The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-06

makes him famous. In fact it has been
frequently noticed and commented upon
that all prominent singers have one song
which is a standing feature in their roper
torres ana this song is usually found 10
be some simple, touching ballad which
has reached the hearts of the people and
made the singer famous. When we men
Ton Christine Nelson, Adelini Patti. our
own Jessie Bartlett Davis and a host OF
oJner noted singers. one song springs
into our minds frresistabIy in connection
with each name. Among the better class
% NaudeVlIle singers, this attachment TO
OLD songs IS perhaps more marked than It
& among operate and concert vocalists.
Inc late lamCnted Helen Mora. for in
stance, sang many songs. but invarfabIv
her great hit. "When You Were Sweet
sixteen, was the one she sang with most
IerNor, n which always brought down
the mouse SO attached was Miss Mora
10 this song that she requested that II
Sae4td be suns at her funeral obseugies.
Louise Drehauey, another dIstfueuished
vaudeville singer whose voice Is = re
soprano OF great range and
sweetness, has CHANGED upon her piece de
resistance in her balled called Dear
Iteart- which we venture TO predict Will
make the composer. Louis Wesiyn Jones.
famous before many months. This song
mas that happy mingling OF sentiment and
pathos which assures it q place along
With such un~forgetabIe songs as Annie
Lafle' Coming Through the Rye" etc.
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At the recent convention Of the Music
NeN44tlH N@ttoASA ASSOCIATION held at
AsheVli!e' n. C., Carl w. Grimm Of Gin
cinnati. introduced a resolution requesting
inc chair 10 appoint a committee Of five
members 70 devise ways and means for
the toupuatton and maintenance or a ma
tlohai home for aged musicians. The mo-
uOn was carried, and the committee an
pointed by the president of the associa-
non. RosSetteT C.. Cole is 70 report at
the next meeting in St Louis in 1864. This
nome should be a grand institution with
slt modern improvements. possess a IL
nWHWE TnrFcfp hall nr-1n 80 - 49,
be situated on lovely grounds, near "a
great music center. where the inmates
OF the home could 90 to hear great
operas and concerts.
The money for the home Is 70 be gained
by yearly subscriptions and endowments.
interest Tor u Is TO be aroused among
music teachers. likewise among all pro-
Iessional musicians and singers, and pos
Stbly among all connected with the music
puslnesS-printers. e~ngravcrs. publishers.
instrument makers etc. The fuxtftution
is to be the pride Of the united efforts az
the musical profession. 1t is certainty
q highly honorable work and IS~dabls
Undertaking OF the N. T. n. A. It has
ALREADY received the hearty approval and
endorsement of the Southern Music
Courier.
Dora Bright has just completed a
three-act drama. called "OuonR Lungs
shadow the librettO Of which has lust
appeared in German translation. The
story, as its name indicates treats OF
Chinese life in San Francisco. and. as
Mrs. Bright's work is highly thought
IN Dresden, there is a suggested pos
siblity that her opera may be pro-
duced at the Court opera house.
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4 new musical m~eiodrama" is based
Upon the dramatic poem Of the late
Henry Boxer, and is called
Countess Laura" The music which
accompanies It is by Regina Watson,
II was recently recited in Chicago bv a
Miss Bunt, where it seems to have met
with some success.
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1t is announced that Marie Delna. the
celebrated contralto of the Paris opera.
Is to retire from the stage after the