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Show S3 i Much Work Outlined. h An jxlnuistlve and comprehensive study J. '. of various phases of music has boen out-v out-v lined for the year's work by tho music V j : sect. on 01 the Ladies Uterary club. The L ' meetings arc scheduled for ihe first and "f second Tuesdays of each month, beginning begin-ning with September, and half-hour lectures lec-tures will feauire each session. At tho first meeting. September 2. Professor J. J. MoClellan will discuss "Advantages of Studv Abroad," and on September 16 Professor William A. Wctzell will lecture on "Musk- In the Schools." The Rev. Elmer I. Goshen and Professor John T. Han.l arc announced as lecturers for the Orw bor sessions. Each meeting will also be marked by numerous brief papers, lall-s by the members and special mu- Praiso for Salt Lake Artists. The Shaw- musical dramatir trio, comprising com-prising Miss Zcra Shaw, Miss Dorm Kvam and Miss Marie Hughes, all of Sr.lt T-ake City, has Just completed a successful concert tour of Idaho. Montana. Mon-tana. Wyoming and Colorado. In every citv an 1 town where the young women appeared ihe press comments on their artistic work were highly favorable. The Powell (Wyo.) Tribune says: The audience w'as large and every number on the long programme was greeted with spirited applause. Miss Hughes, as harpist, was a favorite, owing to her beauty and grace, added to her skill as a musician. Miss Shaw, the star performer, sang and recltfd with equal skill, and her numbers seemed especially adapted to her audience. Mies Evans, tho pianist, supported the soloists In flno stvle, and, taken as a whole, tho recital 'wan declared by critics to be one of tho finest ever heard in Powell fi .j Fivo Nights of Music. '? i During the week a novel programme is TB ! ; arranged for the Majestic pavilion. Mon- $ t i dav is the onlv one of the six week ar-J ' nights that the pavilion will be dark. On j ; ' Tuesdav the regular weekly dancing fes-gl! fes-gl! tlval. with two big bands, will be held: vet I Wednesday evening a large symphony j ; band will play for the dancing, and the dot, management has arranged to play all " dances by number and to furnish patrons 3;' with programmes. Thursday evening be- , ing Pioneer day. patriotic popular music 0tJ S will have full sway. Friday evening t i will bo. known as "Home night." As ' -y manv Utah compositions as possible will j ft . be p'laved and the good old songs of by- 1 i ' gone days will be heard again. Saturday r-.Tvm again by "popular night." and the i i ; catchv, up-to-date two-steps and waltzes si iwill be played by Mr. Roberts and his JEaE banfl. .11 Hanimerstein Returning. "M Oscar TIammerstein, the grand opera impressario. is Just returning from an iju'eN tended trip to Europe In search of S artists for the approaching season of tfgrand opera in New York, according to ; ' a letter yesterday received from Otto : - Hauerbach by his father, Adolph Hauer- bach, of this city. ." 5 Mr. Haucrbacli was one of a party Wi J which made the trip with Mr. Hammer-. Hammer-. ' ptcin. Ills own object in visiting several HUB .(important cities in Europe was to gain A !?isome new ideas for Introduction in a i musical comedy which he is working y,i i on. Mr. Hauevbach is joint author of "A UUJ Fascinating Widow" and other musical ro medics, and ho says that the forth -i Q coming production is to eclipse all his ftji former creations. He will be In New -.. j j York In a few days. Concert at Hotel Utah. r- (i The Hotel Utah orchestra, assisted by ;. Fj, Ipliss Esther Davis, soprano, and U. P. f.Chtifctensen, cornet soloist, will render efc 'vtho following programme in. 'the lobby of 3w,i ilho hotel this evening at S-30; ' AVeid:ns Day at Troldhuugen plOOi j!- Edvard Grieg . to"ocul, "Hay Making" Needham id 01 Miss Davis. , ilifta) Kmvarotlc from "Tales of Hoff- n K mil mi" Offenbach - ei'11 Ave Maria Bach-Gounod 3r ? Vocal. rtj0iU) Sympathy from "The Firefly".. N-10" Friml nrjfi(b) 'Aloha Oe" (by request) 0U A Lilloukalani - m Miss Davis. UliMlle. Roslta." selection , .Victor Herbert .jJIGornet solo, "The Lost Chord". .Sullivan ''if Li. P. Christensen. qQh Concert at Liberty Park. yO This aftcrucou from 12:30 until 5:30, at ,1 Ililiem park, the Mollerup military band, C. Mollerup director, will present the fol- i t? lowing programme in public concert: March, "The Arcade Girl" A. Pryor Overture, "Itallens in Algiers. .. .Rossini Waltz, "Our Girlies" M. Tobanl -aC rjTlic Broadway Review," popular.... Co I J. 13. Lampe ' Canzone Amoroso," Venetian love i song E. Nevin InrUHltFlve minutes' intermission. ' Herliey selection. "Remicks No. 15".. SOtW 'f L.amte 1 .Gretchen," Intermezzo ..Carroll Martin 311165' Selection from "Chocolate Soldier"... ' 4 O. Strauss gjrt -Love Dance from Every L-lttle Movc- il ijjment" Karl Hoschna . , 