--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 15 number: 8 published: 1912-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Music and Oratory," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 8 (June 1912): 755.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1508unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1508unse start_page: 755 end_page: 755 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1508unse publication_year: 1912 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Music and Oratory Music and Oratory The Salt Lake Stake Mutual Improvement Musical and Oratorical Contest was held at Barratt Hall on the evenings of April 29 and 30. Prize winners were awarded silver and gold pins with appropriate inscriptions. A special suspended medal was awarded James H. Neilson, winner of the chorister's contest, and each member of the chorus was given an engraved badge. The champions of the stake, and the events in which they won first place, are as follows: Miss Eva Bailey, Nineteenth ward, soprano solo, "May Morning;" Arnold Poulton, Twenty-second ward, baritone solo, "The Gypsy King Am I;" mixed quartet, Twenty-second ward, "Come, Rise With the Lark;" Miss Alice Elder, Fourteenth wand, story telling; ladies' duet, Miss Edith Emery and Miss Bertha Emery, Sixteenth ward; male quartet, Seventeenth ward. Professor Oscar A. Kirkham presided. The judges were A. H. Peabody and C. F. Stayner, music, and Heber C. Richards, A. C. Rees and Sylvester Bradford, literary judges.-