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Show II LAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA t CONCERT BEST YET G5VEN IJ'lie Inst Is always the best. The four-?nth four-?nth coiica-t. the final one for the Sym-lony Sym-lony orcli'-stra for this season, was fen nt the Colonial theater on Sunday It-moon. It wns a splendid audience at greeted this popular Salt Lnkymu-!al Lnkymu-!al organization and In turn thT or-t-stra gat- a magnificent concert, the st one ot given. Professor UMllard Welhe was the soloist d he was ut his best. lie Is a master th the violin and he never rendered y music that compared with his ren-Uon ren-Uon of Concetto In D Minor of tho eat Russian master. Wienlawskl. I lets le-ts assisted by the full orchestra and I effort was the most brilliant one In t career. There Is a wldo scope In this iHterplecc- of Wienlawskl. a composition at Is oni of the most difficult to handle, la tin flr.st time for several years that Ofcssor Welhe has appeared its si solo-, solo-, and his handling of tho Wienlawskl mber u.th magnificent, lie was encored aln and again and he responded with human's "Abendlled." or Evening Song, companlment arranged for strings and ksooii by Professor McCIellan. flic i-um-eit opened with the "Ruy I an" ow i-lurc of Mendelssohn, which was udercd In a most delightful manner. iIh was followed by Schubert's tmfln-icd tmfln-icd SMiiphony and the melody of this ulful syuiphony was exquisitely brought j iSSk"In Cambrian Hills,"' n suite by Daniel I rJliPi-othi roc, who wns the adjudicator of j "!! rectnl national Eisteddfod held In iBktlt Lake, a deserlpilvu suite bearing out gMlie atmosphere of the country It speaks xJpf and In which some delightful eomblnu-Tatiulis. eomblnu-Tatiulis. j-irliciilaily In the strings and jpvooilwlud thorns are carried out. was jklvcn for tin first time. It was splendld-Afl: splendld-Afl: rendered, und the Welsh society, a alnrge number of whom were present in flglionor of their countryman, and they, as iWteo all ot firry, were profuse in their ap-wIausc. ap-wIausc. gimgVlc fifth number, ballet music from Ru-HIBikKtcIn'H Ru-HIBikKtcIn'H opera, "h'emmor.." based on ffiHvOii'H "L.illa Itookh.'' was exquisitely MHedCrt d. It was two of the suite of ljwU- dartre j the two rendered were the t,ijrst two. Dancing Girl's Dance" "and -STO'Toich Danco of the Bride of Kash- r'feWgThr Inst number was Liszt's "I.cs Pre-wides. Pre-wides. ' tin third of th"- symphonic poems that iiijslt-r composer. It -was perhaps ln hi .it number for the orchestra on he programme and it was magnificently wndered There -war, a barmotiy of niel-!y niel-!y such is one seldom hears, and when zyfk3 last i-traln of the splendid composition ?,3aras wafted over the auditorium the audi-lJ(MCO audi-lJ(MCO showed their appreciation by long dwBontlnucd nnplau.se. tWKA.S suld. the last I always the best, and SMiIh apr-Mfs lit thi- coin t-rt In its -n-ISJm-ty .Pel In "Leu Preludes," but tin-"Silllie tin-"Silllie pregr tinnu' wn5 a sph-ndld one and ilHblcndldlv tarried out. The Halt Lal;e jjjjR'Uiphunv on lustra Is thu pride not only JSmt. th" Capital city, but of the entire Sate. Th' re were a number or music VjSvt't'K ft nin various towns and cities 'iMliruitghout the state present Sunday aft-ugirnnou. aft-ugirnnou. Thl-t is Indft-atlvu or thu fame tin orcht stra. t wih the third concert of tho orchestra tier the direction of Profenaor John .1. .Clclhiii. and the manner In which the ogrjimin was carried out shows that jjllw a rrndui-tor he is a worthy successor rg f ProfcsBor Shepherd, who for four yearn ms ;ns condttttor. and tliat the orchestra Ik SJfi Mprovl ig so that It will only bo a short JH flllle until tt will rank with the best 2i f-the smphony orchestras In the coun- mji "An addition to this recital of the or- icsti.i was Mrs. Edward McGurrln. who fgk Hitrlbuled the charm that harp music jO in to an orchestra. KiK rAs ,nld. this was the Uyt c-onrert of the Symphony orchestra for this season. sea-son. The delightful music that has been given music lovers by this organization and the fact that an auditorium was tte-cured tte-cured so that the concerts could bo Hven upon a Sunday afternoon, thus Insuring a patronage necessary to maintain such an organization as the Symphony orchestra, has given the orchestra a permanent hold, and In a short while plans for next vcar will be made public. Professor Lund's View. The fourteenth symphony concert, and the best of the season of the Salt Lako Symphony orchestra occurred Sunday. 1 Ik-so concerts have proven to bo a great factor In the musical development of our community. In every wnv this last concert excelled the others of the present season. There wns noticeable freedom In the renditions and the response re-sponse of the ensemble to every intention of their genial and capable conductor shows a keen mutual sympathv and comprehension com-prehension to exist In this organization. Salt Lake City may well be proud of Sunday's achievement. ; Mendelssohn's "Ruy Mas" was played with all the spirit and vivacity which onlv gfves it Its iruo cluirm. ' The tempo and iiecunn-y were all that could be do- sired and the delicate shades were well portrayed. Tho wind section ccrtalnlv outdid Itself for controlled vigor without any suddenness or obtrusion. The unfinished symphony of Schubert delighted, as It ever does when well j played. The audience were entranced with tho soulfulness of the performance, and It created the? genuine Schubert "gelst." which mood, deep and unmistakable, unmis-takable, pervaded the entire audience. The soloist of the second Wienlawskl concerto in IJ minor was received with great applause. The audience felt a confidence con-fidence tbut this was to be a foremost feuture of the concert. The orchestra, fairly leaped In the .impetuosity of-the surging Introduction, and when the brilliant bril-liant passages teeming with verve, and energy poured forth from the artist's violin, tho exhilaration and power of It all swept over the overwhelmed large audience. au-dience. One forgot the technical part of it and lived In the messutce of this great epic- movement. The second movement was delivered with noble, sentiment, and If there bo violinists vio-linists who can express the deep Ivrlc sentiment sen-timent moio nobly, never losing for a moment the emotional intensity, and vet giving never an Intimation 0f sentlmental-lsm, sentlmental-lsm, I have failed in years of concert going go-ing in Herlln and Leipzig to hear them. An ovation was deservedly extended to the. player at this, the first pause. In the concerto. The last movement was given with great authority In true pypsv style. The splceuto and every detail of these tremendous tremen-dous dlfloultles nroeeedlng to a beautiful and faultless realization. Xow! The heart of the spellbound hearers almost slopped Wlllard Welhe. the artist, received an ovation, nnd as an encore rendered Schumann's Schu-mann's "Night Song' which was Indescribably Inde-scribably beuutilul. g The "Cambrian Hills" mado'a verv good Impression, and the dances bv Rubinstein Rubin-stein were fraught with the lollltv Intended, In-tended, aud the last number. "Lep Pro-hides." Pro-hides." by Liszt, was a glorious finish, reflecting great credit upon the Mr. J .1 McCIellan and every section of the orchestra. or-chestra. ANTHONY C LUND |