The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-24
NAMES TO BE PUBLISHED
WITHIN A FEW DAYS
George D. Pyper Has Gone East
to Arrange Dates for
Singers.

continental tour ana appearance :"
Madison Square Garden in New Yorl
city, where it has been engaged q
sing the code to Irrigation, a merl
torious musical work by Professor j
J. Mcclellan. tabernacle orgauist, dur
ing the American Land and Irrigation
exposition, November 3 TO IL, lnclu
ive, Professor Evans Stephens, con
ductor of the choir, has announced tha'
the list of 200 singers who will repre-
sent the organization on Its concert
tour, has been practically selected and
will be ready for publication within a
few days. The choir has entered WITH
determination upon its rehearsais OF
the "Irrigation Ode.' TO which words
were set by Mrs. Gilbert s. McClurgh,
wife Of the exposition manager, and
George D. Pyper of the Salt Lake the
ater, who was selected by the choir
management and the presiding blsn-
opric OF the church to manage the
choir eastern tour, has left for the
east, where he will spend thirty days
arranging FOR the appearance OF the
famous local organization of singers IN
the larger cities of the east.
Last Tuesday the choir met for It's
first combined rehearsal of the lode
at Social hall on State street. Ac'
cording to Professor stephens, active
work will be continued until about the
first OF July, when rchearsals VIII be
discontinued until August. During
that month, however, the work of pre-
pairing the repertorv will be taken up
with energy Rehearsals will be held
almost every evening until the choir
leaves on its big undertaking about
October 90
Members Notified
Professor Stephens said that most OF
those selected TO make the trip had
already been notified either by mail
or telephone and that the names would
he ready for publication within few
days. The first active rehearsal COM
posed of those only VINO have been Sc
tected, Professor Stephens announces,
will be held at Social hall Sunday
evening at sis O'Clock. when the
repertory will be preliminarily tried
out in addition to discussing plans for
the trip.
According to Mr.. Pyper and the ex-
eeutive committee of the CHOIR. con-
ssting OF Conductor Stephens, Profes-
sor j. j. Mcclellan, Benjamin Goddard.
Horace S. Ensign and h. II. Pcirce, 1t
is contemplated that twenty'seven con-
eerts will he given at different cltlcs
during the tour, aside from the New
York appearance. This means that the
choir will visit places of especial IN.
terest from the viewpoint of the church
history.
Probably the first of these spots will
be independence. Mo. where exercises
may be held on the temple site. From
o.. a side trip will be Ia
ken to Kirkland, where historical spots
and scenes Will be visited and appro-
pirate exercises held III connection with
a concert Arrangements are also un-
der way for an opcn-air service and
concert on tho Hin Cumorah and the
adjacent grove where Joseph Smith
claimed 10 have unearthed the plates
from which the Book of Mormon was
written. Mr., Pyper will visit this
spot en- route TO New York to insure
the success Of the venture.
Partial Itinerary.
Although the final itinerary of the |
tour cannot be announced nt
present. Mr. P.yper said just before his
departure that he would stop at such
cities as Cheyenne. Omaha, Des Moines, /
ST. Paul, Minneapolis. Chicago. Topeka, |
Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Boston,
4 albany, Rochester, Scranton. Baltimore, !
Philadelphia and Denver. |
These are the principal cities outside |
Df historical spots where ii is proposed |
to give concerts en- route to and from |
he big exposition.
Mr. Pyper carried with him
veritable cargo Of literature. pamphlets
and pictures. which he intends 10 spread |
broadcast along the proposed route OF |
travel. as a preliminary announcement |
of the choir's tour. The publicity !
bureau of the Commercial club also |
added q substantial supply of data for
\ a.
lion of Utah S wonderful resources and |
natural advantages, so that the trip
Will, in effect. cover double purpose.
While in New York city Mr.. Pyper
will also complete his theatrical book |
ings for the Salt Lake theater for the
next season.
Repertory of Choir.
The reports that the choir had not
yet made up its repertory or group Of
numbers from which To draw up the
TO be carried out at the re-
spectlve concerts is not true, as Pro-
fessor Stephens announced to The Trib-
inc the repertory AS follows:
Grand opera selections-Finalp Of
second act of vcrdi's Ernani''
Easter chorus from Mascagni's IS ''Caval.
leria Rusticana y; sextette and chorus
from Donizetti IS Lncia''; Wagner's
iT1HtuEiiu "tuiiUE lndFCU, PnUTuS
and march from Wagner ''Tann-
Rauser =; Soldiers chorus from
- Faust -; polonaise and chorus, ''Lifc
TO the Gar by Glinka. and "Gypsv !
Sweetheart, - from Herbert s Fortune
Teller
Oratorio-Choruses from "The Mes.
5iah," by Handel; Gouuod Is Ere
iemptia -; Rosini S "Stabat Mater;
Is "St. Paul and
Elijah epilogue from Sullivan 5
q Golden Legend, and the finale to
raylor's "Death of Minuebaha.''
Part songs for ladies and male
,horuses-'- Night Song by Stephens;
Twilight" by Protheroe; "Moon.
light, by Tanning; Daughter of
Error" by Bishop; "Monks's War
Song (male). by Parry; ''Invocation
10 Harmony by Stephens; "a Christ
mas Song" (ladies), by stephens, and
adies trio from Mcndelssohn 3
Elijah, -
Home Characteristic pieces and pa.
,riotic songs" Utah, We Love Thee;