Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-28
The Musical w orld

uay evening. ms pip6i"i" "'' a. ~
lows:
Hearts Delight Gilchrist.
'Menie,'- MacDowell.
I'm Wunderschonen' Monat Maj Ham
mond.
''Hows My Boy?' Homer
Love Is All in All" Frederick Stevenson
Come. Wen Wander Alone in the Moon
light" Cornelius
Lullaby (from ''Joceyn) GODDARD.
"salve Dimora Casta E Pura" FausD,
Gounod.
Der Gartner" ''Elfenlied" 'Morganten,"
"Er lists" "Verboryenheit," "Gebet." Der
IN appari Tutt' Amor ("Martha'D, Flo
tow.
Arioso (canio) from "Paglacci." Leonca-
valo.
Mr.. Miller was in fine voice and was
well received, being obliged to repeat
Hugo VOLTS song "Elfenlied," and others
were encored. Mr.. Miller sang his entire
program from memory. Few artists can
do this. Mr.. Miller excels, especially in
recital work, and his oratorio work Is
also exceptionally good. He stands
today the leading tenor in his line in
Southern California. 1 also have only
the highest praises for his accompanist,
Miss Goodwin.
The Lyric club will give it's first con-
cert December 6, Mr.. Ponlin, conductor.
At the Elks' memorial services next
Sunday afternoon James Chick, Roland
Paul, John Douglass Walker and Frank
Collier will sing, with William Edison
Strooridge at the organ.
Charles Farwell Edison will give some
interesting programs of song and read
ing, Shakespearean songs, songs of life,
reading of 1.-The Raven" and "Hia-
watha." Mr.. Edison is a pupil of Frank
Baird and l.. CASTOR Gottschalk of Chi
cago, but a native of San Francisco.
| Paderewski is selling his autographs.
| All the money received in this way is
turned over to his wife, who sets it aside
for fund to erect in Warsaw mon
ument to the memory of the greatest of
all musical Poles, Chopin
The fate of the beautiful Auditorium,
the pride and joy of musical and patri-
otic Chicago, is again in doubt. The
vaudeville war has resulted in Klaw and
Erlander withdrawing from the field, and
the Auditorium will probably be tenant
less after a few weeks. The names of
Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Gluck, Rossini,
Wagner, written in bold lettering each
side of the proscenium arch, will no
longer be associated with flying monkeys
fighting dogs and whistling coons. These,
while thoroughly in keeping with the
spirit of present day vaudeville, seem
sacrilegious in the magnificent building,
dedicated to the greatest in art, and es-
pecially since it is used as church each
Sunday morning by that eminent divine,
Dr. GunSauluS, and his enthusiastic
helper. Daniel Protheroe. The limit of
vaudeville has about been reached when
the continuous performance of day
begins with the noted churchman and
!. .,,tk k1.A Nl.N te,
scarcely possible that such a condition
could exist in any other place rin thv,
world. Verify, Chicago is a marvellous
city of extremes.
An interesting experiment will be made
by Walter Damrosch at Sunday after
noon concert of the New York SYM
phony society in the near future. He has
long felt that the Wagner theory of
an invisible orchestra and conductor for
operas could be applied with equal sue
cess to concerts, as the mechanism which
the conductor must employ in obtaining
his effects from the orchestra, as also the
movements of the musicians in perform
ing on their respective instruments, need
not be visible to the audience as they
contribute nothing to the musical enjoy
ment, which, after all, can only be OBJ
tanned through the sense of hearing. 1t
is true that a fictitious interest in the
personality of conductors has been devel-
oped in concert audiences by such eX-
ternals as the conductors appearance,
the grace or violence of his motions while
directing, the length of his hair or the
pallor of his countenance, that he uses
a baton eight inches long or none at all,
and so on. 1t is also true that to many
the movements of the conductor may
furnish a certain interpretative key to
the music; but it remains to be seen
how much of this is real and how much
purely imaginary.
The experiment of an invisible orches-
ira and conductor will be tried in the
near future, and a full discussion of the
pros and cons will be invited.
Carl Busch the conductor of the Kan
sas City Philharmonic society, who has
been seriously ill., has sufficiently recov-
cred to resume rehearsals.
Friday night at the Manhattan, there
was an enormous audience to witness the
first performance of Les Contes dHoff
mann," an opera in larger form by Often
bach
The music is irresstibly attractive, in
fact, it is real flow of melody, the more
welcome in these days of musical prob
lens because of it's restful tunefulness.
1t is never banal, never commonplace,
and always absolutely fits the action.
Briefly. the story deals with the young
poet, Hoffman,. whose love stories are
told in three acts. His first love proves
to be an automatic DOLL the second
cajoles him so that he shall kill the
man who stands between her and the
man she really loves. and she floats away
in a gondola with this other lover at the
moment when he would claim her. The
third is young girl who is marked for
death. and who dies, the victim of the
'black arty or of consumption. as the
audience chooses to interpret.
cause it is all very subtle and needs
high art to keep it where it belongs in
stead of allowing it to drop to lower
plane.