Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-21
#SHARPS AND FLATS

Massenet, the composer. las said
I Get three behind me, SATAN to tie
nlimprcsarios who have mad.
offers to him to tour In their country,
this coming winter. He pleads WORK IL:
his excuse. n ext year. perhaps i may
go over he says. ';nut never till I
have some new work to produce And
never unless ] am able TO take over
my own interpreters. The compuse.
is not overanXious to encounter the
dreaded seasickness which spares
neither man nor composer.
Workmen are assembling the parts or.
sthe modern, organ which is TO replace
the instrument in the historic: Kings
& Chapel, Boston, which was Installed In
1856. The latter, which was imported
from London, was a sensation IN irs
day, and many famous musicians have
sat at its keyboard. Tradition has it
that before its expectation it was test.
cd and approved by Handel himself
On this occasion, as we'll as for other.
sentiments, as many as possible of the
original parts will have place in the
Eremodeled structure.
Tall Esen Morgan gave an informal
talk recently on the Volunteer Choir
saying among other things: Most PEG.
pie regard the volunteer choir as d
Unnecessary cfti. ana II 8ceFtdlHly lSG IL
difficult thing to handle. A good many
people think that good results cannot.
+ be gotten from a volunteer choir. While
Iiagree with Henry Ward Beecher that.
there are three kinds of people. men,
women and singers. 1 have never had
any difficulty in managing volunteer
choirs and ! never lost one in my
life. The first thing insist on Is reg
Sular attendance. for without that no
oar n, IA ali ,,,-lt
mate the boss, usually woman, and
the man who thinks he can sing when
he cannot The hat problem has also
to be solved. but there is only one
way; eliminate the hats
The giant organ which was in the
Festival hall AT the st. Louis worlds
originally cost $4,000 and was played
by the most eminent artists in chs
world during exposition period. The
organ was stored after the fair and.
the owners allowing the storage To
lapse, the organ was taken over in de-
fault by Eugene r. Handlan. The p,lr-
chase was made through personal
representative, of John Wanamaker and
the organ, will be Immediately shipped
to Philadelphia, to be erected in the
famous Wanamaker store. The pur-
chase price WAS not Stated. Some idea
of the size of the organ may be OBJ
tanned when 1t is stated that it is pos
stbleato drive IA pony through the larg-
est pipe. It will require five freight
cars to transport it.
Reginald DeKoven in recent maya
zine article says: Whoever,it was that
said. Let ME write the songs OF Il
nation. and care not who makes its
laws. enunciated a truth having to do
with the effect of distinctively national
music upon a nation or people, whose
Importance can hardly be overlooked
The popular airs of a nation might wei
be called the almost unconscious soul
of the people. They grow.
they deyelop-how, one hardly knows:
for. us some one APPLY remarked, Real
ly popular melodies compose them
Their. very existence in many
instances is due to some great national
crisis. to some wave of national feel
ing or emotion. AT times they emerge
from the fiery crucible of a nations
anguish: at other times the irrespres-
sible youtburst OF a nations JOY gives
them birth. As an evidence of the nom
effect. from a musical stand
point of divided national feeling, it
may be said that the agitated passions
and emotions of the Civil war brought
into existence a number of melodies
and popular songs which, from THAR
melodic contents. might well rank with
many of the most characteristic folk-
songs and popular airs of foreign ma
lions: and yetfnone of these songs were
taken permanently to the hearts of the
people, and almost3ali have disappeared
with the memories of that great con-
fiict. Possibly some other great ma
tionaI crisis is needed to weld the
American people into nation upon
which united national feeling could
be ndelibfy stamped. and thus become
productive of lasting muscial result.