The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-04
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
Ups and Downs of Amy Sher-
wins Career
DIR NEW MUSICAL SOCIETY.
The Theatre Opera House
The Choir's. New Anthem
Professional Gossip.
DIR NEW MUSICAL SOCIETY.
AMY SHERWIN.

| in the various performances which
she gave in the Salt Lake Theatre,
has received lie ter from the lady,
dated in New York few
| days back; the letter encloses
| an extract from one of the papers
commenting on Miss Sherwin's
temperance in a concert which
had just been given there; the
notice says: "The appearance of
Miss Amy Sherwin, after an absence
of three years in the schools of Eu-
rope, was the signal for warm
burst Of the heartiest applause.
The lady certainly comes back to us
greatly improved in voice; her two
selections last evening were given
in an almost faultless manner, and
ter each piece the audience bois-
terously insisted on an encore. Miss
Sherwin's voice has developed into
a pure, high soprano of excellent
quality. Her F I'm alt, which she
touched in the last song, was clear
and true as bell, and her lower
notes (Which is so seldom the case
with high soprani) were Of equal
strength with the upper. We well
come Miss Sherwin back to New
York and predict for her high
place in the professional world"
The notice contains no mention of
Mr.. Hugo Gorlitz; but it may
be set down as certain that
he was somewhere on the
platform or in the lobby exasperat-
ing the manager or annoying the
ushers, and getting walked on for
his pains. Poor ANY SherWin! She
had always two fatal obstacles in
her road to success-one her ambi-
ton to become an operate singer,
and the other her German husband,
Mr.. Hugo Gorli.z. This last impede
ment she was wise enough to get
rid of when she left America for
Europe three years ago, but her de-
sire for the stage seems always to
have chung to her.
When she sailed from New York
Miss Sherwin left Mr.. Gorlitz in the
employ of a lumber firm somewhere
up in Maine. She went straight to
her husbane's home in Germany, and
there her child was born. Recover
ing from long illness, and leaving
the boy with its grandparents she
commenced severe course of study
under several masters in various
parts of Europe; in two years she
made such progress that had she
been content to cOnfine her appear
anceS to concert singing she might
reasonably have hoped to win both
fame and fortune; but the old am
bition for the opera had too strong
hold on her, and in an evil hour
she was tempted to try her fortune
as Mariana at the Drury Lane in
London, Carl Rosa being the inns
pressario. Poor Miss Sherwin and
poor Maritana!-the less said about
the engagement the better; Mr.. O.
d. Whitney, then the "Iago" of THE
HERALD, was in London at the
time. and received the compliment
of couple of seats from the debut
ante herself. He states what
everyone will remember in
the performances of Martha"
+ Pinafore and "Trial by
Jury" here, that Miss Sherwin
could sing, but she knew not the
first rudiment of acting. The Ions
don critics could never forgive that,
and Mariana was as quickly and
quietly 'shelved as the manager
could do it. After that Amy Sher-
win dropped out of sight, aud no
one seemed to know what had be-
come of her. until her appearance
in New York at the recent concert
mentioned above. Her many friends
in Salt Lake will be glad to learn
that she is again winning success in
her own proper sphere.
THE SALT LAKE CHORAL SOCIETY.
The opening of the winter season
in this city is usually marked by
the organization of a musical society
which holds together during the
cold months and adjourns in the
spring never to be called to order
again. We trust that the new
Choral Society (such we understand
from one of the committee is the
name decided on organized in Mr..
Careless store last Monday evening,
will meet with better fate, but we
confess we have our fears. The
number of people in this city who
understand enough of music to meet
regularly for practice with. no other
inducement or aim than the love
of their art is proably large enough
to form strong and excellent
society, if they could all agree on
combining their forces but we have
so many different directors, leaders
and teachers, and there seems to be
such a delightful understanding
existing between them, that
no segregation of their forces
has ever been accomplished or
thought possible up to this time.
Mr.. Careless pr. baby has greater
number of adherents than any other
of our local professors. and is the
only one of them who has succeeded
in holding together society for
several seasons consecutively. The
ladies and gentlemen who form the
new organization have sung under
him in such old organizations as the
Tabernacle Choir, the Philharmonic
and the Handel anu Haydn society.
Their names comprise some of our
best local talent, and will certainly
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