carineiiia Wllnon Miss Clark qnd Mr Kirkham a Trauemerpl Schumann b An old melody Mr McClcllan a Aria from Samson and Dulllnh SuliitSncns b Oh That We Two Wwo i MuyinnKevin Kevin c Aria from Robert du Diablo Meyerbeer Miss Clark CHILDREN TO APPEAR Sixty of St Marys Junior Choir Preparing Pre-paring Contata The members of the junior choir of St Marys cathedral will give their cantata The Brownie Band at the Grand Theatre on Wednesday December Decem-ber 9th The entertainment will be given In honor of lit Rev Bishop Scan lan and the proceeds will be for the benefit of the Sundayschool and choirs Sixty children will appear the leading lady of the cast being 1 years old Special Spe-cial work will be done by Clara Face Thomas and Bernadlne Fcenay Margaret Mar-garet Connelley Millie Williams and Mary Ilalloran Many piominonl members of the congregation con-gregation have already taken the Iox sand s-and stalls and the I affair promises to be successful TO GO TO OGDEN Charles Kent and Others Sing for theY the-Y M M I A Charles Kent will give a recital in the Ogden Tabernacle on Tuesday night of this week assisted by Miss Ivy Price Miss leona Taylor Willard Weiho and the chorus of the Taber nacle Squire Coop will be the accompanist accom-panist The programme la as follows All Thro1 the NIGht Welsh Male Chorus of the Y M M I A Direction of Squire Coop Bopronn solo Miss Ivy Price a Tender Thought of Ono Dear Heart Broad b Last hose of Summer Violin bolo Air RusseiWIenluwskl I Wlllard Wclhc Sonia Charles Kent a Look In Mine Eyes Ivan I Caryl From the opera La Clyalc b llfl Not so to Be Ncsalcr From the opera Dcr Trumpeter Von Snkklnccn J c GoodBye Tostl Soprano solo Miss Leona Taylor a You and 1 < Lehinunn b Comin Thro the live I Violin solo Andnne and Finale from second Concerto Wlenlawakl I Willard Wclhc Songs Charles Kent n Toll Me Koiscr b Always Bowers c The Toreador from the opera of Carmen Bizet A PLEA FOR TEXTS I Musio Is Not Music Without the Words I An Eastern writer says The key to the music oC a good song is the text lIt t is in this as it is In the UagnerJan drama The object of the composer is to make what Wagner In his ctimberous way called wordloncspeech In the works of contemporaneous songwriters song-writers of the Wolf and Strauss class this effort is carried into every detail It Is absolutely necessary for the hearer to know the aim of the music before he can enter Into Its spirit Sitting at a song recital In these days and pimply listening to hear u I voice intoning sonGs without words as if It were an Instrument is the height of foollshncBy It Is like the familiar custom of going r to the opera and 1 remaining re-maining in utter Ignorance the story which Is being enacted while waiting for a bit of melody in the old arIa form The modern song demands Intelligent listening People who go to hear such singers as Sembrich and applaud them for the sake of a I few sweet tones in their voices pay them the same sort of compliment they would pay t t Corot by telling him that they liked the shade of green he used In his trees MINISTERS AND PARSIFAL They Take Exceptions to Wagners Great Work v It is most unfortunate that ct lain wellmeaning ministers of the Gospel have permitted themselves to be drawn Into the controversy about the projected performances of Richard Wa norH Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera house It Is Unfortunate because their promulgations will in the end serve only ay advertising matter for Mr Con rieds enterprise It is still more unfortunate un-fortunate because what the reverend gentlemen have thus far said has disclosed dis-closed an ignorance of Wagners work its scope its content and its purpose much wider than any church door and deeper than a well There does not appear to be nny Midl dent cxcuti for this The last of Wag ners music dramas is no dark and hidden hid-den mystery It Is an open book It can be purchased in the marls of music at a low price The German text is translated Into English of a singularly impotent nature by one Iluckel with whom the ministers seem to have met into a tolerably literal text by the Cor der family and Into somewhat passable verse by the late John P Jackson There IB no difficulty at all In learning what the lyric 1 play is and of what topics it treats Nevertheless it Is I plain thai some reverend gentlemen have not road the book and are laboring under the delusion de-lusion that it deals with incidents narrated nar-rated In the Bible that it puts tho si + crcd person of the Savior of mankind on the stage and that it depicts scenes which are the especial property oC the church One of these reverend gentlemen