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Show SALT LAKE IS FAVORED Its Fame as Musical Center Cen-ter Brings tbcConricd Company Here. At the Knutsfor'd today is G. Schlot-terbeck, Schlot-terbeck, who is here to perfect the final details of the grand operatic concert to be given In the Tabernacle next Tuesday Tues-day evening by the world-famous artists, ar-tists, chorus and orchestra of the Con-ried Con-ried Metropolitan Opera company of New York. . Mr. Schlotterbeck, who was for years music critic of the Pittsburg Post and who is now at the head of the exploitation exploita-tion department of the across-the-con-tlner.t tour of . the Conried company, believes that Salt Lake will live up to Its reputation as having the greatest number of music lovers in proportion to population of any city In the country. coun-try. "Salt Lake." he said, "is being especially espe-cially favored. Only a few cities have been considered of sufficient importance from the music and population standpoint stand-point to warrant a visit from the Conried Con-ried company on this tour. ' But the fame of Salt Lake has gone abroad. It is known as the home and center of a musical people of a people who know good music when they hear It. - "In every city visited by the Conried company so far the success has been uniform and sensational. In Chicago all the records of the Auditorium theater were broken. The same thing is true of Minneapolis and Omaha. At Kansas Kan-sas City, where the company opens an engagement tonight, the advance sale has been unparalleled In the history of that city. "The Salt Lake programme is, as I believe has been generally conceded, one of surpassing excellence. No lees than six of the most famous singers in the Conried company will sing here. All of them are well known to the people peo-ple of this city and State. It Is only necessary to mention the names of Nordica, Homer, Alten. DeMacchi. Dippel and Journet to arouse a thrill of most pleasurable anticipation. Then you are to have the pleasure of hearing the superb Conried chorus and the splendid orchestra of sixty pieces." It is probable that Mr. Schlotterbeck will remain in the city for two or three days. |