Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-28
70 the Tabernacle Choir:

IO the IdutINtilo NH"iif
London. Eng. June %. l9OO.-Lot
me briefly report 20 you the
Handel Tnennlal Fectyal just come
pleted at the Crystal Palace. This is
beyond question the musIcu event that
brings together the greatest number OF
performers IN AN the world The cut
YOU have had OF It (which i wish
Dramatic and Lyric could reproduce n
the "NcwsJ Is no exaggerauon IL Is
only Just 10 say though that l000 voices
and an orchestra OF $50. with the organ
IN our own gret< Tabernacle would be
as effective as four times that number
In the vast open crystal Palace where
much Of the volume is lost 600 the soat-
torng wings. But with all that Han
delS music was immensely impressive
especially so when the vast body came
with precision and vig0r % ,h..r work
There are spots on the suu-so they say
and SO there were on the great festi-
val and more aunoylng.y 800 because
they could have been erased.
THE SPOTS IN THE RENDITION
The chief of these were owing 90 the
rayagcs of Time ON humanity The
dear venerable conductor One must Doe
nearly eightyD was too sun aud un-
wleldy himself 90 put that animation
into the chorus that makes such masses
effective Slowuess and sohlity are a.l
right up 10 "a certain point but Wnen
"a river flows without "a certain speed ln
its current. be ceases 90 show lts force as
a stream and becomes % pond ur lake.
So here the power OF the great mass
was lessened rather than light.ncd Dy
continual want of rhythmic force. SD
slowly did they take everything that
the conductors beat ceased t1 have any
meaning in &c. II often brought none IN
particular from the great chorus. sun
there were many magnificent moments
and these English people are as nuen
at home I'm these great oratuuos as
come OF you are. unfortunately 900 comic
operas. So much so that little taste lS
left for anything else. Then 10 their
magnificent list of soloists, those past
the singing age, had several of the im-
portant uarts especially Albani and
Sautlev though the latter reused up 90
the point of reiuveuatiug himself iu the
solo "The Lord Worketh Wonders
well fitting his achievement to- the
text: 90 was indeed a wonder IN nus
case. For "a brief moment we saw
what this English Lion had been
and he got such an ovation as he de-
served. and would doubly deserve il he
had let it be the final effort 100 pubic
of his great career Lloyd, the great
tenor. on the other hand, was bhlea
as his 'last appearance in festival
and he sang Ike an angel HIS great
ringing. sweet clear voice sounded as
youthful as If he were man OF thr-
IT, and no man OF that age can equal
him today Anyone who had heard him
sing Love I'm her eyes sits playing
and not love him-and old Handel Tor
writing it's rather devoid of heart OF
car
OLD HANDLES GRANDEUR.
You see have passed from fault
finding 90 praising without knowing
IT, So 10 was IN the Festival one
forgot the bad points 10 the good ones
The first and most lasting impression Us
unbounded admiration for Handel, as
not only the writer OF great ncom-
parable choruses. but iu the transcend
emf LAaIINNt NI 10 hllA "a hlN's.H taA'.' ''rN'Ns
his music OF AN styles. when properly
Interpreted. Then comes the admlra-
ton for the way iu which these people
interpret him The acme ut perfection
always. As solosts. the tenors Lloyd
and Ben Davies, came first then the
contraltos Marie Brema, Ada CrossleN,
and Clara Butt Then the sopranos
even Albani. had her voice permitted,
would have been divine. Mcintyre
and Ella Russell were beautiful but
Blauyelt IS too light In voice and style.
The bassOs We're fitting but ] must adj
init that Handel seemed only 90 have
thought the bass voice nj for thunder
and growlings. The tender has no place
I'm ii for him. Hence there was little
refinement TO be looked Tor.
THE CHORUS.
In the chorus my first admiration went
10 their perfect familiarity with the tire
mendous work they had In hand, next,
10 their ease and refinement In singing
they never sing themselves out, next,
10 the charming tone quality Of the ten
0rs as a body. the basses. altos and
sopranos coming In the order given. no
tenor / have ever heard can equal me
English IN q body. $50 pure ana soft no
effort IS noticeable even IN the highest
passages. Ben Davies voice seems 90
have grown larger since we heard him
at the Worlds Fair His expression
is superb and manly. but ne ls far be-
hind Lloyd 10 brillaucy of tone. Lloyd.s
voice seems 90 flow n a limpid, pure
stream of bright yet round tone, with
out event the slightest effort What
wouldn't give to have our tenors sing
ing like this.
REMINDED OF HOME SINGERS.
"Brema" tells us constantly what
our own Mrs Allison could Doe n she
devoted herself 90 the work so similar
are their tone characteristics, while
Clara Butt now the favorite Of an
English coutraltosl. reminds me much
of Miss Ida prau's voice only the
English lady has Gar more physical
force 10 sustain her powerful organ
Miss Crossley, an Australian. is TO me
even sim more ideal for Oratorio work
She seems now what I had always
fancled Madame Belle Cole was of old
" broad loose, full luscious tone like