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Show ! Anerifcan Music Is Coming to Its Own fi i.s intoreHtintf to note what the clulis ;unl rn n wlr-n 1 sociftioH ;i ro doinjjf all over Hi" country and what will he L he attrau-Moji-: for tins winter's pkianure. M iiHlciil A mprica. !ti Its .spfi'Mal edition nf October Hi, with itx paxes, Rives Rlimpse of the artistic work to be car-iif-ij on in nearly every vity of importance impor-tance In thfi 'nlied States. More Atneri-i Atneri-i vi n mustcia nft are lieu rd tha n ever be-I'ore. be-I'ore. .VTaud Powell will make a eoaat-to-coa wt tour, iuelitdinfj an appea ranee in Salt T,ake and going on to Hawaii, this uinter. The Metropolitan will stage its Hint Spanish opera. Boston has Its own npfra company, assembled by Max Ralii-r.off, Ralii-r.off, with three weeks' season of music ly rhe Metropolitan company, besides the work of choral nucleiis and concert coiirsps, where all of the leading artists In America will appear. And, of course, the wonderful Bosion Symphony orchestra will he heard, when It will be almost Impossible to obtain a ticket except far in advance. ChhjaRo's orchestra will produce pro-duce a long list of new works by many native composers. Choral concerts, chamber cham-ber music, conservatory and club ooncerti in profusion. Some familiar names are the Apollo Musical, Chicago Mendelssohn, Chicago ingverein, Chicago Amateurs, I.nke View Musical, etc. Chicago also applauds a real Japanese "butterfly," Tamaki Mtura, a soprano who has proved herself an artist. in Philadelphia the forthcoming production pro-duction of Mahler's Eighth Symphony is rcararried.as one of the most important pents in years. In addition to the orchestra, or-chestra, a chorus of 400 voices, a second chorus of 400 singers from I lie Choral society, so-ciety, the Mendelssohn and Fortnightly clubs will assist. The soloists for the reason Include such names as Sembrjch, .Julia. Cuip. Henri Scott, Gogorza. Bauer, Hofmnnn, ID! man and many others of note. The Public Sight singing classes have entered upon their seventeenth season and sea ts for their concerts sell for 50 cents only. In "Minneapolis the city Is committed to a definite policy of developing love of good music and establishing a potent municipal asset in supporting its Symphony Sym-phony orchestra. Twenty popular con- certs will be played on successive Sunday i afternoon. In Indianapolis the Ladies' Matinee Musfc-ale provides twenty-five schools ; with aeml-annual programmes. On Oc- i tober 6 Miss Adelaide Carmen presented i "Echoes From the Biennial Federation" before this club. This Is the thirty-ninth year of its existence. In Seattle 1000 singers will take part In various choral bodies. The Seattle Musical Musi-cal Art society numbers 125 women, engaged en-gaged in some branch of the musical profession, and has organized a musical settlement school in connection with the federation work. Houston, Texas, has a Ladies' Treble Clef club, which will conduct artist recitals. re-citals. New Orleans receives many offers from opera impresarios and among the soloists I already engaged are Lilv Koenen, John J McCormack, Geraldine Farrar and others, oth-ers, i Louisville owns a fine new conservatory, conserva-tory, where concerts by leading artists , are given for 26 cents. St. Paul. Milwaukee. Detroit, Cleveland. Washington and St. Louis are all busv with music. Cincinnati, with its Mav festival; Birmingham, looking forward to the biennial in 1 E17; San Francisco, which may have no orchestra or two; Los Angeles, An-geles, with its Gamut club orchestras, and Mr. Behymer looks back upon a brilliant bril-liant past and forward to great triumphs. And Salt Lake will have its svmphonv concerts, its Orpheus club, composed of f Dventy-five men; its Oratorio societv, Musical Arts society, music section of the : Ladles' Literary club and the famous i soloists brought here: concerts and mu- si rales given by teachers, and manv oilier manipulations of the musical host's I in Utah's capital. Bach Society Now Busy With Cantata With much enthusiasm, coupled with an appreciation of the real work ahead, the members of the Bach society of the Uni-versity Uni-versity of Utah have settled down to a1 careful study of the "Praise