Show STRONG NG amm vf ga A so aidus cliar A airmet S a ilea commission and aai Y te e t claimed that a competing Oom k mass u sicil kal composition U tr te ed d a competitor Oom pronoun cea 5 ot t Orie iaal deram a better mhd abis 6 own n ana ad was finally theargus the argus of unc gives the following fol lowin account of the sion it composition by p george gebrow W Tb thatcher atcher jr composed bothe or 1 ali jubilee ode by 0 F whitney and offered in competition for the igloo prize offered by the i jubilee ubi commission A jt in ti this wise visa there was offered the sum bum ot of one hundred dollars icy fey the I 1 coin position most hitting fitting to the i jubilee abilee oje ode written by professor 0 P F wh whitney itney the matter was left in W the ha hands I 1 ads of a I 1 cona ca I 1 millee who shall here be liam eless through charity A special commissioner was appointed to hord it trust th tb A pf af musicians to pabs upon the bocc position return the ejected rejected angs arid and give th abrim aj priar riM lotha wio win the corx named aas wasal G whitney ai beha sh dov adolv is is oveT 0 the e trana eUin tae T re a I 1 wele nipo co cr C r oua va t 01 the commits com rom mitte mitt e the ninth was withheld withof ld and thor t beneby eliy hangs this tale lale had the ninth composition been sent ta 0 denver this thi s story would never have lieen been told the notice DO atiee of competition was published in iii the daily papers of this city and one of those papers reached the hands handa of a young man studying music music i in n the town of boston this young man WAS a hatiye of utah claimed it as his horns home and was a taxpayer here unfortunately he was not in a position to receive receive a 9 tip till a couple of in advance as to what poem would be used for the jubilee ode so eo his time was short but the notice to contestants read as fair as one could desire lie ile had forgotten the old biblical saying that god made man uprightly but he has sought out many many inventions so he set to work er earnestly nestly to give the best work of his heart and brain to the task his was the ninth composition received and it was mailed from boston according to the directions of chairman clawson of the tha jubilee j li bilee commission the time originally fixed as the limit for the work was juno june later it was decided to shorten the time and competitors were instructed to forward compositions not later than may on that day the ninth composition was forwarded for forwar waded ded the author however an anxious bious that his work should bo be considered wrote to a friend in chiq alii i city requesting him to call on mr clawson regarding rev arding it the friend complied with the request aw aud mr clawson promised that the composition should bo be entered to compete and the author was go notified while mr clawson was giving this assurance or about that tune t tine tair mr commissioner bud whitney had opened the compesi tion which was being held by him in trust and had permitted cr certain tain musicians to test its merits and try it over among those thoi musicians it is asserted by one who claims to know was the gentleman who won the prie professor stephens who gave it a as his opinion that the author named i could not have written it and that his teacher who by the way stands foremost among 0 american corn com powers and teachers of cOlIP composition ll was the author so of course it be eligible but it couldn coulden t be ruled out on the empty charge of a competitor so other means were employed to get it out of the way for the prize belonged to the acred sacred s circle at the center of which is Tea teamster nister and then the ninth was an original and conceded to be a perfect composition and not a potpourri of old hymns nor der a medley of ancient airs aira the committee wise in their generation preferred to I keep eel in the background so when they tired of trying over the composition they induced one E G pognon co waite the author of the ninth whom lie he addressed at his home in the city of logan in the state stale of utah saying that the said author was not a resident of the state etc etc and that in any event his composition which had been forwarded on the of may was too lite late to be considered this was wag done regardless of chairman Claw sons pledge and the fact that the composers home is in logan loan 0 where he pays more taxes tha than n the self appointed judges of his residence pay anywhere in the state he always lived in utah and refused to register or voto vote in boston although the cause of mr was very dear to his heart ilia his parents and grandparents grand irand parents were pioneers of btag utah so were his wife s relatives and those who are alive aliv estill still make utah their home unless they have been alienated by theiu the jubilee bilee commission the giving indof of this prize was a peculiar procedure and can only be excused on the ground that the end justifies the means but the writer lays all the blame on the author of the ninth composition ile he told this author ho be was a young fool to waste his time in this competition but the young man is an enthusiast t he lovea the memory of the men who founded this thia state his grandfathers statue will soon be placed at the head of main street and he be like a dreamer permitted himself to be carried away by his veneration for the memories if f the man brigham young and his followers his heart was full and it found utterance in song and his aono song 7 was a melody of love to their memory and praise for their deeds and the gods never heard diviner music than shook his soul when his composition was born his own brain evolved every note of the melody and his technical knowledge learned by years yeara persistent study and sacrifice enabled him to put it upon paper correctly and perfectly bu but t I 1 say he had no call to make such a perfect composition had it been a poor commonplace mon place thid thing V without heart or genius behind it there would have been no question of it goin going to denver it was only after tr trying it over that the decision to keep it out of the contest was reached I 1 call tile the attention of the public to this matter because the public is al always ways curious and would like to know moreover the public is impertinent nent and might enc enquire luire what right the commissioner bad to break the seals on the ninth composition tion open it break the seal ou on the envelope that contained J C a real name to try over the music and call in a competitor to try it over and pass upon it tb the public may be inquisitive and ask win why the subsequent winner of the prize was a party thereto A prominent gentleman of salt lake city is willing to put up a purse of for professor stephens to submit his composition together with that of mr to the judgment of dvorak chadwick mill maeon or Alc mcdowal Dowal either of them or two of them or three of them or all of them and if mr stephens wins win a he is to get the if I 1 mr thatcher wins wing it will cot professor stephens nothing but a young man of any talent at all who would give up a coni coin mission to write an overture for the boston symphony orchestra in order to write an ode in a contest where he had no chance whatever of winning ni nning no matter what the conditions or who the competitor peti tore aug ought glit to losy lose |