| Show IRRIGATION TIO O ODE f fITS ITS rl FINE MUSIC Author of Words null and Composer of Score Scare au an Ovation by byrhe byI rhe I he Congress THE CHOIRS SPLENDID WORK of time the And Amid Some of Its lis More Striking f ca In res The Tho cr grand nd musical rent event ot of the tho con grew cress occurred yesterday After Atter reading time tha message from rc ent Roosevelt Hoo Senator Clark president of the con congress congress gress announced the performance ot of the tho prize ode to Irrigation the words worda written by Mr t McClurg of oC Colorado Springs and time musIcal score by J J McClellan organist ot of the SnIt Salt Lake Inke The Tho an announcement announcement was Wa received by prolonged applause and Of as the quartet made Its way to the stand stanI with Proto 1 rot McClellan time tho Conductor raised time tho baton mud limo Iho Ogden Tab Tabernacle choir arose The Thu audience wait waited ed with expectation and the took his seat lit al the tho piano plana and began the prelude the quartet teas IS composed ot of hiss Luella FerrIn soprano Mrs Bessie Besse e eDean Dean Allison contralto For Fer Ferrin rin nn tenor d buss bees There Thera welo voices In time the choir The Tho score ot of the ode odo opens with a prelude wrItten for pima the tho desert and Its dreariness mind the soprano br y its with n II Oh lund land Timis Is rendered In large tempo and th lI begins the soprano aria which is III followed b by the chorus ot of Hk sky mind sand awakening to prey lIre when nil all in hi done This l in followed b by bya II a tenor solo Holo Tic The march ot of time the racen representing time tho Pueblo Indians the tho tenor being by the In Inthe the retrain refrain For the that the tho butterflies wing ring down and the piano with n florid movement time 1110 chorus then slugs R The Tho waste reclaims the thu rills time the strongest In hi the ode std and time the soprano again up t the e theme A As the stars oer puss the fields of at sk sky rho rhe plan Is sir ar peggie anti represents the harp Time The chorus concludes this number with wIlh The golden corn hiles hides the crImson stains the score core being In trip triplet triplet let movement lend hI good support to the thu voices MOST POPULAR SOLO Now occuro the most popular solo In iii Inthe the ode The Pioneers given b by the tenor Time Tho retrain refrain Is taken up by u a mixed quartet which In III turn Is follow followed ed cd 1 by the un full chorus giving the cane ame thence theme five tones Tho Th lisle ot of this chorus The land larad o of the tha long promised people Is a cl max which Into n a tender tendel I at the close cloe The last see sec ton clan of at the ode ads II lit entitled The Irrigated gated region n It con til ni time tho tenter est eat solo anti and ot of limo tho work The soprano slugs sings The he ot of homes for lor the tho homeless Of OC shepherded Stocks Ind and herds Tie land where the green KreCI walled thickets Ar Arc t wih with t songs tit ot l over the tho ancient furrows Sliver are redrawn slopes once arid le lie le teeming WIlh Wih wealth of wine vine and cor corn cornAl At Al the close o of this Ihl aria the tho soprano her Then the tho chorus tokes takes up Ull time the beautiful retrain refrain II Inn the tho garden grows the th Tree of oC Life IMo dells riven run Land ot of the wel uell lovd loved people Nurtured by water and sun The soprano the alto and time the tenor conclude with I n telling trIo In a jO joy lul ful stood mood tl the theme Oh Olor Gor sous lous Land mid then comes comeN the anal choral Creator In the Morn When Starry Starr Worlds Dor flora to Worship Thee lhee sung lung to the air ot of America HOmR FINE INE I The choir did remarkably fine wok olk Their attack was excellent time the si n d ding Ing good tic ns was the tone which was wall round and 1011 solid Ind and the was well balanced cur car curried ried oft are the tho honors of at time the day n as II a soloist and nn did work nil all th way through h Mrs Alison Allison upheld her so 0 wel well and favorably known Imon anti Mr Ferrin the tenor although sir sut front I a had hod coW cold did very vory well Time he quartet awns ns one of oC the hlA hits of oe the clay The Intro entire performance wan 11 iii highest degree creditable to limo tho cly chy the thu state 1111 time the and was n rapturously received by br the congress Ex Bradord aL It Prince ot of New Mexico afterwards said In n II speech to the tho congress that time tho beautiful poem und the thu were the best musical feature ever given on an Irl Irrl gatlon congress program AND ND OVATION The Tho joined In iii the tho finale and at Il its close cloRo Mrs Mc McClurg McClurg Clurg was to tn time the platform meld cheers and introduced us ns time tho authoress of oC the words ward ot of the tho Ode Olle She Rhe salcI said I 1 Iima ima o been moved to tears b by time the 1 music wrItten b by af I McClellan and I If m words have hae Bono Ilono for lor the time case or of I nm am Indeed t a happy happ woman toca today Clark then Prof time the of oC the or of the Ode and andas nl as time was wal to speak Mayor roared out Yes Yea anti hel Imos n product too loo which con can robed d the house The Tho hOl o professor them thel that ho he had begun to irrigate while oun o h been en a farmer bo boy until tie he hind l learned the science of rate ng nga 1 a lot 10 Ito wan a therefore In hearty sympathy time tho movement and 11 it pressed his appreciation for the tho kindly reception his hla mu le hall had met with The rhe sneaker el also shoed that Mrs MI Mr burgs poel poem had been In an to 10 hum him The was n loudl loudly nIl Then hn Senator Clark present NI en time JI n handsome sou souvenir venir badge CONCERT At concert rt Prot Prof T J J T Mc McClelan McClellan Clellan Clelan and George r E Skelton will Ink 1 the thA place o of Prot rot Antol Anton Pedersen n and his son Ron Arthur who will bo be unable to participate te u u |
