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Show j Mrs. Mamie Stark's j Voice Thrills j Concert Audience Inglewood Ward Praised For Efforts In Behalf of Organ Fund By MABEL JABVIS I It will be a long time before the people of St. George, who attended, will forget the thrilling contralto Hsu, voice of Mrs. Mamie Stark who weeij sang several solos in connection rent. with the Inglewood stake benefit concert for the St. George stake -ed l0 Tabernacle pipe organ fund at the ramilj Tabernacle last Friday evening. There were many other very com-mendable com-mendable singers, but there is just something different about Mrs. Stark's depth-stirring voice that seemed never to be taxed for power even when the very walls ! of the building were set vibrating with its tremendous power. The Tabernacle should have I been crowded to capacity, but as nee often happens, an opportunity of h a lifetime was overlooked by many for various reasons, although there was a fairly good response in the sale of tickets locally. Master of ceremonies was Ed- - J ward J. Angle, the chorus man- ager F. Alvin Jones, director, Or- son E. Peterson, organist Lo-r Lo-r Rene Steimle. pianist, Seth Harp- i (Continued on page eight) Englewood Concert (Continued from first page) cr, reavi-r, Miss Sally Peterson, who rr. ' her parents here for the Temple excursion on her return from thf Canadian L. D. S. mission. mis-sion. Congregation Sings The congregation joined in the opening song, "We Thank Thee, O God for A Prophet", after which Pres. Harold S. Snow delivered de-livered a brief address of welcome wel-come with the response by Pres. Alfred E. Rohner of the Ingle-wood Ingle-wood stake. Preceding the concert, Miss Peterson gave a brief history of Evan Stephens to whom the concert was dedicated; introducing each number with special informative material as to the time and occasion oc-casion of the compositions. The numbers included, "Song of the Redeemed", "Let the Mountains Shout for Joy", "In Our Redeemer's Redeem-er's Name", and the "Hosannah Anthem", by Stephens; organ selections, se-lections, Seth Harper; banjo solo medley of sacred music by Kenneth Ken-neth Kcnworthy of St. George, and Inglewood; solos by Mamie Stark including, "Bless This House", "God Bless America", "I Know That My Redeemer Liv-eth", Liv-eth", and "The Lord's Prayer", by Mallot. Two other outstanding outstand-ing numbers were, "The Morning Morn-ing Breaks, the Shadows Flee", by George Carless, sung in duet by Miss Doris Sorenson and Carl Hawks of Inglewood stake, and the chorus, "Open the Gates of the Temple", with Hawks singing sing-ing the tenor solo. These two young artists were also greatly appreciated as were others of the chorus of 70 voices, several of whom formerly sang with the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir before be-fore moving to California. Accompanying the solo numbers num-bers by Mamie Stark was Emil Grob. L. D. S. convert from Switzerland Switz-erland in 1922, whose vocation is accounting and music his hobby. Prayers were by Roy A. Wel-ker Wel-ker and Inglewood stake chairman, chair-man, Alvin Ludlow. .Appreciation Expressed Appreciation is expressed by the St. George stake presidency and by the bishopric of the Center ward for the very splendid concert, con-cert, for the courtesy of the visitors visi-tors in providing this entertainment entertain-ment in the interest of the pipe organ for the historic stake Tabernacle Tab-ernacle ,and for the fine cooperation cooper-ation of the people of St. George in housing the visitors for this occasion. The entire program brought great happiness also to Seth Harper, and family, who used to be residents of Inglewood stake and who found many former associates as-sociates among the visitors. Mr. Harper was at one time organist for Inglewood ward. Those attending the concert, including in-cluding many from nearby towns as well as from Cedar City, join the stake and ward officers in thanking the Inglewood choruses for their excellent concert, and for their individual contributions not forgetting their kindness in presenting pre-senting so magnificent a singer as- Mamie Stark, and including our own townspeople, Seth Harper and Kenneth Kenworthy on their program. |