The herald., 1896-10-18
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Signor Gino Lopez Perera, the mando-
lin virtuoso, will give his first concert in
Los Angeles ON Wednesday next at the
Blanchard Fitzgerald Music hail. Mr..
| Perera's mastery of the mandolin is a
positive revelation, and he gets more
real music from his instrument that we
had believed possible. On Wednesday
evening he will be assisted by Mrs. Min
ME Hance Owens, contralto; Mrs. T..
Masac, pianiste, and Miss Blanch Rog-
ers, accompanist. The concert promises
an artistic treat that no music lover can
afford to miss. The following program
has been prepared:
(a) Valse, A fiat, (b) Berceuse (Chopin),
Mrs. T. Masac. Kuiawiak Sielanka
(WieniawskD, Sig. G. L. Perera. Reci
tative air, Awake Saturnia, from Sc
mete (HandeD, Mrs. Minnie Hance Ow-
ems. Petite Fantasie (Perera), Sig. G.
L. Perera. Second Rhapsodie NiszD,
Mrs. T. Masac. Hungarian dance
(Brahms), Sig. G.. L. Perera Aria No
bill Signor, from Huguenots (Meyer-
beer), Mrs. Owens. Legend (Wieniaw-
skip, Sig. G. L. Perera.
In his Souvenirs of Singer (Souven-
irs dun Chanteur), Duprez tells this
story of his debut at the Paris Opera:
from my personal appearance. little
incident just before the final rehearsal
took away all illusion in that regard.
During an entr'acte de ballet Halevey
and were walking arm in arm about the
theater while some of the dancers were
practicing their steps. One of them,
beautiful f1gurante, stopped suddenly
and looked at us. What's that? she
asked a comrade, indicating me. He's
the new tenor, who replaces Nourritt;
they say he will bring down the house
'Bah!' replied the f1gurante; that toad;
it is not possible. He's too ugly"
The popular American prima donna,
Emma Eames, has just delivered her
self, with refreshing smartnesS, on the
subject of some of the founders of her
country. Having just returned from
Italy to Paris, to get ready for another
trip across the Atlantic, she was sought
by an interviewer, to whom she con-
fided that she had been indulging in COM
plete idleness, neglecting everything and
living without conscience. Having un-
successfully attempted to discover If
the newspaper man was possessed of
such an article, she went on in this
style: "The New England conscience
is too dreadful, and whenever I have
been told the stories of the privations of
the pilgrim fathers, have always said:
had to put up with not only the same
trials and privations. hit with the pill
grim fathers as WE'LL"
Tenors are so rare, says LIE Figaro,
that when we have them we want to
keep them till they are 80 years old The
excellent Duprez, who has just died at
that age, was the joy of his own genera
ton, but he has been the nightmare Of
succeeding generations. Whenever a
new tenor made his debut in Paris, the
amateurs recalled Duprez. the great Du-
PREF! In vain the newcomer toiled and
suffered it was always: "Ah, if you
had heard Duprez in the role!" And with
that phrase, certain poor devils who
should have been encouraged We're en-
tirely crushed. Even the people who had
never in their lives heaU Duprez took
up the phrase, because, they too,
thought it chic and knowing. 1t was
repetition of the old story of the sub
scriber who went into the foyer, saying,
,,Ah. Mario, sir; what voice, what ad-
mirable timbre!"
You have heard him?"
Yes; one evening in a restaurant. He
was ordering tenderloin of SOLE"
1t is pleasure that we all seem to feel
the pleasure of crushing people with the
g lvenirs of their predecessors A man
reaches celebrity; he believes himself
the first in his art. and in a few words
he is annihilated with: "Ah, if you had
heard DupreZ."