The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-18

string quartette, one of the numbers
being the Romance" from Nozart's
second concerto. Mr.. Claude J. Nettle-
ton viii play as a violin solo. THE Sane
tus." from GOunOd's 'St. Cecilia Mass"
This morning Mr. Adolph Brodbeck
sings 1T Is Enough" from the orato-
rio Elijah" by Mendelssohn.
A pleasant feature of the reception
given in honor Of Mrs. Treat last week
was the work of a juvenile mandolin
club under the direction Of Theodore
Best The combination consisted Of the
Sutherland and Romney Home clubs,
Louren Gibbs and Willie Child.
The special music at the First Con-
gregatOnal church this morning viii
consist Of the anthem Lord, With
Glowing Heart I Praise Thee" which
was one Of the best known compositions
of the famous composer who has re-
Gently died, Schneider.
Active rehearsals for the musical
comedy of Cinderella, or the Crygtal
Slipper" have begun, and the chorus
OF fifty voices is being trained by Pro-
fessor Peterson. The dancing viii be
under the direction Of Professor Loiselle
and VIII contain many original FEATURES.
The date for the recital to be given
by Miss Mary Olive Grary, Miss Esther
Allen and Miss Isabel Monahan has
been changed to Oct. %. The recital
wiz be a special treat. as several num-
bers, both vocal and for the violin, viii
be absolutely new to Salt Lake aU-
diences.
Claude J. Nettleton win give his first
recital on Oct. % at the First NJ. z.
church.
Through the efforts Of n. Witmark &
sons, the music publishers, two of Da-
vid & MealSim's darby songs are now
the rage in Raris and London. One,
"COOnville's Cullud Band" is being
sung and danced by Alexander Dag
mar IN London, and the other "Trou-
bles," a lugubriOus hard luck song, is
being done to the delight of Partisan
audiences by the iRimitable Taquer-
cite.
The board Of directors Of the Orpheus
club viii hold a meeting Tuesday even
ing, at which they viii endeavOr to
make arrangements for the concerts to
be given during the season.
Miss Helen Shepard sang "AIgnon"
and Resale" at University chapel last
Wednesday.
The Scotch bagpipe is a delightful
instrument, which is heard far to little
in this country. MusicaIIy, il ranks
far above the banjo, the mandolin, and
even the guitar. while from the points
of view of history. nationality, and
local color, it has hardly an equal. The
Scotch in the United States ought to
make more use Of it at private and
public gatherings and especially at fun
erals. Mr.. Vernon Blackburn has an
article in the London Musical Times
for September which every ScOtchman
ought to read. He confesses that
neither the hUmOr of Scotch music nor
the humor of the manner in which
Scotch music is sung make any ap-
peal to him; but he admires the la
mentatiOn, the dirge, the wall. the out
cry, the regret which distinguish the
music of death in that rain weeping.
sad-hilled country. The musical wall
Of the Gaelic Muse is among the in
effable realizations Of tragedy in the
world. sShe touches the depth AMI
height Of sorrow and fit Companion in
LildL ApLcoSeu BflEL - AeE national IN
strument.
AS you wait by the coffin of the dead,
you hear the dim sound Of the Coron-
ach as il grows keener to your hearing.
The pedal note IS a long monotone Of
/ grief an enduring moan for the thing
that has been. The melancholy ana
Wind-like harmonies that are blown
above that hither and thther. fail 20
the varying mood OF the inOurner, who
finds, it may be for the first time. wIeh
wonder and dismay, that TO the human
I heart even the sense Of loss must. IN
its acutest knowledge OF the presen5.
take a relief and a change which seem
almost a treachery. Such music as
this. thus played. and on this instru-
ment. once more. in its gloomy ami
magnificent completion. shows that n
the mourning over the dead. Scotland
tTiumphed unto the attainment Of the
elimination of her musical ART.
Mr.. Blackburn goes too fag, however,
In maintaining that Scotch national mu-
sic does not, ike that Of Germany, Rus
STA and some other countries, contain
the germs from which a great art can
spring 1t is true that Scotland itself
has produced no great Scottish COM
poser, but Norway and America have
made up for that deficiency Edward