Show r m f 1 tep e e 9 s t And c cIlls V Isis Ills Ideals eth 1 a U borus C l H I Through the of Prot Prof L I D Edwards of News Hen HenIa is Ia permitted to make till the full following owl aX trash trad from a letter from Bv Stephens dated poul March Well h her 1 tun away ay across Abe tb ocean to lbs be lash laM cr K for fos green thus IOn song poetry and 4 beer Mer and la is tf city amore emore pic la hive Ite than It would take to man make Up Utah and Idaho put together Attila u Ulna over with their present the place when the giant t Ha panned Ined his great oratorios and bad them sung wile when and abode and looked great at point of triumph b aid here the latter breathed hie bb lui 4 fug for anti and glory Wild weird III oM Old london where wheN kill and q lived and 41 died In old dingy that you and nd I 1 would feel like freO In and shudder shudderIng In Ing In at their 1 YesterdaY tt we through the pal paie tere ere Queen tori torla was 1101 botti a ai raised where Mary Marr c Cs and d others lived lid U 1 tf street for TO MUSIC W We have to tram On top of a bus bU bUhe bushen hen he one that gore st at a tower 1 speed then a farmers WI at t home Of 01 cou coure the streets tot miles I a are crammed with them No elec electric cars can and alid oats an underground for tor city n Out lint there is II plenty plent tit of In London If her people Ire are slow be t least some tf of what pod good music mUllo is II I II I have heard the WI best singing ot of my life I here and IDd I 1 have hued nl one ot of the moat disappointing thin I 1 CAR can remember for tor a time Th The goat one first the Choral Society bout about oh And 1 Iq giving tr far the first has in III entirety a new stalled the Mush o oto to Hiawatha In three sections Ant Wedding H second I Min ud and third Uta 1111 l Departure three or er took look two boon boun and I a half to perform anti and very pry charting It w wae The fhe second part especially was beyond description Modern gloriously orchestrated and ad young computer composer conduct you ou should hould hue have heard the shouts of the vast I nce at the close ciON or of part two to Il lie If a half mulatto a half breed nero negro d In England The critics rl uC of Lo 10 pay lay no English composers ot of recent mee have come up to the high mark mrk of this music mullo of Hiawatha The pinging was line eve every t tn ry n part splendid and all finely balanced it 11 la III by tar far the boa chorus singing I l heard on a fatge scale The or ohe lra was rood good but not so 10 refined III as th the chorus horl Next was wap a choir of boys and Ind men menat menat at a Catholic Owing YI a Ina mass They could not fitly fifty but for true Int instep soulful perfect before heard the like of t their en sweet so 10 won Ion er r u expressive It wrung my heart to Lo hear their pleadings and lifted my very vry soul as they soared In triumph were nothing to I m m them Ute they could do anything Yet thy they looked so 10 small and fr frail II and young GETS A II My disappointment I was wa startled In Into into to excitement to see HI that Dan 1 Davies 11 and bl his celebrated United choir of voices from Merthen and aDd would give a grand nd concert at Queens HIli I rushed for lor seats and rot got there thre In good time Ume The Th house houle was well filled mostly with and rather noisy In the up upper per gallery Choir enter Salt Lake In white whit red And blue only They looked lath rath rather lather er commonplace but I 1 felt sure lure the would sing In like angels Concert Conet opened opened ban Uan was U a common little fellow too brit that hurt was wea their pinging It was worse wone than com common common mon It was wal nol noisy and mechanical and Ind to the round ground all m my hopes ot of pleasure In bearing choral singing In Wal Wales The They dont equal u us at home bome In th the tenors who Ire arc bit bet bitter ter their soprano III ii shrill They attack slimly enough but their precision mill makes Limb work choppy w 10 unnatural tilt is It The whole program including old home hOPle Sleep lIMp Gentle Genii Lady ady Goodnight Beloved lall bright Abode Abod Hallelujah liar leoh etc tl so 10 tale Ital that I 1 w wag sick ot of the concert idea Ide a a an enter entertainment The gallery allery crowd rot got more and more u a the thing went wenton on OD It Ii seemed to me all the hoodlums I hid hd ever Vern peen at home had bad congregate t ed 1141 there h had turned Welsh and drank beer for the occasion Men lotrn and women talked while the singing went on and Ind thy they laughed outright at some IOme of the none too rood good Then wanted funny encores nOrt and final finally I ly while the wu au being sung with a organ oraan meet ment there thre was wa a Jolly nt fight going on In on one of the top lop lIerl The wole thing wu was such lub a hideous burl burlesque que of our own concerts at homo w 10 much yet so IQ possible at home it If all our bad element could be brought together u a It seemed to be It almost almot made u us lath pick Iok Il II seemed a home nightmare thing nr I have abominated at bene seemed med ItI IG wu Welsh I lope hope anti and pally It was not a sample of Welsh con oon tU But Dut I can In hardly hope that It was not lIot a sample amII of Welsh ellb Ila singing l and programs It so 10 thy they Ire are fifty years er be behind behind hind It at least And I blame the fod for their mechanical interpretation the hoodlum tendency and all And Ill have none of It any unless I see lee in III Wales alee thin things to change chane the these impression vastly shall I hear the Creation next Sunday night and the Messiah In two weeks it if I remain so 10 IOn long and I think I wilL MEMORIES I 1 doubt It if t I shall enjoy either sz t I did so 10 you ou see lee I believe In modern masters matere end and black ones onN at that This sort ort of life and study tudy is II It at time lime Intensely enjoyable but taking It III all In aU all there I la no greater pleasure In It Il than w we have known knon together In informer former years with our little cabinet or orn organ gan n our copies of the great Handel Mozart Wagner Beethoven Weber Verdi and th the lesser ones onI we e loved so eo soto to pore over and imagine how grand they would lie be In the glory of perform performance ance am and who were so 0 real to us ue right That Le warm M n aIN a J II da our own great com and 1 nil 11 our dreaming In the little orchard It at Willard The There can never be an any bright bt or In my memory thin than those thOle bUN bliss v |