God" can- ; tata, which will be sung in public on De- i cembr -M. This great -composition of the great Bach is, the singers are beginning begin-ning to realize, not to be light! v or irreverently ir-reverently approached, hut demands an appreciation of its high ideals for proper presentation. With the election last Friday of Fred Sachs as librarian, the organization of the Bach society Is complete, and every meeting can be devoted strictly to tha season's work In hajid. j The Music society of the "XT' has already al-ready begun work on the big opera pro- 1 duction to be given in the spring. Verdi's "Aida." Professor Giles plans to make this presentation mark an epoch in the musical history of the institution, both in the number of students appearing and the magnitude of the stars who will be engaged en-gaged for the principal roles. Mr. Giles says that the presentation of the opera In the form that he desires to produce It will require the presence on the stag in two of the scenes of about -4 SO persons, and to this end plans to enlists the services serv-ices and co-operation of two of the sororities sorori-ties and the training school. Damrosch to Explain Music of the Masters The symphony concerts for young people will be given at Carnegie halt on six Saturday afternoons beginning November 20, and the other dates or the series are December 18. Januarv 22, "February 5, February 26 and March 11. The annual Christmas concert will take place on the afternoon of December De-cember 18. when the choir of the cathedral ca-thedral nf St. John the Divine will assist-, pinginc carols. The season's soloists so-loists thn? far announced include Percv Grainger, Mieha FJman find Josef Hoffmann. Hoff-mann. A special programme devoted to the compositions of the great masters, which have been inspired by the dramas of William Shakespeare, is also to be presented. As in previous seasons, Walter Wal-ter Damrosch will elucidate the musical musi-cal form and special characteristics of the principal orchestral works to be performed with explanatory remarks at the pano. Benefit Concert at Pioneer Stake Friday Friday evening, November 12, in the Pioneer stake hall. Fi ft h South street, between West Temple and First West streets, a prog ram me of un usual excellence ex-cellence will be given. The proceeds of the concert will go to the M. T. A. reading course and trie Pioneer Stake Choir association. The following popular musicians will furnish a varied programme nf vocal and instrumental music: Mrs. P. O, Perkins, Gladys Wi.-kin. Mrs. Elsie Burrows Best. "Evangeline Thomas. William Wil-liam Lynn, George Manning, James Moncarr. Hyrum Christiansen. August Glissmeyer, "Julian Thomas, Tracy V. Cannon, JOHN W. SUMMERHAYS, gifted young dramatic tenor of Salt Lake, who will leave November 13 for New York City to study under Tenara. He will return to his home next spring. I - ' r( I 1 ' ' 4 j J Work on "Messiah" Progresses Rapidly Highly satisfactory progress, is being made by the Salt Lake Oratorio society, preliminary to the presentation of Handel's Han-del's master oratorio. "The Messiah," on New Year's day. Mrs. Fay Steele Loose, a talented soprano of Provo, was in Salt Lake yesterday in conference with Musical Musi-cal Director Squire Coop, relative to taking tak-ing the soprano part of the great work. With a vvell-t rained chorus of 150 voices and an orchestra of fifty professional profes-sional musicians for the magnificent liar-monies liar-monies of the masterpiece, there is every assurance that this production of "The Messiah" will surpass any previous work of the Salt lake society. A happy condition condi-tion that presases unusual excellence lies in the fact that the mem hers of the chorus, having on previous occasions sung the oratorio under skilled direction, are so familiar with their parts that the preparatory woi k w ill be comparatively light. This applies also to a majority of the men who will comprise the orchestra. The matter of selecting a house for the presentation of the oratorio is not yet decided. Last year the production drew an audience that overflowed the theater in which it was given, hence the question of obtaining an auditorium that will as nearly as possible seat the many hundreds hun-dreds who will desire to go is