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Show Music and Musicians I On Monday evening at, Mie Slmhort theater music lovers of Salt Lake will have opportunity to hear Hie groalost woman pianist in tlio world. The Chicago Chi-cago Intor-Oeean has this to say about hor appearance in that city: To some rare natures It Is granted by a kind Providence to remain always young. They niovo In the world. In tlio very thick of tlio light, and wrest from It honor and fame and all that huccossj brings, yet retain thai line Idealistic enthusiasm en-thusiasm (hut Is the most blessed heritage heri-tage of youth. Such a nature Is Mine. Carreno'a. For a quarter of a century Kite has held u significant place In the ranks of the world's great pianists, a place where the ranks aru thin and not crowded, a place that has made Is possible pos-sible for her to exert a line and far-reaching far-reaching Intluenco on the development of her art In every quarter of the glono where art Is loved and understood. '1 Ime has touched her head with his frosty linger and silver strands are now mingled min-gled with the black. Uut her heart ban known no change and her art sllll giowj with that bright tlamo that Is kindled onlv when genius and a great nature unite tc- set forth thoughts that are beautiful. beau-tiful. , , . This was the abiding Impression that one carried away from Mine, (.'arreno s recital In Orchestra ball. It Is an Im- nresslon that comes most opportunely. For In our eager hunt, for novelty we arc in danger of forgetting that music was over meant to be beautiful, we have even becomo so advanced, many of us. that we can And nothing of lnetrest In the muslo of Chopin. And It Is safe to f u red in the minds and hearts of her bumble follow muslelaim who heard her. Tim programme revived other charine Ing bits of romance, the Tscbalkowsky song without words. ihr MaeDowoll barcarolle, bar-carolle, and "Witches' Dance" It added as novelties a fantasie by I'oldlnl. thai Impressed as Indng a plnnlslli: adaptation adapta-tion of the imi.slc.nl Idiom of Puccini, and a humorcsque by the same writer that was a grateful technical trifle. The Chromatic" fantasie and fugue of Bach and the Hcetboven sonata, op. 101). opened the programme. Tho ladies of the First Presbyterian church and the members of the choir arc working hard to make a success of tlio forthcoming musical affair to be given at tho church, Monday evening. January '21. when the ichoir. consisting con-sisting of Mrs. Jack Taylor, soprano; Miss Edna Dwyor, contralto; Fred C. f! rah tun, tenor, and J. V. Curtis, basso, will give for the first time in this city, the song evolo "In Fairyland," by Orlando Or-lando Morgan, with Miss Maud Thqrn at the piano, and a select orchestra, including in-cluding Miss Helen Hartley, Clarence Burton. Miss Kiln Pitts and George Wise, under the direction of George K. Skelton. This song cycle is somewhat similar to Liza Lehmann's cycle, "A Persian Garden." which has been givon several times with success. It is a most ambitious undertaking for local artists, but tho members of the church think thoir choir soloists are equal lo the occasion, oc-casion, judging from the artistic rendi-! 1VEMI5. TERESA CAEEENO. v" At tlio Shubcit thoatrc Monday uiglit, January 17. von l the censor. New provisions relating re-lating to tho censorshij) include ono that permits productions in any case, yet with a possibility Hint the theater in which the production is mado may lose its license in a certain .contingency, ll is safe lo say that Salome will be produced pro-duced in London, for Ihc operatic public pub-lic in that city probably desires it as strongly as the New York public did. There is a curiosity not closely related lo art, that controls in such casos. Mischa TSIman. who arrived last week, made his first appearance in Now York with tho Boston Symphony orchestra or-chestra on Thursday evening. Elman was also soloist Saturday afternoon in New York and J-'riday ovening in Brooklyn. Jane Noria is ono of the now siugssc of tho Metropolitan Opera house of New York, and of the Boston Opera house. She is a St. Louis girl and one of the many young American singers who have conic to the