Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-17
SECOND DAYS FESTIVAL is A
DISTINCT SUCCESS
CHORUS DOES GOOD WORK
Noted Conductor sways His Band at
viii, Bringing Out Many Ex-
eeIIent Points In
Training

AT the second evening concert or the
May Musical Festival there was an at
tendance all too small in proportion to
the big attraction-Innes and his band,
several much advertised soloists and
the chorus of 600 voices Perhaps the
oratorio program was not attractive to
the general public, which somehow as
sociates oratorios with Sunday schools.
But although the audience lacked in
numbers there was as much applause
as If a tremendous crowd had pro-
duced 1t.
The soloists, of course, attracted chief
attention after Innes had been duly
praised.
"What a beautiful voice." said the
woman behind. "Yes, and he's so
young" replied her companion. "a
baritone is my favorite," sighed the
third woman dreamily.
F. Archambault Is a rotund young
man with a rotund baritone of quality
and power. His singing of "Dio Pos
sente' from Faust" aroused more
enthusiasm in the audience than any
other number on the program. AL
though his breathing was faulty and
his phrasing incorrect, the beauty of
bis voice overshadowed these deficien
cies and he was called back several
times, finally responding with Faure's
hackneyed song "The Palms."
The audience appeared to be more
interested in the Wagner, Gounod and
al fI,A arot
part than in Mendelssohn's Hymn of
Praise" number of persons leaving,
though the hour was early, before 1t
was over.
Prof. Jahn's well-trained chorus was
handicapped by having to sing from the
rear of the notoriously badly arranged
stage of the auditorium. At first the
voices seemed to fade away in the
flies before they reached the audience
over the instruments between. By
subduing the brasses and by dint of
coaxing more tone from the chorus.
Mr. 1nnes soon smoothed out the in
equality between the two bodies, bring
ing them into perfect unison for the
remainder of the oratoria.
| This work of Mendelssohn's which
has never before been heard in Los
Angeles was given an Interpretation
that left nothing to be desired from the
band and chorus. Especially good was
the adagio religioso of the first move
ment, which was given by the wood
winds and brasses with a subdued
sweetness and organlke volume and
richness. 1t is in these exquisite re-
fnements Of tone that Innes shows his
mastery. He gets results that the
March King" has never shown him
self able to produce. He is less tumul-
tuous than Sousa, but a better artist.
Mrs. Partridge, in a pretty pink
gown, sang her solos rather prettly.
Fritz N. Hutton. the tenor, leaves
much to be desired-almost everything.
His voice is suppressed and throaty
with volume quite insufficient for ora
torio work
The Liszt-Rubinstein program for
this afternoon promises much. There
will, most assuredly be delightful
surprise for the lovers of the classic
who attend. Paul England will
be the baritone soloist and Mrs. Part
ridge the soprano. The program fol-
lows
Part I. Liszt-Second Hungarian
Rhapsody, Polonnaise No. 2, Lies
Preludes' (symphonic poem), First
Hungarian Rhapsody Part II, Rubin
stein-Overture, "Triumphal"; Para
phrase on melody in F, Aria for So
prano ballet music from "Feramors,"
dance of the Bayarderes, torch dance
of the brides of Kaskmire.
For tonight one of the best programs
of the week has been arranged. 1t
is the Wagnerian "Parsifal" night with
Partridge, Huffman, Archambault and
Kryl as soloists, supported by the Los
Angeles May Festival chorus. The
opening half of the program is in the
lighter vein. closing with the second
and third act of "Parsifal."
The program by numbers is as fol-
lows:
Part I-Overture MERRY Wives of
Windsor" (NicolaD; a, "Traumerei"
(Schumanm; b, "Pizzicati. concert
polka (Strauss); Carnival OF Venice"
fantasy for cornet (Arban- -Hartmann.)
Part II-"Parsifal."
Exceptional interest is being taken
in the Friday afternoon Symphonic
program and in the Wagnerfest Fri.
day night,