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Show uu HDD TOO WARM FOR DIRECTOR BF DH CHOIR "The only people who don't liko Ogden are those who haven't been away," was tho statement of Prof. Joseph Ballantyne this morning, following fol-lowing his return from Chicago, where he passed thet lost six weeks. "It is glorious here, after the awful heat that baa prevailed in the east, tho mercury reaching 106 degrees in the streets of Chicago, a number of days while I was thero, with many prostrations pros-trations and people unable to sleep," Continuing, ho said the city ordinances ordi-nances of Chicago, requiring the people peo-ple to leave the porks at 11 p. m. and forbidding bathing in Lake Michigan Michi-gan along the Lincoln Park drive after 7 a. m. were suspended and more than 200,000 people slept In the parks all night and fully an equal number lined the lake front and sought refuge from the heat in the water at all hours of the day. "Last week, the heat waa particularly particular-ly oppressive',' the Tabernacle choir director stated, "but now I guess it is not so bad as we struck the cool wave In western Nebraska and it seemed to bo sweeping eastward. At all events, I am glad to be back in Ogden again, with assurance of being able to sleep In comfort every night" Mr. Ballantyne went east for the double purposo of taking post gradu-' ato work in voice culture under D. A. Clippinger, former editor of the "Etudo" and one of the foremost American instructors, and to select a repertoire of choral music for the Ogden Og-den Tabornaclo Choir's 1916-17 season. sea-son. He greatly enjoyed his work with Prof. Clippinger, he said, taking two lessons dally, and passed nearly two hours each day in the offices of tmho Lyon and Healy, Ollvor Dltson and John Church music companies, studying sample choruses. His evenings eve-nings wero mainly passed at Ravinla Park, which is enjoying its annual season of grand opera, and renewed acquaintance with Richard Hagemann, the director. Prof. Hagemann was director di-rector of the Panama-Pacific Exposition Exposi-tion orchestra, to the accompaniment of which tho Ogden Tabernacle sang In Festival hall, San Francisco a year ago. Speaking of the prospective work of the choir for the coming season, Director Ballantyne stated that rehearsals re-hearsals would begin September 7. Tho choir will immediately take up tho preparation of Dudley Buck's cantata can-tata "The Story of the Cross," which will complete the sacred cycle, the other two cantatas being "Christ the Victor,'" and "The Coming of the King," already a part of the choir's church repertoire. In addition to the presentation of these at appropriate seasons, and its Sunday service work, the chorus will prepare for several concerts with noted artists and for several opera evenings. |