Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-20
X ARLEroN HAcKErT Of Chicago

ton in his soul and normal. healthy
mean that every one can be a sembricn
or Campanari; but every one can learn
to use his voice so that he can express the
meaning of music In such a way as to
give pleasure to his hearers. The ques-
tion of the amount OF voice he has by
nature is quite immaterial The vital
point is that he shall have musical feel
ing, sensitiveness to musical expressions
and the keen desire to express what he
has within him. If he have the musical
feeling, he can learn enough of the laws
Of tone production to give expression to
his emotions by singing; and we call
singing only that which gives pleasure.
which expresses beautiful thoughts In an
adequate manner"
Well, Ivo heard people try to express
something by their emotions In trying to
sing" but 1t certainly gave no pleasure
either to their teacher or the audience.
Voices are not manufactured, and / know
any number of people who absolutely have
no voice at all for singing-and cannot
even speak correctly. Why not give them
first of all lessons in the use of the speak
ing voice? And then the question is will
that individual ever learn the laws or
method of vocal use so that the voice
will increase in beauty, richness, quality
and power. Give me pupil with brains,
application and a fair voice, and nine
times out of ten that pupil will succeed,
where one with a wonderful voice, no In
tellgence, no willingness to work, no
artistic temperament, will meet with
failure sooner of later
LA Boheme'' was great matinee sue
cess yesterday, introducing two new solo-
lists in the roles Of Rodolfo and Marcello.
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Her voice is lovely, sweet, beautiful
Italian dramatic soprano-purely an Ital-
ian voice. We missed both Parola and
Arcangeli In their usual roles. The new
tenor, Antonio Balestri, deserves great
credit for singing the part on short notice
and I hear 1t was his first appearances
in the opera. His voice is young like
himself, but true and. aside from little
nervousness and rushing or his tempo in
his solo. he did splendidly. Signor Pacini
is good actor and his voice rich bari-
tone. Signorina Ferrabini was better In
Musetta than 1 have ever seen her-more
dramatic. She was encored after her
solo in the second act All Of the men in
the opera cast have fine voices. Alein-
E.daro and Colline both have fine, rich
voices We are all anxious to see Lom-
bardi in Faust" They had good mat
! lnee house, and I hope the houses viii be
packed next week.
''Traviata" tomorrow night, with su-
perb cast ought to have brilliant au-
dience.
Success to such an altogether satisfac-
tory opera company here and every place
they go!
Dominant Club
The Dominant club will entertain
Madam Gadski at luncheon Monday at
the Friday Morning club. Other honored
guests comprise the board of the Gamut
club Harley Hamilton. Mr. Blanchard,
Mr.. Edison, Mr.. Pemberton and Mr.. Du-
puy, and the president emeritus, Mr.
Wilhartitz, and Mr. Paulin, who will rep
resent the Ellis and Lyric clubs. AS
most of the members OF the Dominant
club have invited guests there will be over
seventy prominent musicians and their
guests to enjoy the presence OF the
charming guest of honor.
Franz Kneisel, conductor of orchestra
at Worcester festival devoted half OF al
afternoons program during the last festi-
val to French writer's, including Debussy'
1.-THE Afternoon of Fawn" and Cna-
brier's brilliant rhapsody, "Espana,'
Peter Tchaikovsky, the great Russian
genius, was a pupil of Rubenstein at the
St>Petersburg conservatory, where he re-
ceived diploma and medal In 1880.
Though Tchaikovsky came at very early
age under the charm Of the italian cali
ena. and has been accused Of being more
Italian than Russian in his methods of
composition, still there Is no composer
who has given a truer expression to the
Russian feeling of unrest and discomfort
of care and melancholy than Tscharkov-
sky. His death In 1893 was great loss
to his own people and the world
Music in the average American town is
in its infancy, and the great awakening
will not come until the musician, without
an exception, is converted to broader
view of his duty to the general cause OF
music.
Roland Paul, the we'll known tenor aud
vocal teacher of Los Angeles. will not go
fo Mexico as soon as he mad anticipated,
owing to a branch office being opened In
los Angeles of the banking firm at Tari-
nico. of which Mr.. Paul will have charge.
He expects, however, to go to Tampico
in the spring and locate there.
1Iammerstein announces that besides
The "Andrea Chenier" of Giordano he will
also produce during the coming season at
the Manhattan opera house siberia, ny
the same composer. Giordano Is an Ital-
ian. one can hardly imagine him writing
ANYTHING as motto IreuO as olperld.
The Kneisel quartet of Boston viii re-
sumo its regular series of chamber con-
certs in Boston .,ecember l and then
make its annual tour of the three east
q. cities, New York, Washington and
Philadelphia. Among the works to be
presented this season are the following:
Mime. Schumann-Heink is using on all
of her recital programs this season an
oneratic aria, Handel's Largo" in its
original form, to be sung to the English
world. "Trust in the Lord" AS 1 said
several weeks ago, few people know the
Largo" was an aria from one Of Ham
dels opSra=.
IN English critic; George Cecil, has
written his views on singers and singing
as fhey are in England in any but com
pIimentary terms, and for an American
contemporary, the Etude. AT least we
take II for granted that the paper in
question requested Mr.. Cecirs opinion
which he has given so freely and with
such wholesale condemnation OF ooth
English singers and singing. One pauses
in wonder at such marvellous audacity
That an English writer should proclaim
that English methods are inferior to