The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-20
SIC in AMERICA
.By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

their own productions. The general
criticism of the unique festival was.
''It was not art, hut it was thrill
ing.
The Cincinnati May festival brings
together each year large numbers OF
first-class musicians, They have per
formed most ambitious music, and from
their work there grew series of OPP
cratic carnivals presenting the works OF
Mozart. Beethoven and Wagner. Chi
cago gave notable performances in 1882
and 1854 under the direction Of Tbeo-
6orc Thomas.
Tho little Moraviau community ct
Bethlehem, Pa, which has the famous
trombone Easter service, contributes
greatly to the history of music in
America, being the first to give the
great B minor mass of Bach in this
country. Four years ago This congre
CATION gave another Bach festival, in
the Magnificent. the Passion Mu
sic" and the r minor mass were per
formed
At the St. Louis World 5 Fair there
were 1876 organ recitals given by eigh
tr organists, Mons. Alex Guilmant, the
world S foremost organist. giving forty
of them The total attendance was es-
timated at 1000 a day.
Ocean Grove. New Jersey. has an
annual musical festival. the only sum-
mer resort that makes a specially Of
this form of entertainment 1t is 3
great Methodist center. and this makes
The performance of sacred works an es-
sential feature of the regular pro-
gramme. Such oratorios as quote each
Elijah, The Messiah. Creator. and Sta
bat Mater have been given to packed
auditoriuns Of music lovers. The cho-
rus numbers from 500 10 1000 the So
losts are the best that can he obtained
and the orchestra numbers sixty-fve
pieces.
Another summer resort that holds an
annual festival on 7 smaller scale, and
with talent that Is almost entirely anna
teur. is Thousand Island park. on the
81. Lawrence, near Clayton, New York.
It has no nearby cities to depend on for
patronage. yet from a population Of
1000 it furnishes an audience Of 500,
n chorus of $50 voices, and an orches-
ira of thirty pieces. This is n typical
American form OF democracy that will
sooner or later characterize music as
well as other enterprises. 1t is simi-
lar 70 the movement for training the
working classes in music which origin
ated with Frank Damrosch of New
York, WAS successfully promoted by
Samuel ". Cole Of Boston, and has
spread through many American cities
and towns.
The musical movement does not al
ways preserve the same ratio 10 the
population of the cities of this country.
Milwaukee, largely German, and there
fore musical, has 10 per cent Of her
population taking part in serious mu.
steal work. Dozens of pages in the
city directory show names of music
teachers, vet the churches there take
less interest in music than they do in
ST. Paul, where orgaDists get $1,000 a
year. and good singers $40 n Sunday.
Cleveland has thirty-two musical clubs.
ST. Louis has 500 music teachers, Den
yer has been euterprising in musical
work, two of her societies taking prizes
al the St Louis fair. Chicago teaches
music free IN the public schools.
Although it has long been presumed
that Europe has a monopoly on all
things musical. the fact remains that
the average music-loviug American has
no need to go abroad. either for in
structiou or for entertainment. When
indulgent fathers and mothers get over
the idea that ii is fashionable to send
their daughters to Europe, their atten.
ton may be focused upon the fact that
home institutions are Offering them
equal facilities at much less cost.
1.-THE Yankee and His Ice Water
will be the topic Of Mr.. Haskin in The
Tribune Of Tuesday.