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Show I I MUSICJkNB MUSICIANS HI Aladdin, with his wonderful lamp I jiever- -worked prrcator marvels in tbi Hf -Sires of others llian .Fun Kubelik witl Rf lis wonderful violin in the lives oi Swliimsolf and family. From a peasant's mgJ Stit to a pulace in four sliort. years I from a poor qardeucr's son to the mas-ter mas-ter of a great estate, from the obscuriu to world-wide fame, and to have woli as wife tho most beautiful countess in oil Bohemia such, in brief, is tlie his-tory his-tory of the twentieth century Pasaniui, who is making his third triumphant tour of America. This wizard of the bow, who possesses a most livpnotic personality, who sways thousands with tho maie of his music, is. one of the B .rare noniuses seen only about, events even-ts 'third generation. B At IS Kubelik was an unknown B raduato of the Prague conservatory. BB )At 20 Europo and America had pro-BB pro-BB nounced him -''the greatest violinist" BB jot tho ape. At 22 he married Countess 'Bzaky-Czell. lu.tlie Ovc years sinco BB ihc has reconquered America once and a.' Jhiropo a halt-dozen times, and now is BB giving tliis side of the Atlantic an op-BF op-BF . portunity to enjoy his art in its full-Bfti full-Bfti est- maturity. H At the ayo of S ho created a yrcat V 'spnsation in his school by plavinp at Br IK1 an .accompaniment" which few BE, older musicians would have been able T to do. Hitherto Jan had been known as an imp. quick and ready in his K, studies, but a disturbing clement in K jeyery class. ' But for that afternoon all t )his shortcomings wcro forgiven. lie Br I wis . told to play something more, and t' jimmediately played a concerto by Ber-Jlioz. Ber-Jlioz. At (his time a "rent temptation m- came to the father of Kubelik. Bo- nF .the Either of six boys and and ijnaking but very littlo money, the srent temptation and advico of his friends M' fand neighbors to travel with .Jan as a H hoy prodigy was very strong, but tho If father could 'see farther ahead. Ho had B- noticed that these prodigies never W amounted to great musicians as they B grew up. B He was admitted to the Prague con- 6ervatory at the age of 12, although M entrance ago of others was 14. His Mfc ,Jrvca years at Prague conservatory were rather monotonous and he often fell t that his progress was very slow. But It :hs had his kind fathor to 6pur him on. aud at times when ho had nothing .to eat. would practico for hours on his i& old violin. His eighteenth year witnessed wit-nessed the beginning of his triumph and jhis greatest sorrow. He graduated from " jthe Prague consorvator.y boforo an audience au-dience of tho keenest critics. For his first, engagement he received $10, and i with $5 of the money ho bought a wreath for his father's funeral: "He died just before the public gave me tho reward for which he had S struggled," are the worda of the artiBt. ' tBut in his playing that day was a feeling that. only a man who has had n great sorrow can put into tho striugs of a violin. "When barcty 19 he supported sup-ported his mother and brother with his ' neagcr earnings. Soon after ho carried car-ried Vienna by storm, and now his i triumphs came" more easily. London, ,tho rock on which many an artistic ship lias been wrecked, was captured by the great sensational performance of" this l'hero of tho violin." Comfort and plent3' now camo his way, and finding himself the possessor of several million florins, ho becamo tho landed proprietor proprie-tor and owner of ono of the most magnificent mag-nificent castles in Austria-Hungary, and J ii 1902 married the Countess Szaky-Jzell. Szaky-Jzell. Music, lovers of Salt Lake will have the privilegei of hearinn- this ereat mas-tcr mas-tcr at the First M. E. church on Thurs- 0 I KUBEIiTEL Miss Hilda Greeson, a young lady of this city who Is a soprano with a remarkable remark-able voico, will sin at tho Plrst Presbyterian church this morning "Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem," with a violin obli&ato by Skolton. Tliis after- noon at the Y. M. 0. A. at 4 o'clock she will sing again, when Mrs. O. E. Wetzel will conduct the musical nrosrrammo. day evening, January 2, 1908. Tickets are now on sulo sale at tho leading music stores. . Albert Rosenthal, a .voung Califor-nian Califor-nian 'cellist, who has met with flattering flat-tering recognition abroad, made his Now York debut last weok at a recital in conjunction with Emily Stuart Kol-logg. Kol-logg. contralto. Both artists made an extremely favorable impression, Rosenthal's Rosen-thal's playing of the Boellmann's "Variations "Va-riations Sj'inphoniquc" receiving special spe-cial praise. f At Si. Clark's cathedral this evening at 7:30 the vested choir, assisted by Morris Andrews, violinist, will render the following progrninmo'of music. Tho general public is cordially invited. ProccssIonaJ "Hark! The Herald Angels Sine" Hymn No. 61 Choral Even-Son. Magnificat , ...Hayes "Nunc Dlmitlis" Vincent "Credo" Hayncs Anthem "Tho Star of Pence Parker Soloist, Miss Isabel Osborne. Trio "Praise To" Verdi Mies Edna Balloy. H. I. Bowles nnd Karl Schcld. Violin solo "Cavntlna" Rait Morris Andrews. Solo "Tho Kingdom" Eberhart Miss Edna Bailey. Ladles' quartette "I'm a Pilgrim; I'm a. Stranger" Maraton Soloist. Miss Edna Morris. Solo "The Christ Child" Coombs Miss Amy Osborne. Anthem "Hallelujah Chorus" Handel Recessional "Angels from the Realms of Glory" Hynn No. CO A. H. Peabouy. organist. Karl A. Sheld. cholrmauter. Following is a list of choir members: Sopranos Mrs. Gertrudo Murray, Mlsn Isabel Osborno. Miss Amy Osborno. Miss Elizabeth Spengler, Miss Haacl Bowman, Miss Edna Bailey. Miss A. Burton. Miss Elizabeth Groo, Miss Florence Clark nnd MIps May Alder. Boy Sopranos Damon Adams, Gordon Brown. Harold Pyko, B. Yates Brownter, Louis FTcdorlcksen, .losso Little Daly, Lc Grand Daly, Lesllo Pyko, Norman Godbe, Arthur Brown. Altos Mrs. W. F. Adams, Mlsn Edna Morris, Mrs. Thomas Wise, M1B3 Elsie Scheld Tenors E. E. Lamson. Harry Shearman, Shear-man, E. B, Helslor, II. I. Bowles and C. Williams. Bassos T. E. Harper, William E. Hill, Tom Wlso and Karl A. Schcld. New York Musical Chat. NEW YOKK, Dec. 2B. Tho illness of Mary Garden caused tho postponement of tho Jong-waitcd-for "Louise," by Charpentier. Curiously enough, the snmb fate has followed this opera in each metropolis whore it has bocn billed since its composition. Several things (onfpircd to mako its Parisian preuuciu lung delayed. The snme was true of London. Now York has waited sovon years to hear the opera, during which time it has been sung several hundrods of times by Garden in Paris and other cities. Now, whon the novelty seeking opera public of New York was on tho qui vivo of expectation on Monday night, Garden was suddenly taken with acute laryngitis, and will not aing for two wcoks. So again tho fir6t performance per-formance of tho famous opera is indefinitely in-definitely postponed. Nordica hns cancolled her engagement engage-ment for tho season with Oscar Ham-mcrstein. Ham-mcrstein. The prima doom clainiB that Camnanini, the Italian conductor at tho Manhattan, blew emoko in hor face j whilo Binging and olhorwiso made things 30 disagreeable for her that sho could tolerato it no longer. Campauini's wifo is ono of tho sisters Tetrazzini, nnd Nordica sayB that Campanini wished to oust hor from, tho company, in order to havo the coast clear for tho two Totra7.7.inis. HaminerBtoin's version is that Nordica did not draw, bo ho wished to put hor in special performances at popular prices. Bather than do this, Nordica lias withdrawn from her contract. con-tract. The disagreement appears somewhat some-what complicated, and tho real causo for tho famous singer's withdrawal from the opora company can only bo determined deter-mined later in tho season. Mme. Nordica Nor-dica is a stockholder in tho San Carlos Car-los Opera company, and sho will sing with them for tho rcst of tho season. Gustave Mahler, composer and conductor con-ductor of the Iioyal Court theater in Vienna, arrived Saturday, and will conduct con-duct works of Wagner, "Beethoven, Mo-7.art Mo-7.art and Weber at tho Metropolitan Opera house. Jlerr Mahler is Known nB ono of tho most advanced among Gorman composers. Ho has written several sev-eral orchestral symphonies nnd a number num-ber of songs. Ho excels as an interpreter inter-preter of tho German classicB. Brahms once said that whoover wanted to hear Mozart's operas should go 'where Mahler Mah-ler is conducting. His productions of tho workB of Mozart have bocome the models for all Europe. Ilerr Mahler will remain in Now York till May and will close tho Metropolitan season with a Beethoven fostival. Christmas evo Maudo Adams comes - I again to the Empiro theater. Sho will appear for two weeks in "Peter Pan," then will revive, some other successes boforo going on with her new pluy, 'Tho Jester. " This play is one in which Bernhardt scored a groat success suc-cess in Paris, and is ono of sovcral in which Maude Adams has followed closely after Bernhardt. "Le Bouffon " "Tho .1 ester" was played by Bernhardt Bern-hardt for many weeks consecutively in the larger European cities. Is is h:ud to be particularly adapted lo MnuJc Adams. n ( Mrs. Alfred Peters is the gut-at- f i her aunt. Mrs. W. A. Connor of I'lain- ' field. N. J., for the week-end. i ' . Miss Agatha Bcrkhool . is spending Christmas with Mr. aud Mrs. .1. V. Let son at thoirt country- home in tSti'lton, X. .J. ' b P Mr. and M re. Wing B. Allen are ' now at homo to their friends n Or- j ange. X. J., where they havo taken a house for tho season. ' V MisA Eleanor K. Peterson is spending spend-ing the holiday season in New York. During a part of her stay she will be, tho guest of Miss Mary Lombard at" East Orange, N. .1. j Itogcr Sherman, who is a senior at J Vale, will spend the holidays in V.'aah- ington. D. C. ! " ' I Mr. and Mrs. .1. .1. Bamberger sailed on Tuesday for a visit of five weeks in England. " j Clarence Bamberger, who is in college col-lege at Cornell, accompanied them, and will spend his holidays abroad. Julian Bamberger is up from Princo-ton. Princo-ton. He will spend the holiday season sea-son in New York, the guest of his sister, Mrs. Arthur Rchal. Miss Winfred Dyer, who is in school at Smith college, "will spend the holidays holi-days with her sister. Miss Ella, in Boston. Miss Ella Dver is a sludont of music in the New England conservatory conserva-tory of music. Mrs. Simon Bamberger arrived in Now York this weok and will spend the remainder of the vinter with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Bohal. Mrs. Henry Siegol nnd son Earle havo taken apartments for tho rest of tho senson at the Manhattan Square hotol, on Scventy-sovouth street and Contral Park West. |