'Alhambra Max-ch" .... Paris Chambers .. iFInale "Star Spangled Banner." jp Concerts at Saltalr. .Conductor Montgomery announces an tractive programme for the band con-l con-l Jt prta at Saltalr this afternoon and even-IQ even-IQ iir. Miss Myrtle Blade, soprano, will ' the soloist. The following numbers Jill be given: fverture. "Luspell" Keller Bella 'election, "II Trayatone" Vordl .!ltPPrano solo Selected afl C1, , Mr' Myrtle Black. election popular airs of tho day.... ylB, 'iDance of tho Hours of Gio Conda".. E, "ji Pucinnl nUfwJ' Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" from yt amson and Dellla" yection, "Countiss de Haufmann.. S Offenbach ' wch, "Procession of tha Knights of tho Holy Grail," from Parsifal " Wagnr i f Prefors American Singers. ! Milton Abom, who has Bpent the last mi ifl' wee"s abroad, securing singers for ;llKB lll.e new Century Opera company, of l .ir,P?. I?. b .he B m?nagor, is so far as pos-tHPe8' pos-tHPe8' iPIe chooElruj Americana for his soloists. 'C. Vr Abor,n explains that other things be-)DO be-)DO 'IhBr equal, tho American artists possess Jtlfc advantage of singing well In various . '.fcguages, while the foreigner, he Eayn, JgB well only In his own tongue; tho -rman Is a success only in German Z0- ra. the Italian In Italian, and so on. 4 r. Aborn will present an opera the st night In its original language and 5 lo.w thls wIth s,x n'Ehts of the same I T LD rlc ln English. Ho expects also to - ' urc an American conductor, as his . . 4 'orlenco Ik that foreign conductors ithC 5 k versatility. ' caff ft S I Concerts at Lagoon. cni5T;hu5to,',s bancl WIH Piny the following S, faU -il?ramnie of music for the afternoon allieB 3ijfieVorn concerto at Lagoon: (Pe,rlCLn Intermezzo" Kretschmer gUppkeo Consul," oporatlc selection.. fc1i.H crnet solo ...,R. Sweeten Jpumington Gray," concert march., jkjiC' G:-afulla Tilramide," overture Roeslnl - " lfcV0?lc ,Dance" .Dvorak vlSVda ' Mexican dance Shun 'JjKmng Journals,' concert waltz.... Strauss Aa? of .popular Aim" Shapiro 1 nry-Km d,,ne, march Musterman L-al l 1 (f(K 5r1 Soi6eSl Hartraana to Live in Paris. Vi4ihl!,1;. "tmunn, violinist and com-1 com-1 A-IIKri V JL more than twJ years haa 1 Bu"al0 N. y., .will floon mako Soloist, Christ Scientist Church MRS. STELLA ANG-ELL FLETCHER. his permanent home In Paris. Recently he said: 1 can scarcely realize that I have lived here so long, so quickly and happily has the time passed. 1 shall always hold Buffalo in grateful remembrance re-membrance and it will always be dear to me, for here my Utile son was born. Naturally, I am pleased to return to Paris. I feel the need of living In a center where I can have the companionship com-panionship of men of art and letters, and 1 have many friends among such men in Paris, It is there that I hope some day to create something worth while, something of a more ambitious kind and of wider scope than I have yet attempted. Tabernacle Organ Recitals, For the free public organ recitals given daily this week at noon the following programmes will be presented. MONDAY. (Assistant Organist Tracy T. Cannon at tho organ.) Offertoire No. 5 ."Woly (a) Reverie du Solr St. Saens (b) Ave Maria Richmond (a) Matins Faulkes (b) Old Melody Arr. by performer Sortie In G Lcmmens I TUESDAY. (Assistant Organist Edward P. Kimball at the organ.) Selection from "Lohengrin" Wagner (a) Cradle Song D'Evry (b) ReVerlo Noblo (a) Mediation Serlcuse Bartlett (b) Old Melody Arr. by performer Processional March Rogers "WEDNESDAY. (Organist J. J. McClellan at the organ.) Selection from "rPasllacci".. Leoncavallo (a) Cantlleno Dubois (b) The Rosary Nevin (c) An Old Melody. . .Arr. by performer Prelude to "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner THURSDAY, (Assistant Organist Tracy Y. Cannon at the organ.) Andante Seraphique Debat-Ponson (a) Capricclo Rheinberger (b) Even Song Johnston (a) Prayer Borowskl (b) An Old Melody. . .Arr, by performer Grand Choeur Rogers FRIDAY, (Assistant Organist Edward P. Kimball at the organ.) Sposallzto (The Wedding) Liszt (a) Canzona Amorosa (requested) Nevin (b Buonna. Notte (requested) .. .Nevin (a) Andante (5th Symphony) ........ ., Beethoven Cb) An Old Melody. . -Arr. by performer March In C Read SATURDAY. (Organist J. J. McClellan at tho organ.) Special request programme. Requests are to be mailed to Organist McClellan, director Utah Conservatory of Music, Templeton building, before Friday Fri-day noon of each week. Only good standard music will be considered. con-sidered. New Story on Paderowski. "Mophlsto," writing ln the current issue of Musical America, telln the following now and good story on Padcrewskl: You know that In the early part of his oaroer the groat Ignaco was not very successful, and, Indeed, it -was not until he went to the celebrated I LeHchetisky that he commenced that career which afterward mado him world renowned, One day a gentleman happened to moot Paderewski and referred to hla naying studied with Lcschottzky. "Oh, yes," replied Paderewski, "he taught me how to play billiards!" If the Btory holds water it will Illustrate Il-lustrate the proverbial gratitude of muBlcal prodigies to thoso who have helped elevate them to their position. posi-tion. Ona thing is certain: Paderewtskl can play billiards In an unequaled manner, and it is no uncommon thing, '"v?" ne is touring the country, to find him In the billiard i-oom of a hotel playing with anybodv who will come along and tackle him. to tho last minute, when he has to rueh to tho hall where he la to give a recital. re-cital. Finland's Olxoir Wins Praise, Finland's famous choir. "Suomcn Lnu-u Lnu-u which, being- Interpreted, means 'The Song of Finland" met with ready appreciation on the part of London critics crit-ics at the thren concerts that marked lt recent introduction to tho English public. At tho same tlmo an recognition was uc-t. corded its position as a choir of the highest rank, however, the quallticatlon of superlatives was made that "offhand one might name half a dozen towns in the north and midland of England where singing us good as. and occasionally better bet-ter than, that of the Finnish choir may be heard quite frequently. At the second concert the singing of this band of Finns under Helkkl Klem-ettl's Klem-ettl's baton again, it is recorded, "delighted "de-lighted all ears by the beauty, the finely controlled enthusiasm and tho finish of their singing." This chorus first came into being in 1900 as a male voice choir and as such it toured- various countries on the continent con-tinent with success. Seven years later, however, it was recognized as a mixed choir, and now it consists of about sixty-five sixty-five voices, drawn mainly from the professional pro-fessional classes. Conductor Klemetti has been telling Robin H. Legge of the London Daily Telegraph that there are very few countries possessing older musical musi-cal traditions than Finland, but the material ma-terial foundation for these traditions is difficult to find. That circumstance is said to be due to the fact that tho old city of Turku (Abo), Finland's former capital and a city of great culture, has several times been destroyed by fire. Indeed as recently as 1S27 it was burned to the ground, and with It there perished the university library, which contained practically all the treasures, literary and artistic, amassed in bygone years. A few of these treasures, however, were saved, among them being the mediaeval .collection of school songs, entitled Piae Cantiones, some of which date from centuries cen-turies back, and were first printed as long aon ns In 1SS?. Though many of theso songs may be of Finnish origin It is not quite certain that such is the case: but at least they have become absorbed into the musical blood of the Finn, and that is a main point. So far as can be ascertained tho earliest modern Finnish composer of rank was Bernard Crusell, who, born in 1775, died ln 1838; but he lived most of his life In Sweden, and had little if any influence over his countrymen. It Is for this reason rea-son that pride of place is nowadays given to Frcderik Paclus, who died as recently as 1S01: he composed the first Finnish opera. Musical America, Favors "Parsifal" in Vaudeville. Tn discussing the proposed production of "Parsifal" in the Coliseum theater, London, Robin H. Legge, in the London Telegraph, expresses himself as entirely in sympathy with the Idea. That it will bo regarded by many as heretical, as Impious, Im-pious, he doeB not question. Yet ho believes be-lieves that the scheme, if really carried out well, will be sure to raise the tone of the variety theater to a level considerably consider-ably higher than that on which it already stands. After all thero is no vast difference, differ-ence, he argues very plausibly, between the stages of Covent Garden and the Coliseum theater as frames even for so spiritually exalted a drama, provided that the performance is given with all the necessary nec-essary reverence. Of course, If the "Parsifal" "Par-sifal" tableaux were sandwiched between be-tween a couple of "nigger" entertainers and a set of performing dogs, the impression im-pression would be injured; but the management, man-agement, it seems, has provided against such an assault on tho feelings of the J susceptible. "It la really time to have done." the English critic remarks, "with the cant of the superior person who affects to believe that the variety theaters cater only for the empty-headed Jcuncsse doree and the bar-loafer." The famous English tenor, John Sims Reevoa. who appeared ln the Palace theater the-ater a good many yearn ago, was one of the first artists of high standing, in the opinion of Legge, to encr the domain