Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-05

CHICAGO, Aug. 3t--[Edtor Herald
/ suppose you will think [ have beer
sidetracked I'm the east owing to m,
long absence. It is not the fact.
have been trying to put Los Angelo,
on the big music map Of the country
/ found 1t was absolutely necessary
for me to come east II we expected
any big music events this year. Some
how the big managers thought will
San Francisco off the map 1t would bt
a losing game on the coast and so
tried a personal visit to get thing,
moving. 1t took big guarantees II
some instances. but by hard work
ran UP a very fair list Of musical goods
including:
Madame Schumann- Heink.
Rosenthal (Moriz), the pianist.
Elsa Ruegger, 'cellist.
Ellen Beach Yaw, FOR a return datt
In October.
Lherenne, the Russian pianist.
Anton Hekking 'cellist
Madame Samaroff, the grea test of al
women pianists.
The Olive Mead quartet, chamber
music people.
Ysaye, the Belgian violinist.
Otie Chew, violin.
Peie Storck, in sonata concerts.
Gogorza, the celebrated baritone
who supported Emma Eames last sea
son.
Caesar Thompson, violinist.
The Great Grace Methodist church
choir of Chicago in a festival of ora
torio.
our own well known Los Angeles
Symphony Orchestra, under Mr.. HAM
ilton, for six concerts with good soloists
Then have a great artist, Mile. Park
ina, lyric soprano, heralded by Madame
Melba as the only legitimate successor
of the Melba voice-a singer who is
now, in her fifth year as a star in
graHH opera at Covent Garden, London.
She was selected last season as one of
the star cast to sing in La Boheme,'
when it was given in London for the
royal family and King Edward, with
King Alfonso and his retinue as honor
ed guests. Melba sang Mimi. Comso,
Rudolf and Portana, Musette. They
say she is the greatest lyric so-
prano of the day She is the only
lady vocalist engaged as so1oist at the
great Worcester music festival, and
will be one of the soloists with ' the
Boston Symphony Orchestra She is a
hummer and only 2S years old-has
studied, however, with Melba and
Marchesi.
Then have Gabrilowtoch. the plano
king, and Madame Nordica for five
concerts. A great season, I think for
Southern California. as have many of
these people for California, Arizona
and New Mexico towns. Had to do 1t
to get them to come to the coast. We
are overrated as a musical city, how
ever, as we do not take music seriously.
H.-.g Il L., aIrtx
history, building railroads, street car
tracks and laying out town lots. We
give huge houses to Meba, Eames and
Paderewski. and overlook such ster-
ling artists as Bauer, Krissler, Pugno-
Gabritowtoch, the Kneisel quartet
the Dolmetches, who are a, power in
European music centers, and stay
away from Hekking, Ruegger, Lher-
enne, Hartmann and Samaroff, simply
because their names are not household
words like Calve and Bernhard
l am afraid the Los Angeles public
do not appreciate the carefully edited
music and dramatic page of the Sum
day Herald. But gradually we are
getting there and each years helps out.
| find a great many cities twice the
size of Los Angeles trying to initiate
us in getting symphony orchestra or
a choral society together and they use
us as sample to 60 by. Buffalo peo-
pie had me put in lot of time ex-
planning our methods-and they will
win out 1 tell you-music and an en-
dowed theater are going to have their
innings soon. Chicago has taken up
the endowed theater idea and some
forty of the principal business men are
now supporting new theater move
ment which opens October Is, with its
own resident stock company to produce
American plays, by American play
wrights, in a proper manner and 1t Is
going to go. Watch the movement.
The greatest SHOW on earth" in the
east this season was not the Barnum
and Bailey. but Frank Wiggins and his
bungalow at Atlantic City. Never has
Los Angeles been so well advertised
before even at the great expositions
1t was not the great steel pier, or the
great song feasts, or Sousa' s band that
attracted the greatest attention, but
Frank Virgins, his smile and Los An
geles products. And so / say keep up
the good work and soon Los Angeles
its people, it's culture, will put it
so indelibly In the lambs book of
life that you can't miss the Los An
geles mage.