The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-06
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
Short Talks with Local Pro-
feSSOrS.
CRITICAL ESTIMATES OF THE
PATTI CONCERT.

Company-Leayitt's .Rentz
SaRtleys--The Kiralfys
and Excelsior,
ETC., Etc.
SHORT TALKS MUSICIANS ON MUS
ICIANs.
The Queen Of Song has halted
her train in Salt Lake long enough
to receive the homage of our ins
habitants, and departed on her way
to the conquest Of new dominions
the magnificence of the event will
not soon be forgotten either by tbs
city or the Territory, and its immedi.
ate influence for good will be felt in
every circle where art has its de-
voices. Something Of the opinions
entertained by our local professors
on Patti and the artists Of her com.
pany will no doubt be interesting to
our readers, and the following are
given as the result of hasty run
about town Friday and Saturday
evenings.
GEORGE CARELEss-The concert
was Of course the finest event We
ever listened to in this city, and it's
effect can not help being beneficial
to the interests of music; the i'm
mediate result or such a drain on
the pockets of those L might call
the purchasing classes in our
business, will no doubt make things
little dull in the trade for awhile,
but the ultimate influence on the
taste OF our public will he a good
| one, and will of course stimulate
musical sales. To me the great
features CT the evening were Patti,
the harp solos aud the orchestra.
Galassi is not at his best in concert !;
Cherubini's last song was farciosl;
DOtti, for all Mapleson's efforts, will
never be great artistic; the Infiam-
matus was very poorly done, and
Arditi visibly hurried it through;
the organ was too heavy for the
orchestra, and was besides cut of
tune; Mapleson stopped it none Too
soon. Patti is a wonderful artist; [
: heard her twenty years ago at the
COvent Garden, in London, when
her fame was just beginning to
spread. She is extremely well pre-
served and will hold her place for a
long time to come. My seat in the
Tabernacle was close to the front,in
the centre. Everything sounded
clearly and beautifully from that
point. I consider James arrange
ment of the lights, and the illumis
nation Of the tabernacle a grand
SUCCESS.
81. S. KROUsE What a magnifi-
cent evening it was Patti is ever
the same marvellous arti,te. heard
her fourteen years ago in Paris for
thirteen consecutive performances,
and upon my soul think the older
she grows The better her voice
gets. Nicolini Is the tenor of the
French school; l do not like him.
Dotti is very Pleasing singer, but
thi ok OF singing against Patti Sac
conf is fine harpist, but not by any
means the best in the world. I con-
slider the harp player in Thomas
orchestra as vastly her superior.
The organ was greatly at fault.
They may dicker at it as much IS
they choose, but until they bring
some one out here from the great
organ builders in Pittsburgh or
somewhere else east, where organ
building is a profession, they will
never have q perfect instrument;
it's great pity, too, when you think
Of what it might be. I stood in
several parts of the building Tues.
day evening, and I am of the opin-
ion that the best places in the house
are on the side in the gallery, few
feet from the performers, and close
up to the front down stairs The
seats in the rear of the house up
stairs did not like so well.
ORsoN PRATT The patronage
which the recent musical enter
tsinments have enjoyed speaks well
for the musical taste OF Salt Lake
audiences. Gerster, Abbott and
Patti have carried away S25, 900.
After ciIcus [ don't know Of any
thing that draws better here than a
good opera. Tuesdays concert was
a grand affair, from the popular
standpoint, but the programme was
not a very gratifying one to must
clans. The great artists think when
they come west. that they must give
nothing but Home, Sweet Home,
Last Rose of Summer, and go forth.
Ii Bacio and the seXtette are worn
threadbare. The gem Ct the even
ing to me was the rannhauser selec.
ton. My seats were On the north
side, under the gallery, several rows
back. I caught everything per-
fectly except the accomplishments,
which sounded from there rather
too piano for the voices.
JOSEPH J. DAYNEs-I enjoyed
the concert immensely; Patti and
Sacconi of course came first, but the
whole was rare treat for Salt
Lakers. Personally / care very little
for Dotti: have heard Mrs. Careless
and he Choir give the Inflammatus
so per cent. better than it was rem
dered Tuesday evening. Dottl's high
G was not G at all, as the organ, the
4 ord tho 49,