Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-11

7 rlan. Amato, Blass, Reiss, Muhlmann
seven great artists. Caruso. Destinn,
Homer, Meitschk, and Amato. Will sing
again "Gloconda." on Thursday. Fri
days performance OF I'll Trovatore'
Will enlist Gadskl and Slczak; and on
Saturday evening Caruso appears as
Faust, with Bella Alien as Marguerite.
by way of once more emphasizing the
fact that the Saturday nights are no
longer cheap in any sense of the word.
John Philip Sousa Is fifty years old.
Arrived at the half century mark, he
sends out this fine and cheery greeting
to his brother workers in music; Youth
is eternal to him who believes in eter-
nifty. To me youth means anywhere
from eight onward I was an exceed
ingly old person at eight and 1 trust
violate no confidence when l confess
youthful cXubcrance now that L have
bumped against the halfway post. Fiji
ty Is a splendid time for youthful eX-
pansion; ones fancy still retains all It's
ingenuity, while ones judgment Is bet
tered by experience. When sitting on
the fifty milestone the yane of mans
vision points southwark to the past
and northward to the future with a
minimum of oscillation. Rancorous
thought and splcnetic expression give
way to quieter nerves and calmer view,
and the mellow lighted vista of the
years that have gone soften the heart
of the youth of a half century OF
years"
Here Is something to cheer the hearts
| of Salt Lake symphonyites. We can
| boast an orchestra of at least oo. Bur
| lington, Vermont, now enjoys the dis
| tinction of having its own orchestra.
which gave its first concert few days
| ago. 1t consists of only 30 men, but
| on this point the Free Press says:
| Even at present the orchestra Is
| about the size of Prince Esterhazy's,
which Haydn led, and for which he
composed many of his own modern
| orchestra masterpieces. But our mod
| ern orchestra, of course, had much
| richer tone than that of the old Hun
garian prince. whose wind instruments
| were few and rudlmentary. Last sum-
| mer 20 men from the Boston Symphony
| delighted the cultured audiences at Bar
| Harbor. and were not afraid to play the
later Wagner and Tschaikowsky. While
| our orchestra can scarcely compete
| with these seasoned players, 1t Is one
| half as large again and very promising.
| In fact. 1t is not much smaller than the
one with which Franz Kaltenborn de-
| lighted New Workers for several sum-
mers and compares not unfavorably
| with hose Mr.. Chapman used to bring
| here for the musical festivals.
| The return of Lillian Nordlca to the
| Metropolitan Opera House is an occa-
| sion for special rejoicing In New York.
| Nine. Nordica has reached higher sum-
mits in the musical Alps than any 9TH
| or American singer. and her triumphs
have been truly American-that is, in
| ternational, having been won in French
and Italian opera as we'll as In Ger
man. Like LII Lehman, and Jean
| de Rcszke. she has shown how to COM
blne the charm OF bel canto. of beau
tiful singing, with dramatic express
| sion, When she impersonated Isolde
at Wagner festival in Munich. some
| years ago. James Huncker wrote:
"Nordlca rather startled the natives
by her artistic singing Her Isolde is
familiar assumption to us. but for
| Munich 1t seemed revelation. E.
The enthusiasm was great" This en-
thusiasm was shared by Anton Seidl
who helped her learn the parts of Isolde
and Brunnhilde. and by Coslma Wag-
ner. who wrote to Seidl. under date OF
| June G. 1896: II am glad to hear from
you so many good things about Ma
| dame Nordicn. The hours devoted to
| her studying OF the role OF Elsa are
| among my pleasantest "reminiscences"