Show CANTATA pronounced HAYDN SOCIETY PLEASE HUNDREDS WITH RENDITION OF COMING OF THE KING the program rend rendered ered by the hayden society at the tabernacle on christmas night was undoubtedly one of the best things ever witnessed by a parowan Ia rowan audience the i house was well filled and every num per rendered was well received and liberally applauded before the commencing of the evenings regular program pru grm F C Vari Buren representing the society and lyceum course committee in a fitting speech presented to the par owan ward an elegant new piano which had been purchased by the society and lyceum committee for that purpose president L N marsden responded in an appropriate speech accepting the gift in behalf of parowan carowan Pa rowan the opening numbers yvere were given by prof leon L eckles and mrs nina barber prof eckles rendered eight vocal selections as follows thus saith the L ord but diho may abide gipsy john the brightest angel A mans song when love is gone rolling downto down to rio and because in all of which he showed the skill of a trained singer and especially was this the case in the selection from the Ales messiah siah where his rich baritone voice rang out with telling effect mrs barber gave three selections on the iano and showed an unsophisticated mastery of the instrument which set everybody at ease her selections were enjoyed very much especially especial lythe ithe etude japon aise the sacred cantata the coming of the king vas as then given by the haydn society under the direction of prof eckles with mrs bar ber as it takes lakes up lite story of the comin coming of christ the music is of high class and quite difficult of rendition but the manner in which the chorus of HO joics s rendered the magnificent choruses was indeed a pleasure to all ail music lovers overs and the almost perfect control exercised by the director over the singers all through the performance was a marvel and wonder to many As one person puts it prof eckles had the whole society on the end of his baton the solo work was exceptionally good miss aliss ada mcgregor always good never sang better and she showed marked improvement in the ulcer tones miss una morris the contralto making her first appearance in solo work displayed a voice of rich musical quality and carrying power her rendition of the virgins lullaby good ray pay lyman the young tenor did splendid work and won a place in the hearts of his listeners leadam LJ L J adam baritone as herod and F C van buren basso baso both did splendid work on their solos taken all together it was a musical treat one pleasing feature to all the people from the old country was the introduction by I 1 the he author of the old english christmas carol christians awake the society is to be congratulated upon the success of their first appearance pe arance in public and particularly so when we take into consideration the fact that many of the have never appeared in public before i it is to be hoped that we nay may have wore more of such entertainments from the hadyn society in the near future |