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Show Our-Symphony Orchestra. 1 Through the enterprise of the Salt Lake! Dramatic association a symphony orches! tra has at last been organized. This should! be good news to all true music lovers of the! community. The value of such an organ! ization as an educator in the highest forms! of musical composition cannot be over! estimated. It is not extravagant to say! that such an orchestra, if made a perma! nent one, will do more toward giving Salt! Lake City a genuine musical standing in! the country than would any other musical! organization that could be brought to! gether, and a new epoch in the musical life! of the city should date from the time when! Salt Lake concert audiences become ac-! quainted with the larger instrumental com-! positions of naydn, Mozart and Beethoven.! It is the intention to give at least four or-! chestral concerts the coming season, com-! mencing about September 1st. ! First-class soloists will also appeal in! these concerts, with orchestral accompani-! ment. It is necessary, with the means at! hand, to enter modestly upon such a pro-! ject, and it is proposed to make the pro-! grammes only semi-classical in character! at the outset, so that the uneducated in mu-! sic need not become frightened at the an-H nouncement of a Mozart symphony, for lie! may also occasionally encounter an oldH friend in the form of a familiar overture, or I operatic selection. ! With such encouragement as this project has already met with, it only remains for the public to lend its patronage to make and sustain a symphony orchestra that Salt Lake might one day become proud of. |