a subject for serious consideration. Singer Tells Story of Luckless Thirteen "I uever knew anything about superstitious su-perstitious people until I joined the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Opera company last season," says Arthur Middleton," the bass-baritone of the fa mou s America n opera house, "but immediately after 1 joined this greatest of all opera companies I was instructed in the million and one superstitions of the opera world.'' He continued : Thirteen is one of the pet aversions aver-sions if. there are thirteen at. a table one will arise and wait or if there are the same mystic number num-ber in a bus one. will get off and walk. After one season of superstition super-stition I am willing to admit that some of the suggestions reached me. I think thirteen scored heaviest in my mind. Well, the other day T went iown to the opening of the new automobile auto-mobile speedway at Sheepsbead bay, becauee I wanted to see an old friend of mine, Barney Oldfield, win the $20,000 prize. ' Boh Holland, Hol-land, one of the press representatives represent-atives of the speedway, took me down to where the men were tuning up their cars, and in a few minutes min-utes T was chatting with mv good friend. Oldfield. The number of his speed king was 2256. In a short of absent-minded way I added the numbers together thirteen was the result. T mentioned the fact to this great racing driver and although al-though he laughed I noticed he crossed hi? fingers as he smiled. I am not a hit superstitions,'7 said Oldfield, ''and I will not ask for a new number. ' My opera house training made me know this was a mistake. But Oldfield Old-field was obdurate. T went up to , mv sear, in the stand and ?hortly the Tace was on. Oldfield had shot hi? machine about the course six and a half times when the engine broke down just thirteen miles. T don 't say it was the thirteen hoodoo, hoo-doo, but it struck me as a most peculiar pe-culiar coincidence. Will Sing Difficult Aria. Some of the advanced students of John T. Hand will appear in concert Fridnv night, November 19, in the Le Grand ward. One of the special numbers num-bers which will be given upon this occasion oc-casion will b- the world -fa limns florid aria, '('am N'ome, " from ' ' Rigoletto, ' ' bv Verdi. hi.-h will be simi; by Mis Kdna Anderson. Mis Anderson's; dp. velnpments and ability in the world of coloraturc embclihnients arc marked and her rondit k.n nt" t'lis difficult number num-ber ha attracted special attention. John W. Summerhays Goes to New York John YV. Summerhays, a gifted young dramatic tenor of this city, will leave November 13 to continue his advanced musical studies, having for his teacher the world-famed Tenara, admittedly one .of the greatest living instructors and coaches. Mr. Summerliays's unusual ability was recently demonstrated by his splendid work in interpreting; the role of Alfred, in T.a Traviata" (Verdi), produced by the Iiucy Gates company in Salt "Lake, Og-den, Og-den, Provo and l.o.an. lie is to be given credit for a marked musical temperament, a beautiful voice, keen intelliaenec and an enthusiastic willingness lo work hard. He will return to Salt Lake in the spring, spend the summer here and return to New York next autumn. Hand Chorus Will Have Social Evening ! The John T. Hand opera chorus, which numbers sixty singers, and has among its membership some of the best vocalists of the city, will meet tomorrow tomor-row night for a combination rehearsal and social. They will rehearse from 7:30 until 9 and' then will have some speeches f rom some of the professors of the University of Utah and leading music students of the city. Then refreshments re-freshments will be served and the remainder re-mainder of the evening will be spent in dancing. The choral numbers, which the organization has practically completed, com-pleted, are the finale to Coleridge Taylor's Tay-lor's "Hiawatha's Departure," the "Rosary,'-' by NeVin, and "Sweet and Low," by Joseph Barnby. Next week the chorus will begin the study of the finale to the first act of "Lohengrin," by Richard Wagner, which will be prepared for presentation for the public appearance of this singing sing-ing body to take place some time during the present month. First Presbyterian