Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-01

erage income at $500, this means 100000
spent each year in Salt Lake for music
al instruction of some kind. The high
est incomes reach Sc, 900, but only two or
three can boast such a figure.
The pupils of Hugh Dougall will give
q song service in the Seventh ward
Westinghouse tomorrow evening, at : p.
m. The following vocalists will take
part Misses Margaret Summerhays,
Maud Ritter, Ivy Evans, Ivy Houtz,
Irene Kelly, Florence Locke, Gertrude
Kelly, Alice Webley, Edna Evans and
Hazel Barnes: Rulon Robinson, Melvin
Peterson. John w. Summerhays, Hugh
Dougall.
There was Il peculiar mix up in the
choir loft OF q. prominent city church
last Sunday evening. AT the end of tho
first and third lines OF u hymn there
was marked a hold The singers
failed to observe this. while the organ
and orchestra did. The result was that
the singers We're speedily one bar ahead
or the rest of the combination, while
the congregation wondered how the
contest was coming out. The singers
got Strengthened out after the second
stanza. and then all went we'll.
The Song Cycle of THE Golden
Threshold" by Lehman, win be given
in the First Congregational church on
the evening of May s. Miss Lehman
Is also the composer OF I'm q. Persian.
Garden" selections from which are to
be given with full recital of the other,
by q quartet composed of A. S. Peters,
Miss Edna Coin, M. j. Brines and II. Il.
Smith.
Mrs. Corinne Hammer will sing Mil
N I n ~Jt y Z . 80 n r. !, al. ~ 49, 49, ID ~
the IL a. m. service in the Catholic
cathedral.
The credit for inaugurating the re-
cent agitation that resulted in the
complete Withdraw wal of army bands
from civilian competition is. given to
Charles l.. Berry, a. member Of the Salt
Lake local of the American Federation
of Musicians, who took tho matter up
With the fed eration5 headquarters in st.
Louis. Ss The war department was final
.ly induced tossee the law as Congress
Intended, and the soldier bands can
no longer be secured where q. civilian
band is available.
The first open ~aireband concert OF the
season at Liberty park will be given
by Held's band Of 80 men, tomorrow
at APP. m. The program includes
Overture to "Rosamund,' Beethoven:
overture to Era Diayolo," Auber; Sc
lections from "T,ohengrin,', Wagner;
Melody iniF',o Rubinstein; and a mum
Der Of popular selections. Held will
furnish the band and concert music
at Saltair with 80 men in the band, and
% in the orchestra. l.. p. Christensen
will furnish an orchestra for the dance
music at the resort.
Local music houses report a. fair busi-
ness for so stormy a week. The de-
mand for rag time music continues In;
this city, although it has been entirely
abandoned in the east. The bands and
orchestras there have all given it up.
One local house sold this week, three
Victrolias, at $500 each, and 500 worth
of machine records.
s. r. Kimball, m~anagersof the talking
machine department of a local music
firm, will give q Victrola concert Mon
day afternoon, at the state university,
when the governor and staff and a.
number OF state officials will be present.
Spencer Clawson, Jr., is seriously
thinking of buying a - %:chord piano
such as obtained in tee Steenth cen
tury, as he has noted there Is d he
mand sprinsing up in the east for the
old time instrument, on Which the COM
positions of three and four centuries
ago are being played as they We're play
ed at the time they were written, and
as they We're heard from the great
masters.
G. o. Blakeslee will lecture tomor-
row at $3.50 p. M. in the Eighth ward
Westinghouse, on music. N He leaves
Monday for a two weeks absence in
Idaho on q lecturing and concert u
Organist Tracy Cannon of the First
Congregational church will play every
Sunday, for 10 minutes before the time
for beginning service in brief recital.
His program for tomorrow morning will
he: g'.Prelude in A Minor. Chadwick;
''Reverie,' Schneider; "AlleSreto in A
Minor" GuiImant. For the offertory he
will give Bossi's ~..Andantino;" and as
the finale, Ilsmmen's "Postlude in c."
Charles Kent and a number of his
pupils will give a song service in the
Twentieth ward chapel tomorrow at
$50 p. m. Among the participants Will
be Myrtle Brown, Alton Kent, A. w.
Anderson, Ora Gill, Thos. w. Winters,
Gus Backman. Dot Mcmillan, Gilbert
Savage, Y. T. Burton, Lillian Branning,
Carl Weenig. MI. Kent and the ward
choir.
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The pupils of Mrs. Lizzie Thomas
| Edward will give II musical service to-
morrow evening in the Twenty-fourth
! ward westinghouse. assisted by b.. NJ.
| Young, Jr.. with his violin, Mrs. Mary
sanborn on the piano. and Miss Lean
Arnold with organ accompaniment. The
participants on the program are: lot
tie Brain, Jennie skoltield, Natala
| Thomas, Stella Poulton, Minnie Poul-
ton, Ruth Murphy, Mary KATE. Hazel
Richardson, sVada Jacobs. Prof. j.. II.
Paul will lecture on .'The Theory of the
Beautiful as Related to Music
The program for the regular fast day
| organ recital in the Tabernacle at 3
p. m, tomorrow, will be as follows:
! Variations on a Welsh air, by Per-
former.
Meditation in T. fiat ..........W llckeh
| Old Melody ...Arr.zb Performer
Marche Religieuse, on Themes from
L.OhenEr1n
The sorganist Will be Edward r. kiInT
ball, and during the recital.
Matt. Thomas will speak on Mormon