Show T TABERNACLE N ACLE SING SN rUE ODE MRS HAZEL TAYLOR PEERY PLEASES THE AUDIENCE Fred C Graham Proves a I Source of S Ensign With His Baritone An evening of music which will be belong Ion long as one or of the most auspicious occasions of the kind In history was thoroughly on en joyed by b an audience which tined filled the tabernacle to Its capacity The Tho appearance or of Prof John J McClellan the organist of the Salt Lake Lako Tabernacle was greet greeted ed with rounds or of applause His opening number Excerpts from flon ragner was rendered In a master masterly 1 ly manner and was greatly appreciated His other numbers Ca a Madri gal gab b by Lemare b Intermezzo this number being especially beautIful ful and well rendered But when the beautiful strains of the perform performers ers own arrangement of r AnnIe I Laurie as if suns sung b by an invisible choir come front from the organ the silent appreciation of the audience was in intense intense tense As the last note noto died awa away a perfect ovation was glen given the tho perform performer Or er and he responded by playing An Andantino dantino b by Lomare one or of the tho most exquisite organ solos In his e extensive repertoire and one of oC the tho most up ap appreciated predated As Mr 11 Horace S Ensign Utah favorite baritone made his entrance ho he was accorded a welcome similar to the one given Ion Prof McClellan A better helleI selection of four numbers I for baritone could scarcely be found I His first number Star or of My Iy Life Ilfe hy by Corliss a very verr dramatic and beau beautiful love loe song was ren rendered ered by him himIn himin In a most manner As a con trusting number he san sang Three Roses Red by b Norris His third number pathetic ballad balla The Tho Heart Hearl Bowed D Down wn was suns sung with great intensity or of feeling My 1 Sweet Venetian Rose a most beautiful song ong was rendered by br him in a man mannor mannor nor which caned called forth an encore from his d delighted hearers He responded by singing My Bonnie Donnie Rose At the announcement of the tho Irrigation Irrigation tion Ode hy by Manager lanager Charles J JHoss JRoss Ross Hoss time the audience which had I been oon anticipating for sonic somo this event broke In into to prolonged applause The choir numbering 40 voices olce was a most beautiful and Inspiring sight and caused a Slow glow or of pride to till fm the heart henrt of everyone This great reat chorus of untrained voices for the tho most part has been mado Into one of the best on the tho continent by bythe bythe the efforts of Prot Prof Joseph Dallan their director a and and one who has r received his musical education In America Tho Irrigation Ode Odo words by Mrs G McClurg of oC Colorado and music b by John r 1 McClellan of Utan litah opens with a soprano solo 0 Desert Land followed by br the chorus Land of the Desolate People both depicting the condition or of the west weRt before the com coin coining ing of the Pioneers The music Is very Oly difficult boh being without melQ melody j jand and very ory Indicative of the text i iThe The Sl second COn part March of Uto tho 1 Races Race the regeneration of oC the Indians from their savage life to toa toa a life of peace through tilling the tho soil This part contains a beautiful tenor solo and a duet for soprano and tenor and La is very impressive which expresses the tho theme rho Vat Wat Water Vater er Reclaims the Rl bonell Hills An Another other chorus choluS having for a theme The Tho Golden Corn Hides tho Crimsoned completes this part Part 3 Tho Pioneers opens with witha a very beautiful and tenor i solo with male malo chorus and closes with a Ith a chorus which suggests rest from toil tend trouble entitled Fair Sannan Smiles In Deseret Part I 1 Th The irrigated Region iU as I the title would Indicate contains music which grows melodious and ex a a as the story progresses A soprano solo with chorus a atenor atenor tenor and soprano duet with obligate chorus with a highly dramatic finish leads to the roost most l beautiful chorus in inthe inthe the composition the tho chorus In the Garden Grows the Tree of Life The finale Glorious Land Is high highly I ly dramatic throughout ono one portion or of It being set to the tune of oC America It closes with the original theme of oC Glorious Land Mrs Hazel Taylor Peery the so soprano soprano sang beautifully Mrs has bas a voice of oC rare beauty and Power of oC great range and under good con control control She also has a fine stage sago prese pres presence once ence and a charmIng personality Her work throughout was well done and was much appreciated Mr 11 Fred C Graham the tenor car carrIed sled rIed his part through very or well Weil al although although though suffering from rom a severe cold The Ogden Tabernacle choir under the al able lo direction of Prof ne displayed in their consistent work the tho thoI results of many weeks of faithful I tire singing the difficult chorus In a most finished manner A rare trent treat it il was nias Indeed to hear them and so I thrilled was the tho audience that they all arose and applauded to the echo while the great grent finale was I being eln sung The accompaniments of the evening were played b by Prof McClellan and were of great assistance to both choir choll and soloists Too much cannot be said of Mr 11 McClellan for Cor his splendid splendid did work Prof Jos Ballantyne Is also dasen Ing of commendation for his consist consistent out ent work In training the splendid chorus of local singers |