The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-17
THE CHORAL'S WORK
They Entertain the Visitors in
Grand Style.
THE GUESTS ARE ASTONISHED
Stephens Provides Menu That the Strangers
VIII Long Remember-A Grand
Programme.
THE GUESTS ARE AsToNIsHED

When the visit of the Irrigation congress
is all over and the members are settled
back in their homes, nothing in the
green spot In the memory of the delegates
as the complimentary concert rendered by
the Choral society at the tabernacle last
evening.
1t is doubtful lion of the visitors was
missing from his place when the great
glare from the electric lights and gas jets
lit up the magnificent auditorium. There
were $50 complimentary tickets out and
there were probably another 1000 to ! 200
people who paid the admission fee. The
| audience was nearly equally divided above
| and below.
1t was rare sight when the 300 singers
arose in answer to signal from Stephens
and prepared to open the concert The
ladies were all in bright colors and presented
the appearance of one huge bank of roses.
The gentlemen, dressed in uniform black,
looked scarcely less striking.
Nothing better could have been selected
to open the concert than the grand selec
ton, DAMASCUS" one of the prominent
hits of the June festival. 1t is a selection
in which the great organ and the 300 voices
are pitted against each other, and each
seemingly independent of the other bu
both blending and uniting in glorious
whole. The number reused the echoes
and the enthusiasm would have been more
pronounced still had it not been for the
evident doubt of many of the visitors as II
whether applause in the building were the
proper thing or not MIR. and Mrs. Met
time the audience had found tina
FJ applause was permitted, and tn
. duet got rousing encore. Mr.. and Mrs
Metcalf have store of songs which ar
selected and executed with the same taste
feeling and skill, and though we confess
that we think we have heard them rende
, pieces more tender than those of last even
ing, it would be hard to exceed their art
istic manner of rendering anything. A
an encore they sang Abt's when l know
G thou art near me-" Professor Radcliff
played last night almost beyond his ow
Z high standard. The visitors were spell
Q bound by the powers of the great organ q
they told out in the Schiller march. Thi
v was immensely applauded and, being re
called, Radcliffe played what mad
!, the German geologists-who wer
seated near the front - almos
rise out of their seats wit
enthusiasm--the Evening Star" son
from Tanhauser. Nothing could be NOR
exquisite than the combination the profe!
sor brought into play in this selection. Tn
Chorals favorite number, the Welsh glet
IS 1.-The summer went even better than s
d the festival, if that were possible gret
il burst of applause followed it, and the au
;. dience insisted on a repetition. 1t was a
% most admirably rendered, in time, shadin
and spirit. The ovation of the night wa
S given the tenor, MIR. Easton, and the VS.
+ the audience acted over him was moi
ID demonstrative than nything we are accu
J 90 w h. ,kanN x~al- 4.
m gatherings that are wont to Assem- ole in tt
If tabernacle. He first gave you'll Remeu
" Der Me-" instead of the number for whic
TO he was put down. This was uproariousl
T. encored, and he gave d verse of Bonn
{. Doom" as only a Scotsman with voiC
20 like Easton, knows how to give it. The
le he went back to his seat, and two or tire
at voices in different parts of the house echoe
te The HERALD's wish and called out "Ann
u Laurie" This was taken up by the Ell
ic tire audience and when Stephens sat dow
ly to the piano and reeled off the famiii,
at strains of the tender old Scotch ballad, tt
ne enthusiasm broke quite beyond bound
ne Easton sang one verse in his own way
and we think that way in that particul
d, song cannot be excelled by any singer
On this broad land-amateur or professions
n Another triumph was scored by Miss LII
On Snyder, in the Bel Raggio" selection, a
compaDied by the ladies of the chorus IT
high notes and the forid work we
executed with a brilliancy that caught Il
house immensely. For an encore Mi
ne Snyder gave two verses of ''Comil
Through the Rye very charmingly, al
when the audience again insisted on b
appearing she sang a verse of "Row, Ro
My Bark" The thousand strange
within our gates craned their necks in a
constituent, and those in the side galleri
80 stood up and leaned curiously over VIII
the Young Ladies' Guitar and Mandol
,oo club in their attractive costumes, filed in
the aisles and took their places. OF cour
they got huge encore for their wal
SEQ which they played very well. We sugge
-. that that solitary male yiolinjst be e
loo plunged forthwith. If no LADY violinist
i, available, leave the fiddle out al
gether and don't mar the beauty
800 thas bouquet of roses by the int
duction of that solitary thol
He is a good performer doubles
300 but he reminded US in that group of {
"Lone Fisherman Miss Fannie Lincoln
I'm pure and liquid notes were beautifu
heard in the "Ernani Involami'' selectic
1 Her voice is not the strongest, but it
wonderfully pure. She was encored a
gave verse of an odd, pretty solo, viii,
so however, might have been improved on
an encoress The beautiful voices of M
soo Lizzie Thomas Edward and Miss VII
Pratt blended ex9uisitely in the Sta
ed mater duett and the relfgiOsO effect they ga
nd the fervent selection was excellent. tn
e. were loudly recalled and gave the Nor