Show PIONEER CANTATA SALT LAK CITY april 14 1897 your kind and considerate editorial on cantata for the jubilee la is mil all in the he right vein it has baa but one fault it la is at least six alz months mentha too late three months to ia not lor for the most moat capable of va sisters to write a fitti fitting bil work for or such an event or to set ael the libretto awarded the prize at the rig EIB to anything like fitting music then the n even if it were written anu and ready for the typeset of er the force ol of music typesetters type Bettera at buth the aud juvenile instructor office would require that amount of time im to print a work then about six fix months would be required for tho singers to muster it unfortunately it has haa been overlooked too long and we the event must pass paea by with nothing moru more than en an ode at most moat it will be no slight alight matter even to prepare a work on oale DOW should aronld the commit too tee deolde decide on having one mr stephens has haa not act much of hla his cantata to music though you are mistaken aken in the imp impre aaion roulan that it was waa stipulated that the music should be forthcoming the prize was offered for the wards ward only they having to be suitable for a musical setting setti ug A thousand dollars would be eo to arcely an adequate re mune atlon ration for a musical setting butting to such an extended work and the Cam brians have not been la in financial conditions condition to offer any such each mom something domet blog of a simpler ampler order would certainly be acceptable for sunday school work as you suggest though there is hardly time even for that now it la Is a pity the matter was not agitated before it to la the preparation of such art works that require consideration one two or three years be tore ore bob such important events event ft their heir magnitude to in not liot understood suffix by people generally A musical work ol of a high order requires require much labor as a well on as genius to create and when created a large force of mccal and instrumental workers drilled to pros a ut it I 1 involving great expense gounod the french composer oom was waft paid timid thirty thousand francs franca for his hl oratorio the work no more extended than a fitting setting letting of mr plot flo ser eer cannatta Can should be and we want no ordinary or lo ia teller musical art work to ate the glorious pioneers Pio neen ISO bo ua un fortu it must pass faai on to the Centen lai cele celebration oration liet let us ua hope mr stephens will finish big hi work at hl his leisure and that it will be one deserving a hearing bearing then thea though he be doubtless will no not bek lu in the flesh to hear it A As AB to the ong sona suggestion RUgge atlon there are a n umber number of alongi within reach they ought to be printed aud and scattered aud got ready for the occasion mr stephens la Is again a veritable pioneer in this his mong the erts has baa been in print for fifteen years and can be readily reproduced also alao his bin pioneer day aey churus hail to the man PP just bat the thing lor ordinary choirs theu then my mountain homb waa long a bou bouie hold song and can be reviewed alin my valley home and god biehn out our in mountain home borne gl gathered bathis 10 valee ot of deseret Dea eret and a number of others that bear directly on out our life la III the mountains mount alna to which the pioneers Pion eera eft lej lea us ua it is perhaps remarkable that loog long before he was prominent before the public mr stephens had bad given us mure more home songs P 0 then than all othera comb combined I 1 dea and now they on and d an any y others available should be brought out oat and iut on oa sale isle that they way may be got ready for out our semi oe leora lion throughout the state stage it is 18 the sho nearest we can cc 01 me to doing musical and poetical justice to the be oc occasion ossion musically what should bave been decided upon at ai least dx mouths douthe egos ago is only LOW being considered what has the music committee been abolt about |