front in recent years. Possessed Pos-sessed of gcat personal beauty, she was popular with tho audiences who heard her sing with one of tho Savage opera companies tinder tho nanio of Jano Lud- uig. While singing with Savage, she was studying hard and her graduation into the ranks of grand opera singers whs the natural development of her talent, which is considerable. Countess Cassini, wife of tho formor I Russian embassador at Washington, mado her debut on tho stage in Paris on Monday last. She will bo known on the stage as Mnrgttorilo Coraui, the maiden name of her grnndinother. Tho countess -vas famous for hor voice when sho was in Washington. She snug at many pri-vafo pri-vafo concerts and lod in fnshtonablo gny-etios gny-etios and amateur theatricals in the youngor social set, and was a close friond of the then Alice-"Roosevelt. Countess Cassini has been living in Paris almost over since sho left Washington. Wash-ington. She has boon studying singing under several famous voice trainers here. Ono is Professor Frabadclo, who trained Mary Garden for. her role in ''Monna Vanna. " Tenor hunting has always been ono of the exciting elements of an imprcs-sario's imprcs-sario's life. There arc those who hunt with fat contracts for their rival 's singers, and those wiio seen among tlio lowly and the unknown for discoveries. Andreas Dippel. admlnisl rativo man agor of the Metropolitan Opera, ono m the keonesl of tenor hunters, recontij had his curiosity singularly whetted by a phonograph. From the instrument came a tenor voice of the rarest bounty, of tremendous power and melting tenderness, ten-derness, unlike any he had ovor heard-(Mr. heard-(Mr. Dippel jumped at tho instrument o Lsce who the singer was, determined o cngago him at any cost. UnfnrliinnlPly the record did not give the artist s name. Mr. Dippel is now trying to find (ho origin of I ho record through tho phonograph company. The singer seems to have sung for tho phonograph for a joko. leaving no name. Sybolla White Clayton, who is lo nppear this (Sunday) afternoon with tho Svmphony orchestra, has won an enviable reputation as a pianist, both at home and abroad. 1 1 or admirers at homo arc logion, and oomo iden ot what strangors abroad think of her may bo gathered from tho following notices, taken from l.ho Berlin papers on Iho occasion of her debut with Ihc Philharmonic orchestra last year: The voung artist. Sybclln Clayton, showed 'herself poKHcarifd of a light-Mowing, and charmingly worked out t.ybnlc demonstrating that she lacks nothing in Ihc lino of musical gifts. The Berlin Musical Courier says: Miss Clayton Is of the brilliant type of pianists. pian-ists. She has plogancc of ntyl anil a very efficient technical equipment. Willi hor clear, pearly work, she made all passages pas-sages stand out clearly above Iho orchestra. or-chestra. Sho produces an excellent tone and in point of rythm. dynamics nnd accent ac-cent revealed splendid musicianship. Alexandor Birnbauin. orcheslra conductor con-ductor of the Koinisclio Opera in Berlin, Ber-lin, who has been in this country since November, will conduct the orchestra during the remainder of Loie Fuller's American tour. The greatest orchestra event that hns occurred in Cincinnati for a long lime was the concert given by the Damrnch Symphony orchestra on Friday evening Inst. The programme wns confined to Strauss and Wagner. Tho orchestra, with Mr. Dumroch, numbers 10(1 men and this tour celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of his conductorship. C. PIdward Clarke, the baritone has cabled his acceptance of an offer by a western manager of a concert tour for the soas6n of 1010-11. Mir. Clarke, also received a proposition for a rocital tour of fifty recitals, but decided in favor of tho concort tour, and so, beginning next Soptombcr. he will givo u series of 100 concerts throughout the United States and Canada, under a Chicago management. manage-ment. The Musical club of Mrs. Agness Dahlquist Bcckstrand spont a most enjoyable en-joyable afternoon last Wednesday at her studio, when a paper on tho life of Franz Schubert was given by Miss Edna Slookoy, followed by a short musical programing of some of his compositions. |