Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-30

- vERYONE Interested in the pro.
- gress OF home music will regret
to learn that the expected Joint
concert by the Salt Lake SYM
phony orchestra and the Orpheus club
Is postponed indefinitely and not only
that but that the further appearances
OF the orchestra during the winter are
decidedly doubtful. The truth In o
nutshell Is that Salt Lake musicians
arc suffering from an excess Of pros
perity, and In spite of the leviathan
labors of Business Manager Spencer
and Director shepherd,it has been found
Impossible to secure a. night when a
sufficient number Of the Instrumental
lists could be brought together to make
n respectable showing. The situation
was bad enough before the Orpheum
opened, but the formation of an or
chestra OF ten men there, has brought
matters to the acute stage. With four
houses of entertainment open nightly
and with many Of them requiring fire.
0uent rehearsals, II has been found
matter Of impossiblity to obtain the
musicians services. willing as the men
were. For the past three weeks men
have been brought from Ogden, Provo
and Brigham city, to I'LL up the gaps In
the ranks, but with the opening of the
Orpheunl, and the demand made on the
Instruments lists there, Messrs. Shep-
herd and Spencer have decided that II
Is hopeless to struggle against the inevi-
table. Sunday night concerts were
thought OF, but soon abandoned, owing
10 lack of support on many sides. All
concert plans, therefore Will be shelved
for the present the hope being that as
the season draws near to its close. II
may be possible to get a sufficient num-
Der OF men TO give the entertainment,
The disappointment VIII be all the
keener from the fact that the program
he'd been arranged and .rehearsed. The
Orpheus club was to give two num-
bers, and Mrs. Mont Ferry, whose
gifts as contralto Mr.. Shepherd
speaks Of very highly, was to have been
the soloist Of the occasion and to have
q full orchestral accompaniment. The
hope is that the program can be given
IN April or May Just az originally con-
templated In the meantime the snug
sum that the orchestra society has on
hand as a guarantee. will be put out
at interest and allowed to accumulate.
Even with the Symphony orchestra
shelved Prof Arthur Shepherd VIII not
find time tagging on his hands. Yes
terday's mail brought him notice
from the newly Incorporated THE New
Music Society of America" which has
been formed for the purpose OF giving
the works Of American composers
hearing. The society has engaged the
Russian Symphony orchestra to inter-
pref its works, and announces three
concerts before next May. The COM
mttee state that selections from the
works of American authors, many or
which have never been performed. Will
be the leading features of the concerts.
A lorg list OF American composers fol-
lows, and MIR. Shepherds name, with
that of his "Overture Joyeuse," (Which
won the Paderewski prze) Is given In
the list. Mr. Shepherd has also re-
celved word from his former teacher,
DR.. Geotchius. that he had conversed
with Walter Damrosch leader of the
New York Symphony orchestra, about
Shepherds new composition and that
Damrosch had expressed desire 10
meet Mr.. Shepherd and go over the
work with him. very handsomely prom
Using to have his men render II for him
ut a rehearsal sometime during Febru-
airy. Needless to say. this Is chance
that Mr.. Shepherd Will eagerly en-
brace, since he has never himself heard
the strains Of his composition except
as they passed through his magma
ton.
This weeks Musical America" con-
tains picture of Mr.. Shepherd. and
very complimentary article on his musi-
cal attachments.
The engag .ment Of the American
singer, Bessie Abbott. by Conreid, for
the Metropolitan Opera company, VIII
be OF interest to many people In SAT-
Lake. The young lady came over from
Paris where she had been very success
full TO give a number of concerts In
New York She was given three
years contract by Conreid as soon as
he heard her Miss Abbotts teacher Is
Nine. Ashforth, under whom Emma
Lucy Gates OF this city has been study
ing for number Of years. Nine Ash
forth has frequently COMPARED MISS
Gates voice to Mics Ahhotts, ana mas
even gone on record as saying that the
Utah girl had in her the making OF as
fine an artist as Bessie Abbott.
The "See America First movement
has invaded the ranks OF our 81
clans They have organized themselves
Into body for the purpose Of creatinR
bigger and broader appreciation 10Y
the talent we have al home. Thelr
motto will be, Hear foreign artists II
YOU viii, but hear American artists
first, particularly Utah artists Fred
Graham. our local tenor, Is Responsible
for the movement. This organization
viii have his name attached TO IL, ana
will be known as the Fred c, Graham
Music Bureau, where The services or
any and all OF Utahs artists can be
secured
Following Is partial list OF those
who have Joined in the movement
Sopranos Emma Ramsey Nor-
ris, Miss Edith Ellerbeck, Mrs. Lizzie
Thomas Edward, Mrs. Martha Royle-
King, Bessie Browning, Emily Larson
Mrs, Nell Pinketton- Moore.
Contraltos-Agatha Berkhoel, Edna
Cohn, Judith Anderson, Edna Dwyer,
Elsie Barrow-Best. segrid Petersen
Emma Sanders.
Graham, Thomas $. Ashworth, WIZ
slbley, Joseph Poll.
Baritones and Basses--Hngh w
Dougall, II. S. Ensign. Charles Kent,
John Robinson. J. Willard Squlres, Vic-
tor Christopherson
Quartets-Masonic (mlxed), Imperial
Omale). Utah Ladies',
Pianists-J. j. Mcclellan (also or
ganisU, Arthur Shepherd, Sybella
Clayton, Cecilia sharp. Alvin Beesley'
I'd Kimtal, Walter Poulton.
Violinists-Willard Weihe. George f,
skelton. Arthur Petersen, c. J. Nettle-
ton. W. c. Give
Flute-W. ]. Flashman.
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