Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-03
The Festival Goes Out
In Royal Fashion

The Spring Musical festival went olt
in blaze of glory yesterday after
noon and evening. While the Mt
tendance was very handsome, the cx-
pectaticns of the management were
hardly fulfilled, and Manager Graham
says that the receipts will not
equal those or last year. But from
the artistic standpoint. the results are
far in advance of the first festival. The
afternoon and night concerts were
5.bsorbingly interesting, especially, as
three of our leading nome professors
were the centers of attraction. Nc
Clellan and Shepherd We're the lions
of the afternoon, and at night Prof.
Stephens came into his own, presiding
over a, mammoth chorus, the like Of
which has not been seen In that build
ing for years, the orchestra of 60 and
the great organ, all united in present.
ing for the first time in the west, Sir
Arthur Sullivan's Golden Legend"
The enthusiasm rose u the ovation
point several times during both con-
Certs.
THE AFTERNOON EVENT.
The concert in the tabernacle yes
terday afternoon was one of the great
est instrumental recitals ever given in
this city. The program was entirely
instrumental one whose Virtuosty of
performance could hardly be sur
passed, except perhaps. by the Boston
Symphony, itself The special feat
ures of the afternoon, and which help
ed largely to swell the attendance,
We're the two movements, pastorale
and finale, from the great symphony
written for organ and orchestra, by
Alex. Guilmant, and the suite by Ar
thur Shepherd. Prof. Mcclellan was
the organist in the symphony, mon
ument in tonal art, not only colossal.
but of n development of melody with
collaboration of harmonic wealth and
perfection of effective detail that
might be expected from one of the
greatest composers of organ music the
world has produced. Its technique IL
intricate: tho two units. organ and
orchestra, while maintaining their in
dividuality--at points to towering
strength--are often blended with a
commingling of registration and or
chestral Instrumentation that brings
out in massive, majestic musical por-
traiture, combination of these UNI
its, as n new and single mighty In
strument of tonal art The pastoral
is ideal in idyllic structure, that car
r!es unconsciously with 1t mind pic
lures of June landscape with all the
attendant dreamy environment,
charming in its suggestions and pleas
ing in originality. The contrast be-
tween that movement and the prestis-
simo Of the finale is startling. subdu-
ing the listener into forgetfulness of
all else. ms the crashing thunders of
the full organ" with its heavy pedal
diapasons, and the fun weight Of or
chestral effort reached up nightly
with strings, brasses, wood winds and
percussion instruments, In rivalry for
the mastery. suggesting Cowper's lines
from the odyssey
ITO the Olympian summit they essay'd
To heave up Ossa, and to Ossa's
crown
Branch waving Pelion."
It would seem as If everything SAVIOR
ing of massiveness and imposing gran
deur In music were brought out in the
Finale, None but artists should ever
attempt to handle that symphony, and
none did attempt IL yesterday after
noon. Its performance was a triumph
both for the artist at the console, and
the artists whose energies were direct
cd under Herr RosenDeckers baton.
1t Is not known that this symphony
was ever played in this country before
certainly not west OF the Hudson
river. The applause was generous and
Mtli u'NtINfhs
Arthur Shepherds March Pittor-
esque and Scene OrIentale from or
chestrdl Suite Opus - was a. most
pleasing surprise to the audience. Prof.
Shepherd had already reached high
estimation point in the local musical
mind; but when he had laid down the
baton after the successful conducting
OF his own number yesterday, II was
apparent. ta everyone that his abilities
as an orchestral composer had been
much undorestimated. II Is not too
much TO say that this promising young
man now takes deserved stand among
the front rank OF American orchestral
composers Prof. Shepherds theme IN
this suite strikes the ordinary must
clan as unusual, in fact as strictly sui
generls and its method OF treatment
original ana effective, tho product OF
truly musical temperament. "Orientaler
Is a ftting term In descriptive. II re-
calls the wierd native melodies Of Asia
Tic and southeastern European orches-
tras heard IN the great Chicago and
st. Louis fairs, and was al once famil-