Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-16
MAY MUSICALE.
MAY MUSICALE.
The Great Festival Closed
d, Last Evening.
A FAIR AUDIENCE PRESENT.
Shall This End the Matter, or Shall
the Festival Become
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The HERALD feels constrained to say
that, all things considered, the May mu
steal festival has not received the en-
couragement it deserved at the hands o
so cultivated and public-spirited peo
pie MS Los Angeles boasts justly OF pos
sessing. The object in view in getting
up this festival was an excellent one
Los Angeles ia her climate has one OIL
the essential and rare elements for the
developing Of artistic taste and talent
whether the art be music, paint
ing or song. The noted singer
who have visited this part OF the coun
try all say here ia the very air in which
TO develop the voice. Any one who has
read Dante must remember how, often
in speaking Of Italy. he dwells with rap
lure on her bianco aspetto, clear atmos
phere, and this is said to have inspired
her poets and painters. II art is pos
sibility here, then this element of the
highest well .being of the community
ought to be developed.
AS to the merits of the effort made
here this week, there cannot be two
opinions. Remember it is the initial
effort Of the kind, and it was done
in little bit of a hurry. Then
again, the music selected was of de
cdedly ambitious grade. Ii was in its
severe classicism a great test OF the
musical taste of the people. Bearing
these matters in mind, it cannot be de.
MED that the effort has been success.
With each performance there has been a
very decided improvement all around,
and as the curtain fell last night no
Judge of music could rightly say, and no
lover of the art would say otherwise,
than that Mr.. Gardner especially, and
all the participants generally, merit great
praise for their endeavors.
Conlning ones consideration to the
performances of yesterday, and taking
the COM erted pieces--the overture from
martha, by the orchestra and ten pi-
amos, four hands on each; "The Peas
ants Wedding March" by the chorus OF
some sixty voices, with orchestral ac-
compartment; Mendelssohn's "War
March," by the twenty pianists; Au-
ber's "Die Stumme Won Portici," and
Waldteufels "Toujour Gallant" by the
orchestra; Sullivan's "Say, Watchmanl
What of the Night?" by the chorus,
with orchestral accompaniment; that
exquisite themeso logically and beautiful
ly treated by Mendelssohn, the Wedding
March from Midsummer Nights Dream,
by the ten pianos and full orchestra,
and the grand finale in the Hallelujah
Chorus from Beethoven's Mount OF OIL
ives by the chorus, pianos and orchestra
combined, and the rendition OF this fine
music was, if not all that could be de
sired, certainly more than could have
been expected under all the circum'
stances. These ten pianos played by
forty hands, seven violins, one
yolincello, two double basses,
one trombone, two horns, two
comets, one flute, etc, etc. - some
twenty more instruments on the stage,
aud in the chorus there was added to
this the sixty notes.-the instrumental
ton all around was goed-not pretty
good, but decidedly good. There was
evoked solid mass of sound, and musi-
cal sound too. = Better selections, 50 far
as real merit goes, could not have been
made. The music all through was thor
oughly well interpreted.
Pass from this to performances like the
Heine Quartette, on Friday night, in
those beautiful movements in the An
dante and finale from Beethoven or to
such solos as that on the violin by Mr..
Francisco in De Beriots First Concerto,
or of Miss Heine on the same instru-
ment on Friday, or again OF Mr..
Louis Heine on the Cello in Souvenir de
st. Petersburg, and there are artistic
performances of the sweetest gems in
the art executed with a finish that
would do credit to really an ambitious
grade of musicians. They were thor
oughly artistic in all respects.
Bringing this rather extended notice
to close with the vocalists, and reca-
pitulating them in part, there was Mrs.
Catching in cavatina from The Barber
Of Seville; Mr. Cogswell in Poniastow.
skis Yeoman's Wedding Song; Mrs.
Buckingham in o, Luce di Quest Anima,
Madame Perlet in the "Shadow Song"
from Dinora, Miss Winston in 'tPicce.
rella," Miss Fellows in "Ei Viene Me, "
Madame Mara. Voron in scene and
air from one of Beethoven's compost
tons and again in Gounod's serenade,
"Sing, Smile and Sleep, Mr.. and Mrs,
Tanning in "The Fishers, by Gambussi,
and as recall in Campanas
exquisite duet, maria + Rizzio," Miss
Carter in "Qui La Voice." from l Puri.
tana, and finally Miss Fuller in that
most ambitious effort, the Song of the
Wreck, from the 0beron, and it would
be hard to say too much Of the excel.
lence of the execution and appreciation
shown in the rendition OF list of the
best music extant. Mr.. Cogswell's
singing is known and admired in two
Lemispheres. The ladies' named above,
who are purely amateurs, are hard to
equal. The Misses Carter and Fellows
are possessed of clear, delicate
voices of great sweetness, Mesdames
Catching and buckingham sing far
above any ordinary level OF amateurs.
The Fannings are universally admired in
musical circles for their fine voices.
Madame Maria is known as an excellent
singer and actor in the most ambitious
roles in opera. Madame Perlet in her
most artistic songs last night was capt.
waiting, Her voice is good, her method
excellent and her style that of a most
finished artistic. Miss Fuller, in Ma
terna's famous song from the "Oberon, "
where the wreck, the night on the
mighty deep, the sunrise, the appear
ance of the bird, then OF the sail, the
rescue, the landing, safe on shore
are described, developed natu-
raj organ OF song and a
finished musical development crowned
by most nice appreciation of the phra.
SEES she was interpreting, very rarely
heard. Miss Winston, Mr.. Cogswell,
Miss Fuller, with her great, sonorous
voic., aud Madame Perlet, with an ar.
tislic finish that would do credit to a
Paris conservation, are rarae ares in
terra. The May Musical, is an unex-
pected success. Let it be repeated an.
other year with greater preparation and
more voices, and Los Angeles, always
responsive to merit, will fill the house
for a week.
The performers werei
TWENTY PIANIsTs.
Mesdames A. II. Jennings, f. B.
Stratton, NJ. Chapman, N, Catching
Misses +. C. Tingley, NJ. Shook, J. +.
Smith, N. Desmond, A. M, Bluett, M
Laux, B. Francisco, j. Eager, /. II
Kimball, A. f. Valentine, A. C. Fitch,
A. Il. Myers, F. B. Williams. Messrs,
l.. +. Gottschalk, F. U, Elser, G. A,
Schauss,
ORCHESTRA,
Niolin-Prof. A. S. Stamm, director,
j Bond Francisco, A. Barsby, +. Dohs,
C.. Friese. Bass--N. Miller, r. Ruth
ard. Flute-M. Lenzberg, w, G. Nc
CULLEN, Clarionet--F. U. Elser. French
Horn-Ed. Merritt, f. b. Tanning
Cornct-B Scoville, j. Fischer. from,
bone-M. Strage. Tympani-Mr, Or
thoh. Snare drum--G. Held. Pianists
--Mesdames NJ. Chapman and A. Ii
Jennings, assisted by the Heine Quar-
tette.
CHORUS,
Ladies' IL. Breed, w. f. Beeson, l..
Mayo, j. H. Book, F. MARIA VoHDu,
Lillian Fellows, A, Il. Clarke, W. W,
Buckingham, F. B. Tanning, J. Win.