Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-10 | Page 4 | Deathless Music

DEATHLESS MUSIC 1 T THIS week lovers of the of V Verdi erdi Puccini V Wagner agner and Leoncavallo are rc enjoying the rare delight of hearing it sung magnificently and played ex- ex q by the San Sall Carlo grand opera company corn com pany and an admirable orchestra presented at Kingsbury Hall by Fortune Gallo The courage ot of the impresario in charting a transcontinental trans trans- continental tour in these strange times happily hap hap- is is' b being ing well r warded rewarded The rhe turnouts whick are greeting hig sumptuous and thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- adequate presentations are a at once a tribute to his daring and a reassuring sign that appreciation of art still lives in a world full of distractions Our season season of opera is a transient thing lasting less lesa th than n a week Nevertheless even evenso evenso so short a festival of app appealing aling music must be memorable With living artists interpreting the ma master compos composers composers' rs' rs c e superbly there is a realism about it that that- is soul stirring roo ro those of re years it harks back to fo times o of cherished memories to many mu- mu sic sie lovers it is isa a startling rev revelation lation of a glorious past which their experience has never touched It is because of this last fact that a double debt SI js due courageous souls who venture forth in an a all 1 too materialistic world to prove to it that despite all all' ll modern marvels human h hearts art respond to beauty in its simplest forms For music is a simple thing else it could not to stir emOtion tion in the whole of In o our r pride in accomplishment and ici in our admiration of the thc creations creations' crea- crea tio s. s of mans man's intelligence it is well to have recalled the richness of life too in days clays long since gone What more enduring and price price- could We have from those days than the ennobling mu music ic t that at has bas come to us from inspired genius of the time Because they wove their spell with writh elemental beauty beaufy the il- il lustri o ers ot of the past belong to today In gratitude we must acknowledge our debt to t those ose who bring Jack back to us the bounty of n sic's ts golden age i So this b brief feast ot of opera comes as a aI aw I w event The presentation is by byn bya n a company of talc talented ted arti ts competently directed di- di by Carlo The Tho staging is in w th the best tr Itt t affords or s a 8 ar r tu soul t oy-e oy I S. S Not in many years has 1188 anything ng comparable been heard here