| Show SJ SINGERS I IN S. I I It Is about certain now that tho the Ogden Tabernacle choir choll will vIli appear ar and sing before the National Irrigation congress s which sits Us at Sacramento Si next week The journey of this br big bod body of musical people I is no small thing and much of the credit for Its going must be ho given to Mr 11 Fred II Klesel el of Ogden In the first place Mr 11 Kiesel undertook to assure the choir members that m mean an would be found for Ol their going oln Then he lie raised a n. large e- e portion of the tho funds by hy personal presentation of Ilir subject to his friends nn and the Commercial Club of Salt Sail Lake Lale has taken en off oft his hands the tho remainder of or Un burden And the people of or Salt Lake will have hn an opportunity op which which we believe e the they will vill welcome welcome welcome-to to provide plO pro vide ide the balance of the mone money needed Il It is something to have hn a bl big body hotly of singers singel's organized organized or or- and trained to concert work worl move mo from Crom Utah to lo t the capital of California It Is an nn even en added accomplishment accomplishment to lo have hmo them present before such a a. public as that thc they will sIll find there a composition of If such merit has been ed in inthe inthe inthe as ns the Immigration Ode Ocle which compo composed the fullness of the tho spirit spIra which actuates the men who are arc to meet in in inthe the congress The words word of the ode are nrc b by Mrs G. G McClurg of Colorado Tho The mu music Ic is by our own J. J J. J McClellan It is divided into a n number of periods expressing the successive c stages es of that movement which culminates I I in tho ho irrigated field and in each step the tho spirit of the thc period seems most happily expressed There are few things finer than this epic of the Horn here are arelho the everlasting c deserts with their mysteries and their marvels mar their silent plea to heaven hea for fol water the movement move move- ment of the pioneers across the thc arid spaces the home homebuilding building and then the conquest of nature in the turning of water upon the thirsty Jan land There Is a joy in the I Ier er very thought of it t which wo we believe belie will wilt touch the hearts of or all people In Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento-or or elsewhere who elsewhere who ma may listen Isten to the sIn singing The Irrigation Ode is one of the classics and will always s 's remain so In its present form the ode oe is entirely new Portions Portions Por Per of it have have been heard but out of the splendor of the th theme has lias grown later passages in the music and fuller expression in the words It Is the voice of the thc desert first rs pl pleading aUng for the one blessing it requires al and and- 1 then the he voice olce o of t f t. t Fam q o m iwi b vi l blessing blessing- of streams and rejoicing the FOU soul Foul of man f Wo We c arc are glad tho the people of the farther West est shall have an nn opportunity to hear the ode glad we wo havo o men and women in Utah progressive enough to send the thc choir there to present It glad that our own people have havo so greatly contributed to Its Us production production and and above o all else glad lad that the tho thought of the ode Is being expressed In vast areas of irrigated land Jand The good Lord never meant an any of Ills His work worl to be he lost Jost With irrigation the theone theone theone one factor In our national resources for which the tho fathers could see no rio use has hns been shown to possess a splendid value alue In these thee deserts there shall one da day rise a vegetation vegetation a a. population and a A. commerce which will utter tiller In fact the vcr very ton tones s that have been breathed bY by author an and mn musician n Into this noble piece of music I |
