The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14

he SehuHann Concert company at
the Grand tonight bids fair to
draw large and as appreciative
audience as the usual kind, even If Of
different character. The company
comes wei heralded and should see be-
fore them a full house. The following
excellent programme is outlined:
7. Characteristic. Laughing Water"
---..---.... ........-. 5000. HageT
?. Hungarian Dances ....Braham Tobanf
s. Archibald Douglas ...-...-.....Loewe
l. Piano: (a) March CfrOtesoue". .Sindins
(b) Witches Dance -..... Mcdowell
Mrs. GoldbeCk
. Ballet music from Faust ..... CounOd
o. Concerto for 'celle, andante and
2. Soprano waltz, Romeo and Julit''
Miss Sherwood
8. Caprices: (a) Dawn of Love. .Rendix
% Patrol Of the Gnomes''. .Eilenberg
Miss Sherwood MIR. Rowdon.
10 overture, Poet and Peasant ..Suppc
The large musical event Of the com
ing week is the evening Of ballads to be
given by Mrs. A u. Melvin Thursday
Mrs. Melvin gives English. Scotch and
Irish ballads, and she viii be assisted
Quartette and Miss Hattie Wishard as
accompanist. The affair should be q
great success as in its unique idea it
Is the first Of the kind given here.
A project is on foot fostered by the
Unity club and the music section of the
Ladies Literary club, to bring here at
an early period the eminent com poser.
G0ldmaTk Of Vienna. who is now III
fEa crfr-sfacr lectures
merriam works. The plan is to have
series of five lectures given, the last on
Parsifal Tor a Sunday evening.
Miss Isabel AIonahan win sing this
morning at st. Marks cathedral, Come
Unto Ne by Cowan-
Mrs. Graham T. Putnam viii give a
recital for her pupil, Harold Brown, az
The home of his parents Tuesday even
ing. Miss Marjorie Brooks will assist
with some violin selections,
All HalIows college is preparing to
give a musicale Of artistic merit on
the evening of Washington's birthday.
Mrs. Lulu $. Mayne VIII be the solo
list at the Science church this morning
singing Consider the Lilies"
ss
Mrs. 4. D. Melvin will sing this morn
ing at the First Congregational church,
The Lord Is Afy Light" by Allitsen-
The question why so few youS4; men
of the better sort are attracted 10 the
vocal profession is thus answered by
H. W. Greene:
Because Of the enormous competi-
ton Of mediocrity. The cultured and
capable professor cannot live in keep
ing with the dignity of his calling
when competition governs his income.
The college professor has no compe-
tition: his stipend is assured, and his
mind open TO the service of his ap-
pointment. It should be so with the
professor Of singing. Not until the
teacher of singing has knocked at the
door Of the university and been ad-
rnitted. or has created q university Of
his own. the stamp Of which is on a
par with that Of any other lnsutu-
ton. or finds a system by which the
public may be made 10 discriminate
between real and assumed worth, VIII
he be accorded the position artisti-
calIv, as socially. to which he IS en-
titled. Then viii the careful parent
be willing TO have his boy adopt mu-
sic as a profession
Mrs. Townsend Tagliapietra has been
corresponding with President Hadiey
OF Yale university on this subject. He
has witten to her as follows:
''The matter of a professoTship Of
vocal music, to be developed with the
same degree Of excellence that few are
striving TO obtain in the other sections
Of our department Of music. is one
which have frequently discussed with
members Of our faculty OF music We
cannot undertake TO establish such a
An s5aF A.
things stand, it IS a question OF money
The fund necessary for the proper en-
dowment Of a prOfessOrship at Yale
IS $685. 600. This allows 8. 80 for the
salary, which IS At the present the rate
that our fun professors are paid, and
q few hundred dollars more, according
10 the rate Of interest, for incidental
expenses 10 assistants"
one OF the most interesting facts in
regard 10 'PaTsifal' is that it con-
verted Tchaikovsky to Magnetism.
Professor Anton Door writes il the
Vienna Zeit regarding the great Rus
sian: "Tp TO 1852 TchailOvsky knew OF
Vagueris music only such fragments
as are usually played in the concert
halls One would have supposed that q
vcung man easily susceptible to new
inuresSiOnS would have been enthusi-
astic over the concerts which Wagner
himself gave in Russia IN 1868; but
TschafkovsBy remained cool and skep-
teal The "E.ohengrin' prelude. IN
particular which aroused the audience
10 an indescribable pitch OF enthusiasm,
made no impression at all on him. The
same may BE- said Of his experiences
thirteen years later, when he attended
the first Nfbeiung performance at Bay
re,lth Bat the time came when ne
too. was overwhelmed by the genius of
the Bayreuth Meister. It was In 1885
that he became acquainted with the
.sParsifai't music. He had only the
vocal score. yet he was thrown into a
state Of eestacys especially over the
last scene Of the first aet.
OF all writer's on musical topics Ber-
Tloz was the most entertaining. In 1873
Henry Holt & co. issued a volume con-
tanning selections from his letters. and
aesthetic humorous and satIrical writ
ings.r admirably translated BY W. +.
Apthorp. This autumn most of tlfe mu-
steal societies OF America and Europe
are commemorative the centenary Of
Re~Ioiz's birth. which makes timely
reference 10 that volume, and also 10 q
new book. Just issued by Z. Z. DuttOn
Co. entitled The Life Of Hector Ber-
Iioz as written BY himself in his Let
tiers and Memoirs, translated by kath-
crime +. B0uIt. Here are few extracts
from letters OF various dates:
4 have just had long letter from
n Won BGlov. Liszt,s son-in-laW, who
married Nile. Cosiufa- He tells me that
he performed my sCeliini overture with
the greatest success at a Berlin con-
cert. He is one Of the most fervent
disciples of that crazy school Of the
Music OF Future as they cali it in