Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-17
MR.. GORLINsKrs CONCERT.
Our Local Artists Score Genuine
Success.

After an absence of two years, spent
abroad in the study of music, Mr. Cor
linski last evening made his debut in
Salt Lake City as an artist Mr.. Gorlinski
possesses baritone voice of fine quality,
and he has for years been one of the
most popular figures on our concert
stage. His earnest study and efforts
abroad to perfect himself in his art, were
followed with sympathy and interest by
his many friends at home and his reap
pearance here last night, equipped with
the results of foreign training, was looked
forward to with eager interest as musi-
cal event. Mr.. Gorlinski's first selection
was Verdi's Aria; ella giammai
mamo," which gave the audience
an opportunity to judge the full
compass of his voice. As
was to be expected, great improvement
is noticeable in range, power and man
| agement-in short, in every respect The
delicate pianissimo passages were rem
dered with great sweetness and express
| sion. There is but one regret left in the
mind of the listener, and that is one for
which the artist is not responsible. 1t
struck us as if he were physically not
robust enough at present to make the
strong forte passages tell as finely as the
more delicate. 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that Utah's beautiful mountain air
will soon give him that robustness which
is necessary to make the voice respond to
every effort for which the artist may call
upon it. The effect of Mr.. Gorlinski's
rendering of the Aria was evil
denced by loud and hearty applause
at the close, obliging him to repeat a por-
ton of it, MIR. Gorlinski was indebted to
Miss Naomi Conklin for an intelligent
rendering of the difficult accompaniment
to his Aria; and it was hardly in good
taste for him to make his bow and leave
the stage before his accompanist had
concluded. Miss Conklin subsequently,
played one movement from Beethoven's
Sonata Pathetique in very acceptable
manner. Miss Edna Russell sang
Tosti's "Ah Dimmi Addio," very nicely,
and was warmly applauded. The
quartette "Sweet and Low" by the
Misses L. Wells and Edna Russell, and
Messrs J. ID. Spencer and G. D. Piper,
was also well received. The instrumental
quartettes, consisting of Parts l. and II.
of Beethoven's Opus Is in Z fiat,
were a success, the rendering being
given with intelligence and spirit bv
Messrs. Radcliffe, Petersen, Weihe and
Van Praag. The latter gentleman present.
ed as a solo Goltermann's " ALA Polacca
in d" a composition of the bravura order.
and the first of its kind, we believe.
which that artist has as vet pre-
sented to Salt Lake audience. It was
rendered by him with genuine artistic fire
and spirit, and called from the audience a
most enthusiastic encore, to which Mr..
Van Praag responded with tender little
composition, which again brought down
the house. Mr.. Weihe rendered Vieux-
temps Fantastic Caprice OPP. II, with his
usual fine effect. BY special request Mr.
Gorlinski sang the familiar ballad ''Look-
ing Back" a composition he used to sing
beautifully long before he ever thought
OF Italian training.
Mrs. j. Leviberg presented with good
effect Robandi's Gala Stella Conf
dente," Mr.. Van Praag rendering the
cello obligato. The Lucia duet, by Mr..
Gorlinski, and that accomplished lady,
Mrs. A. Med. McCook, was rendered with
smoothness and finish, and called forth
well merited applause.
Bearing in mind that this concert was
presented to us simply by local lovers of |
music, it was in every respect a
success. The great mass of the Salt Lake |
public cannot yet be said to have fine
appreciation of music, but such mis-
sionary work as our local Assists are now
doing, is bound to be beneficial and edu-
eating in its results, and should be |
literally encouraged. Mr.. Gorlinski, and |
the ladies and gentlemen who rallied |
round him in last nights performance,
are to be congratulated upon having drawn /
together one of the most brilliant au-
diences that ever assembled in Salt Lake
City.