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Show If pMUSIG AND 1 MUSICIANS ProlYbsor .1. .T. ATcClelhm returned home Tuesray from a trip throuch the northwest. J J c dedicated an organ at the Washington btatc college at Pullman. Pull-man. Here is what the Pullman paper 1 has to say of his visit thero: The long awaited has nt loot occurred! On lust Tuesday evening, before a crowded houso. ono of tlio moat famous liuiiilerH of tln pipe organ In America. John J. McClollan, of tho great Mormon Mor-mon tabcrnncle In Salt L,nko City. gave the recltnl ihnt formally opened the magnificent mag-nificent pipe organ recently Installed ifi the auditorium of the Washington Stato collcfiu. , "This iivenptg murks an epoch In tho historv of the college." declared President Presi-dent K. A. Bryan, in tho brief address with which he opened the exercise of the evening, lie then explained that the organ was really ' a combination of four organs, the "great organ" located on tho south side of the auditorium; the swell organ" and tin; "choir organ" situated on the north side of the nudltorlum, and Use "pedal organ," so-called because the huso parts are operated from a pedal hex- board beneath the foct of the performer, per-former, which connects with pipes upon up-on all of the other three organs as -well as controls notes peculiar to itself-These itself-These four organs Include twenty-six sub-organs or "stops." sounding over 1000 pipes, tho connection of which with tho lvcv board and bellows had required the use of between three and four miles of pneumatic piping. Mr. MeClcllan's recital consisted or seventeen selections, divided into ten numbers. Among thoso that partloular-Iv partloular-Iv linger in tin; memory arc the "Oberon Overture" of Webber, with, its dclleloiuj-ly dclleloiuj-ly modulated tono mixtures: "The Secret," Se-cret," by Gnutler, with striking contrasts In tone and touch; Batiste's "Com-msinlon "Com-msinlon In G." in its tiulct meditative beauty: the old familiar "Traucmerel o f.Sehutnann: the slow religious mjnors of Chan vet's "March of tho Holy Sacrament: Sacra-ment: I.emarc's "Andanllno." written to his wife; the two very difficult classical ft numbers, Bach's "Toccata and Fugue In i T) Minor" and the "Toccata" from ? WMni-'n Sixth OrL'aii SvmDhonv. both IM marvels of counter-point construction; j and the concluding number, the "Pilgrims' "Pil-grims' Chorus" and swelling "Grand March" fiorn Wagner's "Tunnbaeuscr." j ; Only one change was made In the orlg- i Innl programme, the Introduction of the .I popular "irumorcsquc" and "Rococo Serenade" as a double number, handled in such a broadly comic spirit as loft I . both the audience and the performer shaking with laughter, j It was fascinating to watch tho tech- 1 nlquc of the great organist, as he played i now on the central keyboard, or "grand km mumicl." now on the upper or "swell t'jt manuel." and again on the lower or ijjf -"choir maiUiol," while at times the feet J;jr scurried in a rapid scale passage over j the pedal keyboard. To tho reedy oboe 1 jl passage was ailded the sweet, round if I notes or the flute, while a suddenly i j drawn stop would add tho peal of the ' trumpet notes, or mingle in the vox : , hiiniann. with its marvolnusly deceptive L. Imitations of the human voice. Some of I the passages in the Bach fugue, cspcclal- f .' ly. were marvels of dexterity, j,' At the close of the recital Mr. Mc- .i . Clcllan expressed himself as charmed !'? with tho W. S. C. Instrument. "You jl 1 hnve -i One organ here," he said cnthntd- K; nsUei'tly: "an organ to. he proud of. The H , vox humana slop is csplnlly fine, "sis R ; fine as (hat In any organ I know except H - the ono in flic giant Instrument in the H Salt Lake tabernacle." I At the First Methodist church Ibis i (Sunday) evening Miss Romania Hvnc's string quartette will'v render ,. 'Plie Angels bercnade," by Braza, and "Fouc Pooin,1' by Lorainc. IB:'1 From ljiformatlon received by John James, corresponding scctetary at the lo-cal lo-cal Cambrian society, it would appear that neither of the two Welsh choruses, B; now touring the east and south will be in K. Salt Luke City for at least some time to 1, come, and maybe not at all during tho 1 present tour. The choruses arc In such a B' big demand elsewhere that their Aineri-ji Aineri-ji can managers have about concluded to forego the west entirely. This will be disappointing news to music .lovers herein here-in abouts. as the societies referred to tho Vi Mountain Ash 'falo Voice party, and tho Mads me JIughes Thomas Ladles' iH chorus are said to be the finost aggre- gallon of choral singers that lias ever jB visited "the shores of America. B This morning at the First Methodist tm church the soloists will bo Mrs. Gail Mills ' . Dimmltt and Miss Lcola Schradcr. At 'w the evening service Miss Amy Osborne. mi contralto, will sing "The Way of Peace." Jm& Music in the IllfC church this Sunday IffljJ morning will be an anthem by the choir ' U Hrd offertory solo by Mrs. J. 13. Smith. 