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Show CHOIR SCORES A SUCCESS IN CANTATA Tellinp the beautifully touching story of the passing moments and resurrection re-surrection of Urn "Christ," in sermon ser-mon of Bone, as only a chorus that sings for tho love of singing can tell such a story, the Ogden Tabernacle choir last evening, in Its rendition o! "Christ the Victor" tightened Its hold upon the hearts of many friend! to a marked degree And then, after 40 minutes of singing sing-ing with but ono intermission, the singers completed the notable evening even-ing with a truly dramatic rendition of Handel's mighty 1 Hallelujah" chorus. cho-rus. The manner in which the sopranos so-pranos carried their part in the third movement. "Lord of Lords." rising higher and higher and never wavering, waver-ing, was a remarkable display of power, and at Its close, though the program tras ended, the audience, sat for severnl moments, loth to leave. In composing "Christ the Victor." Dudley Buck, the greatest of American Ameri-can composers, took the story from Good Friday night, through the Ascension, As-cension, and gave It a most impressive impres-sive temperamental setting. The first Dumber, a prophetic prologue. pro-logue. "Who Is this that cometh from Kdom'1'' was sung by Mr Walter Stephens Ste-phens In the manner that has made him one of Ogden's most satisfying bassos. In No 2. 'The night or the Sob-bath," Sob-bath," the women's chorus sang the plaintive lamentation with fine ef-lect. "The Night Watch," by 26 male voices, with Mr Stephens as soloist, was most effectively done. A thrilling ensemble was No. 4, The Blaster Dawn." Following the-dramatic the-dramatic full chorus, "And behold, there came a great earthquake," Geo Douglass, a local tenor of rare temperament, tem-perament, came Into bis own. giving the aria "Fear not ye," a beautiful tone coloring, with good control and plenty of power. A chorus followed, closing part one For part two Mr lifted Best had been programmed, but Mr. Best, as letters received from him and his physician last night testified, was unable un-able to attend on account of Illness. He had, however, been thoughtful of his obligation to furnish part of the program and had delegated Mr Olto King, one of the few cello artists of the west, to take his place. That his substitute was well chosen was proven by the enthusiastic manner In which Mr. King's three numbers were i received and he responded with two , charming encores Mr. King plays with fine tonal expression ex-pression and his technique Is almost faultless. His three numbers were "Menuetti," by Beethoven, 'Canti-' 'Canti-' terra,' by Golterman, and Van Goen'o "Scherzo." Sammie Williams, one of the date's most clever young pianists, gave ex- cellent assistance to Mr. King in the accompaniments. Part three began with "The Reappearance." Reap-pearance." an ensemble number In which Mr. Douglass acuin touched all hearts with the words of lesus in the recitatlvo "Peace be unto you." I three verse missionary chant of charm lng melody closed the number On "The Report of the Watch." a difficult recitative of some length. Mr Stephens again proved his ability ' and was well received. No. 7. Including recitative for so-I so-I prano. tenor and bass soloists unci l women's chorus, closing with a two verse hymn for full chorus, was a most beautiful piece of temperamcn-tal temperamcn-tal composition, littlngly sung. Miss Elsie Shortcn's first oppor-' oppor-' tunlty came in this number, and her j solo was done most successfully, and 'in the opening of the next numhei I 'The Ascension." the young soprano ! gave an excellent display of repres- Bion and tone coloring. She was ; well received in both numbers Following the bass solo. "This jsl j He who came out of Edom." by Mr Stephens, came the Inspiring epilogue and finale, the choir rising to its greatest power In the latter part, "Hail, heir of all worlds," and then, under the baton of the director, with quiet dignity, closed the cantata with the chorus "Our blest Redeemer," the last amen being Just an echo. Many congratulations are due Director Di-rector Ballantyne for his selection of the cantata and for the fine Interpretation Interpre-tation given It by his big chorus. Organist Sam P Whltaker is also worthy of praise for his capable accompaniment ac-companiment of the choir. A prospective musical afternoon is being contemplated by the choir, for u Sunday later in the month, when the cantata probably will be sung again with an interpretation of the libretto li-bretto preceding the Hinging |