Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-20 | Page 11 | 2 Singers Well Known Here Will Appear in 'the Messiah'

Featured Oratorio Vocalists slllki x U SYLVIA MARGOLIN She'll be oratorio soloist JOHN W. Sl'MMERHAYS He'll sing tenor role 2 Singers Well Known Here Will Appear in 'The Messiah' Sylvia Margolin, John W. Summerhays Have Important Roles in Cantata Sylvia Margolin, New York soprano, and John W. Summerhays, Salt Lake City tenor, will be two of the four soloists in the twenty-fifth twenty-fifth annual production of Handel's 'The Messiah" by the Salt Lake Citv Oratorio society next Sunday in the L. D. S. tabernacle. former director of the tabernacle choir, and Hugh Dougall of Salt Lake. City. Later he studied with Fernando Tanara at New York, the celebrated Albani at Paris and the noted Heinemann at Berlin. He was on tour for soma time with light and grand opera companies. The cantata, a regular feature of' Christmas week and one of the out-1 atanding events in the city's musical calendar, will start at 2 p. m. It. will be directed by Squire Coop, j founder of the society. Announcing selection of the two soloists. Dr. Howard T. Anderson, president of the oratorio association, associa-tion, recalled that Miss Margolin ! aang in the aociety'a production of Haydn's "Creation" on the steps of j the capitol in the Covered Wagon Days celebration last July. Graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, Miss Margolin has been s;n?ing professionally profes-sionally in New York, devoting her- aelf to concert, radio and church oratorio work. She has won high honors in, various competitions. It will be Mr. Summerhays' f if-. teenth appearance as leading tenor soloist on the annual presentation ; of "The Messiah." I He began hia musical career under un-der the tutelage of Evan Stephens,!