The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-16
NO LET UP FOR LENT
GREAT ACTIVITY PREVAILING IN
MUSICAL CIRCLES IN
ST. PAUL
GOOD CONCERTS THIS WEEK
Peoples Church Benefit and Lillian
Z BIauveIt Concert Will Delight
MusicaIIy Inc1ined-Current
Gossip and News.

Lent may be a season of fasting and
prayer-lt is also season of music in
st. Paul for the sack clothes and ashes
period is apparently to set no pause to
concert giving and concert attendance
TWO important concerts are on for this
week, the Peoples church benefit Tues
day night at the Central Presbyterian
church, and the Blauvelt recital Thurs
day night. Next week Kubelik, the vio-
Anjst will be at the Metropolitan, and
other out-of-town artists are booked for
an appearance during the pentecostal
season. Local musicians claim that
steady interest exhibited in musical
events. lE previous winters that inter
est has had Gibbs and flows. One con-
cert would have a large attendance,
while those responsible for the three or
four succeeding concerts would not often
clear expenses. With but one or two ex-
cepuonS the attendance at concerts this
season has been surprisingly good.
doubtless few missionaries who have
devoted themselves to revivifying the
musical life in this city are congratulate
ing themselves upon the success of their
efforts. Certainly, it seems as If a high
class OF music had come to be appreci-
ated, not by the cultured feW-they have
always appreciated the feasts the must
cal gods have set before them-but by
the general public. And surely st. Paul
is TO be congratulated in this develop
ment of taste. especially when one real
lies that Boston-irreproach Of taste
and broadly cultured Boston-has taken
up rag time, and it's specialized inhabi-
t&nts are following the merry dance that
this most demoralizing of modern meas.
ures is leading them
There seems to be a slight feeling Of
disappointment felt by those who attend
ed the concert of the st. Paul Choral
club Tuesday evening, at the Central
Presbyterian church. The. successful
rendition Of the CRATIC given BY the club
concert ri In he
set high standard for any succeeding
production of the club The choruses
and part songs given Tuesday night were
on the whole eXcellently sung but the
concert was not an CRATIC, and did not
demand the work nor produce the effect
or an CRATIC The honorS Of Tuesday
evenings concert fell to the soloist Miss
Sara Anderson, and she bore these hon
ors easily. Apropos Of the Choral club
concert and Miss Anderson's appear
ance, the custom of members of the club
applauding the out-of-town singers is
certainly open to criticism. 1t would
seem that Mr.. Damrosch, leader of the
Peoples Choral union in New York has
allowed the members of his chorus to set
a bad example in this respect A cor
respondent to a New York paper thus
protests very sensibly against this Gus
TOM: I think It is woefully out of
OF the chorus to applaud the conductor
when he first comes out or to applaud
the soloists or any portion Of the pro-
gramme. If they wish to be taken
seriously they must act seriously Let
them applaud at rehearsals as much as
they please, but the leader should dis
courage all such kindergarten DISPLAYS
IN public concert The members must
learn that they are Performers as we'll
as the solosists and the orchestra, and
that 1t is utterly ridiculous for them to
applaud programme of which they are
a part"