The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19

FINDER the caption Of "a Charming
Won Klenner Pupil" the Musical
Courier pays Miss Mabel Clarke
OF this city a decided compliment. The
Courier is not a paper that INDUCES i'm
empty criticisms and IL may De taken
for granted that what it says it means.
AT a series Of Leuten talks on literature
given i'm the Pascal institute Miss
Clarke appeared ON the musical pro-
gramme. This of itself was a compli-
ment, but the Courier has the following
90 say:
on one afternoon Of the series a great
success was scored by Miss Mabel
Clarke, pupil Of Won klenner. This
young lady has a clear pure soprano
voice and sang with excellent method,
grace and expression, charming her
audience so thoroughly that Miss Pas
cal begged that the pupils of the insti-
tute might be brought down TO hear
the encore which was enthusiastically
demanded. Miss Clark's selections
We're May Day. MdlJham, and
Burst, We Apple Buds" S. A. Emory.
Miss Clarke ls studying for light opera
and has voice, dlctiOn and appearance
ln her favor"
such is the criticism made by an ac-
knOWledged musical authOriay Of a
young singer who three years ago. be-
fore she became a pupil of Mrs. Sven
son OF this city was regarded as
a woman who did not have
voice worthy of attention. When
she left Mrs. Swensou's care she
had note thar attracted immediate
attention by It's purity. nexlbility and
hrilliancy. Ii was such a rich note
that 10 commanded instant attention
and occasioped surprise. Miss Clarke
has not been gone six months, yet she
is already attracting attention and lt is
promised that she viii be one of the
greatest Of light opera singers ever
turned out from Utah.
j. j. Mcclellan left this week for
Denver where he Is 90 De one of the
principal artists i'm the musical festival
TO be- given there. He was accompanied
by Fred Best who is down for a solo.
Mr.. McClellan's work began yesterday.
There is no doubt that the Utah artists
win give a good account of themselves.
Mr.. Mcclellan Us musician OF no
ordinary ability and his friends here
expect that be win make an impression
there.
Charlie Bliss, the weather man" of
the HlllsbOrO News has a son who
As unsteady inclined and who not only
sings but publishes the tuneful emo
tIOns of his soul. I'm his last issue the
old man gives his boy the following
send-om,
we have received a copy OF a song,
When We First Met The words are
by Clinton p. Bliss, junior editor OF the
News, and the music is by Miss Bessie
Brown of Shelbyville. We did not know
until we received the song that Clinton
had become "a song writer. 1t shows
what a baleful influence a couple of
winters in Washington mag have on
Young unmarried man.
"As the senior editor Of this paper
Doesn't know a demisemiQuaver from
a d.dpasOn, or a bass clef from a bone
tumOr. he win not be expected 20 give
an extended notice of the production.
We can say however that the type
used Do printing the song was clean and
plain and the paper seems TO be of the
best quality Of rag. The design on the
front page is artistic and the words are
as tender as a veal steak and as poetic
as the song of a meadow lark on
May morning. The melody is sound
and all right. with no wind gals or
collar marks. The harmony seems 20
De On healthy condition, with no patent
defects or noticeable blemishes. The
tOnalty Isl clear and resonant and rests
on harmonic relations and melOdic ell
ements. We viii SINCE the song 90 any
subscriber of the News who viii pay
his subscription three years In advance,
throwing into IT, an the tender pathos
and unetuous emotions Of our cabbage
favored soul"
The Khedivial theatre Of Cairo lately
produced Franchetu's operate work,
"Germanla." The Journal of the Pyra-
mlds felt called upon 90 deny reports
that the work was a Qualification of
Germany likely 90 hurt the feelings Of
the French population of The city It
assures its readers that the most patri-
otto Frenchman viii find IN it nothing
20 injure the tender susceptbiities OF
even a sensitive child.
Dr. Paul Marsop announces that he Is
about % publish a study on the social
conditions of German orchestral mu-
sicians and an appeal 90 them 10 begin
an agitation for the elevation of the
material position of musicians So nee
essary at the present time. He re-
quests an sympathiZers with his ideas
TO communicate details of wages. sick
pensions. widows funds and the like
His address Us Munich Society museum.
Buenos sAyres. the thriving metr0p-
Oils of the southern end OF our c0nti-
uent, seems 20 be a progressive musical
city. yet its musical element has a PEE
cuiiar way of doing things. For the
larger things in music almost an entire
dependence seems 20 be placed upon
the singers that go there from Italy.
The Italian opera is an institution, and
regular performances of the mclOdiOus
lyric works are given. But there are
some people there with higher ambi-
tiOns, and not long ago it occurred 10 a
local singing society of some hundred
voices that iu the interest Of art it
would be most proper 90 honor the
memory Of Beethoven. SO the perform
ance Of the Ninth symphony was
projected, and carried out according 20
the best Argentine lights. The latter