The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
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garden. The orchestral music was un-
even and without any attempt at blending !;
in fact the brass had it all its own way
be all right there by the Big Muddy
but here the climate does not agree with
her. b. B. Young is going to Chicago to
sing in church choir. and il they get
voices enough to drown him out he may
get along. The feature of the concerts
was the violin playing of w. S. Weihe; he
had buttonhole boquet on his right
shoulder-he did not appreciate the fact
that one in the middle of his back would
have been as appropriate-and struggled
with some OF Sarasate's music in way
that ought to make both of them ashamed
of such playing. The attendance was very
light, and to sum up the whole thing it was
poor old fizzle."
The following communication was dis
patched to the Illustrated World in answer
to the above; whether the World makes a
practice of hiring such knavish scribes CT
whether it has been imposed upon, can be
best determined when it is seen whether
or not 1t prints the communication:
SALT LAKE CITY, June II, 1890.
To the Editorof the California Illustrated World.
ton to gross and scandalous perversiOn
Of the truth which appeared in your paper
OF June Z, under the head of Salt Lake cor
respondence, feeling that you are very far
from desiring to have your journal made
the medium for an ebulition OF personal
spite. The writer of the article referred
to attacks and seeks to cast ridicule upon
the recent May festival neld in this city,
styling it "a tizzle," and attacking the lead
ct cd ~, T. -
Lake, where the triumphant success of the
festival is SO well known, such an article
only excites amusement or contempt, but
ABROAD 1t will have the effect OF casting dis
credit upon the musical taste of Salt Lake
ana her public, and that is our only apology
for calling the matter to your attention
So far from being "a fizzle," the receipts
of the two nights and matinee
were over three thousand and four
received the s., 900 for which it engaged to
sing and every other artist was fully paid
from 500 each down, according to contract.
ms society comprises 300 singers, and is
as line chorus as any in the United States,
of the same size. Prof. Stephens, whom
your correspondent ridicuies, is pupil of
the New England conservatory, Boston,
whose name is allied with long list OF
musical successes, and whose compositions
ouOi DIS bil6 anu
others have not Scrupled to accept and give
to the world. Prof Radcliffe is an English
organist of such undisputed eminence that
the attack upon him is simply astonishing.
He Is we believe a Liverpool graduate and
he was invited to participate in the recent
great organ festival in Denver, where his
playing drew as much praise and applause
as that bestowed upon DR.. Eddy himself
Mr.. Weihe as violinist ranks
/ n,tpn y, rrh
the Brussels conservatory and pupil
of Ole Bull. We venture the statemen,
that there are not in the United States
to-day, ten better soloists than this gentle
man upon whom your correspondent seeks
| to heap so much ridicule. He has received
the warmest praise from Bull, Wilhelm anG
| Wienawski and can well do without the
laudatlons of such cheap and spitefu
scribbler as your correspondent shows him
self. As for the imported artists' whom
your writer slurs, both were well known
TO be old Salt Lakers, whose decided tai
ents secured them remunerative employ
ment in Omaha and more recently in Chi
cago, and their position in the western mu
steal world is too we'll known to stand il
need of any defense from u.s.
We have written this solely in the inter
est of truth and justice, end in the belief
that your journal was being used withou
us huUWleuSe 10 lurtler Glo Ignorant an(
malicious spite of some unknown scribblel
whose efforts, in view of all the circum
stances surrounding the case, are as despi
cable as they are astonishing.
Yours very respectfully,
! II. G. WHITNEY,
Business Manager,
| Dram. and Mus. Ed. HERALD.
JAMES H. ANDERSON,
City Editor Deseret Netcs.
The festival was in every respect a sue
cess-much more so, in fact, than such af
fairs usually are. The attack, upon Mr.
Young and Miss Bayliss is simply outrag
eous. Mr.. Young would not be called iron
Omaha to Chicago if he did not possess mu
sicial talent of high order. The same i
true of Miss Bayliss, who has a remark
ably sweet and musical voice-high sopran
which has been well cultivated, and sh
is bound to make her mark in the musica
world. ALFRED SoRENsoN.
Editor Daily Times.
S. G. MILLER,
Dram. critic, Daily Tribune
Correspondent Dram. Times.
CHARLES S. BURTON,
Manager Salt Lake theatre
ANDREW @. BRIxEN,
Cor. New York Clipper
G. K. JOHNSON,
New York Dramatic Mirror