The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-18
Strange Sights and Scenes on
the '0uld Sod.
NOT DOWN ON THE PROGRAMME,
How the Irish Students Amuse Them
selves Between the Acts at an
Operatic Performances,
BELFAST. september19 10, 1885.


The disappearance of Madame Marie
Roze in Belfast vas in "Manon," a
peculiar story supposed to be illustra-
tive of life and customs in France, long
before letters were dated 1900. The
music is not as taking, on the whole, as
one could wish, though there are GER
talnlv some delightful morsels in it..
1t might be that a more intimate ac-
quaintance would cause the piece to
grow IN favor, since music is a species Of
appetite, and has to be cultivated. The
Theatre Royal, however, was literally
packed, standing room only being
! ultimately refused to applicants for ad-
mission. As this was the first presenta-
ton of "Manon" in Belfast. it is very
questionable if such another house
could he drawn to witness repetition.
| The season closed with WaAace's never
dying lyrical opera. Mariana" which
also drew tremendous audience. Mr..
Rosa, the sterner, though by NO means
(known we'll to early lovers of music in
Utah, and to theatre goers of perhaps
fifteen years ago. is not personally visi-
BILE. He is amanager. He does not draw
the festive horse tail hair over the drled
feline intestine, nor does he WELD the
baton himself. He has discovered his
genius to be in organization and in man
agement, and if his receipts elsewhere
areIn keeping with those resulting from
the weeks performance by his company
in Belfast, then he has, beyond the
shadow of a doubt, taken hold of that
tide in his affairs, which Shakespeare
says, leads on to fortune. There may
also be some consolation to him in the
fact that he is now known as Carl Rosa.
the manager; and not, as formerly. as
the husband Of the once famous Par
epa.
During the opera week here, the audi
snces were. indeed, well entertained.
The cheaper seats were taken by the
college students, who held their own
each night. The house was filed by Z
O'Clock, the performance beginning at
80, or thereabouts. This interval, to-
getheT with the intermission between
each act, witnessed an entertainment of
a character ! eculiarly and singulsrlv
different from that for the enjoyment of
which the audience had assembled.
The gallery gods and students in the
pit, with precision and certainty that
Is yet inexplicable to me, would stimuli
taneOusly break out in negro or Jubilee
melodies such as lone Noah Ribber to
Cross, the conclusion of which would
be followed by a burst Of applause.
when for an encore I'm de Mornin' by
de Bright Light" would be given. which
in turn was succeeded by "Oh, dem
Golden Slippers" One person would
render the song, and when the chorus
was reached, a volume of male voices
strong. sweet, in perfect time and with
genuine poetical observance of cadences,
took up the air and filed the whole
auditorium with a distribution of the
parts and an eYenness that was delight
full. The appearance of the orchestra
was the signal for tuning. The lead
& guide for the other instruments, than
the sound was caught up and taken all
over the house. by multitude of voices.
all holding tenaciously to the pure
sound but expressing it BY as many De-
cul;aritieS of intonation as the incar-
nate impS of mitchell could suggest.
One would sound the note, clear and
full; another give it hideous nasal
tWang, another a falsettO, another an
abominable gutteral, and so on till the
house was filled with a series of the
most eXcruclatng expressions of a single
sound all different and yet all true.
Then would follow gradually limitations
of the Drawing of a jackasS, natural al
most to the life; which in time would
be succeeded by caterwauling, the vic
tOrious or morning salute of the shrill
toned chanticler (rooster as he is pro
fanely called in these days of modern
innovation), the whelping and barking
of dogs, the granting of pigs, and so or.
This only subsidized when the overture
began. The best of order and decorum
prevailed during the playing of the
orchestre and the performance on the
stage, but the curtain had hardly
touched the floor, before voices would
be heard from different parts of the
mouse GAZING LOT S0Dl6 IaVOrlt6 III the
audience who il was desired should air
his lungs and display his vocalizing
powers an interim. The favorite. with
out even as much as the almost inevita-
bic hem, in "a clear, rich. and evident
~ cultivated voice, burst into The
Tar's Farewell" Breathless attention
was given and unbroken silence pre-
vailed till he came TO the chorus. when
like the burst of an unexpected peal of
thunder, three or four hundred male
voices, among which the different parts
seemed to have been divided with re-
maTkable accuracy so as TO produce a
perfectly balanced rendering, sang ONT
clear and in rich fullness:
For the wind viii blow,
And the ship must 60
And loving souls must part:
But the ship will tack,
And the TAR come b ok
To the first care OF his hssr.
The applause literally Numbered and
Babel of tongues, demanded another
when Sailing" was given. the chorus
again being taken up with the Same
precision and harmony by the mall
voices. The tuning of the instruments
again was once more followed bv tho
menageries symphony which would snh-
side as soon as the conductors batan
could be seen saving the gaslit air, Tor
no sound from the instruments reached