| Show M P I i L TO TilE u TABERNACLE CHOIR h 1 Prot Prof Stephens writing to the Faber nacle choir from New York under date of oC Sunday Bunday Feb says As 9 the tho dl day dayis I is very cry raw anti and I it Is abut about six mies miles to o our r place of meeting nl at Brooklyn I have havo cone concluded Iud ell to remain In today and wi viii devote a Ito little time lime In making a report to you of my rat past weeks do doIngs doings Ings Wo Ve remained In Chicago untIl Wed of oC last week eel Thursday and andl l Friday of oC t the be week seek previous were 10 so terrIbly cold that we were glad clad to reo re remain main In doors ten de degrees ree below zero and nea near th the stove a good porton portion of time I spent most or of the time In cr corn posing a contralto lo 1010 solo Ind and an anthem which I may trouble you OU wih with lome some day Just an easy little anthem of the Lt Let the Mountains Shout order Saturday we e were the gueste cuesta of oC our genial talent talented ed and constant friend Prot Ap p Madoc The afternoon Wi was spent In hearin hearing the tho great creal Russian violinist Alexandra In n a concert at Music ullo hall lie he I is assisted by his lit very cr talented violinist and the pianist What Patti WI was as n a sing or thIs mann man Is as a violinist Some there are more emotionally Intense than either Dut none nono so 0 and master b 10 so far its I have Yet cl hear heard Modest young oung and lt at ease no dun dull tem seem difficult every evory emotion e cx pre pressed d without effort clean cut and nuNI It I ix a perfect delight to ls lie lieten ten to any and every cass class of oC music lie ho horender render renders Bachs old Intricate and h heavy classic con concertos or modern and brilant brilliant work are aro equally wel troll within hi his grasp After u a hearty dinner at Ap Madocs home wih wIth his wie wife daughter anti and two to lons eons we e again iio hie under his direction to the auditorium to hear henr the famous lamous CI cago or Thomas ThomM orchestra about eighty Ine fine Instruments under the gret great Theodore pioneer conductor or of AmerIca Thomas homas In 1 a request program Te The entre entire program being made up of f lons receiving the highet highest number of notes or requests from the tho subscribers who support this great rat orchestra In I ChicaGo The majority being moler modern waltzes which were interesting to me meto meto to hear and study I 1 conCe that thol th the great Manfred Symphony by n a great grent favorite Russian 1011 modem m composer seemed moro more ermle erratic and sen sensational though masterful IS ts to the use and combination ot of al all the tho instruments etc 11 still more sensational than a us solidly or otherwise great grent us al Pure ure music descriptive I I I HIt It was I a relief ero to me to hear the beRI beau beautiful and brilliant by which endl ended the program lere here ont one Is flooded and carriel away by beautiful m melodies lodle gloriously harmonie harmonized anti orchestrated The house houle was not more than Cul full Md and one feels that I It the human voice to have hare corn com the program Mr the eminent whom so man many Salt Lakers Iker missed ed hearing but who wl wilt not soon be forgotten by those thoc who did didas didas as the tho beet cello virtuoso who ha has fit fa favored Sni Salt Lake Lalle Rat eat nt at the head of oC the celo cello players U as the first In this great gru permanent orchestra Doth Both he and Mrs Irs recognized me redl readily without an any announcement on toy my part and they both commented In very pleasant terms of oC you as 1 a choir and their visit to Salt Lake Sunday we went ent to our little church churchIn In Chicago an anti were wel particularly rejoIced to meet seer several ot of our mIssIon minion ar ar J Elders who labor Ibor In this part and mot most of al all our sister lister and choir memo mom bet ber Aleo Alice McLachlan who I Is 1 a mo most t active anti successful missionary here Our Willie much de delighted lighted al all wih with some ome solos I 1 must here men lon the fact that Ie lie is 18 making vast ut anti rapid improvement vocally since leaving home as he now gle gives real though thought Bm and attention to It it I It ItI II I In one ta exasperating to note the change chanse In our young oun people at home leaving Cou Couil our young Elders an our community generally become I at home what most mOlt of oC theta them become when aW away from Crom home our growth In 11 all things would be marvelous anti and nent oan luch euch bright acte active talent abroad be such sueh In tri trifling In time laggard at home o Of cour course ther there are exceptions on both side sides There are aN thos those who accomplish some something something thing worthy of oC the talents Gal GOll hll has gl given them nt at borne and there are aro those thoo wh who are aro sad end flure failures from home lint Dut the reverse Is II the rule Considering our opportunIties we IU are time the mOlt most woefully Indolent at home ome nod and the most wonderful wonderfully active Ila away from horne home ot of any people on earth uth I 1 Ido do believe TI The reverse ought to bl be become come the rule for Cor at least home habits bl bad badIL prevail whether the they be goO good or IL Is an unspeakable anti and Inexplicable shame Ilme and wonder that a young oun man mantrom manfrom from Zion should he have to go 0 out In to the world to lent learn to sing ling pr quote