Show I New Y York orl Editor Praises Salt Lake ke f T Tabernacle Recital Recalls the Past Salt Lake City Is one of ot the fairest cities In America Olin Downes music editor of ot the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Times writes In an arti article lE entitled And the Desert Shall Blossom as the Rose In the NewYork New NewYork NewYork York Times of of August 2 Mr Downes who was In Salt L Lake Lak ke I recently describes his his' reaction at ata ata ata a concert in fn the Tabernacle in the following words The scene is the tho Tabernacle of ot the Mormons in Salt Lake City City- certainly one of the fairest cities and places in America This Tabernacle Tabernacle Tab Tab- Tab Tab-j j Justly sUy famous for its acus- acus tics which permit the hearing of ot the proverbial pin drop as also for its structure all of ot wo wood d and leather I thong Is occupied in itt its gallery by bya a delegation of ot bony Texans come cometo cometo cometo to hear the celebrated organ played The organist as one of ot his principal pal attractions lists an arrangement arrange ment heaven ment heaven save the mark mark of of Stephen Fosters Foster's Old Folks at Home Outside are the beauty and the greenness evoked by Brigham Young and his followers from an arid and merciless desert The city all green and white with clean water water water wa wa- ter from the mountains flowing through Its streets a little plot of land land a fenced ln square and within that square the fragment of ot ofa ofa ota a very old tree This is the remains of the one tree that was to be seen in the dry scorching place that be became became became be- be came the home of the Mormons In Inthe Inthe inthe the Tabernacle listening to the beautiful sentimental song of ot the first great American composer ones one's went back to that tree stump casually pointed out by a driver and then to various episodes de described described de- de scribed In the literature which In western fashion proclaims the greatness of ot Salt Lake City how City how the Mormons subjected to persecution persecution perse perse- cution murder Intolerance certainly as extreme to 1 put ut it mildly as any tenets of ot their own escaped from whites and Indi Indians ns to this place Their leader announced that this desert had been shown him in a vision by the Lord as their home They dammed a stream poured it over the plain and planted potatoes the tha day of their arrival They worked fought and rid starved The plague of ot locusts d descended s ended upon their fields threatening them with famine but they were saved by the flock of gulls that the Mormons beHaved be- be Haved to be sent from heaven which devoured the locusts locusts and dell delivered the people These and a hundred other episodes of ot that strange strang-e migration migration migration mi mi- mi- mi gration crowded the mind in the silence of ot the Tabernacle wrought into sounds by Fost Fosters Foster's rs r's nostalgic melody The organ Itself was com compounded om- om pounded of adventure and romance The sixteen foot pipes had been een hewn from logs b brought ought down from the m mountains ins The steel pipes were railed ratted and hauled over hundreds of miles of the wildest terrain and a. a a catastrophe that ca caused sed a long and am and costly delay came when one of ot the pipes slipped its lashings and rolled d down wn a gorge on its Us way to its destination The Texans Us ha lis listened toned hungrily So did others It would have been an affected d or highly supercilious IndivIdual who would have claimed that he was not stirred by the music and th the companion com corn panion thoughts of these things by bya a m melody lody that no modern young American would dare to write te even if it he had the geni genius s. s For modern Americans In music do not seem to have the courage to be themselves themselves themselves them them- selves above all perish all perish the thought thought to to be heartfelt and simple sim aim pIe |