The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-15
Notes.

Mr.. John Stringam, new baritone, is
a new member of the Tabernacle choir.
The Beesley family will give concert
at Tooele week from tomorrow evening.
The Harmony held its first meeting
Monday evening at Calder's to commence
their season IS labors.
Mons. Hu bert Arnold, the violin virtuoso,
who has won host OF friends during his
sojourn in this city, will leave for the east
Tuesday.
R. J. Thomas, the well known tenor,
will sing Meitzke's Soonest Thou Thus,
Q Master, I" at the Congregational Church
this morning.
The Harmony Club contains a number
of first class soloists and their serenades
on Friday evening were much enjoyed by
the families thus honored.
The Orpheus club held an informal
business meeting Tuesday evening. They
meet again the same evening this week at
Coalter & Snelgrove's for rehearsal.
Prof. Stephens took charge of the Tab
ernacle choir three years age today. The
evidence of progress made in that time
must be highly gratifying to the
professor and his singers.
The many friends of Mrs. Grace Will
liams will be glad to know that she ar
rived safely at Munich about two weeks
ago, and has passed some highly credit
BILE examinations at the conservatory OF
N usic in that city.
A ladies' chorus will be formed from
among the members of the Tabernacle
choir in the course of couple of weeks.
Some light works will be studied, Franz
Abt's cantatas among Others Professor
Stephens will also organize male chorus.
Held's band have ordered a quartette
of saxaphones; the new caps have arrived
and are beauties-red with black peak,
and braid and surmounted by a white
pompon. The design is unique and
promises to create a stir among the band
boys.
Mons. Hubert Arnold will appear at
the entertainment to be given at the
Peixotto lodge entertainment at Odd Eel
lows hall tomorrow evening. He Will
take the place of Professor Weihe, who
will not appear on account of his recent
bereavement.
Mons. Arnold has paid beautiful
tribute to Professor Krouse in q letter
which he left surreptitiousiy on that gen.
tleman's desk. Among other things he
says: 81 have never had a more
sympathetic, artistic and finished ac-
companist than yourself. - He concludes
by saying, accept this small tribute
from brother artist and a genuine ad-
mirer of your genius.'
The operetta s'Little Red Riding
Hood' was given Tuesday evening at the
Tenth ward meeting house. The little
ones did themselves proud and were
greeted by an appreciatiye audience and
ere literally applauded. The operetta
was followed by drama entitled,
ssCrawford's Claim" So well were the
respective parts rendered that already
there is demand for its repetition.
Picht's Elements of Music'' is a
unique presentation of the rudiments of
music, embracing the major and minor
scales. chords and keynotes. It also gives
diagram of a full sized keyboard, show
ing the position of all the bass and treble
notes; directions about committing
signatures to memory, and dictionary
of musical terms. All this is to be found
on one page of sheet of paper Sx10
inches. The elements of Music'' is
certainly miracle of condensation.
A circular from r.. r. Johnston,
manager of the Henri Marteau Concert
company, announces that Henri Marteau,
the young French violinist, who made his
debut in this country last season, will
commence tour OF the American cities
in December. Marteau has given per-
formauces in Paris, London, Vienna,
Berlin, Dresden, New York and Boston
and received ovations in most of those
cities. He has studied under the famous