The herald., 1895-09-15
KEY AND BOW

In comparison with what has gone be-
fore. there has been q marked gain in the
musical season Just past in Los Angeles,
which is as hopeful for the future as it is
gratifying for the present. There never
were So many Itiss. hara hefnra In ST win
ter who could and did have only high
class music on their programmes. That
they we're encouraged to remain through
the summer shows chat the appreciation
and patronage of first-olass music is i'm
proving, and the fact that they will be
here through the coming season is an in
centive to the community to further en-
courage them to remain all the time.
Several months last winter there was
concert Of some kind almost every night
snd wEile many were not what could be
Jermed the highest art, either in arrange
,nent or performance. yet the strong mu-
foal feeling was made evident by the
Urge audiences-a feeling that only needs
to be rightly cultivated and catered to
for gradual evolution from satisfaction
with mediocrity and the common place to
demand for the best vocally and instru-
mentally, in solo work and in ensemble
music.
There were song recitals and piano rec
itals galore by the pupils of the various
teachers in all lines. Some of these reci.
tails were in series, given one each month,
and the audiences we're always large then
there were song and piano recitals by ar
lists the professional teachers them
selves assisted by brother aud sister art.
lists. There was ensemble chamber mu-
sic by the best artists in their several
lines, and last but not least, there was
Ysaye.
With the Flller-Blair trio and the
Krauss string quartette; with Arnold
krauss,J. Bond Francisco, Edwin Clarke
Miss II. Treller. Herr Thilo Becker Miss
Fuller. Miss Berger, Mr.. Piutti and Mrs.
Masac. Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Kempton, Mrs.
Hamilton, Mrs. Berry and Mrs Auld-
Thomas, Misses Winston, Davis, Metcalf
Kimball, the Rubos and q number of
other teachers and performers, all of
whom do grand, conscientious and often
times brilliant work, offer good pro
grammes and show good method there
would seer: to be enough material of
the right kind to insure that the ground
gained musically last winter was ubstan-
TALLY laid, and it is certainly not going
to be allowed to be lost by either the art
lists or the community.
Besides the soluists and the more seri-
Gus musical movement, there are the va
rious military bands that are rapidly
crawling up to the front rank. There is
the Catalina Island Marine band. As
soon as the season is over Mr.. Jones, the
leader. will bring his men here for win
ter quarters and engagements, and there
isn't bald of its size OH the coast that
Is its equal. Then the Blanchard Fitzger-
aid Military band Is running the Cat
alma band close second. and the old
standby, the Douglass Military band.
Of string orchestras there is Arnold
Krauss', which played the Dorak oantata
July 4th and has since been at Redondo:
A. LowinsKy's orchestra, which all the
dancing people in the town know. There
is Romandy in charge of the Los Angeles
theater orchestra, which shows a marked
improvement, as does that at the Orphe.
um. With the ground so thoroughly and
well covered In the various departments,
and also we'll covered in others that can
not BIZ mentioned in this brief resume,
the prospects certainly seem to be good
for genuine and all-around impetus in
all kinds of musician impetus that will
certainly not be retarded by the latest
scheme, which. being IN the hands of
those lndefatigable workers. Messrs.
Blanchard and Fitzgerald, seems reason
ably hopeful for success. both artistically
and financially. This latest scheme is a
series OF six philharmonic contests, to be
given fortnightly. beginning right after
the holidays. The orchestra will be made
up OF about sixty artists. and there are
90 many more good artists in the various
departments here now that there is every
reason to believe it can be done. 1t will