Arthur Shepherd ‘ ¢52 LL OF Dr. Shepherd has the best :i dialing oft man. wishes of this city in his forthcoming ‘retire- Today’ S ‘“ouiest. editorial, 2. ceprinted peaseik the Cleveland (Ohio) Press, celebrates a new a ~ ment’ and it hopes for him that musically and is yet. to be. man from these parts who is still quite rot) ae in every other way ‘the best Arthur Shepherd’s name has been a Utah nitely “one of ours.” distinguished c career of milestone in the The Press’ “hail” — it” is 9 99 | synonym. for good music longer than it has been Cleveland’s. The impress he made on distinctly | no “farewell” — reads: | “Por 30 years, the Shepherd has Dr. Fees name , of been synonymous “music in Cleveland. “As composer, asaieterst . with good o Salt Lake City’s musical life during. the thir- teen years he spent as teacher. and conductor here, before his ten years in Boston and the ~ in Cleveconductor ob whe” old war's Army and the thirty now ess of his _. land, remains as strong as the impr Cleveland Orchestra, and music critic of The: : origins remains on the music he writes. ft muPress, he has contributed distinguished neither does his feeling for his home And | ing. stand under great sicianship and “Tt is good to know that after his ‘folie ment as professor of music at Western Re-. serve University this June, he will remain in: Cleveland and will devote even more time to composing. “His works, witeuey Hears. 100, ‘have been played. by: the finest symphonies and string quartets in the world. His ‘Horizons’ place dim. He is no expatriate in spirit,a wherever his career has taken him. In recent letter to one of his old Cleveland Press colleagues, now on the staff of the Deseret _ News, he looks forward. eagerly to next sum- -mer’s visit here, to pay his devotions to his ‘mother, “now 96 years old, ” he said, “and still |-sgome- strong!” He peminded his | friend. also ‘that. he is perhaps captured more real Americana in its 10) the only musical Shepherd. “There are interpretation of our early West | than any ' droves of Shepherds around,” and cites as other major musical composition. . SOS 3 ORS instance that all Utah knows, his brother “He inaugurated the Children’s Concerts : “Bert, a really excellent violinist who inciA new realiza- i_ dentally does a very good job with the vis of the Cleveland Orchestra. tion and love of fine music thus has. been - | dent orchestra at the university.” given to. thousands. “To write good music is one . of the “schanai Quite right. ‘Sometime ss editorial about him. we'll print an