Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-21

DR. A. a. Stanley professor OF music
and dean of the musical faculty at the
University of Michigan and conductor
of the great May festivals at An Ar
Dor arrived last midnight, from the
east, and registered at the Knutsford,
He was met down the Rio Grande road
by Organist j. j. Mcclellan Of the Tab
emacle, Prof, Stanley's first pupil at
Ann Arbor, and the two came on to
Salt Lake together.
a News" representative met Prof.
Stanley at the hotel this morning and
enjoyed a very pleasant chat with
him, He Is on his way TO Berkeley,
Cal. to deliver y lectures on the sub
ject Of music before the summer school
OF the state university, and stops off en-
route at this point to lecture on The
Parsfal," the great Wagncrian work
now attracting so much attention, and
which Is proving the means of engraft-
ing the Wagneran cult firmly upon the
ethics of music In this country. Prof.
Stanley win lecture In the Tabernacle
at $3.50 this evening, and the fact that
he approves OF the performance of the
great dramatic opera Ia the United
States will lend additional interest TO
his descriptions. II win be remembered
summer, expressed herself as rather
against the operas introduction here,
largely because of alleged injustice to
Widow Wagner. The professor has 100
colored Views with which TO Illustrate,
| and he will be assisted by Organist Me-
| Clellan and Willard Welhe, Prof. Me-
| Clellan playing the "parsifaP' overture.
Prof, stanley has been at the head of
the music department OF. Michigan for
| l6 years and did most OF his studying
previously IN Germany. lie said that
| there had been many Mormon students
| at Ann Arbor an the different depart
| ments and all had proved good students
and strong characters. Among the
more notable Utah students in his de-
partment were j. j. Mcclellan, Miss
| Arvilla Clark and David Mann. There
| were others, but Just at the moment he
| could not recall the names, There are
| $50 students In the various branches OF
| music at Ann Arbor, some being from
| Europe,
When asked about the development
| Of organ music In this country, Prof.
| Stanley said It's appreciation was In
| creasing, that more studenes than ever
were In that speciality, and the public
was coming more and more TO enjoy
| that class Of musical effort, Then the
/ law AlltiN blRtill tlldlihl hNAhitlN hl' ''''
| ing TO agree as to the exact location OF
| stops Is something upon which organ
lists can justly congratulate themselves,
for there have been no two organs alike
| IN this respect, and an orgpnist has TO
learn the stop locations for every organ
he plays on. The professor thoroughly
believed In the echo organ" feature,
the radical convex pedal box, and n
high wind pressure for the solo organ,
stating his organ had seven inches pres
sure. las to mixtures they are the
hoodlums of the instrument he said,
whose principal virtue Is that they
make q noise and the tendency has
been to cut down the number OF ranks
SO that In some late organs they have
practically disappeared
AS TO playing orchestral or piano mu-
sic on the srgan, Prof Stanley had his
doubts about the ethical propriety OF
doing so. He favored rather organ mu-
sic for organs, as there Us style OF
composition specially adapted for this
class OF Instrument, and the scores
written for the plano and orchestra
hardly NJ into organ registration There
II an abundance OF fine organ scores 70
there Is really no necessity for infusion
OF other instrumental scores into organ
repertoire.
4 DR.. Stanley does not lay much st(ega
upon musical degraps, lie paXg doptori