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Show A FEAST 0? MSIC. Ab&fe Carrington Gapturas the People of Provo. Her Extraordinary Vocal Capacities Ca-pacities a Treat That Everybody Every-body Appreciated. Complimentary Remarks Addressed Ad-dressed by Our Visitors To Our Home Talent. "Glorious!'' "Immense!" were the universal verdicts of the people who attended the Abbie Carrington musical festival on Thursday evening There was a very fair sized audience at the Tabernacle when the choru and orchestra took their places, and when the Carrington company ascended ascend-ed the steps, the audience broke into ivild enthusi-isra. The first .number was the solo an1 -h-'ins. "Land of the Trumpet urn1 Spear,'' froin the opera of Anna B -lena. Min. II. E. Giles sung the solo t'.e chorus bMng rendered by the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle choir. Mrs. Giles was highly complimented by Madame Carrington for her rendition of the solo. The next number, "For Wine's Sake," the Bacchanalian trio from the opera, uRose of Castile," was finely rendered by Messrs. Bolini. Martens and Ptetson. members of the Carrington company, the bass and baritone bar-itone solos being pleasingly executed. The gentlemen were warmly recalled and repeated it. Mr. Gus F. Boyer, America's representative repre-sentative pianist, gave two classical piano solos. The gentleman shows culture and refinement, in his playing, his touch being light and graceful. As an accompanist he is very fine, always al-ways feeling for the voice without making himself too prominent. Madame Carrington's first song, "Spring," was very sweetly and artistically artis-tically rendered, and her German song, "Mien Lieber Shatz," fairly cap-tuied cap-tuied the audience, and the applause was deafening. She then sang that old Scotch ballad, "Coming Through the Rye," in a way which she alone could do, bringing rounds and rounds of applause. Mme. Carrington tried to bow her acknowledgments, but the audience would not be satisfied until she had sang the "Last Rose of Sum-meiV Sum-meiV which she did in a heart-melt- ing strain. She vas presented with a beautiful boquet of roses, and a horseshoe horse-shoe made of choice blossoms. Mr. Geo. W. Traverner, by request, sang. "In Native Worth" from the "Messiah," and was encored. He tlien;; sang r.alt'e's beautiful song, -. "Inflammatus," that lovely solo and chorus from Rosin ni's "Stabat Mater," was the next number. Mme. Carrington sang the solo, and with perfect ease sustained the high C against the chorus and orchestra. This feature alone was worth the price of admission. Miss Minerva Babcock. the contralto contral-to soloist, sang two very sweet songs, showing the beauties of a contralto contral-to voice. The sextette from "Lucia di Lam-mermoor," Lam-mermoor," by the Carrington company, brought down tha house. The bass solo, "Let All Obey," by Mr. Basil Ptetson, was a marvel of brilliancy intone. He was warmly recalled. re-called. , The Fourth Ward Glee Club scored another success in "Comrades in Arms." They were applauded and encored. They then rendered "Invocation "Invo-cation to Harmony." Mme. Carrington Carring-ton and company were loud in their praises of the club and paid them compliments. com-pliments. Christian F. Martens, in his baritone bari-tone solo, "Love's Sorrow," captured the aud.ence, his rich voice showing to excellent advantage. "My Old Kentucky Home," by the Carrington company, was the song that pleased everybody, it being truly American and rendered in a lovely manner. The closing piece was "Gloria," from Mozart's 12th Mass. It was rendered bv the company, chorus and orchestra, Prof. J. E. Daniels wielding the baton. The piece was as well rendered as it probably ever will be m Provo. The concert, consisting of thirteen members, lasted long enough to please everybody and tire none. Mme. Carrington was highly pleased with Provo, and expressed herself as greatly surprised at the musical talent displayed in the choruses. In her adieux to the choir she expressed herself her-self as follows: "I hope to meet you all again, and to sing with you, if not in this world in the next, for youknow I do believe in a world equally as good as this, and I shall be greatly disappointed disap-pointed if it is not a great deal better than this. 1 am happy to have met you all." The gentlemen of the company were very well pleased with the male voices. The concert was a pronounced suc-cess,and suc-cess,and it was the opinion of all who attended at-tended the Festival in Salt Lake City, as being far superior to that Festival. Mme. Carrington was voted the superior supe-rior of Emma Thnrsby, and her homelike home-like ways among the people here were greatly in her favor. |
