The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-20
THE THOMAS CONCERTS
The Coming Grand Musical Treat

of interest regarding the coming
grand Thomas orchestral concerts,
which are present a topic
eral interest
In another month the Thomas
musical Festival will be upon us,
and if the signs are not deceptive,
1t will find San Francisco
thoroughly prepared to do it justice,
both in the musical support 1t will
receive from our chorus aid in the
more solid engagement that will be
contributed by the lovers of good
music who will fill the pavilion.
The grand tour of the Thomas Or
chesGra began at Baltimore with a
great success, as has been already
announced. In this city guarantee
fund Of $4,000 was raised, and a like
amount was secured at Pittsburg,
from which the orchestra
went to Bradford and Buffalo
Next week festivals will be
held at Cleveland, Columbus and
Louisville. Then come Memphis
and Nashville festivals, and the
special performance of Gounod's
Redemption" at Cincinnati. The
orchestra thence goes to st. Louis
for three days, and then to Kansas
City for a like period. Then Keokuk,
Cedar Rapids, st. Paul and Min
neapolis are visited il order. Then
the orchestra will start for this
city, stopping only once to give a
single concert. The orchestra Will
| leave San Francisco June 18th, for
Salt Lake City, where three concerts
| will he given IN the Tabernacle, and
will thence go to Denver.
The list of members of the or
chestra shows how much we do de-
pend on Germany for our best music.
| Among the sixty musicians there
are only four who do not bear Ger
man names. Mr.. Thomas is him
iself German, having been born IN
| Hanover, Germany, in 1885. He be-
| longed to a family Of musicians, his
| father being a distinguished per-
former on the violin. At an early
age his father gave him musical in
sfruction. and when he was SIX
wears old he appeared on the concert
stage and attracted much attention.
He came to this country with his
parents in 1845, and often appeared
in New York as a solo vi0llnlst. lie
soon became distinguished as mu,
cician, and above all as player OF
classical music. The symphony
concerts inaugurated by him IL
1864 mark the beginning of a new
era in music in this country. From
1872 to 1878 these concerts Weresuc
cessful in every point OF view, anC
in the latter year he was cho3eI
director of the Cincinnati College o.
! Music. which resulted from the mu
steal festivals held by him ID tina
CITY. But Mr.. Thomas, as is vel
known. could not have art boun'
by rules that prevented IFS develop
ment.and in 1880 he resigned his pos
ition in order that he might realiZ
his highest al tistic aspirations. ID
visited Earope, where he was re
celyed as a brother by all OF th
the most distinguished mus
clans. and then returned to resum
the work to which he has given b
life. The present undertaking
the result of the constant cal
made upon him from all parts
the country, where it is desired
hear the great masters lnterpTete
bv the foremost musician IN Anne
lea. Mr.. Thomas has secured tt
best material for his orchestra
paving the highest salaries and [
relieving his musicians from a
work except that for which teey a
engaged.
Of the soloists who accompar
the orchestra, the most distinguish
is Miss Emma Ihursby, who
famous both in this country and
It. Enrope as one of the greatest
n. concert singers. She was born
he BROOKLYN, n. Y. She studied und
K julius Meyer, pupil OF MendeI
Die sohn. and afterward had as teacne
Achille Ernani, a follower of Va
er cal, Lamperti, San Giovanni al
Madame Rudersdorff. She first a
reared as a singer IN a church cho
and was there discovered by Ma
rice Strakosch, who brought n
IL forth upon the concert stage. Fro
Der first appearance her success W
assured. and at all the capitals
Europe she has received praise u
ne less sincere than that accorded
p her countrymen.
u The other sopranos are Mrs Hu
phrey-Allen and Mrs Nortor-lia
feoen, The former is claimed
New England and the latter
in Cincinnati. Mrs Allen has won
ms brilliant reputation as an int
preter of Berlioz Marguerite, a
ral she has also triumphed in such grt
nv classical works as Messiah, Eng
Ire and The Creation. Mrs Hartdeg
as Miss Annie Norton won fame
&c. her first appearance in the Thon
r festivals in Cincinnati, Chica
20 70 New York and Brooklyn.
Mrs Belle Cole is the contralto
cialist andi well known III the N
,ia1 zeal world of New York, Phila'
En- phia, Baltimore and other easte
IT'S cities. She is distinguished as
lea of the greatest Interpreters OF sac
IRE music that this country has I
or duced.
Frederick Harvey, the tenor S
D. ist. is an American, who has s
~ with Camnanni at Cincinnati,