Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-02

Is on the program, with the choruses
sung by the Tabernacle choir and the
Festlvai chorus. On Tuesday after
| noon, a matinee will be given by orches-
ira and soloists at O'clock.
| Inc sale OF seats begins Monday next.
| March 4, at the Clayton Music company.
| The first week Will be devoted to SUBJ
| scrlbers who have sent in their names
IN advance Cor season tickets. Rates
| are TO BIS made on the railroads. IN adj
| dttion to the conference rates which will
| go Into effect a few days before the
FESTIVAL. Mr.. Graham reports the re-
| ceipt OF many orders from out of town,
which are being attended to. The solo
lists from Chicago are from among yie
best known oratorfo singerss in that
city.
A program received at this office OF
the musical services at the Fort Len
venworth chapel indicates a standard
OF excellence that must excite the envy,
IT not admiration of army chaplains
elsewhere. Under Chaplain Axton. the
character of The services have reached
a point unusually high for a military
post. The program for Feb. "a last in-
cluded an anthem from Dvoraks Sta
bat Mater Stanford's "Magnificat," In
II fiat. The ''Nunc Dimits' in Il nat.
and a special anthem arranged from
Raff. The program for Feb. "a, included
Stainer's "Magnificat" and "Nnuc Dsmi-
it's recltatif and aria from Haydn's
eation,' and a trio and chorus from
the same, The choir includes four
sopranos, two contralios, four tenors
and six bassos,
The Twenty-ninth infantry band has
now 40 men, a number that Is capable
OF producing some fine music But the
band will lose half OF it's men by ex-
piration of terms of enlistment before
the regiment goes TO the Philippines.
However. even then the command Will
be better off than 1t was on its arrival
In this country from its last insular'
service. for AT that time 1t had no band
at all. The fine musical organization
now In service with the band has been
built up entirely during the station at
Fort Douglas. under Lieut., F. X. Heric
as bandmaster.
Where the Silvery Colorado Wends
Its Way" Is Il song written by Denver
mail carrier and played by Held's band
while 1t was in Denver. with such effect
that ever since that time the air has
been sung and whistled in the state.
With the meeting OF the legislature this
winter an attempt was made to have
the piece made the state song; but a
Colorado Springs woman had written
an ode she wanted adopted, her friends
took the matter up. and the fight has
been carried into the halls of legisla-
ton.
There will be musicale given next
Thursday evening in the Ladies' Liter
airy club, when Miss Freda Slender, So
prano, Is TO be the central figure of the
evening. She Will sing selections from
Mozart, Gounod Grieg. Niedlingcr, Won
Fielitz Greene, Schubert, Mayer and
Marchesi.
A former tenor with the Bostonians
named Rowan now a Los Angeles real
estate dealer. was I'm the city this week,
calling on musical acquaintances in
connection with realty matters Mr..
Rowan concluded he could accomplish
more in life outside OF the realm OF
music than within II. and so has gone
into other things. He is a graduate OF
the conservatory of Milan.
Negro bandmasters are TO be given
the four colored regiments In the regu-
lar army instead OF white men. This
move is due to the influence of Booker
T. Washington, who took the matter up
with the secretary OF war. The Insti-
tute at TuskIgee, Ala. win evidently
be called upon to furnish tho bandmus-
tiers. The negro leader of the Filipino
band that visited this country last year
Is a graduate OF the New England Con-
seryatory OF Music aud an accomp-
lshed musician.
Local music houses report the rush
for sheet music continues without any
apparent indications OF subsiding. 1t Is
noted that the popular taste II not Inn
proving any. Tho sale OF pianos and
organs for February il regarded as
highly satisfactory, while the sales Of
monographs and talking machines for
the month are reported Az breaking all
records In western music circles One
prominent Arm reports tho sale Of so 900
records. II is considered poor mining
camp that does not now have it's quota
of talking machines,
Those who heard Mrs Shannah Cum
ming Jones sing IN this city eirly hi
the winter will be pleased TO learn thai
she Is cOnyalescent from her attack of
typhoid fever. and is now In Florida
with her husband recuperating.
Piano recltals arc sadly on the wane
in the east, due 10 The monotony OF pro-
grams. which would suggest that there
are only about 100 ~ available compo.
sitiOns 10 select from whereas there
are thousands. II. 4, Fink Of the New
York Post says pianists do moi make
sufficient use OF their brains He urges
as one Innovation, four-hand perform
auces.