The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1905-06-24
PROF. TINSLEY AND HIS CHORAL
STUDY CLUB WILL RENDER
.'HIAWATHA's WEDDING
FEAST"

The twenty-seventh recital of the
pupils of Mr.. Pedro T. Tinsley was
heard at Grace Presbyterian Church
on Thursday evening, June 18th. and
by request, repeated on last Sunday
afternoon at the Institutional Church,
to the great enjoyment of a large and
select audiences. both sympathetic and
critical.
Most of Mr. Tinsley's pupils had
been heard upon other occasions in
recital. and the audience was, there
fore, prepared for the usual vocal
treat they have learned TO anticipate
when this careful and most competent
maestro offers a recital of some Of the
work accomplished in his study in
Handel Hall. His work as a conductor
of the Choral Study Club has other
wise done for that organization, which
he founded. what Prof. Tomlin's has
done for the Apollo Club of Chicago
for though a much larger and older
organization. with ample capital and
facilities. the Choral Study Club has
done as representative work of equally
high class: for example. the produc-
ton next Monday night of The Blind
Girl of Castle Guile and Hiawatha's
Wedding Feast, entirely different in
treatment-the first named very diff
cult-and the first production of it in
the West, if not the first in this coun-
try. These have an added interest 10
us, because the composer is S. Cole
ridge-Taylor, of London, England, the
greatest of all Negro composers and
one of the worlds greatest. of any
race or nation.
There were fourteen participants
upon the program, representing to the
critic several grades of study; all more
or less fairly excellent in the class OF
work essayed. which ranged from
Speaks pretty ballad, when Mable
Sings" to that of Tschaikowsky's
Through the Still Night" so delight
fully and effectively phrased and sung
by Miss L. Blanche Wright, and that
peculiarly difficult aria, Spring Song
from Hiawatha, the many pitfalls OF
which were successfully eluded and
the whole effectively rendered in both
voice and technique-ample and to
spare-by Mrs. Virginia Green. Mrs.
Green's is a clear and pentrating so,
prano voice which renders the trill
with the ease and certainty of the sus.
tanned passage. Her Damon" was
however, to the audience, her most
grateful number, while her Butterfly
Song was exquisite
Miss Wright, possibly, showed the
most remarkable growth in breadth
and quality over her former good work
of almost a year since. A treat, is
therefore, in store for those fortunate
to hear her in the role of Margaret
The Blind Girl of Castle Cuille"-On
Monday night next. Hers is a pure
and limpid soprano, singing easily two
octavos to &c" in alto. Her friend:
are glad too, that on this occasion SHE
will have opportunity to prove (wha
a sereve cold and hoarseness woulC
not permit on the previous occasion
her ability to sing the difficult solo
of the Blind Girl" with beauty ant
strength.
Space will not permit a more eE
tended account in detail, quite mum
Der of which deserve extended notice
however, great interest was excite
over the expected debut of Mr.. Sadlel
the new tenor, who is to sing tn
great solo "Onaway, Awake Beloved
in "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" o
next Monday night the 26th; but h
failed to materialize. Otherwise, tn
audience looked with pleasant exper
ence. it had enjoyed and all trust tn
next recital will not be next; but thi
season.