Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-31
The Musical w World
NTAUD POWELL, the violinist, who
Vu is to appear tomorrow evening at
1YA Ciynncop aud;tori,iuo ae the second
BY Genevra Johnstone-Bishop


NEAUD POWELL, the violinist, who
| iVu is to appear tomorrow evening at
III Simpson auditorium as the second
entertainment in the great philharmonic
course, arrived in California Monday
evening from most successful tourney
of the northwest. Her first experience
was on a late train getting into Chico,
where she appeared under the auspices
| of the Civic league of that city, and the
Chico normal school student body on
Tuesday she was scheduled for an after
noon performance at the Greek theater
at Berkeley, and at night played under
the auspices Of the Stanford student body
at Palo Alto.
Miss Powell is delighted with Cali
fornia, it's great mountains, long
stretches of level country, and its won
derful possibilities She thinks that this
is the greatest domain in the world. and
after travelling over Europe and South
| Africa, Australia and q part of Asia as
an entertainer, for the first time in her
| life she is playing to the people beyond
the great divide, and finds them as cul-
tured and as receptive musically as any
other country she has yet visited. Miss
| Powell played last evening at Fresno
under the auspices of the Tuesday Music
geles this morning on the Owl to enter
upon a gala day of receptions and enter
| tainments.
| The Dominant club will give a lunch
con in her honor at the club house this
afternoon, and afterwards an automobile
ride to Hollywood Is planned. Maud
Powell is of Scotch-Irish descent and her
family are both noted In the annals OF
military and educational history. This
evening at the Hotel Lankershim an
elaborate banquet is to be spread In her
honor, and she and her party are to be
the guests of the Celtic club and OF the
Cambria American club of this city. The
president of the Celtic club is to be toast
master; special program of music, as
we'll as speech making, has been arranged
Over $50 plates will be laid and most In
teresting evening is promised For To-
morrow Miss Powell has arranged num-
ber of visits to important local points un-
der the chaperonage of her friend,
Madame Genevera Johnstone-Bishop;
trip to Hollywood in an automobile, and
luncheon at the Hollywood hotel followed
by an auto ride to the ocean and return
constitute a portion of the itinerary.
On tomorrow evening at Simpson audi
toriIm Miss Powell will appear In the
only recital she gives in Los Angeles.
and will be assisted by Maurice Eisner,
pianist.
On Saturday evening she vii be neard
in concert at Claremont college, under
the auspices of the student body OF the
school. Sunday will be spent with rela-
tiyes in Riverside and on Monday MISS
Powell is a guest of the Amphion club
of San Diego, playing at the Garrick
theater that evening.
This completes Miss Powell's tournee IN
California, with the exception OF the Ioi-
lowing Wednesday evening at Sacra-
mento, and then on eastward TO en-
gagements in Salt Lake, Denver ana
Omaha. Miss Powell plays with the ST
Paul symphony orchestra. the Cnicaso
symphony, the Thomas orchestra, the
pittsburg and Philadelphia orchestra, and
the Boston Symphony this season. she
was the leading artist a. the Worcester
| festival and has just completed tour
| of the northwest which has proven the
most successful Of any artist travelling
| that section of the country this season.
Tn his seventh tour Of America, which
opened in bridgeport, Conn, on Mon,
Icsy evening. October 8, iPaderewsKl
nlayed several works which appeared on
his program for the first time. Most
| important are his own two new com
| positions a sonata in II fiat minor, ana
set of variations and fugue on an or
| iginal theme which has been played In
| New FORK once at piano recital last
winter by Paderewski'e friend and COM
patriot. Sigismund Stojowski. Both Oh
these works were played by the composer
| at his concerts in London and Paris last
| spring and both of them were most
| favorably received. Persons who know
them predict that they will become very
popular with pianists. An important
work which he has added to his reper-
toire is Liszts sonata in b minor, COM
monty known as the Dante sonata.
| Another sonata is Beethoven's in Il fiat,
on. 27, No j. To his list Of works by
! Chopin he has added the Scherzo In y
minor, the Nocturne in f sharp minor,
| op. 10, and the etudes 5 and 10 of op. 10.
He also played Stojowskfs "Chant
| d'Amour'' and Liszt's transcription Of
! Schubert's song "Auf dem Wasser zu
Singer" Paderewski is dueetaoetaoin
| Singen."
new opera, 'Dalibor," by Smetana,
called the national Bohemian opera, is
| 20 be given in Berlin this coming week.
Eugene d'Alberts "Tiefand' forms a
novelty in Berlin for the opera season
there, This opera will be conducted by
TIE composer himself
| The flags of the musical world are at
half mast, this time for Alfred Reise-
nauer, who died quite suddenly at Libau,
Russia, October 3, of heart failure Mr..
Resenauer was pianist of great talent
end man greatly beloved in musical
circles.
Emil Sauer is in Dresden. He will ac-
cept no pupils. only doing concert work.
| Victor Herbert and his orchestra of
fifty musicians will inaugurate their
fourth season of special Sunday even
| ing concerts November ! at the Broad
| way theater in New York.
! Chicago is to have a season of charity
musicales at the Auditorium Annex. The
proceeds are to go to the Ballington
Booths charities.
Louise Homer, the famous contralto,
| has added Two more daughters to the
Homer homo. Mr. and Mrs Homer are