of vaudeville. Others who followed his ox-ample ox-ample were Mme AlbanI, tho great dramatic dra-matic soprano; Ben Davres, the Welsh tenor; the soprano, Marie Novello, a daughter of the music publisher, and Isolde Mongcs, violinist, who within the last few weeks has been giving successful success-ful recitals in London. It was not long enough ago to be for- ; gotten by present-day music lovers ln I the British metropolis that Sir Edward Elgar, now recognized everywhere as one of the most representative English composers, com-posers, appeared with hla great Indian Alasquo at the Coliseum. Leoncavallo, author of "Pagllaccl," was not ashamed to write an opera specially for the London Lon-don Hippodrome nurt to conduct the work thero himself last year before vaudeville audiences. Pletro Mascagnl, too, conducted con-ducted In tho Hippodrome a series of performances of his "Cavallerla Rustl-cana," Rustl-cana," and with evident relish: Leo Fall composed expressly for that place of entertainment en-tertainment his operetta "The Eternal Waltz." and honored the Coliseum with a similar work Xrom his facile pen. Now -York Press, j began with dreams of operatic conquests? con-quests? Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin Judging by the amount that they are alleged to expend for music, it would seem that the Inhabitants of the "United States, of all the people In the world, should be free from inclination to "treason, stratagem and spoils." Portland Oregonlan John C. Freund. the editor of Musical America, has taken the trouble to find out how much we spend annually upon the divine art, which ho cultivates. His discoveries are flattering. If they do not prove that we are all passionate musicians they show, at least, that we spend money enough to give ourselves that appearance which Is just as well. " " One of the big Items is the cost of musical instruments. This amounts to saying ihat very few American families are without a musical Instrument In-strument of some kind. New York Commercial Music costs the people of the United States $600,000,000 a year, one-third of which goes for tuition, tu-ition, according to the estimate of John C. Freund. The spending of even such a vast estimate of money to give deep and Innocent pleasure is not an extravagance. ex-travagance. Compared with tho drink bill or the cost of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes ciga-rettes and snuff, it is comparatively insignificant. Music forms a desirable part of the high standard of living to which this country has attained, and all sociological authorities now agree that Innocent diversion is one of the prime necessities of life. The room Is to be made soundproof, so that readers in other parts of the library may not be disturbed. Music Notes. Of tho four recitals given ln Utah by Victor Christensen, the gifted boy violinist, the one at Logan last Tues- j day evening was pronounced the best : from an artistic standpoint. To Harry! G. Smurthwaite, organist of the Logan tabernacle choir, is due most of the credit- for bringing the young artist there. Violin students will no doubt be ln- ' tercsted in the two new violin solo?. , "Derceuse Slav" and "Meditation," fresh , from the pen of Gustav Schuster. Copies 1 are already on the market. j Miss Emma C Thursby, a talented j singer, who twenty years ago was a famous fa-mous soloist in Utah music circles, and who more recently was with Thomas's orchestra, is spending a few days in Salt Lake en route from California to Vcllowstone park. Under the training of Conductor L. P. Christensen. the Utah stato prison Is attaining a marked degree of proficiency and the men greatly enjoy the work. Last Sunday's public concort at the prison pris-on was attended by more than 300 appreciative ap-preciative listeners. One of the praiseworthy features of the Griffith's benefit concert, aside from the netting of about SS00 for Mie widow and family of the slain patrolman, was the , promptness and celerity with which the j excellent programme was carried out. j The curtain went up "on the dot" and I there was neither delay nor hitch until the finale. ! Spencer Claw-son, Jr., who has been j confined to his homo with rheumatism, is somewhat Improved and is able to do a little studio work. Prof. Ellhu Call and some of his pupils will give a vocal and Instrumental recital re-cital In K. of P. hall next Friday evening, even-ing, under the auspices of the Thistle club. Members of the club, their friends and the public are Invited. On Wednesday evening the "Midsummer "Midsum-mer Night's Dream" will be again presented pre-sented by the Dramatic club of the Utah university. Those ln charge are: Miss Maud May Babcock and Prof. Harold Goff. general directors; C. D. Schettler, musical director; Edna Evans, chorus director, di-rector, and Laura Poulson, dancing director. |