gentle-men says There 1s i a general repugnance among Christians to the personal representation rep-resentation of Jesus on the stage or anywhere else and especially is 1 there a repugnance to the spectacular representation repre-sentation oC the very blood of Christ I In Partrifnl not only Is Christs person represented but the blood All of this is highly Interesting news It would indeed be Important If true Unless the Protestant clergyman who furnished the above sentences to n reporter re-porter In a believer In the Roman Catholic Cath-olic doctrine of transubstantiation he has no good ground whatever for say ing that tic blood appears in Wagners drama It is true that the ceremony of the communion is outlined in the Jlrst act but it is made entirely subservient to the unveiling of the Holy Grail If the reverend gentleman desires lo offer objection to the representation of the Eucharist on the stag thls writer will not take issue with him It Is thc most solemn yacramciit of the Christian Chris-tian church and to see It performed by actors paid for their services as part of a dramatic spectacle may well be painful to devout believers But there Is nothing In the text or stage directions Wagner to Indicate that even an attempt Is made to identify Iden-tify thc wine in the cups in the first not with the actual blood of the Savior Sa-vior Since it Is perfectly plain that the excited ministers have not carefully read Wagners Parsifal it may he well lo quote the t moat questionable passage In the text It occurs In the prayer of Amfortas when bowed before the Holy Grail which Is still in its veil resting upon an allarlike marble table The hour Is nigh The nullancG + finks upon tho Holy Shrine The veil Is raised The sacred vessels consecrated blood O glowing glorifying flood Thrllld through with bliss of tho most rapturous smart Tho fount of blood divine Pours gently in upon my heart Does the reverend gentleman not perceive per-ceive that this is figurative language < When the Grail is subsequently unveiled un-veiled it proves to be a crystal vase and it does not contain any blood Am forUis speaks oC the blood which according ac-cording to the legend did once flow into that vase from the wounded side of the Savior on the cross No blood is therein there-in the play When Amfortas in obedience obe-dience to the command of his father Tllurcl has unveiled the Grail the choir of boys In the dome of the palace rings the very words of the liturgy In the Lords supper There Is something to which ministers may object If they desire to do no and this writer will not 1 I fall out with them Now as to tho miraculous Illumination of tho cup Wagners stage directions Bay A t blinding ray of light sinks down from above lighting the cup which slows in i c ever increasing power and illumining m purple luster While all are reverently l m g bowed before the Grail TIturol exclaims ex-claims i i O rapture celestial low glorious the glance of the Lord There is something more to which I i ministers may object if they wish ro r 1 this writer It seems to be an attempt to put into the mouth of the aged man i t t words suitable to a rapt and exalted 1 t 1 condition of mind It is hardly likely + I that Wagner conceived of Titurel as believing 1 I g be-lieving that the light was the actual ra I dtance from the eye of the Almighty t i Wagner was by no means without a sense of humor and lie was altogether 11 loo much of a mystic to have treated such an episode with a cheap materialism I material-ism which would have made it rldicu i dous New York Sun 1 t i Sharps and Flats rt I t t 1 > r George 12 Skelton has discontinued g his music at the Knulsford during the t dull winter season His orchestra was well liked and the Knutsford parlor floor was well filled each evening to I m listen to it I t t i The music for todays services at St Marys cathedral Is as follows I Gin Voluntary Schubert 1 Dines in D Lajeal a I Soloists Miss Owen Mr Dunbar I ml J Ii i Ave Marie Stella Rosewifj t I Mrs Vhlleman Messrs Dunbur and i I Whltcman f o Following is the programme for Heldfs 1 1 band concert at the Grand theater Sunday 1 Sun-day night Nov 29th l i A Night in Berlin Mcyrellea CaorlccH li n Enchantment Theo Bendls 1 b Just a Jigger Alabama Danco I Haines I t ° Cornet Solo Jnflamatua Rossini Sons OUt Olio 011 I MIPS Katlo Fordyco a Gems from Moscncnl I 1 a Allegretto for Clarinet Mr Sims r Slcillnnn for Baritone Mr i Stevens MezzoSoprano Solo Fleeting DaysBailoy I I l Bailey II Mrs Leona Rice Tudenotir m Trombone Quartette Listen to the t Band Von Tllzcr Messra Montgomery Fanning Slngrey and OKenncdy ° Overture Scmlramhlfs or Rossini |