Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-06
So Says Prof Stephens as Result
OF Musical Triumph at
st. Louis.
KIND WORDS FOR OUR NEICHBORS
Conductor of Tabernacle Choir Recalls
Ability and Generosity of Singers
Of Our Sister City
Editor Deseret News.

Editor Deserot News;
! cannot refrain from joining Denver
In a hearty cheer for her recent trl-
umph In choral work-a work that more
than any other musical work indicates
n superior standard unsteady, Of the
people Of any city, for it takes the
people themselves, under the guidance
of competent director, to accomplish
It. An orchestra Of hired foreigners
may be supplied any city where one or
more wealthy residents may have
hobby In that direction a great organ
may be placed in any spacious build
ing by church. or an individual, who
will expend so many thousand dollars,
and the community may be as barren ot
musical ability, refinement, or love OF
IL, as the Sahara Is Of verdure.
one man to perform is all II needs
after the requisite cash, but not so with
a choral body. The singers must be
there in choral numbers; the taste OF
the public In general must support
them or the interest dies, "A choral
body in any city indicates It's real sta
tus musicalIy so all hail Denverl our
kind and nearest neighbor Ia the east.
part my own, It's kind greeting to our
choir on our first venture to the outer
world, | remember gratefully. Its mag
nificent work In the Salt Lake Eistedd-
Todd was such that though we won the
first prize we need not have been
ashamed to have lost It, for they sang
superbly. Their big hearted greeting
and royal entertainment Of our choir
In their own Eisteddfod won them our
lasting gratitude, / am surprised our
press has not caught the gladness or
their pride In their triumph, enough
to sound Ii loud and long In harmony
with their own. Housely and Hughes
well deserve what they earned In such a
battle. for they have brought cred
II that will not soon be forgotten on
the eastern side Of the Rockies, to It's
chief city. Yes, and TO the entire west,
such victory cries aloud to the east
that the west is a fit place for the re-
fined who court singing as one OF the
requisites of home life, and or a
community. a few nights before the
announcement of the result | declared
to my choir, that II Mr. Housley entered
the contest with as fine body OF sing.
ers as he brought to Salt Lake ne coulu
win anything he competed for, for so
far as | had heard the eastern organ
| RdtlOnS tney ulu llOl tuudl iilal bVNy
In refined, artistic work, the words OF
our artistic and enthusiastic friend Ap
| Madoc, that they did the finest work
| In all the contest--numbers only keep
| ing them in the second rank--made me
| feel that my words were once more
on the right side, and like the good old
| lady. | cried II told you So" Denver
| IL TO be congratulated for advancing in
| the right direction. She Is not short OF
| her soloists, nor great organs as Prof,
| Mcclellan recently testified But she
| does not make a hobby of them at the
| expense of her choral organization as
| this wave OF glory had never been hers
| She has proven herself capable of APP
preciating the choral work OF. her neigh
| bors and OF developing her own. Such
| Ia an example worthy of imitation
and pride to any neighboring city. And
| am sure | not only voice my own
sentiments but that OF the singers Of
| Salt Lake City when /, through your
| medium, send my hearty greetings to
| Denver and her magnificent singers and
| able conductors over their recent vic-
| tory. EVAN STEPHENS,
| Director of Tabernacle Choir.
| Ladies' free Saltair Monday 30 trains