Show CAPITAL correspondence CORRESPOND ENOE the theodore thomas festival in the larce large tabernacle i iny by our regular EDITOR HERALD alie large and commodious building known as tho the tabernacle in this city was about half filled not over last evening with enthusiastic admirers of musical culture and artistic ability it y in the vocal and instrumental lines PROF PROP THOMAS MOUNTED the stand and raised his baton at precisely from this time for about an hour and forty minutes a sweet and classic blending of in melodious clodious sounds coupled with harmony but seldom listened to filled the huge structure and called forth rapturous applause from those who like to have the world know that they enjoy PP high toned music miss bliss Thurs bya delightful singing captivated the audience on account of its SWEETNESS AND CORRECT correctness NEIS more than from its appropriate i of or selection it being in ill a foreign tongue the sentiment was lost to all 1 I 1 except a few newspaper men who are always scholastic and oth ers schooled in in the classics by hearsay her voice is marvelously sweet and at times could hardly be told from fron the itlie flute that accompanied her mrs belle colo cole gave us a very nice nice exhibition of her vocal powers cheis excellent on the lower notes and her style seemed to p please lease the audience MRS KIVE RIVE KINO KING was announced as indisposed and did not appear so we were favored with a second piece from miss bliss thursby the entertainment as a whole was fine but methinks inks there was not the I 1 real appreciation that such skilled performances merit the marvel ous execution the precision in time and find tune the wonderful ease with which the performers produced the melodious strains were moat particularly pleasing to the in handling m musical instruments bit but t the general public would JUDGE IT AS A WHOLE how did it sound to the ear was it a familiar air and was it good to dance lance to such questions t iia hs those would of course be among the universal ones as to any given piece thomas is not as electric a lender leader as gilmore Gil neither is his orchestra as fascinating in my opinion as 81 Gil Gilm mores orca baud band which played here some soule years ago but I 1 am inclined to think there are musicians who would pooh pooh this idea and give the palm to the musical cicro otto day the grand chorus was a fitting finale and drew well merited ap P flausa lausa GALLIC SALT LAKE cm june 16 |