The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-10
WELSH PRIZE SINGERS.
Appeared In Concert at the Taber-
nacle Last Evening.


nacle Last Evening.
The tabernacle held an audience of
/ about 5000 people last evening. big
portion of them sons and daughters OF
Cambria If the local committee guar
anteed the prize singers $1,000 for the
! concert, as the management announce,
they probably made $500 or $500 by their
venture. As the programme was largely
made up Of Welsh numbers, and as the
audience was largely of that persua-
sion, the enthusiasm was of the most I'M
! bounded sort, indeed the encores were
prolonged TO an extent almost painful.
The strength of the Welsh prize sing
ers lies in their ensembles: taken as a
whole, when the double quartette was
I rendering The Summer or some
other typical Cambrian composition, it
was at its very best and all the APP
plause it received was deserved; the
beautiful Welsh number it gave as an
encore, name INDICATED. was scarcely
less charming; throughout the evening,
whenever the entire number appeared
or either the ladies' or the gentlemen's
qUartette sang. the appreciation was
hearty and genuine.
Taken individually, ii cannot be said
that the members can be ranked as
more than good. capable, aIl-round
singers; some of them deserved the en-
cores they got, others did not and as
for one of the tenors, Tom Stephens.
there were half a dozen gentlemen
seated Immediately behind him. who
could have given him lessons in Alice.
Where Art Thou?" perhaps the first
hint one of them would have given him
would have been not to sing it at all.
The length of the performance. caused
by the encore fiends, rendered it out of
the question to hear all the soloists. but
of those listened to the most taking
was the pretty little contralto, Annie
Lewis, whose plaintive "Jeannet and
JeanOtt' was one of the gems. An
other undoubted hit was made by the
viOlinist, Miss Davies, who is an ar
fist. The grand choir was at its best,
especially. in Worthy Is the Lamb"
and in Sleep While the Soft Evening
BreeZes," which ii gave for an unex-
pected encore. In the other selections
the Welsh one, the male voices were
better than the ladies, but it was pleas
ant to note that the applause was as
pronounced for the choir as for the
prize singers.
Stage Whispers.
Augustin Days company numbers
on its roster the sons of two well known
dramatic critics-Jefferson Winter.
whose father is William Winter, of the
New York Tribune, and Eric Scott.
whose father is Clement Scott, of the
London Telegraph.
Adelina Patti, Clara Butt, Edward
Lloyd and Charles Santley will sing
with festival chorus of some 5000 and
an orchestra of 500, led by August
Manns. at concert in the Crystal pal
ace June %. Patti has not sung at
the Crystal palace since the Handel
festival in 1880
Paderewski played at the opening of
the new Erard Sale. in London. re-
Gently, when he was assisted by Ben
Davis. the well known tenor: Miss
Clara Butt, the popular English con-
tralto. and Miss Leonora Jackson. the !
young American violinist, who achieved
her second London triumph at the |
LamoreuX symphony concert March Is |
This is Paderewsl1i's only appearance |
in London this season.