Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-05

commencement, proved to be
quite pleasing feature There
was campus music morning and after
noon forthe two days, by Held's band;
while the indoors music was furnished
by an orchestra of II pieces under the
direction of Squire Coop, professor of
music at the university. At the ban
o,,et and reception. Prof. Coops or
chestra furnished very acceptable mu-
sic. and u feature of the function was
the singing of the song 80 Son of the
Youth of Utah" words by Kate
Thomas and music by Squire Coop.
The cast for the Sphinx, the new
opera by j. j. Mcclellan and Briant S.
Young, will be made UP next week and
rehearsals of the chorus will begin
within u few days. The opera has been
completed and the music Is In the hands
of the copyist. There are to be II
principal characters and they will be
filled by the best local talent available.
The chorus will contain 40 voices and
there are nine costume changes for the
women and three for the men. There
are three separate scene settings and
the nature of the opera is such that it
lends itself readily to some magnificent
scene work. Special scenery is being
painted for the entire production and
the costumes will also be specially
made Some of the close friends OF
Messrs. Mcclellan and Young. the writ
ers of the opera, have heard parts of 1t
and agree that it Will rank with some
OF the best comic operas today. The
production will open an engagement at
the Colonial theatcr on Friday, Aug. 6,
to run through the entire week of the
G. A. r.. encampment, making in all
nine nights and the usual matinees.
Special patriotic tableauX have been
provided for. and with the elaborate
decorations already planned the demon
stration ought to be inspiring.
The Fifteenth infantry band will
play tomorrow afternoon at o'clock on
the post plaza the program that has
been interferred with by rain for the
last few Sundays The program will
include the "Deseret News March,
composed by Bandmaster Buglione in
honor of this paper.
rhe piano pupils of Miss Matte Hall
will give a piano recital this afternoon
at rs east First North street, assisted
by Miss Edna Evans, soprano. The
participants in the program will in
cude Ralph Stiehl, Ruth Williams,
Katherine Harvey, Etha Mayo, Ethel
Edith Drew, Leah Henderson, Phyllis
sharp. Bessie Anderson. Coedelia
Straup. Martha Henderson, Lucille Hor-
ton, Edyth Till, Hazel Franklin.
A fine concert grand piano has been
sent up to the state university for uso
by the department of music during the
summer school this summer.
Edward p. Iliinball Will leave on the
10th inst. for lie Grande, Or, where he
is to give an organ recital, and then
continue on to Portland for an organ
recital there. Mr. Kimball has been
burning, not merely the midnight, but
the all-night oil of late in writing the
orchestration for the 81 movements of
Miss Margaret Whitneys operetta. He
completed the undertaking yesterday.
Depver is planning for a season of
grand OPERA and proposes to give
"Tnnnhauser." all of the singers being
local, excepting four of the more prin-
cipal ones, and with n chorus of 200
voices under Prof. Henry Housley.
Mr.. Rrines returns today from his
extended eastern trip.
The choir music given in this city,
has gained for it such a reputation that
singers for some distance are being at
tracted in this direction.
A prominent local clergyman asks
the following question which some 9TH
er clergymen may find it difficult to an
swer; Are you able to explain why
the palnlis:s in the early days were re-
ligious radicals and embodied in song
their protest against the conventional
and orthodox. while today, the hymns
OF the church are. most conservative
and orthodox of all the parts of church
literature?"
Local music houses report a fair
business during the week in sale of in
struments, but no special features.
Some June records for the talking ma
chimes are being received, the bulk of
them being scores of a. high order. ,,
organist Cannon will play prior to
tomorrow's service in the First Con-
gregational church. a Larghetto by
Faulkes. and Gaul's Legend. AS an.
offertory, Mr. Cannon will play Schu
mann's Traumerei, and as a finale,
Wely's Postlude.
Held's band of 30 men will play the
following program at p. m. tomorrow
at Liberty park:
''El Captain March" Sousa
Overture, Raymond" Ambrose Thomas
Caprices-
My Pony Boy" ............... Remick
Happy Go Luck" .............. Lampe
Ballet music from Faust. Gounod
Popular medley. RED Mill".. Herbert
@rand march from the Holy Grail
Wagner
Grand selection "Maritana" Wallace
Songs Of the Day" Edwards
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