Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-01
DENVER CHORUS MEETS AN
OVATION AT THE TfIEATER

IT anyone doubted that we are on
the eve5of a great Eisteddfod. he should
have been in attendance at the theater
last night. The occaston&was the con-
cert given by the Denver competing
chorus, and the official soloist OF the
Eisteddfod, Mr.. Evans, and a magnifi-
cent prelude to the Eisteddfod it form
ed. The audience was a handsome one
and dubbed over with enthusiasm.
Your blase first nighters We're conspic-
auous by their absence but in their
places We're the eager and enthusiastic
music forces Of the city. with q big
sprinkling of the Welsh contingent It
was the presence of these Welsh music
lovers, many of them veterans and pio-
neers of Eisteddfods in their own land,
that gave the evening its characteristic
effect. They led in the demands for on
cores and when the Welsh baritone. Mr..
Evans, who created furore throughout
the evening. stepped on the stage and
gave a Welsh song. they set up a per-
feet pandemonium Of sound. After tho
curtain fell they filed up and down
the aisles, shaking hands. congratulate
Ing each other, and then swept back
upon the stage where they overWheln-
ed Dr. Housley. and his singers with
greetings, and In all probability would
have been there yet, had not the weary
janitor offered polite hint. by Begin
niIg to turn out the house lights. Then,
and then only. they reluctantly dis
persed with many a warning to each
other not to be late at the tabernacle
event tonight.
f AS for the program rendered by the.
Denver singers. 1T WAS simply superb.
The Salt Jake singers Under Mcclellan,
I'll, .tk-ill 1atp u1r
al combat tomorrow. were scattered
Throughout the audience with many OF
the tabernacle choir, and they all emit
ted many a gasp of admiration at the
perfect balance OF 1.-THE parts, the Won
derful shading. the enunciation and the
almost automatic way in which the
singers responded to the movements of
the director. Especially was this true
in Or. Housley's own fmous hymn
'.Hark. Hark Ny Soul" rendered as 1t
was never before rendered in this state.
Thousands OF copies of the beautiful
composition have been sold through
out Utah and many q choir leader has
essayed to render 1t, but all such had
new lesson last night and doubtless
all viii profit by it. While this was the
principal achievement by the chorus,
their work was scarcely less beautiful
in THE Sea Hath Its Pearls. Sweet
and Low" and the 'Old Black j." se-l
lection. arranged by DIR. Honsley. This
was an ingenious presentation of g
theme that has been arranged to death.
but DIR. Housley's Interpretation, with
a pleasing solo by a tenor. caught the
audience, and it had to be- repeated.
The one disappointment of the evening
was the fact that the big classic NUM-
Der. in which the chorus would have
been given fullest opportunity. the
"Infiammatus. with a solo by Miss,
Berlin, had to be abandoned on account
of the lady's illness. This was also
true of the quartet in which she WAS
to take part. The omission OF the In
hammatus" gave the program a lighter
effect than musicians who came to hear
something standard, could have wished
fer.
The ovation given the chorus was
fully eaualled by that bestowed on the
baritone, Mr.. David Evans, who was