The herald., 1897-03-21

stance, was allowed to play before a
half-filled house. .Ime. Zeisler has an
| international reputation, and, although
SHE may be lacking in that subtle quail
ity konwn as temperament, her tech
nique is almost fiawless and her per-
formanceS are a liberal education to
student and layman alike.
There seems to be a very evident love
of music among the people who make up
the audiences of the innumerable pupils
recftals that follow each other here week
after week, but unless an artist is put
before the public with freak advertising
as Ellen Beach Yau was, the concert
finds scarcely more thar corporals
guard for an audience, and this state
Of things having gone abroad managers
have become wary of Los Angeles, and as
a consequence Nordica and Trebelli have
both come to the coast and gone again
without daring to venture hither.
Whether or not the pupils recital
practice has aught to do with 1t, is III
open question, but it must be admitted
something is radically wrong and the
existing condition of suspended anima-
tion in things that are good musically,
should have serious and general consid-
Grafton, else Carreno and Huberman and
Rosenthal ct ais will likewise shun us,
and we shall settle down into monot-
onous musical mediocrity that Is rs
hopeless as it is detrimental to a COM
munity.
Pauvre Monsieur Guile! Bereft of his
evening dress by a derelict Express
Company, and almost of his reason by
the nightly fasco in the accompani-
ments of his songs. his life at present
Is far from happy. With his eyes rolled
heavenward, and his hands outstretched
palms upward, he asseverates that
"nevaire, nevaire in all his long expe-
rience has he suffered such humiliation"
There may be some excuse for the ex-
press company-there usually is and a
plausible one-but certainly there Is
none whatever for the ragged not to say
tattered condition of the orchestra in
the grand operatic concert tune at the
Orpheum. The tum-te-tum, tum-te
tum that is dignified by the name of
accompaniment in vaudeville songs an
dances, seems to be met adequately by
the members of the Orpheum orchestra,
but when 1t comes to the intricacies of
Rossini, Bellini Verdi, whose arias M.
Guile and his confreres sing, the or
chestra has been all at sea, and 1t is to
be hoped Mr.. Romandy will have his
men better in hard for next weeks pro-
gram,
TO return to NJ. Guile. In these days
OF Wagner and the waning popularity
OF the old Italian school of opera, NJ.
Guile was somewhat perplexed as to
Just how he was to support himself and
the "little wife and family" at home
in the old country. Suddenly in his en-
barrassment came a princely offer from
Gustav Walters. who was willing to pay
for the famous tenor's singing plus a
larger amount for his regulations; it was
accepted, and M. Guile, who Travelled
over two or three continents several
times with Adeline Patti until he was
a star of great magnitude himself finds
a way out of his predicament; he has
become good American citizen, and as
soon as he can sell the home near
Geneva, Switzerland, the little wife and
family will also cross the water and
grow up with the country.
Mr.. Louis c. Stanton of Newton, Mass.
who was professor and director of music
in Carlton college from 1890 to 1894. Is
making a brief visit in Los Angeles and
gave the students Of the Normal school
very valuable talk on How to Listen
to Good Music" Friday afternoon In the
auditorium. Mr. Stanton spoke quite
informally. without notes, and adapted
his vocabulary to his hearers. that Is. he
avoided as far as possible the use Of
technical terms and used illustra tions
that could be readily understood by his
hearers. For instance. in expNGining the
difference between melody and har-
mony. or as the erudite in music express