The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-16

list for the first concert and that the
responses TO their efforts has been
such as to enable them to state that
none but subscribers Will be admitted
to the. first subscription concert to be
given Thursday evening the 9th inst
at the Congregational church Through
the support the public has given the
Orpheus club. the charge for a seat
for each concert to subscribers will
only be about 33 cents, while the en-
teltainment will be such a one as
music lovers are accustomed to pay
81 to see. The soioists for the first
concert will be Mr.. Adams Owen, the
basso who was recently engaged by
Nordica for her next season. and Miss
Adelaide Beardsley, who is the So
prano at st. Johns cathedral in Den
yer. In addition to the Orpheus club,
a local string quintette club will ap
pear, so that nothing Will be lacking
to give high class musical entertain
meEt. Subscribers viii obtain seats at
the Conover Piano company on Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday the 18th,
goth and 21st insts.
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Mr.. Charles Frohman sends the dra-
matte editor of The Herald. with his
compliments, very handsomely I'M
ished painting of Miss Maude Adams
in her character of Babbie in the Lit
tie Minister" The work is executed on
glass and is neatly encircled in a gilt
frame. 1t is a very handsome souvenir
of the success of Miss Adams first
starring venture, and is especially APP
preciated in this, the place of her birth
The Tabernacle choir is hard at work
rehearsing on the elaborate programme
for the mammoth testimonial to Di-
rector stephens, which is to come of
in the tabernacle during February or
early in March. AS has been stated,
the programme viii be made up entire
ly of Mr. Stephens compositions, and
some of his earlier works which have
never yet seen the light, will be pre-
scented, among them being one of es-
pecial interest. 1t is an oratorio which
Mr.. Stephens once composed on
Book of Mormon subject. entitled THE
Siege of the Nephites." 1t is said to
be especially fine. and all the chorus
who have rehearsed it are high in their
praises. The big body of singers has
divided itself into as many committees
as there are wards in the city, and will
push the sale of tickets in thorough
business-like style. They ought to
meet with ready responses. No man
that we know of has done so much to
lift the reputation of Salt Lake as a
musical center as Mr.. Stephens, and
he could receive no more nttlnS TRIBUTE
than the rousing benefit we feel sure
he will be rendered.
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The Salt Lake Opera company's
fourth venture will in all probability
be Richard Stahl's opera Said Pasha,'
and according to the present plan it
will be given first at the theatre on
Washington's Birthday. The opera is
laid in Turkey and India and is said
to bubble over with fun and to be
crowded with musical gems. The sue
cess of 1.-The Mascot" Patience" and
1.-The Chimes of Normandy" has given
the Salt Lake Opera company a stand
ing among the community which places
their performances beyond the name
of experiments, and Manager Burton
now books the company with as much
confidence as he does the average high
grade travelling attractions. The cast
of said Pasha" has not yet been made
up, but it is understood that all the
people who took part in The Chimes
of Normandy" and several others will
be added while the chorus will remain
practically the same with the probable
addition of two or three bass voices.
The first rehearsal of the new work,
which, by the way was obtained on
royalty from the Tivoli in San Francis