The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01

Davis. Marie Benedict and Anna Alice
Chaplin, while i've OF the six pieces
OF music ia this number were com
posed by women. Tie articles referred
% are All worth reading Miss smith
writes on untalented pupils. Miss Rob
inson ON primary teaching Miss Muir
head declares that America is am in-
artistic country. and she justly he-
rates the girls who wear Violets sin
huge. round. hard. tighuy-packed, ag-
gressive bunCGes. as alien from the
spirit of the flower as any arrangement
could well be- and-insult added Co in-
jury-Often tied up with purple SILK
cord and tassels. like a funeral pail
She regrets the abseucs Of musiC-real
mUsic-in American h-sues. and de-
clarcs there IS no telling how many
embryo composers are left in the dark.
unfathomed caves or undevelooment-
who might otherwise shed iustrp on
this. their native land. Miss Wynn
relates a conversation she had with
a maid Who had left the dust ON her
piano.
rs If not as necessary that you
should do your work as well as thar L
should play the violin acceptably
asked. as I shot @ steady glance INFO
her shifting eyes
There's o great deal o. difference be
tween our work" said tne maid. rest
ing her broom on the carpet. Your
work is lady's work; mine amt. Your
works pleasure; mine amt much but
drudgery,
/ / laughed. The maid had never
I learned the dignity or labor.
/ You are all wrong, Mary re-
piled. There's great deal Of good.
hard drudgery in music. and know
/ it. You and I serve the public, and
yours is the more necessary oCcuDa-
/ ton Of the two. You have no husi-
/ ness TO shirk; neither have T. TT We
do. the public wiz Gnd US out WOuld
YOU ike 10 change places with meT
Mercy. no." the maid exclaimed. as
/ she rolled up her sleeves. You don't
! ever take a vacation"
The only novelty OF the season of
English opera i'm London was Mr.. Mc-
/ AIpin's Gross and Crescent" which
/ received the $3.50 prize offered by
the Moody. Manners company. IT did
not prove to be a. master work. CON-
corning prize competitions in general
the London Truth says;
''In a contest Of this sort the Erca'
/ men of music win not Of course. com
+ pete; and except in the almost soil
tary instance when a Mascagni inaugu
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over was lucky enough to secure
strenuous Ebretto based upon the ItaI
ian police reports the most that car
be expected in prize opera is a NOR,
or less clever imitation y. the com
poser most fashionable at the mo
ment.
But after all. the chief difficulty &
as to the ubretto. The best must,
is wasted upon a feeble book, or upO1
one that contains so many leading
parts as to necessitate a double Oper;
company. We have a dozen music
ians capable of setting q good bool
to music, even If IN doing so they ma,
pay the sincerest form OF hattery e
| their immediate musical predecessor
or their contemporaries. But to pu
forth a first rate operate libretto i
given to few. Some Of our best writ
| ers (Pinero. Barrie and Conan Doyle
/ among OJheTs) have tried their han'
! at the business, but without any bril-
lHant success. So strongly was tn
want Of a good opera book recognize
by the late Carl Rosa that when tina
astute manager was contemplating