Church Music Today For the morning and evening services todav at the First Presbyterian church the following music will be given: Morning service Orga.n prelude, "Prelude,' T. Salome; anthem, "Benedict "Bene-dict Anima," William Bees; response, "Bow Down Thine Ear," Schilling; offertory, of-fertory, "Hallowed Hour of Peace," Schneeker. Evening service Organ prelude, noc-turnette, noc-turnette, D'Evry; anthem, "Search Me, 0 God,'' Holden ; response, "Bow Down Thine Sax, ' ' Schilling- offertory, "Crossing the Bar," Carl Busch; solo, Mr. Summerhays. "Oratorio" Evening in Twelfth Ward Chapel A special musical programme, all the numbers of which will be from Mendelssohn Men-delssohn 's oratorio, ' ' Elijah, J ' will be given in the Twelfth-Thirteenth ward chapel Sunday evening, November 14, commencing at 6:30 o'clock. A talk on the work by S. M. Taylor will preface the musical numbers. The fo! lowing Salt Lake musicians will assist: Miss Edna Evans, Miss Ema Young. Miss Georgia Young. Hugh W. Pongall, Walter A. Wallace. William Cooke, C. D. Schettler. Miss Ethel Connelly, Con-nelly, accompanist. The complete programme will be published pub-lished later. Orpheus Club Is Highly Appreciated One of the delightful musical events of the week was the concert given Thuredav night at Le Grand ward hall j bv the Orpheus club of Salt Lake, with several talented soloists assisting. The members of the big chorus were in splendid voice, sang every one of their j programme numbers with fiue effect and responded to several hearty en-oores. en-oores. Among the soloists, special mention men-tion should oe made of the excellent playing of Vaughn Y. Clayton, a talented tal-ented young violinist of this city. His rendition of the " ( 'oncert Valtz ' ' (Musin) proved his natural gifts and careful study. W. M. Langdou 's bass solo, "Let All Obey" (Stephen Leach) was one of the gems of the evening. The Orpheus club will give its next concert ot the season at Kaysville November No-vember 19. The complete programme and selection of soloists will be announced an-nounced later. I Music for First Methodist Services For the morning and evening services today at the First Methodist Episcopal church, the following music will be given: MORNING SERVICE. Organ prelude ; (a) "Morning Song" Grieg ! (b) "Andante" Beethoven Anthem, "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me". . Godfrey Mrs. Charles Daily, Percy Morton i and choir. Offertoire, "Nocturne" Kinder Mezzo-soprano solo, "Not Ashamed of Christ" Jerome Miss Florence Tarbett. , Tostlude, "PostUide in D" Foote EVENING SERVICE. I Organ prelude (a) "At Evening" Dudley Buck (h) "Adoration" Gaul .Anthem, "Sing Unto God" Schneeker Miss Mae O'Neill, Mrs. Walter ' Bliss and choir. I Offertory. "Serenade" Leniare Soprano solo, "A Hymn of Faith"... Metcalf Mrs. Frederick Barnes. Post Hide, "Recessional" Rogers Choir director, Mrs. Ella Gumming Welzell; organist, Mrs. J. Louis Slro-hauer. Excellent Music for Sorensen Farewell Some excellent music will feature the testimonial "farewell" to be tendered Elder Christian D. Sorensen Friday evening even-ing in the Tenth ward amusement hall, coiner of Fourth South and Eighth East streets. Mr. Sorensen will soon leave for the Scandinavian mission of t lie Mormon church. The programme for the evening follows: Invocation. Duet. .Ethelyn Walker, James H. Neilson Violin solo P..oy Wlndor Solo (selected) Mamie Sorensen Piano solo Gordon Garrett Tenor solo .Ja'mcs 11. Xeilson- Reading Mrs. E. J. Milne Selection Twenty. fourth ward male quartette. Violin quartette Students of E. D. Mousley. Soprano solo Ethelyn Walker Concertina solo Adolph G. Eaubengaier Baritone solo John Robinson Soprano solo v Mrs. Winifred Smith Cannon Clarinet solo -C. J. Hawkins Violin orchestra Twenty students of E. D. Mousley. Remarks Missionary Remarks Bishopric Accompanist Barrett F. Pullham. Special Musicale at Jordan High School At the Jordan High school assembly next Wednesday morning at 10:;!0, Claude M. Sweeten. Morris Stephenson, R. Owen Sweeten, R. L. Sweeten and Miss Mary Johnson will give a musicale of exceptional merit in the selection of numbers, as attested by the following programme: Piano duet. "William Tell Overture." Over-ture." Miss Mary Johnson, Mr. Morris