The herald., 1898-03-13
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The best news for the music lover that
has reached Los Angeles for many a moon
Is the announcement that a considerable
number of the famous Damrosch- Ellis
opera company, with the great prima
donna, Melbe. at their head, will start on
q western tour extending to the coast at
the conclusion next week of their engage
ment in Chicago. The personnel of the
leading artists that will accompany Melba
has not yet been made public, but Will
probably Include Gadski, Toronto, Marie
Barna, Ibos, Bispham and Campanari
Marie Barna, who is the daughter OF Judge
Barnard of San Francisco, will certainly
be of the company, as the charming So
prano has lately written to a friend in this
city with an assurance Of her coming
visit. No definite arrangements have yet
been consummated. but Mr.. Modini-
Wood and Manager Wyatt are daily in re-
ceipt Of kilograms from the management
Of the "Melba company" If the negotia-
tions are brought to successful Issue the
celebrated artists will probably be here
about the third week in April.
The Los Angeles Symphony orchestra S
fourth concert, to be given at Music hall
next Tuesday afternoon, promises to be as
interesting and successful as its predeces-
sors. The piece de resistance will be
Haydn's Sixth Symphony in G. more IA
miliarly known as 1.-THE Surprise Sym
phony," the theme of which is known to
every school girl. The full program will
be as follows:
Coronation march, from 1.-THE Prophet
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .....Meyerpeer
Overture, "Anacreon" ............ .Cherubini
First Concerto In E minor. .Rubinstein
Moderate, andante con moto, con moto,
Mr.. Thos w. Wilde.
Sixth Symphony in G (Surprise)... Haydn
Adagio Cantabile: Vivace assai, an
dante. menuetto (allegro Molto), alle-
gro d Motto.
Aria. Hear Ye, Israel" (Ei!jsh)
Miss Annie b. Shepard.
Overture, William TeE" .Rossini
The pupils of Miss Mary L. ODonoghue
(piano) and Miss Jennie Winston (voice)
gave an interesting recital at the Blanch-
ard-Fitzgerald hall yesterday afternoon,
the program being as follows:
Amaryllis ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ....Gnys
Miss Lille Olshausen.
Happy Thoughts '.......:........von Wllm
"Tarantelle' ...........Philipp Scharwenka
Miss Marion Churchill.
20, Swallow Swallow Flying South" .Foote
Miss Elizabeth Jones.
Barcarolle. Xavier Scharwenka |
Miss Olive Lewis.
BarcarOlle .......................... dackn
Miss George Hartzell.
"1n Springtime. Franz
"Nymphs and Shepherds" "...........Purcell
1.-THE Little Dustman' ..............B Brahms
1.-THE Sun Kissed the Glover" ..Johns
Miss Minna Roper.
"Rippling Waters Concert etude)...."
Miss Eva Baur.
La Lisonjera" (the fiatterer). .Chaminade
Miss Elizabeth Shankland.
Norwegian Bridal Procession" ..... .Grieg
Miss Katherine P. Wickens.
"Dear Love, When in Thine Arms. "......
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. CnadWlcK
Miss Ada Pfeiffer.
Mr. and Mrs. T. f. Rowan, jr., who are
both favorites in local musical circles, are
about to leave Los Angeles to settle in
San Diego. Their departure will be sig
nalized by a farewell appearance at the
Blanchard Fitzgerald hall next Tuesday
evening, in which they will be assisted by
the talented pianiste, Mrs. Justin Kay
Toles. Mr.. and Mrs. Rowan. who have
both made very favorable mark on local
music. will be much missed and should
prove a distinct addition to the musical
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has been prepared for Tuesday evenings
piano and song recital.
The annual concert of the Turnverein
Germania Theodore Martens, conductor
will take place on the Goth inst, for which
Miss Daisy Hamlin has been engaged as
soprano soloist. The program will con-
tain several musical novelties.
O O O |
The Bostonians' new opera is evidently
an unmitigated failure and Mr.. Barnabee
will have to shelve his RIP Van Winkle.'
Tuesdays San Francisco papers were unan-
imous in deploring the production. 1.-THE
only way" says Ashton Stevens in the ,
Call, 'in which l can explain the produc-
ton of such piece by the Bostonians is
that Barna bee, the senior proprietor of tho
company, would see and hear himself the
Joe Jefferson of the lyric stage. The opera
could not have gone on without the con-
sent of Barnabee; the principal part was
simply larded for Barnabee; from SIS un-
til 1925 the performance is an avalanche
Of Barnabee in the guise of the young and =,
henpecked Rip. Barnabee sings at least ,
a dozen songs-serious songs, mindi-with !
voice that would crack a safe. And then
here is another hour At him in tlce whis-
ters and emotions of comic opera senility. |
The dogs of the press have always dealt
xindly with Barnabee; on nights when his
years have gripped him hard and made J
his acting and singing next to impossible {
The critics have let it go a good joke, /
because 1t was dear old Barnabee. But ]
when he assails a part like that of last J
hight it is time to call halt and suggest ]
| guardian"
The new opera that Harry B. Smith and
Victor Herbert are writing for Alice Mel
zen and Eugene Cowles is to be called ''The
Fortune Teller" The scene is laid in Hun
gary and the plot deals with the Hun
,arian war of independence, so there will I
,e plenty of chance for Herbert to show :
Is what he knows about Hungarian !
Czardas. Miss Nielsen is to play the gypsy /
ortune teller. \
The RoStnnianS have nra cticallr occant.