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Show ORGAN IS HEARD BY A GREAT , AUDIENCE AT CATHOLIC CHURCH Allen G. Bogen, Famous Organist From Chicago, Delights Those Present Samuel F. Whi taker of Ogden Also Please Instrument Is One of the Best in the West Has Improvements Not on Other Organs in the State. v H With the opening of the new Kimball Kim-ball pipe organ in the St. Joseph's church at 3 o clock thlB afternoon, under the hands of Allen W Bogen. the famous organist of the Auditorium, Auditori-um, the West Side Sunday Night club I and the Chicago Madrigal club of Chicago, Chi-cago, came the fulfillment of Father P. M Cushnahan's fondest hope And as the powerful tones of the "Great ' organ fll'ed the church and gave way later to the enchanting ones of the "Vox Humana" and then the dignified digni-fied cathedral tones of the open diapason, diapa-son, the large audience, many members mem-bers of which came to the city from distant places to participate In the Joy of the Father of St Joseph s church, felt many times repaid for their trip. The recital was given under Ideal conditions, the church being beautifully beautiful-ly decorated with roses, peonies, carnations car-nations and other flowers of June, Intertwined In-tertwined with smllax hung In artls tic profusion over the white and gold altars, adding sweetest fragrance to the spirit of the occasion. The omission omis-sion of applause after the conclusion of the different numbers, too, Impressed Impres-sed all present with the sacredness of the occasion and was a deeper tribute to the one whose sincerity of purpose made possible the Installation Installa-tion of such a splendid type of the "king of Instruments," and to the musicians as well. The organ loft, upon which the big instrument has been built. Is located at the south end of the beautiful church and well above the auditorium In the recital this afternoon, this fact was noted to be a distinct advantage from a tonal standpoint for the distance dis-tance between the Instrument and the auditorium addel enchantment to the pianissimo and medium tones, and softened the heavy full organ tones to a pleasurable degree, without taking tak-ing anything from the thrilling power they are Intended to display. The acoustic properties of the church, too, are unusually good, serving to give a beautiful resonance and permitting of no disagreeable deflection of sound. The organ occupies a floor space extending across the entire width of the loft, at a depth of 13 feet. It Is massive In design and yet it was so constructed that the large art glass i window In that end of the building has been retained In full view and Its beauty has been enhanced by the soft golden glow from the glided decorative deco-rative plpeB The design Is along Gothic lines and the cabinet finish is of golden oak rubbed In oil. The case is constructed of quartered quar-tered oak and consists of massive panel work, built out at each side Into bracketed balcoules. On . these balconies bal-conies are over a hundred decorative pipes, finished in Roman gold These complete the exterior design of the In-strument In-strument and harmonize In a highly pleasing way with the beautiful art glass windows and cream-tinted decorative deco-rative scheme of the church The Instrument Is operated from a reversed console, which permits of the organist facing the same way as the organ. The console Is also set forward several feet so that the performer per-former may hear the organ tones more clearly Air Is supplied by nn electric blower which furnishes 1500 cubic feet per minute at six inches pressure, water gauge The motor which operates the blower is of three and one-half horse power In the organ are four divisions known as the "swell,'' "great." "choir'' and "pedal." Each of these is really an organ in Itself and is operated from its own keyboard in the console con-sole The "swell" and "choir" consist of a group of stops of varied tone quality qual-ity and volume, some of which are used for solos and the others chiefly for accompaniments Thoy are closed In "expression" chambers, equipped with shutters which are operated by pedals placed in the console. The "creat" contains the powerful pipes, such as the trumpet and open diapason, diapa-son, used for heavy forte effects. The "pedal" organ, contains the foundation, founda-tion, or bass pipes, which are operated operat-ed from the keyboard on the console as the name would suggest with the feet From the wonderful music brought from the instrument this afternoon by the two performers, Messrs Bogen and Whltaker, it seemed to those who heard the recital that there Is no tint or shade of tone color known to the art of organ playing which cannot be produced In St. Joseph's church There are only four distinct qualities quali-ties of tone produced by pipes, name, ly. diapason, flute, string and reed, but each of the many stops representing represent-ing these families differ from the others oth-ers In some particular, such as volume, vol-ume, composition of harmonics, pitch, etc . and through the genius of the orgm builder and talent of the performer, per-former, these different qualities can be blended with wonderful effect. A special feature of the organ, which makes It superior in one way to any organ in the state. Is the super-octa, e attachment. This runs through the entire range of the keyboards key-boards and makes possible the production pro-duction of two tones, by touching one key. The organ contains over 1500 pipes and is considered by Mr Bogen and others who are in a position to know and have tried it out. to be one of the best of Its sise In the county. : In preparing their numbers for the' opening recital this afternoon. Professors Profes-sors Bogen and Whltaker chose selections se-lections which would bring out every' possibility of the organ both from the vlew-polnt of secular a well as sacred sac-red music and each number was a classic. 1 Mr. Bogen opened with Mozart's "Gloria" a composition full of dignity, dig-nity, which permitted the performer to show the power of the instrument and the beautiful round tones of the "open diapasons ' to splendid advantage advan-tage This he followed with the "Ave Maria. " by Bach-Gounod. In which the "vox humana" stop was used and the appealing melody seemed-to reach the listeners as though suug by an invisible in-visible choir, from afar off The effect ef-fect of this number was deeply im pressive, as was the heavier "Gloria," which preceded it. The third number of the group, was a "Springtime Sketch" by Brewer and proved a delightful concert numher of the lighter type. Mr. "Whltaker's first number was a "pastorale" by Flagler and proved admirably ad-mirably chosen, as well as excellently played, showing to good advantage the clear tones of the flute, horn and kindred stops. His second number was the "Pilgrim's Song of Hope," by Baptiste, an exceptionally heavy composition com-position In the playing of whfch the performer displayed the quality of both the "great" and "pedal" divisions of the organ to a marked degree. Mr. Bogen's second group, consisted consist-ed of Mendelssohn's "Sonata No. 3," "Idylle D Flat," by Foulkes and "Pastorale "Pas-torale F Major. " by Holllns. The first number Is probably one of the greatest great-est organ compositions extant, and In it the perfected talent of the performer perform-er combined with the capacity of the instrument In making Its rendition one that will doubtless be remembered remember-ed for a long time by those who heard It The other two numbers were aptly chosen to display the lighter tone qualities of the organ and were executed with rare charm. The singing of "Ave Maria" CMas-cagnl) CMas-cagnl) by Mrs D. E Loughran, followed fol-lowed Mrs Loughran is one of the city's best sopranos and her Interpretation Interpre-tation of the noted aria was worthy of the occasion. Her accompaniment was played by Mr. Whltaker. The recital was closed by Mr. Bogen. Bo-gen. with the playing of three notable compositions: Allegro Passlonato and Adagio (Fifth Sonata) by Guilmant; Elevation, by Rousseau and Toccata from Fifth Symphony, by Wldor The Interpretation of all three was admirable admir-able and served to deepen the Impression Impres-sion of the listeners of the possibilities possibili-ties of the SL Joseph s church organ. The recital this evening will commence com-mence at 8 o'clock and the program will be ns follows: Sonata No. 12 Rhelnberger 1, Prelude; 2, Pastorale; 3, Finale. Ave Maria Verdi Mr. Bogen. Romance D Flat Lemare Hymn of the Nuns Weby Mr Whltaker. Matins Faulkes Offertory on "Adeste Fidelis"... Guilmant Romance In D Flat Iemare Gavotte ... Padri Martini Mr. Bogen. Suite Gothique Boellmann A, Choral; b. Minuet; c, Prayer, d, Toccata. Elegy Coleridge Taylor Barcarolle Lemare Marche Pontifica'.e (First Symphony) Sym-phony) Wldor Mr. Eogen. Tatum Ergo Rosewig Chorus. Landate Dorainum Weigand Chorus Soloist, Edna H Smyth. Te Deum Millard Chorus Soloists: Miss Conroy. Mrs. D. E Loughran, Mr B A Critchlow. Choir Members Sporano May Conroy, Anna Conroy. Con-roy. Marguerite M' Nulty, Genevieve McNulty. Edna H Smyth, Mrs. D. E j Loughran. Alto Florence Maginnis. Ruth Thatcher. Ruth Ragan, Mrs. Luna Cablll, Mrs. W. S O Brlen Tenor John A Junk, J E. Fowler, Ed Greenwell, Mr Gilles. Bass B A. Critchlow, Jack Fisher, Fish-er, Ed. Brophy, Mr. Pining. oo |
