Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-10
The Musical World
BY Genevra Johnstone-Bishop

Madame Samaroff the pianist, has ad-
vised her manager, c. A. Ellis of Bos-
ton, that she has left the little village in
the Algauer Alps. where she has been
spending the summer, and has been IN
Munich where she has been attending
the special performances of opera at the
Prince Regents theater. She is to spend
a little time in Paris with the dress
makers and will sail for America the lat
ter part of next month Her season
opens in Boston with recital on Mon
day afternoon. October 2S.
The tiftieth annual musical festival of
Maine is scheduled for this week. Di-
rector William r. Chapman of New York
announces as his leading star Calve. The
first night they will give the first part
Of Elgars Dream of Gerontius." This
will be followed by JOB" dramatic
poem, written especially for the occasion
by Frederic s. Converse. Maud Powell
plays, In the second concert, the concerto
in G minor. op .36, Of Max Bruch. with
orchestra They also give "Hora Novis-
sima" (Parker), Mrs. Edith Chapman
Gold, soprano; Evans Campbell. tenor;
Miss Campbell Hussey, contralto, and
Claude Cunningham, basso. Nine. Schu-
mann-H Henk appears in the third ana
Miss Janet Spencer and Calve in the last.
member of Mr.. Conried's opera company
to arrive in New York. She came in last
Saturday on the Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria Nine. Sembrich has spent the
greater part of the summer in Switzer-
land and in the Tyrol.
The Oratorio society of New York city,
under the direction of Frank Damrosch,
will give a new work on December 4,
LA Vita Nuova" cf Dante, set to
music by a new foreign composer, Wulf
Ferrari This is the first time it has ever
been given in this country. 1t is not a
long work and for the second part of the
program Brahms ''Song of Destiny" will
be given 1.-THE Messiah" will have its
usual repetitions at Christmas time-as
| in all cities of the globe-and during
Easter season they will give Bachs ''St.
Matthew (the Passion music.
| A writer to the Leader from Berlin says:
Opera is not cheap in Berlin and seats
are extremely hard to get. The demand
| is so far in excess of the supply that un-
| less one is particularly enterprising a
! seat in the fourth balcony is absolutely
out of the question
The London Telegraph speaking of re-
| markable memories, says: "At 2concert
| given last season iby the London Sym
| phony orchestra, Richter never once
used score: in other words, hes con-
| Quoted the entire concert by heart This
constituted very remarkable feat, es-
pecially when 1t is borne in mind that the
| entire program consisted of Beethoven S
works. But prodiSious as Richter's men,
ory is known to be. it yet cannot COM
pare with that of Won Bulow, one of the
| greatest pianists and conductors of the
| last century. Countless are the stories
of the wonderful feats he would perform
| in this connection, and perhaps one told
by a pupil of his is worth repeating. A
| young composer called ON Won Bulow one
day to get his opinion of pianoforte
| concerto ne had just written. Won Blu
low declared he was too busy to &c
| through 1t at the moment, but that IL he
left the manuscript he would examine II
at his leisure. That evening Won Bulow
was at a party and was asked to play
| Spying his young composer friend sit
| ting In the corner he calmly sat dowr
at the piano>and played the entire man
uscript concerto from memory. The ut
| ter amazement depicted on the features
! of the y0ung composer can be better
| imagined than described
Another new pianist-a world-famous
| artist, the Pacific Coast Musical Review
| says-has joined our musical colony here
ain Los Angeles-bIrs. Elsa Won Grave o.