The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-06-03
BOYS, PROVO HlHORS YOU
The Result Of the Musical
Contest In Salt Lake.
PROVO Gets Away With the
Laurels and Nearly All
the Baggage.
Salt Lake and Ogden Song
sterS Knocked Out in
Every Round.

The Grand Musical Contest, under
the auspices OF tie Y. NJ. Nj. l. A,
came off Monday evening, June l, in
the Large Tabernacle at Salt Lake
City. OF the $400 to be distributed in
prizes. Provo got away with $500, in
the following order:
John Buckley, first prize for best bar
itone solo, The Old Brigade by
BalTi. Altho ugh there were four Salt
Lake singers entered. our Provo rep
resentative, Mr. Buckley, walked off
with the prize of $25.
a quartette: Like the Woodland
Roses" was the next number for
which Provo was entered. In this
Boshard and Pyne Bros were pitted
against four gentlemen from Ogden.
The Provo boys again took the prize,
amounting to $50.
The next was duet, "Ship AhoY!"
by Harrison Willard. 'Dolph" and
Harry Boshard walked away with the
hOnOrs of this also. The Second Ward.
Ogden, and Sixth and Eleventh Wards
Of Salt Lake, competed in this num-
Der.
The grand prize of 5000 for the best
chorus of twenty-five male voices was
THE event of the evening. The piece
selected was Invocation to Har-
mony." by Evan Stephens. Three
wards entered for this number, viz:
Twenty-Fnst Ward, Salt Lake City,
Provo Fourth Ward and Spanish Fork,
Utah county. The Provo boys felt
rather timid. as every one who knew
anything about the contest were prais-
ing the Salt Lake contestants, until
our boys thought that there was no
hope. When the contestants drew for
| the order in which they we're To sing.
it was found that Salt Lake sang first
and Provo next. AS soon as the first
chord was struck by the Provo club, it
commanded the attention of every one,
and at the close it was not only the
verdict of the judges, but also the YER
dict of the people that Provo was far
in advance of anything, and ringing
cheers and applause greeted them
when they sat own. Mr.. Stephens,
the author of the piece, in compliment
ing the club, said he never expected to
hear it sang better, he was surprised
that Provo mad such singers.
The names of the club who carried
off the 5000 prize are as follows:
First Ien0f:S-J. r. Tweives, ]. II.
Boshard, Herb. S. Pyne, R. R. Irvine.
Second ieaOrS-Monte Roberts, Z. II.
Cluf, j, ". Bean, Wallace Halliday,
Ern Buckley. Charles Petersen, VIM.
Irvine, Frank NOyes, Newton Moves.
First Ba$S-Wm. Buckley. j. T.
Pyne, Ed. Young, ". D. Roberts, il, J.
l. Clayton. Henry Elliott.
Second BaSS-J. Il. Boshard, John
Buckley, Jonathan Buckley. G. Malm-
quist, T. W. c. Hathenbruck.
Il. Z. GILES, Conductor.
Provo now stands at t.la head of the
Territory as far as male voices are
concerned. snd 10 doubt if Provo
had entered Tor the double quartette
and tenor solo (the only two pieces
they did not enter for they would
have captured the prizes. Every
number they went in for, they got
away with. After the contest all the
male votes joined in singing the In
vocation to Harmony" Prof. Stephens
conducting it. Inasmuch as the Provo
voices had carried off The prize for this
piece, it would have been Just for
Prof Giles to have been handed the
baton and allowed to conduct the
combined ch0irs.
Prof. Giles received many deserved
compliments from Prof's. Stephens,
Beesley, and other prominent music
ians in Salt Lake City.
IT is a positive fact that j. R.
BOshard is selling more pounds of
granulated sugar for the dollar than