The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-25
Director Stephens Announces
Repertory Of Music for Tab
ernacle Singers.
FOUR HUNDRED APPLICANTS
EAGER TO MAKE JOURNEY
George d. Pyper Selected as
Manager of Tour; Arranging
Transportation Details.

The Salt Lake tabernacle choir or
ganzs ton has entered with determination
upon the task OF preparing for its trans
continental concert tour to New York
city, where it, has been engaged TO sing
BY Professor j. j. Mcclellan tabernacle
organist. during the American Land and
Irrigation exposition Of 1911 at Madison
Square Garden, NovciNoer ) 20 L., m
elusive. Professor Evan Stephens, mu-
steal director of the choir, made otflclai
announcement yesterday OF the complete
rcpertory agreed upon and the choir
members have been diligently rehearslnS
their respective parts therein. while the
management is now engaged In compct-
Ing favorable business negotiations
Since the authorities of the Mormon
church have given their sanction 10 the
proposed venture and the competition be-
tween the Ogden choir and the local or
SaniZation has ended II remains only
for those in charge of the business end to
complete satisfactory arrangements TO IN
sure the success OF project that holds
promise Of adding new laurels TO those
already gained by the noted chorus.
The executive committee OF the choir.
composed OF Professor stephens Assist
,nt Director Horace $. Ensign, Professor
J. j. Mcclellan, Benjamin Goddard and
H. H. Peirce. have now completed The
repertory. Announcement thereof was
made yesterday by Professor stephens
will make each programme rich In brill
liancy. lack OF which so often charac-
teriges tho programmes of other choral
orSaEiza lions.
Miscellaneous Programmes.
our programme will be strictly mis-
cellaneous. no complete works to be al
tempted" said Professor Stephens. This
is in harmony with the expressed desire
Of the exposition management. which de-
sires brilliant and popular work in pref
erencc 10 long or1torios.
we will rather aim 10 give good sam
ples OF concert programmes as We OFTEN
give them in the big tabernacle at home,
combining grand opera selections. oratorio
teristic pieces. both religious and pa
triotic.
Each programme will bc limited to
twelve numbers from the repertory We
have agreed upon An encore selection
Offering decided contrasts Will be ready
or each number and will be given when
demanded without. waste OF time, The
5ousa style Of programme Will be more
fehe pattern OF the scheme rather than
the heavier more formal modes.
Inc choir @ members arc arc, working l,n,! IKE tike
han that accomplished at Social hall
Mondaly. Tuesday, Friday and Saturday
Of last week, when both male and fe-
male members were put through rigid re-
hearsals of the irrigation ode.
There are more than 400 applicants
for selection. These have been grouped
into two choruses. numbering more than
700 each. Each singer is being tested
out In solo work, quartette singing and
choral work in choruses ranging from
thirty To Fifty or more members. In work
ing along these lines. by every possible
comparison and combination. We are
gradually selecting the 700 voices that
will represent the organization on IT'S
concert tour and during the exposition.
Instrumentalists Also Go.
1T should be borne in mind that this
number VIII include ten Observation-Disclosures.
Two instrumental solos. two vocal solos
md possibly one string quartette or pipe
organ solo will be interspersed between
Tic choral numbers OF each programme.
We Will try TO make the feature OF the
choir's work the rendition of all num-
oers from memory, without manuscript.
During the recent tour of the Sheffield
chorus each member was burdened with
about twenty-five pounds OF text.
During the engagement at the expo
sition The Ode To Irrigation" for which
music was written by Professor j. j.
Mcclellan and TO which Mrs. Gilbert Nc
Clurg. wife OF the exposition manager
put words: Will be rendered either COM
plete or In part al every session. Parts
OF It may be given during the tour, but
il is too lengthy To render ordinarily on
a mixed programme
AS announced yesterday by Professor
stephens, the programme for each even
Ing during the concert tour will be made
up from the following repertory;
Programmes of Wide Range.
Grand Opera Selectlons-Finale Of sec
ond act of OF Verdis "Ernani;" Easter
fhnrqs from Mascagn,s cayal!eria i
Donizcttrs 'Lucia;'' Wagner's "T.ohen-
grin" wedding march: chorus ana march
from Waegner's ~Tannhauser;" Soldiers,
chorus from Faust: polonaise and
chorus. Life TO the Gar" by Glinka.
and ''GyDsy Sweetheart" from Hcrber: $
Fortune Teller
Observation-Disclosures from "The Mes
siah, by Handel. Gounod's 'Redemptia: -
Rosiuis Stabat Mater" Mendelssohn' s
..s!; Pau and "Eliiah;" epiioguc from
finale to Taylor's. death of Minnehaha' =
c'1,sssa"NiSht song" ''i by asI Stephens. aas:
Twilight, by Protheroe; Moonlight" )"
by Tanning, Daughter Of Error" by
Bishop: "Monss War Song (inale), by
Parry: Invocation to Harmony.' by Ste
pnens: - Christmas Song 0adies). by
Sohn's .'Elijah.'
Home CHARACTERISTIC Pieces and Patri,
@sjs VaIes s0nsaTsan af bsasret We Y hSye THEE Vs
Home" "Dixie Cor male voices). Ste
phens; Temple Dedication" anthem.
ode to Irrigation" by Mcclellan: and
sextette by Fifty Soloists
According to Assistant Director Horace
), Ensign. the rule recently adopted will
obtain namely. 10 bar all members from,
the competition for selection under II or
over 90 years OF age among the men. and
under II or over a. years OF age among
the women. Mr.. Ensign drew particular
attention to one feature OF the repcr-
toire.. the rendition of the popular sex
tettc from Lucia by fifty sooists. as
sisted by The choir in body a feat
never before attempted by so large an
aggregation OF singers.
An advisory committee is being select
ed, II was said. upon which would de-
volye the duties of preparing a list OF
business men who are TO stand as guar
antors against any probable deficit at the
close OF the tour. and also the work oil
carrying on a publicity campaign in the
interests Of Utah. her natural resources
and advantages, In connection with the
toiir.
Another development has beer made
Known through the announcement tina
George u. Pyper OF the Salt Lake thea
ter has been selected by the choir man.
agement and the. presiding bishopric o
The CHURCH TO manage the choirs cast
crn tour.
Arrange Railroad Rates.
According 10 Mr.. Pyper and Mr.. God
dard chairman of the choir committee
the point OF capital concern. Sc far a,
the business end is now concerned is e
secure proper transportation facilities q
rates not probibitive. Both men sal.
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