Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-04-14

and Campanarl are specially fine this
winter. Next "a great treat--hecause OF
IFS fame mostly was 10 hear Calve 10
Carmen" This Ne did the Saturday
before leaving and they say she was az
her best. My candid Judgment OF ner
is that she is a great Carmen, but not
a truly great singer ! cannot think
that TO hear her In any other part would
change my mind az she produces her
entire lower tones faulty I'm TINS part
Eames sang divinely In contrast win
her. and the French tenor We heard
with Media at home and whom some
ala not like very much, did splendid
work throughout as Don Jose.
SINGING CLASSES AND CHURCH
MUSIC.
London, March 25.--I was much inter-
ested in New York's system OF poo
pies singing classes Che very thing we
need Ia salt Lake.. These classes have
thousands enrolled In the great city
and they already have become the back
bone OF choral organizations and the
musical development Of the city. The
church singing In New York, as In all
the eastern States. Is not much from
choral standpoint The miserable but
fashionable solo and quartette-or dou-
bic quartctte-is in vogue, ana a poor
mess of Individual glorihcauon they
make Of their devotional eiforts-there
is not body, substance and sincerity
enough In Il 20 6li the smallest heart,
70 say nothing OF flooding the soul Of
the listeners; may we never sink 10
that level. thought there is no telling.
We Are very liable TO bow low before
Fashion" Thanks to the form OF
musical worship adopted by the
Catholic church, demanding the high
est form Of musical composition, the
"Mass'-ln a cathedral we hear sing
ing of good though not large choirs,
boys generally singing the soprano and
their voices are incomparably sweet
Here the most intricate and glorious
choruses are sung with an ease we do
not dream o.. because Of the con-
slant practice and forced close atten-
tion OF the choir who are kept az II
daily IL Is nothing short Of school
with constant daily practice for the
singers. hence a perfection we cannot
ever hope 20 approach. But II is all
In Latin and were It not for the ex-
quisite musical expression making of
itself an emotional language. IL would
ht tNAlAtlN meaningless 10 US AS Ut ~
u stirs and moves me Intensely. In
deed no opera with Its dramatic inten-
sity Of expression, with Its action. and
greatest and best voices In the world,
has ever moved me more than the sing
ing Of the Mass as / heard II today
March %, In LondOn's leading cathe-
dral: every phase Of human emotion
seemed 70 surge and throb from those
beautiful human threats above me. All
ALI from the sobs OF anguish, the
fearful cries OF despair up through the
sunlight OF hope, 20 the sublime eX-
preston Of glorious triumph over death
and sim How those mites Of boys had
caught every shade Of feeling and
learned 90 give II such absolute perfect
expression was amazing TO me- They
certainly possess an emotional inten-
sity, a tremendous earnestness, and
vivid Imagination that our own little
boys az home with their surrounding
OF sunshine and careless freedom, are
entirely devoid Of As naturally as q
timid child at home might express lts
terrors az a fearful mask, do these boys