Show FAIL fALL fESTIVAL mm OF oi OFis li I I MUSIC is OPENED I Tonight tho following in delightful program program pro pro- gram will be pr presented at the Salt Lake t theater eater as the tho second performance in iu tho musical part of tho the fall fan carnival The Mikado opera It Ill III Trovatore Norwegian ian Marriage Feast Pocahontas and Indians Dawn Dun of oC Christianity Christianity- Miss Mis Nora Eliason will be loo a soloist in Jl Ii II Trovatore George D. D Pt P ner cr will take the part of and Mrs Em Emma Emma Emma ma Ramsey Morris will have the tho part art of The principals in The Tho Tho Mikado Mikado Mi Mi- kado will be Winslow Smith Thomas Ashworth the Misses lisses Jacobs Brain Drain and Gardiner and Moroni J. J Thomas P. P L. L Lynwood will bo ho heard hear in m solo polo during the evening evenin and Miss Clayton Clavton will be heard in piano solo Miss Florence Flor ence enco Robinson and Mr Ir Lynwood will trill lie bo he heard in the selection Waltz Dream The principals ill iii the tho Norwegian Marriage Marriage Mar Mar- ria c Feast JJ will till be Miss iss Linda Woolley Wool Wool- Wool Wool- le ley and Walter Eliason Those in Po Poca Po- Po ca and Re Rescue ue of Captain John Smith will bo be Mrs rs Hallic Foster Sutherland Sutherland erland Horace S. S Ensign Ensin It 11 P. P Smith and P. P L L. Lynwood Tood MRS l E. E MORRISON GROUT Were you ou at tho open opening n of the music festival last lat ni night ht I was an and sat eat at through two and a half hours of the tho malango why dont don't they call it which you will probably hear ear tonight or tomorrow n night First Fint the tho curtain lau rang up on a stage taJo full of retry pretty cb children l in iu the Crystal Bal Bal- let cLa In this the orchestral accompaniment accompaniment wn way was fairly airl good and the kiddies 1 were ero a sweet sight and kept perfect time hmo and danced cleverly cJe Little June Juno Christensen hol holding in the dlo center of the stage and her two supporters supporters sup sup- porters were Iere very clover er little dancers dau dan cers and little June acted as if she were born for this Yel very presentation The house was warmly enthusiastic and oft loft a happy atmosphere for tho the next n number number Miss Miss Emma Luc Lucy Gates in the bolo lo H Voices of Spring bv he John Strauss StrauS This r very difficult cult number with its tax upon the tho voice she rendered perfectly in a 3 voice vOice very cry sweet and true truck with an admirable del delicacy of shading hadin When the vcr very clover dancer a beautiful beau beau- young roun woman oman sprang before the curtain from tl c wings in s and aud began her number tho the slow dirge of the orchestra 1 would have havo put n a frost an nn inch thick even en on fame grown gray Even when I I three times the tragic ic whisper faster I Ito to tho the orchestra issued from her lips it failed to generate an accompanying I enthusiasm in in th the musicians I Tho rho opening scene of the Bohemian Bohe Bobe Bohe mian Girl was even worse as to the I lack Jaek of swing swin an and go in orchestral time Tho play play- was well staged costumes costumes cos cos- I were flue spectacular effects good and aud the voices above par What was it that made mado tho the presentation of I this favorite opera so slow l I think it must leave have been tho the want of proper I rehearsals because all tho the part participants have havo exceptional talent and the tho soloists were cre all well trained musicians musi I cinns who are arc somewhat more than 1 mere amateurs So the only reason one can possibly arrive at at for the hitches bitches in the tho presentation of l Bohemian Girl must have bac been duo due ue to lack of practice with tho the or orchestral hestral I mont meat previous to its presentation It occurs to me mime mime-I I am just whispering this because p its it's profane that profane that Prof J. J J. J I McClellan though such a master organist organ oran and musician ma may not have o the magnetic personality and vim yim required for a successful leader of an orchestra before the footlights in a theater His Ills great reat talent and masterly knowledge e of music is confined to a higher sphere that of the severely severely- classical Just Justas as a great singer of oratorio and religious re re- mu music ic is unfitted b by her train in ing to appear successfully in light op opera ra The two lines of art arc are dramatically I Ii opposed The Tho interpolation of a ah t i II I II h h in do this though I I opera pretty lu in u it itself was a grievous mistake and anti II broke broko that which is known to artists as the musical atmosphere I P. P L. L Lynwood sang sanc exceedingly wellin well wellin in solo and aud a very ery easy I a 5 and graceful I stage stae presence Miss Hazel Taylor represented Arlino well and her voice is always hood good oo g-oo Mr Brines Brine an and Mr Ensign Ln Ln- sign acquitted themselves well In Carmen Mrs rs Emma Ramsey Ramsey- Morris Morris Mor for forris ris sang an her part well welI under difficulties es as 38 did i Fred Graham as Don Jose Mr Gr Graham ham is always alays artistic and Mrs Morris has an exceptional quality of oC I full rich lich dramatic soprano which is a I feast to the ear Judging J from the quality of dramatic drama drama- dramatic tic tic talent she sho displayed under the suI su su- premo remo difficulties sh she facer faced I consider I her ber talent of very hi high h order Probably ubI ably for this evening many ninny of oC tho the things I have bac criticised will have o been overcome and the program will be as delightful to hear bear and see sec as IS it is well chosen Later advices extenuate the dir director etor I Prof J. J J. J McClellan and his fino fine or or- from front blame At the last moment I tho ord order r of the program was wab changed for instance when number was Trl to have been given en six was ute substituted aud and so o on through the program Cues were not c given cen en and I nd when given i not noten nott t given iven en in in time which accounts account for the Malts halts in the performance Professor McClellan was in in no way T to blame for forthe forthe forthe the lack of rehearsal of the singers |