Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-24
PROF. SHEPHERD RETURNS HOME
AFTER HEARING HIS $500 OVERTURE
~ ROF ARTHUR SHEPHERD has
- returned home after six weeks
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~ RoF. ARTHUR SHEPHERD has
- returned home after q six weeks
absence in the east and Is once
more to be found In his Main
street studio. He had a profitable ex-
perience from musical standpoint
which included hearing his $500 Pad
orewskl prize overture played In re-
hearsal by the New York symphony
orchestra under Frank Damrosch. The
Russian Symphony orchestra was "a
have given the overture IN concert on
the 18th Of this month, but was obig-
ed to cut that particular concert out.
and Prof. Shepherds chef d'oeuYre
will be given as the first number in
the concert scheduled for March 10
next, under the auspices Of the new
Music Society Of America. and with
Herr Altschuler as orchestra conduc-
tor. SO the Salt Lake musical public
will wait with considerable expectancy
the arrival of that date and the news
following II from New York.
Prof Shepherd went through to
Boston from Salt Lake but only re-
manned there one day which he spent
in company with Arthur Farwell. one
OF the more prominent among Ameri-
can composers. and a rising musical
star. He also had a pleasant meeting
with the editor of the WaWan Musical
Press. Prof. Shepherd was intending
to return to THE Hub" later, but his
time was SO fully occupied in New
York that he was unable to do SO. and
came directly home from the metropo-
lis. Considerable time was necessary
TO get the score into shape for a fun
orchestra, and the parts We're copied
by professional, and then Mr., Dam
rosch played the work. as noted, In
rehearsal. OF course the first per-
Torrance. sight reading, was not as
finished as the composer would desire;
but II was very good, and IL gave him
some valuable hints which he was
quick to take Advantage of. So he re-
vised his copy made changes here and
there where the Instrumentation could
be improved. and finally got the en-
tire work into splendid shape, SO that
the Russian symphony ought to make
q notable presentation OF It, This or
chestra is composed of about 81 men,
an ensemble capable OF handling any
score placed on the stands before IL,
and is regarded as one of the finest
orchestral organizations In the United
States.
The program to be presented on the
evening of March 10 will include,
the Joyful Overture Shepherd,
MacDowell's great piano concerto
I'm ID minor, soprano aria and
orchestral accompaniment from Sal
ammbo's Invocation" by Henry f. Gill
bert; and MacDowells famous Indian
Suite" 1t will require perhaps 40 min
utes to play this last number and the
concerto is about half an hour long, so
that altogether 1t Is an immense pro-
gram. And 1t Is no lbation Of unde-
served praise to say that 10 appear In
such distinguished company and on
such a really great program, Is plume
of the largest dimensions in Prof. Shep-
herds cap. For Salt Lake composer
TO have his name coupled with Mac
Dowelrs. Is to cause the average Salt
Lake citizen to exclalm with the Apos-
tie Paul: II am a citizen Of no mean
city"
Prof. Shepherd concluded before leav-
ing New York to Anglicize the name Of
his overture, so that 1t Is now no longer