Stephenson. Cornet solos. ' ' Tnfiammatus, " "Little "Lit-tle Grey Home in the West," R. Owen Sweeten. , Ensemble, selected, Claude Sweeten, Morris Stephenson, B. Owen Sweetenj R. L. Sweeten. Violin solos, "Tndian Lament" f Dvorak -Kreisler) , 1 Schon Rosmarin ' ' (Krcisler), "Caprice Viennois" (Rreis-ler). Girl of 16 Years Will Play Concertos Miss Dorothy Morrison, barely 16 years of age, will be heard in a concerto recital at one of the local theaters this month, the exact date and place being yet undetermined. unde-termined. Miss Morrison has been under the tutelage of Professor Thomas Giles of the University of Utah for four years and has displayed remarkable a ptitude and skill. Her programme for her Initial appearance will comprise three standard concertos Mendelssohn, opus U5; Weber, opus 79: the great Tschaikowsky concerto, con-certo, opus 23. B flat minor (andante ma no troppo, allegro con spirito. andante, allegro con fuoco). This concerto has a score of nlnetv-seven pages, and Miss Morrison will play this, as well as the two shorter ones, from memory alone. A full orchestra of fifty men. comprising compris-ing the best talent of the city for the respective re-spective sections, will accompany M iss , Morrison in her recital, which is under t he direction of Professor Giles. Special Music at First Congregational Through the service at the First Congregational Con-gregational church this morning the following fol-lowing music will be given: Organ preludes (al Allegro Maestoso Fauehey (b Largo from "Xerxes" HandeJ Anthems (a) "Thou Shalt Love the Lord. Thv God " G. w. Chad wide fb "I Cannot Always Trace the Wav" Gounod Offertory. "Legend" Harvey B. Gayl Organ postlude, "Fantasie Sym-phoniqu" Sym-phoniqu" Rossetter G. Cole Choir quartette Mrs. Ruth Tngman-Andrews, Tngman-Andrews, soprano; Miss Evangeline Thomas, contralto: Fred C. Graham, tenor: Fred E. Smith, basso. Choir director Fred E. Smith. Organist Morris Siephpnson. Many Soloists at St. Mary's Cathedral For the It o'clock mass at St. Mary's cathedral todav the choir will sing riruno Klein s "Mass in G." The soloists will be Mrs. J. J. O'Connor. Miss Ruth Kil-leen. Kil-leen. Harold McNulty. S. A. McCartney. For the vespers in the evening, Paul Ma-loney, Ma-loney, baritone, will sing an "O Salutaris." b- J. Lewis Browne. Children Are Busy Preparing Programme ! Manifesting unbounded enthusiasm and' keen delight, th" children of t he junior choir of St. Mary's Catholic cathedral , are working hard on the programme which will be given the last of this month at one of the local theaters in honor nf the Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph S. Glass. ' At previous entertainments of this .character .char-acter given by the C'athollo children the house has been packed to Its ut:most sealing capacity and there is evry reason rea-son to helieve that the forthcoming event will overshadow all the other? in pulms of excellence and general public interest. The programme will comprise a hort musical cantata,' introducing butterflies, kewpies, wood nymphs, gypsies, pickaninnies picka-ninnies and numerous other characters: solos by the members of the cathedral choir and several numbers by the St. Cecelia chorus. The little boys of the cathedral choir will appear in costume in a clever song and dance, "The Jig-a-Long Nigger 1an," wnich promises to be one of the distinctive features of the evening. The names of the choir boys who will appear are Cecil Kcilley, James and William O'Connor, Louis a nrl Henry Woolf, George A tkins, Anthony Gibbons. George An res, Edward May. Raymond Stephens. Fletcher Lynch, Roy Allison. Jack Daly, Henry Grout, Thomas a nd Henry O'Day, James O'Connor, Henry McGinn and Albert Flynn. . Special Music for Conjoint Meeting The following excellent musical programme pro-gramme haa hecn arranaecl for the conjoint con-joint meeting of the Thirty-first ward M. I. A., to be held in the ward chapel this evening, beginning at 6:30 o'clock: Chorus, "1 Waited for the Lord" Mendelssohn Thirty-first ward choir. Baritone-solo, "My Faith in Thee"'. .Wells S. Neilson. Tenor solo, "O Lord, Rebuke Me Not" Wooler David Smith. Address Bishop Heber C. Iverson Solo and rhorus, "Inflammatus." "Stahat Mater" Rossini Miss Edna Evans and choir. |