scripture tuN or to come cometo to lo the tho kerel of oC It ul all to arus arouse to at zeal OO and o application to the higher timings things that make up tip existence Shien his homo home Is constantly surround surrounded ed with every incentive tu to acton action I Ican Ican can only liken our condition to that or of orI ofa I a Jal man put to with ti the lound sound of at acle active machinery to waken only at atthe atthe the silence oCl of Its stop stopping how can wo 0 Jay stay this monster Monday night I attended 1 a rehearsal o of the Apollo Club great reat choIr or choral org organization Mere Here was Il Its great gleat fur applying weight Weights measures and comparisons be between between tween ourselves and this ti thc ll chorus of oC time the Middle WeI West They have have been In eI for tor teno over twenty yeal years having now about the tho same number ot of lame members I as ourselves Chicago takes even een greater pride In them than In the tho orchestra Their concerts 1 an I am told always alAs being encouraged b by the Audi b being crowded by msty mostly sub tho take l season aon tc tickets cs at a 0 good figure Three hundred anc and sixty five singer singers attended this night and aud 1 a number of oC Visitors sat II In n a back Illery gallery I was favored flored by the tho freedom of oC the hal ball and many kind from Crom the conductor president president sere score tU tary etc elc meeting some old tends friends W l h wih with whom I became I acquainted last year nl at the Milwaukee I The Apollo 1010 Is made up UI of who work orK I elastically and The bod body i or of tone tono Is beter better than the New NewYork I York society Their conductor Mr lar lIar risen Wid Is a genial active business businesslike like genteman gentleman The music they work on is 18 of character yet they fall of oC their reasonable tel ties In many things Much of oC theIr work WIS vas Tn In a very ery imperfect state te although It was to be given glnn at n a concert the cor coin log Ing week It was IS passed over oer wih but few Cew corrections They do not nol approach sol soft pianissimo effects many marlY voices standing out quite prOminently In such passages anti wrong nott notes nrc b by 10 no means infrequent In bass rind and tenor especially where many ro much too wel well for Cor their own god good Ind and that of the society ver very book bound quite g generally strict discipline I if they could endure I it would bring very different effects front belt thelt labor As n a hol hole they are capable of oC much more mON than thun we but in inmany many respectS are not our or were not thIs night Their i finest numbers were I Wrestle anti Im Imand and Praise Ye the lie Lv Lu ti d Both among our own I much enjoyed the meeting t fl WIS wag refresh In log to meet it 4 I of oC ornest earnest capable genial In 1 a musical Tuesday night we attended Damrosch lecture with the thu tn fine singers saliM soprano no Dg ills pharn baritone ant and tenor singing portions or of the tho opera operas he was ns lect lecturing upon The WIS was mag anti so ras Mr Ir nc ac at the piano planol though hough thIs music sadly needs the orchestra Some features O the lecture were excellent speaking during the music fearfully annoyIng to me bluse because of oC I a certain ministerial twang that ho he as assumes assumes Wednesday after a 0 must most pion pleas pleasant ant anI time wih with I my old friends Mr and Mrs Griffin the later latter you OU wil al all reo re remember member wih with pleasure we bade taro fare wel vell to our Chiago home and the ever kind hos hospitable lable Taylor and speeded away to where WI We spent hour hours mot most pious ant with Prof haydn Evans our competItor at the Worlds Fair ald amid Salt Lake judge The JUdge grat great contest In Chicago seems to hae have kile killed outright the tho chorus sInging of thIs vicinity So much bitterness was aroused between the two local choIrs So we hear heard n no choir here lut hut great greatly enjoyed our visit ald and renewed our Or high opInion of friend Evans Eans as musician and friend Friday nigh night are at rhet In the tue city of oC New York rushed at once to the opera ott at the tan lan hearing and Others In the oper opera Barber Darber of 01 Sele Seville as an example of frid florid flexible sing ing Is II I if equaled today The whole opera was very el en but the great treat caine Sat Saturday urda night the glorious opera Aldus tda WIS vas I n as I have seldom opra or never neverseen seen a great rent wor hen given OUt om ka and Campanari were each simply superb anc and the of Stage setting indescribably grand amid te tire The the tho a acting the sing log Ing of oC the act un Oil the of the nIP NiI Nile haunt haunts one like a dream Time The thrilling return of oC the victorious army trl made 1 a stage picture It fit to correspond with th the Irn grand music or of the great singers this the bl big chore of oC perhaps 00 an and the orchestra ot of SO people It If I hear an any thing better botter In Europe Ill b be surprIsed enough to mention the tact fact Our dear dearold dearold old friend enjoyed It with us lie Is looking nn tine and doing welL We liars met several teral Salt Lakers here among them thern our hi 11 G Whitney and hi his wife There art are a number more mOrt I soon hope hopt to m meet t I read with interest InteNt of all list YOU OU Jo at home anti and urge you ou to continuo continue 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