Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-09
MISS ETHELYN M. HARRISON,
Noted pianist, latest addition to Los
Angeles musical world
The Musical w orld

BY Genevra Johnstone-Bishop


AAA great Berlin teacher, has designated
as one of the coming great pianists of
America, has arrived In Los Angeles and
will make this city her home. She will
be one of the. most valuable additions to
the famous and ever increasing colony of
musicians in Los Angeles.
Miss Harrison is thorough master of
the piano. Practically all of her twenty
three years of life have been devoted to
studying the instrument, and her teachers
have been the best the old and new
worlds afford
Not only will musicians welcome Miss
Harrison and music lovers be delighted TO
hear her in concert and recitals, but her
accomplishments will gain her an enviable
place in Los Angeles society.
She left yesterday for a two days visit
with friends at Long Beach, but will re-
turn Thursday, and for the present will
make her home with the family of
Charles A. Fellows, 14S West Forty-sixth
street
When the opera company arrived yes
terday the census taker threw up his
hands in despair. The Milan opera COM
pany travels EN- famile, and some Of the
families are enormous. Nearly every
member of the chorus has a few little
Italians clinging to- her skirts, and when
they didn't have children they had par
rots or dogs or big boxes of lunch
AS soon as they got off the train yes
terday morning they wanted to see the
Auditorium, where they will open the
grand opera season tonight. They were
welcomed by Manager Sparks M. Berry.
who had eaten a tamale and dish of
maccaroni to give his voice the proper
flavor.
Signor Alessandro Arcangeli is the star
baritone of the cast of the Milan opera
company He will sing in La Tosca."
He is very versatile In his interpreta-
tions, and is said to be admirable both
in the Italian and German operas.
Maria Gonzales. dramatic soprano with
the Milan opera company, makes her first
appearance before Los Angeles audience
tonight in Aida" She is young and
beautiful and is said to have a voice of
wonderful range and quality.
Bernice Holmes the contralto. well
known in Los Angeles, is with the Idora
Park opera company, near San Francisco.
Mackenzie Gordon has opened studio
at the Mosgiel. in San Francisco.
Frank Damrosch thus praises Edwin.
Lockhart, the American basso: yours is
a magnificent voice. Everything is in your
favor. / see no reason why you shouldn't
become the greatest of all oratorio
singers The music world has been wait
ing a long time for a voice like yours"
Edward Lockhart was bornsin California
at San Jose.
A cable to r. E. Johnston, the Ameri
can manager of Jean Gerardy the Bel
gian 'cellist, who is to tour this country,
beginning next November, announces the
coming marriage of the famous young
artist to Baba MacQuade, famous
beauty and heiress of Australia.
Gerardy is just now on an automobile
trip with his beautiful flancee and her
mother Madame MacCave who is the
owner of nearly all the principal play
houses in her native land
Gerardy's American season will begin
with a recital at Mendelssohn hall No
vember 5. Subsequently he will appear
in connection with the Volpe Symphony
orchestra in Carnegie hall November Il,
and with other leading orchestras. Then
he will tour the principal cities of the
United States and Canada.
At the conclusion of his vacation, now
being enjoyed near Paris, Gerardy will be
heard in concerts in Berlin, Stuttgart,
Cologne, Brussels and London. and will
sail for this country, accompanied by his
fair bride, on the Kron Prinz Wilhelm,
arriving October 49,
r. e. Johnston, concert manager Of
Nordica, Gerardy ct al, announces that
Albert Spalding, the young American
violinist, son of ]. Walter Spalding, the
noted athletic Authority, will fill engage
ments In London, Paris, Berlin, Stuttgart.
ST. Petersburg, Brussels and Vienna the
present season. The following season
Q90S-1s09) Spalding will be heard in
seventy-five concerts in America, and this
will be his introduction to American aud
fences, for, curiously enough, though the
young artist is well known abroad, having
scored successes in the Queens hall, Lon
don, and the Nouveau theater. Paris. he
has yet to make his professional debut in
hib native land. There is already con-
siderable anxiety on the part of American
music lovers to see and hear the new
genius of the violin, and general public
interest Is sure to be aroused when
the young mans Accomplishments and
achievements are better known.
A native youth who. as a child, goes
abroad and performs so well as to be
honored by an Italian university. claim
ing him as its most precocious pupil since
Mozart cannot fail to invite serious at
tention in his home country. Spaldine's
American tour will begin Immediately