The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
MUSIC AND
MUSICIANS

Professor j. j. Mcclellan returned
home Tuesray from trip through the
northwest. He dedicated an organ AT
the Washington state college at Pull
man. Here is what the Pullman paper
has to say of his visit there:
The long awaited hns nj last occurred
On last Tuesday evening, before ~,
masters OF the Pipe organ In America.
John j. Mcclellan. or the great MOT
mon tabernacle In Salt Lake CITY. gave
the recital that formally opened the mag :
nIficcnt pipe organ recently Installed N
the auditorium OF the Washington state
college.
This evening marks an epoch in the
history OF the college," declared Presi-
dent L., a. Bryan, in the brief address
with which he opened the exercises o!
the evening. He then explained that tho
organ was really combination OF lour
organs the great organ" located on tho
south side of the auditorium; the swell
organ" and the "chotr organ situated
on the north Side OF the auditorium, ana
The .'pcdai organ" o-called because the
base parts are operated from pcdai
key board beneath the feet OF the per-
former, which connects with pipes up.
on all OF the other three organs as well
a. controls notes peculiar 10 itself
These four organs include twenty-slS
sub-organs or stops sounding over l9oV
pipes. the connection OF which with the
use of between three and four miles or
pneumatic piping.
Mr.. McClcllan's recital consisted OF
seventeen selections, divided into ten
~ llnEer in the memory are the 'Obcroh
Overture of Webbev with its delicious
~ modulated tone mixtures; "Thc Sc
crct." by Gautier, with striking contrasts
I'm tone and touch; Batiste's Com
munion in c." in its quiet medltative
beauty: the old familiar ',Trauemerei
Of Chauvet's March of the Holy. sacra-
ment; Lcmarc's ''Andantino." written to
his wife; the two very difficult classical
numbers, Bachs "Toccata and Fusuc In
Widors y o's;'i sixth a"G Organ @ symphony. both
,narvels of counter-p point construction; ;
and the Concluding number, the "Pil,
Erims' Chorus and swelling "Grano
March from WaEner's "Tannbaeuser,"
Only one change was made In the orig
inal programme, the Introduction OF the
popular "Iumoresque' and 'Rococo
Sercnadc" as a double number handlen
In such q broadly comic spirit as LETT
both the audience and the performer
Sinking with laughter.
il was fascinating 10 watch the tech
nioue OF the great organist. as he PLAYED
manuel now on the upper or swell
manuel and again on the lower or
-"choir manuel" while at times the feet
scurried In rapid scale passage over
the pedal keyboard. To tho recdy oboe
passage was added the sweet. round
notes of the flute. while suddenly
drawn stop would add the peal of the
trumpet notes. or mingle in the voN
humana. with IT'S marvelously deceptive
limitations OF the human voice. Some Of
the passages in the Bach fugue, especial
ly Norc mervels of deXterity.
At the close of the recital Mr. Nc
Clrllan EXPRESSED himself as charmed
with the W. s. &. instrument. "Sou
have fine organ here" he said enthus'-
as,icnily: "au organ 10 he proud OF. The
vnH humana stop is especially fine, as
fine as flat in any organ I know EXCEPT
tho one I'm the giant instrument in the
Salt Lake tabernacle"