The San Francisco call., 1904-09-02

The public jinks" of the Bohemian
Club. given yesterday afternoon at the
Tivoli, justified itself from every stand
point-social, financial and artistic. The
affair was the first of its kind. Until
yesterday the baby Bayreuth up in the
redwoods had hung on to it's music
dramas as jealousy as Mamma Wag
ner to ''Parsifal." Last year a stray
strain or so-from DIR. Stewards
"Montezuma"-ao into hereto ears
by way of Scheels symphony concerts,
but until then and since the silence has
been absolute. But that was the
wedges thin end. The public asked for
more. Yesterdays concert was the re-
suit Where the innovations will end
it is impossible to foresee. Possibly
in yearly public pilgrimages to Bohe-
mian Grove. However, an annual jinks
of yesterdays kind seems a foregone
conclusion.
OF course, the women made the day
their own. Belled, booked and candled
out of even the sacred fringes of the
grove, of course we went yesterday
And, by the way, we were not the first
ladies to attend a Bohemian jinks-by
invitation. Mr.. Hotaling, the reader of
the afternoon, made an astounding con-
fession. For the first time the eternal
feminine this year, after thirty years of
exclusion, took part in the jinks. True,
they-there were two of them-were
but tiny things, the daughter of the
wood keeper and her playmate-but
still ladies. And not Mr.. Hotalings
most Brutus-like eloquence met with
the applause this statement won him,
ine-tenths of the audience were
women, however, and very charming,
] set out to say. the house looked there
fore. There is no theater in town that
dresses up" more prettily than the
Tivoli.
The programme of the afternoon con-
sisted of the club music dramas of the
last three years, beginning with DR..
H. J. Stewards "Montezuma," followed
by w. H McCoy's 1.-The Hamadryads, :"
of this year, and j. d. Redding's 1.-The
Man in the Forest 1902. In each case
the COMPOSITIONS We're preluded by
reading of the story and a slight ex-
position of it's musical treatment by
Richard Hotaling, to whom both COM
posers and audience owe much. A
good many actors might usefully go to
school to Mr.. Hotaling, who uses a
resonant and melodious voice with ad-
mirable intelligence and clearness.
BY much the most important work
on the programme was THE Hama
dryads" of w. J. Mccoy.
It's dramatic subject, is an allegory
of the preservation of the redwoods.
the text by Will Irwin. Mr.. Mccoy
himself conducted, five numbers of the
music drama being given. Perhaps
my feeling in the matter is best ex-
pressed by what the man behind me
said: Il did not know Mccoy had it in
him." 1 did not know. Indeed, doubt
if anything better, or as good, as Mr..
McCoy's first two movements has been
turned out in California. Melodic fa-
cility, harmonic inventiveness, the dra-
matte quality, the sustained quality, a
delightful skill in orchestration, are all
Mr.. McCoy's in happiest measure. The
prelude is a charming specimen of de-
scriptive writing, fertile in fancy, we'll
knit, admirably msssed. Perhaps even
better is the Dance of the Young
Hamadryads, in the much more cir
cumscribed field of scherz0 expression.
The Mccoy themes are here thoroughly
original, full of humor and character.
The number was delightfully."- played.