--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Stephens, Evan collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 4 published: 1917-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Evan Stephens, \"Mother: Junior Boys' Chorus,\" *Improvement Era* 20, no. 4 (February 1917): 365–367." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2004unse 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: improvementera2004unse start_page: 365 end_page: 367 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2004unse publication_year: 1917 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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Mother: Junior Boys' Chorus i r * H Mother To the Sweet Boy Sopranos of the M. I. A., and in Memory of My Own Beloved Mother. Tenderly. Met. -60. Evan Stephens Junior Boys. "M 1 d I g =S A=P -g|- ^gEg^] 1. When the lit - tie trials come, One way or an - oth - er, 2. If I wandered far a - way — Leave her sad and lone - ly, 3. Nev - er, nev-er, for her sake, Shall I shame or grieve her; Senior Boys. -S - 1 1= 3=: -IR>4-l h— =tz: 1Ef==t :=t:: r -r To our boyhood's life and home, None can soothe like mother. Should I ev - er go a - stray, She'd forgive me on - ly. Nor her counsels kind for-sake, Should I have to leave her. n.T j ^ T . _H_ i fe , C fc&=*-=*=*=* fcfcztz -»i —# — — F^i— — # —• 19 1 — — With intense expression. Solo.(Boy Soprano.) mf feSfe-^E^lJgigii: Oh, the mother of my heart, In her place no oth - er Boys, p i— =i zsr— moth -3=^ SF=1 er! zjtOur own : dear a— = qz ^^=q: Jf5feS=B?: mother, None Men. *^ rvp" — m 2221 g HrFt F F — r 366 IMPROVEMENT ERA ^ta 0— Ev - er could to me im - part comfort Bweei like SB =t could part com - fort sweet like H> — -1* p— *i F_H f— r <22- —^- i r \ c r — cr-^F '« NT— •— -N— -•—#= =»—=!- Fi— .•- Ra=* n - moth er, Love like her's can - not be found, From =r -a — e*£EM3=g •aMoth er, Love, love she can .-<2- F^ F— ffife T cres. -$*- ^§E^E§Se[EE ._n father, friend or broth - er, Though the world I T =3 ±z^i =+3 t«5fez= / no Oth - er, Though we -ifi— 2 / * f rfr ^W-P- &S g frjy-j jg — !—«— — — 9 b> -zsi- -i— — MOTHER 367 Bit. Note. —Though the marked arrangement for this piece is the one preferred, it can well be sung with ladies instead of boys singing the upper parts of the chorus, and thus serve as a conjoint song for Young Men's and Young Ladies' Associations. Either a soprano or a tenor may sing the solo part, but even when thus rendered with mixed voices it will be very effective if a boy soprano who can sing the solo with tenderness and intensity can be found. (And let me here remind you that boys who can sing in the upper register are far more plentiful than generally thought, in even our community, where not much use has been made of high voices of boys; and they are worth searching for.) The strange ending will be very pleasing when you have grown used to it. Do not let the tongue reach up for the roof of the mouth to pronounce the k in the word "like" until you are ready to end the sound and follow with the word "mother." Be careful that the chorus doesn't cover the solo. The accompanist should play only the chorus parts throughout, unless he can also add the solo part without leaving out the harmonies. E. S. One of the crowds at a meeting in the Pike schoolhouse, Elk Co., Pa. Elders Cordon, Frazier and Low in the front.