'tn ' 'm " The music publishing bouse of Arthur mr P. Schmidt of Leipzig, which has a oB branch in Boston, announces a pub! lea - -m t'on w,1,c" w"l he of Bpeclal interest to 'j I American musicians, j B ' It is a Mt of compositions by the lata ":, W Edward MacDowell, which have hitherto ,i remained unknown to tho world aa tho 1 work of Edgar Thorn. Tho publishers . have ascertained that Thorn was really! '- , MacDowell. but have not been able to '' find out why the composer concealed his ! t Identity. Dr. Walter Ntclant. the well-! t known Berlin critic, In reviewing the. Thorn compositions, says that they are I a distinct acquisition for piano, especially j j , for music of the parlor and family circle. . Boston haa gono wild over "Tho Ar-.5 Ar-.5 cadiari3," the critics hailing it aa an even ; more successful piece than "Florodora" or "Tlio Merry Widow." It is being played there by the original New York company, Including Julia Sanderson, j 1 Ethel Cadman. Connie Kdlss. Pcrcival o Salt Lake Musicians MKS. J. C. JOHNSON, ISp., MlH Pianist, From tho Chicago Collcgo of " 'f llllM I ICnight, Frank Motilan and Alan M. Mudlc. Aa Is generally known, there is no music during Ihu entr'actes at a Parisian playhouse; this Is a continental custom. During the Intermissions, two or ihicc of which arc Inordinnntcly long, the playgoers play-goers promenade and talk. Drinking In I he thcalor is not so common by far as it is in England. At the majority of the playhouses tho performance be-Bhia be-Bhia at S:r;i) o'clock and tho final curtain usually descends about midnight. To commence tho evening entertainment with a one-act piece Is rsither the rule than the exception in Paris. Tho curtain cur-tain is "rung up" by sounding the traditional tra-ditional prompter's staff. The prompter's box it tnkes some time for an American to grow accustomed accus-tomed to. Especially If he lnve a seat in a box or a side balcony will It mar his delight of tho piece to see the prompter's hand turning over the leaves of the play book. The ushers, says the Chicago Herald, are almost Invariably women, who. unlike their London compeers, com-peers, are seldom either young or pretty. They make it a rule to retain tho visitor's vis-itor's coupon until he has delivered his PROF. ANTON STECKEL OF GERMANY, GER-MANY, Violinist, Who Recently Arrived in Salt Lako. gratuity. The regular price of a programme pro-gramme is 10 cents, but for the production produc-tion of "Cha'ntccler," for Instance, the playbill costs twlc that sum. At tho majority of theaters, matinees are given .. ft MME. LTZA I2JHMANN. The colobratBd composer of "Tho Persian Garden," who wlU appear at tho Salt Lako theatre November 2, assisted by her own English quartet, under Mr. Graham's management. on Hmiday anil Thursday, but not on Saturday. Horatio CoiiunM. baritone, owing to tho success of htr, firm lour of this country last season, haa been re-engaged for another an-other tour for tho coming season. Council Cou-ncil has been horaldod s ono of the llncst Llc(Ji.-.r slngnrs of the day. During several years' rouldenro In London ho was aokiiowldgcd as among the leading oratorio singers In England. Jlo has already al-ready hocn secured by the Now York Symphony orchestra. Minneapolis orchestra, orches-tra, Dotrolt Symphony orchestra, and no-gotlatlona no-gotlatlona are pending for engagements with tho Philadelphia and IVtl3burg orchestras. or-chestras. "Madume Troubadour" Is a chorualesa musical comedy to be produced by the .Shuberts. The cast will Include Grace La Jtue. Georgia Calnc and Van Itenssolacr Wheeler. Cycles of all Wagner's music dramaa, excepting "Parsifal." will be given at the Paris Opera this season, with now casts, and In many cases now nccnery. Paris will hear Massenet's "Don Quixote" Quix-ote" for the first time In October. Toresa Caireno will tour South Africa for the first tlmo in November. Popular appreciation of Caruso's voice was not always what it Is now. Verdi, for one, had small contldoneo In him. "When r created I'eodor In Milan." says the tenor, "he asked the names of the nrtista. and when he heard mine he interrupted. in-terrupted. 'Caruso? They tell me he haa a line volco. but it soema to me that his head Is not in its place.' " Coincident with tho departure of Oscar Os-car Kamnieratoln for Europe last week It became public that he had engagod Llna Cavallerl-Chauler for his London opera houpe. She will be a membor of Hie company lo open the house when, as Mr. Tlammerstcln expects, It Is completed com-pleted In- a year's time. Tilly Koenon. the Dutch contralto, waa an accomplished pianist before she studied singing. Dr. Ludwig Wullner Is engaged for a number of "Manfred" performances In Germany this season. A monument for Anion Dvorak was recently re-cently unveiled in Horitz, Bohemia. Coleridge-Taylor, the English composer, has been commissioned to wrlle a violin fantasia on American melodies for the Htchlleld (ConnD festival. It will be dedicated ded-icated to Maud Powell, who will play It on this occasion. Sevelk. tho violin pedagogue, compnls his pupils to practice as many hours dally as their strength will allow, making I hem play small sections of passages backwards and forwards hundreds, even thousands of times, in every possible fin--gcrlng and variety of bowing. |