The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-18
What Shall We Do With Our
Orchestras?
CARRIE TURNER'S LATEST HIT
The Spanish Students-Coming At
fractions at Both Houses The
Home Dramatic Club The
Knights OF Pythias -Efie
ElIsler's Failure
Gossip Here and
There.
OUR ORCHEsTRAS.

l. OUR ORCHESTRAS.
| We are in receipt of so many con.
CALCULATIONS and compliments on
the stand we took last week against
inferior dramatic representations,
that we feel encouraged this morn
ing to venture upon another topic
scarcelyless interesting to our public
THAT Of our local orchestras, their
Organization, numbers. abilities, etc.
lSince the good old days CT the Care
less Orchestra, when they used
occasionally to be heard with the
Home club, and when they could
draw $7e0 houses by announcing
concerts for themselves, we have
had no instrumental organizations,
except the brass and quadrille bands
and the players at the Opera House
and Theatre. It is of these players
that the present article has to treat.
The Careless Orchestra lived be-
yond the several winter .smOE tbs
allotted to the existence of musical
clubs in Salt Lake, filed its measure
of creation and died, regretted on
all sides from causes not necessary
here to mention. Peace to its
ashes.
The Opera House Orchestra, to
proceed in the order of merit, is
made up almost entirely of mem
bers who seeded from the Care
less organiZ alton. It consists of
twelve musicians. the most of whom
follow no other occupation than
music for livelihood. Mr.. Anton
Peders n, rising conductor, pian>
ist and composer, is the leader and
one of the first violins; the other
instruments are two first and
one second violin, one viola,
one flute, one clarlonet, one cello,
one bass viol, and the kettle and
bass drums. The members of this
orchestra brought to their organiza-
ton an enthusiasm for their art,
thorough knowledge of their instru-
ments and, added to this, the results
Of the careful training they mad re-
ceived under their old conductor:
what these advantages have enabled
them to achieve since they came
together is best known to the
public, and they may be briefly dis
missed with the comment that they
form the one prominent feature in
which the Opera House stands
ahead of the Theatre.
The orchestra at the Theatre can
not be 80 briefly disposed of. What
language can a critic employ who
wishes to be severe to his friends ?
In what guise shall he clothe his
thoughts so that they may SEQ 1t is
not rancor or prejudice that die
tates his utterances, but only
the high duty he owes to
his Office and to his public? Clearly
he has but one path, the truth-per-
haps not the whole truth-anyway
nothing but the truth before him.
The Theatre orchestra marks the
boundary at which the management
came to an abrupt stop in the march
of improvements they commenced
one year ago; it is as il some in
visible power had risen there and
said: "Thus far but no farther shalt |
thou gO!" The vast Improvement !
made in the stage loft have just been
copied by the rival establishment.
Tryon's magnificent efforts at the |
Theatre, it is announced, will be
at the Opera House; in |
these and in various other ways, the |
old house has set the example for |
the new, but in her orchestra the
Theatre has a feature in which she
must remain sublimely and fearfully
alone.
It has been urged in palliation of |
its offences that the Theatre orches-
ira is only allowed the sum of $50
per night, and that that amount will
not hire more than eight performers;
how is it then that the sum of $35
pays the twelve men in the Opera
House orchestra? And even allow
ng this excuse to stand, does it ac~
count for all the worn out music,
'he frequent discords, the breaks in
lime, the tasteless selections with
which the public have so long been
'egaled, and of which they have
rom time lmmemorial been COM
blaming? II
To all these queries neither echo
lOr the management vouchsafes
my reply; the Theatre orchestra
emains triumphant fixture of the
Institution, apparently as immov-
bile as its galleries and pillars; to |
I'll the public's remonstrance,
',Oans, tears and Indignation, Pro-
eSsOr Thomas calmly watts back I
he Syren waltzes and from present
this venerable tune will
% Waiting down the corridors of |
ime till the sound of Gabriels ,
rump envelops and browns its 9
trains.
CARRIE TURNER'S DISCRETION.
Everyone who wept over young L
frs. Winthrop" when it was rens liz
cred in the Opera House here, last {
april, will recollect Miss Carrie /
'urner in the character Of Cons t
lance, the wife. Miss Turner set t
be professional circles Of New S
-ork into jog Of excitement, week O
efore last, by resigning her place in '