Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-04-21
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His Ideals
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them; they could do anything yet they
looked so small and frail. and young.
STEPHENS GETS A SHOCK
My disappointment / was startled in
40 excitement 90 see that Dan Davies
and his celebrated United choir Of $50
voices. from Mertheu and DanloIs would
give grand concert at queens Hall !
rushed for seats. and got there IN good
Time The house was Well filled. mostly
with Welsh. and rather noisy In the up
per gallery Choir enters Salt Lake
fashi0n-l8dios boz white, red and blue
sashes-but only 40. They looked rath-
cr commonplace. but / felt sure they
would sing like angels. Concert opened
Dan was "a common little fellow TOO
but that didn't matter-what hurt, was
their singing 10 was worse than COM
mon. IL was noisy and mechanical and
dashed 90 the ground an my hopes Of
pleasure ln hearing choral singing IN
Wales They don't equal MS az home IN
yOlCes-cNCept the tCnors who are bet
tgr their soprano is ehull They attack
hlmy enough, but their precision makes
their work "choppy," $50 unnatural is H.
The whole program including old home
chcstnuts-" Summer" sleep Gentle
Lady" Goodnight Beloved" Hail
Bright Abode, "Halleujah," "Har-
lcch," etc. etc was $50 stale that ] was
sick OF the concert idea as an enter
t8inment The gallery crowd got more
and more "hoollumy' as the thing went
on. IL seemed 90 me all the hoOdlums
/ had ever seen at home had congrogat-
ed there had turned Welsh and drank
beer for the occasion. Men and women
q al. nd
they laughed outright at some NJ the
sololsts-noted-tbut none too good.
Then wanted funny euCores, and final
ly while the "Halleluiah' was being
sung with "a niosy organ acC0mpani-
ment. there was a jolly fight going on
IN one Of the top galleries The whole
thing was such "a hideous burlesQue OF
our own concerts az home-so like-yet
so dinerent-so much Worse-and yet 80
possible at home II an our bad element
could DE brought together. as Il seemed
TO be here--that 10 almost made us both
sick 20 seemed a home nightmare,
Everything have abomlnated
az home, seemed there-and yet
IL was Welsh hope and
pray It was not a sample Of Welsh con-
Certs But / can hardly hope that II
was not a sample OF Welsh singing and
programs; II so, they are fifty years be-
hind at least. And ] blame the Eistedd-
fod for their tarliness-their mechanical
Interpretation, the hoodlum tendency
and am, And I'm have none OF IL any
m0re-nevcr. unless I see in Wales
things 90 change these impressions
vastly ] shall hear the Creation" next
Sunday night. and the Messiah in two
weeks, ii ! remain so long and / think ]
will
HOME MEMORIES.
doubt II shall enjoy either as aid
"Hi8Watha" so you see I believe IN
modern masters and black ones at
that This sort of lie and study Is az
time intensely enjoyable. but taking u
AN IN ALL there Is no greater pleasure IN
% than we have known together IN
former years with our little cabinet or
gan our copies OF the great Handel,
Mozart. Wagner Beethoven, Weber,
Verdi and the lesser ones, We loved so
TO pore over. and imagine how grand
they would be IN the glory Of perform
ance. and who We're so real 20 US right
there and then. Then the warm discus
slons over Richter and his Harmony
our own great compositions and all
our dreamngs In the little orchard at
Willard There can never be any bright
er spots In my memory than those bliss