Show ARDENT BELIEVES THE WORLD SHOULD KNOW IT music of the present utah influenced by the arias of the fore fathers if utah owed nothing else to mormonism her debt would be lasting and deep for that which mormonism has dono to inculcate and nourish a love for music was the comment of vernon stiles tenor of the madame but terlly company the other day ana all thoughtful observers are of the same mind no extraneous source ot strength to that faith Is comparable to that derived from music they render it have always held it an integral vital essential ot worship and life and I 1 who hold another faith can look back to the day when anything but a hark from the tomb the doleful sound offering upon the sacrilegious in church services in the view of most denominations and the devil himself lurked behind and guided the bow of one who dared tho violin it was a rare study that of the bond between religion and musical development if music be a sort of an inarticulate speech which leads us to the brink of tho infinite and permits us to gaze there a while it Is as surely the handmaiden of tho spiritual and BO this people leave held it also it Is truly the expression of the soul of sorrow for the great songs and oratorios and donatos and all enduring expressions are dorn of sadness or deeply tinged therewith Beet hovens moonlight fi onata inspired by pity for the rapt blind girl Shu berts songs which are tho threnody of a tormented chopin giving immortality to the yearning of a proud but race the roll includes if you acan it not the heartsick and grieving eyen if only the grief he as in wagner or gounod in roans acknowledgment of the futility of the search for the secret of the infinite and whether or no our sympathy he those of the mormon faith it must be confessed the long stern fight with pitiless nature the bitter of foes laid tho foundation of their musical expression in sorrow their religion gave it voice character and extension I 1 can recall the furore created by anton Dvor aks declaration fifteen years ago that the future of american music lies in the darkey melody he fortified this position dy saying they are a melodious race and they have suffered ho was a prophet partially for the dominant note insistent and overpowering which has pitched the universal american music for fifteen years the darkey product has been stilled after a degeneracy speedy and deep beyond anything in musical history do you recall how gottschalk thrilled vienna with stephen fosters melodies and variations of plantation songs and what of the last popular coon song wherein lies the bitter fulfillment of the prophecy 7 but where is tho prophet with vision keen to see that a great future if not alie greatest future of american music lies in another and higher race with whom music is sacred who have suffered and whose children now in peace ana comparative affluence still have an heritage of soul which and finds expression in music salt lake Is musical the world knows it and so does salt lake they strive to live up to that reputation and maintain that ideal ogden is musical but neither the world nor ogden more than halt believes it the ogden chelc has done much to establish tho city in worthy musical kinship tho lovo of music is strong universal the appreciation of good music intellectual as well as melodious is here to a degree most gratifying for this bespeaks culture but ogden should know it should count it an asset should assert it confidently freely the time approaches when ogden shall bo accorded one of the richest musical treats in her history tho spring festival will march a month away but it behooves us to tune to excellent pitch of the promised performance lillian blauvelt is the first magnitude star of the series of concerts as she is a star in the constellation of the worlds greatest singers oglan has a sense of regret on her case she appeared here some two years ago to an audience in nowise commensurate with her rank n the musical world an amerlean Amerl cAn singer decorated by the oldest most critical european musical societies as well as dy kings and queens who is accorded by critics in that country and this a very high place not only for the purity and power of her voice but also for the perfection of her method should call every bover in ogden to eager response the indications aro that she will do so as deep interest Is already manifested in her coming this Is to be her last concert work it is announced as she enters reenters re the grand opera field next year the chicago symphony with seven soloists and the tabernacle choir complete an alluring courso the bolo ests are if not in the very first flight of merit in the artistic world alio chicago symphony needs no especial word here or elsewhere for their work Is a synonym for inspiring artistry bhatla this talk current of a song writer who has arisen in our midst hut still bides his time for publicity A set of his verses which are said to bo pleasingly framed in y and which an eastern firm will shortly publish was handed us and aro appended by permission dont you think they elmost sing themselves lovo hath a rose thai blooms and blows in may perfumes the night fills with delight tho day the shining day 0 that together we may scent iho rose ere the tender petals droop md close love hath a song and all along his way I 1 f he clear that men may hear his lay his lilting lay 0 that together we may list the noto ere the ringing measure uc within his throat i like song and rose love hath a close will dio vear loves rose dear lift loves song clear else lovo will pass you by 0 that together we might loves own be I 1 the beloved of thee oen as thou art of me signed A P GRUBB |