Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-03
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for the initial presentation. The opera
which Us TO be in two acts with three
scenes is the combined effort of j. j.
Mcclellan and Briant s Young. Mr..
Young has completed the lbretto and
Prof Mcclellan is now working on the
score with the promise that 20 will
be completed by June. The plot OF
the piece deals with an American
tourist who with his Arab guide Is
exploring the pyramids of Egypt and
the first scene discovers the two be-
fore the Sphinx where the American
bcwais his loneliness. The Sphinx
takes hand in the dialogue and even
ually a bcvy Of girls come tripping
from the mouth of the Silent stone
monster. The hero is invited inside
and then the second scene opens Tho
second act Is devoted TO the Temple
OF Girzech and then the time the place
and the girl so 90 speak, develop.
The plot hinges on the serious fact
that every 20 years the Sphinx changes
his or her sex, as the case may be-.
The American arrives shortly before
the clock strikes. and then the trouble
begins
The piece is being written with
the idea of affecting lavish scenery
and electrical effects while Prof Nc
Clellan proposes to introduce some
incarnation music and a waltz refrain
which will be woven throughout the
score which promises some catchy
airs.
Mr.. Young is now In correspondence
with Henry Savage who is taken with
the plot and scenario generally and
promises TO give the opera presen-
tation.
The senior class OF the University
of Utah viii give It's class program,
Friday. April 9. Bishop Spaldiug who
has been in Denver for the past five
weeks, will return TO deliver the add
dresses. The program is as follows.
Clara schumann. String quartet
NO. .................- HAY ueh
Mnuett .............. q. BuCcheriui
Clara Schurmann. string quartet
Miss Crawford, Miss Allen Miss
Thompson and Miss Google.
With you. .....''....' Meal Morcl
Miss Edith Grant.
Address, Rt Rev. Franklin Spence
SpauldlnR d. d.
To a Wild Rose ...... Mac Dowell
Miss Romania HYDE
"Onaway Awake ..Colendge Taylor
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Jack Summerhays.
Prof Squire Coop. accompanies.
The final rehearsal of the Salt Lake
symphony orchestra viii be devoted
largely to WiniawskTs concerto for the
violin. 10 be given by Willard Weihe
at the final concert OF the season. IL
is a difficult, brilliant number and as
this is the first presentation iu salt
Lake, the keenest interest is felt i'm
Mr.. Weihe's effort Conductor Nc
Clellau has not arranged the program
i'm every detail as yet but enough is
known Of its makeup TO justify the
claim that the final concert Will rank
among the best yet given. Several
selections. which have before been
heard here, are given a place i'm Zee
Spouse TO urgent requests from the pa
irons, among them the Rubinstein
Dances" and Schubert's Unfinished
symphony" The new numbers are
"Chambrin Hills BY Protheroe, and
Les Preludes,' by List. both very
pretentious and beautiful with ETA
fectlve opportunities for the harp. Mrs.
McGurrin will assist in this import
ant selection.
The Fifteenth infantry band win
give a concert on the post plaza from
to p. m, tomorrow.
HE'D, WIN 20 uluSltldhHt gives the
first Of his Main street balcony per-
formances of the season this evening.
opposite the Hooper Eldredgc build
ing These are of course perfectly
free. and much enjoyed by people who
chance to be in upper Main street at
such time.
Two hundred copies of the Irriga-
tiou ode have been sent To Spokane for
the local chorus 10 learn for prosen-
tatiou at tho coming Irrigation con-
rross. Prof Mcclellan, the composer
of the score has been invited by tho
committee To visit Spokane ANA cone
duct the singing of the ode in person.
The Choral society viii be able Zoo
sing "Gallia' within two weeks, boo
preparation for production al the
coming spring musical festival Tho
tabernacle choir is To present THE
Last judgment" The Chicago SYM
phOuy orchestra viii be In this city
May II ana 12 Some people get this
organization confused with the Thorn
as orchestra There Is no more con-
ucction between them than between
the Boston symphony and the Pitts
burg Philharmonic.
Local musical gossip still rings with
oOmmcndatory comments ON Lhcyiunt,
the Russian pianist Tn comparing
MN with IhutitMFkI TT mas httN Ii"
marked that hc De- hardly the iutCr-
prefer of Chopin that the Polish pianist
S., but ion performance of the other
compositions on the program, hc might
Doe Classed FIRST One enthusiastic lady
600 the audience declared afterwards
tbat were Lheviune t1 appear again u
Salt Lake. she would pay $50 for
ticket rather than miss the recital. Tho
final number uu the program, the D5-
nuhe waltz. with variations, will fur
uIsh food for remark for some time iu
come. The arrangement was ucNcr
heard before in this city the work h.-
ing given with greater effect by the
artists specially sknful Interpretation
~ it Tie was practically carrying
three airs at once-all woven dove
tailed, into each other and each iu
turn being the more omphaticaly de-
No'oped. The German characteristic
nf Cine composition wore never before
.1 Won brought ont as iu that rome
d.rIug of "a. but the artist ala hardly
t1o right thing hv his audience boo ruf-
tins out four pages of thIs beautiful
number he did NJ because hD WINS
iHcd. True. the program was "a heavy
ono hut it would not hove fatIeupi him
much 90 have given thc entire work.
-hevinue WIN be lu New York ou thr
lOih inst. expecting to make hIs larr-
Won appearance ln This country. ou the
--ud. I'M the calvary Baptist church, u
concert with fIT choir