The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-18

IT MIGHT be difficult to tell just
when poetical fancy first sought ex-
preston in harmonious sound Po-
erty has always slumbered in the hui
man heart. 1t has not always mani
Tested itself in the same way. Greece
. expressed herself for the beautiful in
marble. Nearly ali the old empires
have enriched the world with their
verses, Rome gave US trumpet, Ire
land harp, Italy a painting, France
a gown. Russia gave the world a viO-
lin. and while Germany learned how
to play it, Mozart first made its strings
respond to the emotions of the human
heart.
Yet back of Mozart and Shubert and
Beethoven are the tossing centuries
which still CULVER with the music OF
joy, hope and despair, love and hate
OF the world has sounded in the reeds
and strings and trumpets of its mu-
sicians. In the realms OF harmony
there is a place for every sound
whether of pain or sorrow or pleasure
One harmonious creation reproduces
the discoFdant growls of the jungle
Another reflects the brightness OF the
skies, while third initiates the
thunder of the clouds. But whether
in the sky or in the clouds or on the
earth, the true musician finds no dis
cord in which there is not the posi-
bility of harmony. At one of the local
threatens recently the orchestra inter-
preted the tragedy of an entire day.
Birds chirped in the morning. Clouds
concealed the splendor of the noon
The wind sighed and the gathering
clouds were Knocked by the marvellous
imitation of the storm. Then rain
dripped through the branches of the
trees, the growing thunder passed
away and the sunshine filtered through
the leaves again, while from a splen-
did sunset the day passed into the
drowsiness of night.
SouSa took a battery of anVils and
produced one of the grandest instru-
mental chOruses of the age. Another
composer looks to the battlefield fOT
harmony, and in the charge and the
clash of arms there is everything but
the carnage, the pain and the suffer
ing.
Another composer evolves harmony
from the tiresome scales of d singer
who repeats the difficult run as she
sinks into sleep and repeats them in
her dreams. Again one hears the bang
of an ordinary tambOurine and the clash
of the castanets in a Spanish dance.
Everything there but the dancer and
the skirts to lend realism to the num-
ber. In all ages, among all peoples
and under all skies, triumph and de-
feat, happiness and sorrow, hope and
despair have found expression in mu-
sic and song.
A worthy compliment was paid to
Utahs musical talent the past week
when Prof. ]. j. Mcclellan was en-
gagged 10 act as organist at the Denver
music festival which is to be held next
April. The festival, which promises
10 be one of the greatest musical
events ever held in the west, is to eX-
tend over three days and four pro-
grammes of the highest class are to be
given. The organ recital which Pro-
fessor Mcclellan Will give is to be the
third programme of the series The
grand organ in Trinity church is TO be
used, and Professor Mcclellan says
that it is even larger than the one in
tho tabernacle.
The other entertainments will be the
two symphony concerts by the Theo-
dore Thomas orchestra of eighty-hVe
pieces, of Chicago, and the oratOrit
Elijah" by the Denver Choral society
The governors of the western states
and their wives viii be special guests
and pa irons of the musical season II
is expected to SurpaSs any muSlca
event ever given in the west and the
promoters are sparing no efforts Il
make it a success. Mr.. Williams, the
mover in the affair, viii very likely
visit Zion in the interests of the fes
tival shortly.
There seems to be a tendency TO re-
Vive interest in that singular musica
genius. Jacques Offenbach. whom tn
world in general knows only as a fe
cund writer of musical rarces. His ca
p9city as q writer of stability anC
depth has not always been appreciated
A. a player of the violoncello he ap
peared often in public and wrote mu
sic for this instrument He entered
the orchestra of the Opera C0mique il
Paris, wrote some clever music, became
conductor of the Theatre Francois an,
then began that almost endless stream
of operettas which have delighted mill
ions of listeners and have been imi
tated by many writer's of light music
He opened a theatre of his own and
as he possessed more fully than an,
manager of his day the knowledge o
his public" he succeeded in an amaz
ing way. Many Of his plays are bur
lesques and the music fits them skin
tight: his orchestration is clever anS
his melody. which sometimes descend
to The point of vulgarity. pours out in
bubbling. sparkling stream And in i
all there is a strain OF sardOnic hume
which suggests the real musician whi
was forced to debase his undeniabl
talents because of his craving for popu
lar applause and his desire for money
He was a musical, caricatufist and hi
plays were pointed shafts Of ridieul
az existing things He spared nothing
he even ridiculed a composer he mus
have esteemed. Gluck.
There is a tragic chord in the life 0
the great singer and artist
Amelia Naterna. who is. nol
great distress and who onl
ecently has been forced to ap