Show Old Timer of Annual Son Songfest est 0 8 5 S 1 7 v if J q f ii Y y b s N yS y a. a f S r J ALBERT G G. BRAIN play May be veteran yet A. A G. G Brain to Sing gun i in n Messiah Here for or Twenty-Third Twenty Time Timea When Albert G G. Brain Hampton avenue lends his tenor teno to o the chorus of Handels Handel's The Messiah in the L. L D. D S. S tabernacle December 27 it will be the consecutive year he has sung i in the annual presentation here Mr Brain of the city bureau of mechanical inspection has las not missed a single years year's participation participation participation par par- in the famed oratorio since it first was given in 1913 Prior to that he had sung it in England If I sing in The Messiah 25 23 years more I will be bea a veteran he said It was just 25 years ago that Mr Brain first sang in a Messiah chorus in England in 1911 While still in England filling an L. L D. D S S. S church mission and touring with the late Professor John J. J Mc- Mc I Clellan famed tabernacle organist the Salt Laker read in a copy of Th The The Salt Lake Tribune that Squire Coo Coop was organizing an oratorio presen presen- tation I wrote Mr Coop and offered offeree him my aid Mr Brain said I sang in the first presentation in 1913 and in every everyone one since under several directors Only once did Mr Brain come close to not being able to pate That was when a daughter was about to be born in 1915 But my wife told me to go ahead because I was so fond of ot the singing he said |