Show RENDITION I RENDITION OF ELIJAH ELIJAHA A GREAT I CREDIT TO SALT LAKE TALENT ct f Distinct T Triumph ri F For 0 Singers Musicians Musicians- and Leaders headers S BY N. N L L. WILSON VILSON Lake L last night nl ht heard hoard the first F. F Fait t oratorio over ever given I en in tho In- In country countr Felix FelI Mendelssohn ndel sohn Bartholdi's Elijah probably th the tM greatest effort of this tho music writers popular of or classic t r ns r rendered at t lilA tho salt Fait Lake theater chorus of or near nearly voice br t about fifty fiU nI by b an orchestra of f p It Jt was an all ambitious effort effort sont effort something flung I could bo ho attempted in few fe elt cities cs In Int InI that t t I f the whole hOl United States States States-In ln In none proba- proba roba- roba Lake MV bly the size Ie of Salt ew ew f Tork rk with lIh her of or population tion on including the cream of ot tho professional t clon l artists in people could So do do IL it Chicago with her could Boston Boiton posing as tn the r real al al renter enter r of oC Rr art artand and culture In tho east cast has hns done such euch has In its Ita cH city limits almost twice as 9 m many n persons as tuB are arc to be found In the whole hole state of ot Utah Even exclusive ive sive 8 of ot its suburbs tho the hub cSt city in includes In- In dud clues lI About bOut as large a A. population a as is the tho entire scattered Mattered red over o empire that is tributary to Salt Lake Lako City Even Een to ha have attempted such uch a thin thing as 35 the Elijah might he be a a. source of ot l' l pride to an any city in the United States StatI The production last night was a R. distinct dis dis- triumph for Salt Lake It was enough in Itself to place this ell city away centers of at anion among the lending musical up tin the United States It ju Justifies her claim to be tho tim music metropolis of ot the entire west financial Success It n was a S triumph In man many ways t First of ot all and all and to g get t such a mundane consideration con con- over o with with with-It it was vas a triumph r for the the- business mana r r of oC the Salt Lake Choral society John D D. Giles Glies an an- an after It was wa-s all over last night that the bo box hox office receipts had been very crY received gratifying His Ills statement was with th hearty heart applause by the members It was certainly a triumph for fol J J. J J J. J McClellan conductor of both the orchestra orchestra orches orches- tra tra and the chorus Mr r. r McClellan has hag played pled on man many or organs ans In his brilliant musical career carcer It Is doubtful It if he ever found an any more responsive o to his technique technique technique tech tech- and skill kill than were both chorus and nd orchestra orchestra but but especially the chorus I last last t night And the result was won won- l 4 erful The Tue rich melodious tones tonIS of oC trained voices s. s accompanied by hy the many c Instruments Instrument produced nn on effect that the thc best or organ an ever er made could not hope to approach Was Difficult Task It It Is com complicated te-ll te music and it was no email task to control so man many voices and instruments through h It all Yet Vet constant and nd efficient drilling had been done tione and the tho result was a responsiveness eness to the 1 baton Laton that was nothing short of mu r It was 5 a triumph for the Salt Lake Lako S Symphony orchestra The accompaniment t tto to tile thie lou loudest est notes notts ot of the chorus or the most Dost tender passages of oC the soloists was wasn 4 n never cr obtrusive vet ct always alwa's sympathetic There an ln few dUes cities that could produce a 1 body of t musicians capable of getting Such uchi results It was ae 55 a triumph for Cr the soloists Some Som of of or Salt aIt lt lakes lake's best lIest talent was these ie C and It It acquitted C lf isif well veil as It 11 always does docs Nor or Is lIS It often that any musician has an opportunity of ot taking a leading part inso in inso so EO pretentious an undertaking Brilliant Triumph It was a triumph for tor the Salt Lake Choral society That bod body first assembled t- t ummer to uphold the honor of or the city Oty the eisteddfod has put In mun tauny hours and nights of oC strenuous r work ork since important event ent And It told The Tho technique the lack of which lost to S Salt Lake first honors at the els- els l i has b been en supplied Dr Houseley's House- House ley's leys aggregation at Denver DelIver must do some good work ork If It 13 Is to retain Its laurels In An of ot voices the eisteddfod adjudicator adjudicator adjudicator ad ad- conceded th the honors went to Silt Salt Lake Lako then theil The Thc wonderful attack In Inthe Inthe inthe the Help Lord of oC th th- opening chorus last night fairly t taking thi tin tin- audience b by torn storm proved what training could do with such material to work on And the same skill was manifest throughout the oratorio with perhaps one on on onor or two trilling exceptions The rhe effects excelled In th the Blessed Are Arc th the Men Ien and Thanks n Be Lie to And n the ladies ladies' chlOro chorus Lift Lilt Thine Eyes to the Mountains Moun Moun- ns was t so 50 b beautiful that the audience audi audi- ence enee nc Insisted on an encore j 4 Spirit n Of Music n Throughout tho the rendition seemed about ax as nearly perfect as anything of the tile kind 1 could l be and never Ile for nn an Instant was I there a 3 variation from the expression of the tae spirit spit of music or words t. t c And nd that means much when It Is conr con- con r dered that the Elijah has been as the most dramatic of oratorios I Certainly C it was a n. triumph for or the f. f choral horal society and a fitting culmination t 10 Jo Us lis months month of and self sacrificIng ing work But most moat of or all It Ii was a tri tri- for Salt Lake City II t to think that K this comparatively oI small community in th the heart of oC what hat Is IJ often orten dubbed tho the last remnant of or the wild and woolly west II shut snut off oft b by its mountains from the cen- cen tr tere of oC artistic culture In tho the cast east and In Europe 1 should b be able to accomplish so eo much and to accomplish it ao o w well ll Thre rh re was a little informal gathering on the last night nl ht when it was all ahi ser lr f r r. r Mr r r. r Gs made his hiM announcement r Evan Jvan Stephens conductor of oC the j vIe ie choir and other musicians offered con- con and Professor or McClellan lan and M. M 1 n ti II Walk Walker r president of or the choral society made Informal talks It wa was a n. I ort oil of And It certainly was ju Jua- Jua r |