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Show MUSICAL TALENT OF AN OGDEN GIRL Tho following criticism, highly favorable to Miss Mercer, daughter .of Thomas Mercer of Ogden. Is from a South Bend. Indiana., paper: "Miss Margaret Connor of tho un-dergraduatlng un-dergraduatlng class in music at St. Mary's college. Tuesday afternoon In St. Angela's Hall, presented a musical musi-cal program that would have taxed tbe at Lalnments of a much more ma-lure ma-lure artist She gave ber part of the work very creditably. She has developed de-veloped a fine command of tone quality quali-ty and variety, which Is the surest Indication of sound technical foundations. founda-tions. Furthermore, she evidently possesses a very promising musical talent. The Chopin Valse was delivered deliv-ered with a fine appreciation of Its Intimate poetic and emotional values. Less fortunate was the Chopin Noc-j Noc-j tume. Miss Connor showed a Tery clear preccption of Its signiflcanc dramatic content, but lacked the strength to make Its proportions sufficiently suf-ficiently Impressive. However, she gave It with a fair measure of technical tech-nical completene? r pr-'1 - - --. lectual grasp that promises well for her future. Miss iiuint i-0 accompanying was noticeably brilliant. bril-liant. Her touch Is sure and graceful grace-ful and a fine sense of beautiful toDes and rythmic values made her work in accompanying a great aid to tbe other planist- Mlss Arrendondo's singing of an Italian opera reealed a sweet voice of excellent tone and a good understanding under-standing of how H should be used. The readlDg given by Miss Mercer was one of the most enjoyable numbers num-bers on the program. The character of the selection was such as to give Miss Mercer an opportunity to show her ability, and It was little short of marvelous. Her naturalness, distinct enunciation, intelligent interpretation brought her the compliment of much applause. Given Ovafon. When Miss Connor had concluded her last number, according to her program, she was presented with a beautiful bouquet of mses and called back a second and third time by such waves of applause as any publio perormer could wish. The cloning number was appropriate as an end to an excellent program. The exquisite balance of the ensemble work could not have been Improved upon, and tbe dlBlcult syncopation was well mastered." |