Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-01

$500 ~ g ti1S+ttIulcatiOn as To !!
III !. what the entire Eisteddfod will +
be, the audiences may be assured !.
!. OF a royal treat throughout !.
r !. De- Daniel Protheroe, adjudicator !.
!. this mornings competitive 1:
i tests. !.
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ls1l was reported unofficially
4 atifsi 20 p. M, thar the sopranos had
III done f!1 50 remarkably well at the morn
ing trial. that DR.. PFotheroe deemed it
. only fair to admit five, instead OF three
vi s. y [ ne formal Il contest on the regular
II program nd that the. fiye would BE
z a AZ lss@ reason, Miss Loose, Miss smith.
Miss Evans and Miss Davis. though ii /
Is possible that there may lie al, error
s$o one ma me. as the friends of Miss
Gardiner diner asserted that she was one 81
the five.
the salt Lake public could have
"A q 1 ny aadelSequate idea OF the worth and
& generally lteresting ma tuie ar this
ss morning trial of candidates for the
z op,Tsano, tenor and violin contests of
MS as 4 FOUR National Elsteddfod, the
errac Gle ret he trial tool Lace
would have held an audience worthy;
of its capacity.
he contests Were for the first three
positions Il1 IN the final competition be-
fore the Eisteddfod in sopor1n, tenor.
and violin solos. The program was
3s to have begun at 10 o'clock. but DIR.
& I,rotheroe. the adjudicator was uaable3.
to reach the tabernacle until 1925,
when the work was Immediately taken
in hand, with Prof. William Apmadoc
Of Chicago as conductor and director.
The professor was IN his nhppiest
huinor, and pushed things along as fast
lost. A spacious platform had been
erected as a front extension of the
choir gallery, on wn;ch was two con-
cert grand pianos and large cabinet
organ. The candidates were lined up
in the choir gallery, and there was !
present also Prof Lund OF Provo, and
s$ Conductor Ballantynes of Ogden. Prof
j. ] Mcclellan was the official ac-
companist, assisted in his arduous la
bors by Mrs. Sanborn and Prof Lund,
few of the candidates also furnish
ing their own accompanies DR.. Pro-
theroe took station In the middle aisle
a third Of the way down at special
table provided for him, and David
Evans sat with him
The tenors We're called first and sang
uThe Lovers Leap, by r. S. Hughes.
This is not only a composition IN u
high order of sentiment, but it gives
vide range to ones powers i'll descrip
tive song and intelligence of interpre-
tation asswell as vocal a bilities.t slhere
were five entries, w. David Reese OF
Provo, C. w. Brown of Denver, Jack
Summerhays, ]. j. Burke and William
Charles OF this city. The sopranos
numbered 20 entries and all sang Hay
Making, BY Alice Needham. a COM
position well adapted to bringing out
the powers of song, the best qualities
and range of the soprano register The
copfest lasted until 12;30 p. M
+, The soprano entries We're as follows:
Miss Myrtle Ballentyne, Mrs. Claude
Zinn, ogden; Miss Vera oviatt, Farm
ington; Miss Fay Loose, Provo. Miss
Ruth Parry. Scranton, Pa, Miss Ennice
10. Belden, Los Angeies; Miss Howell |
Florence. Colo, Miss Jennie Camp. |
Provo: Miss Hilda Greason. Miss
Esther Davis Miss Edna Evans. Miss
Bess smith. Miss Caribel Gardner, Miss
Margaret Call, Mrs. kathleen r a IT,
Iins. Miss Florence Locke. Miss sofa
Bagley, Miss Maggie e. Vincent
I,aurfnda Poulton, Miss Addie Flstcher, |
all of salt Lake,
VIOLIN CONTEST.
& irha.e were seven entries. in the
,.iolin contest. as follows; Emery Ep-
narson Of Provo; Ralph Booth. OF
Nenhi: Master Merrill Wagner sAsn7
Mich, Park city; Miss Ronlnania Hyae, /
cecil G. Hogan. Morris B A 8 t
,,,lward Fitzpatrick, Salt Lake; lne
selection given them was soPhf
"Elegie, . 1,,.,,,,,p
Az the conclusion OF sre .''ot 80,
mr.. Protherae. Prof. t 2 pliiauo
{ ~ I,av;d evans expressed thense,Ses
N the highest terms in appf pres
- :, tbe work done in all three classes iili
- contests; Prof. Apmadoe fe1iafh'i's
that there must be something N the ~.
,,osnhere OF Salt Lake that preeas my
yn,ces. The latter was quick duii'ls
t,a singing. to note the good p pom,
-, a s,an,arl them to friends VINO