Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
The Musical w orld
Nv Genevra Johnstone-BishO

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H BY Genevra Johnstone-Bishop
VTTHILE the society vaudeville given
wv at the Mason Monday night was
w still the talk of Los Angeles yes
| terday and all performers were hlghly
eulogized Lila Fairchild Mott and her
beautiful Spanish costume was mentioned
most often. Mrs. Mott was easily the
| brightest star in the constellation tnat
shone on the stage. Her beaut1ful voice
and splendid stage presence were tne ao-
miration of all who heard and saw her.
s.
Albert Janpolski, the Russian baritone
who has met with such success IN tne
east. gave a recital in New York last
FRIDAY evening, and give his program,
II Is so thoroughly interesting and IN
sense a model of its kind:
"Ar,oso" Falstaff, 1s1s-1sO1 CverdD.
..De Noir Presentiments," Iphignie en- Tau
ride, 1714-17S7 (Giuck). 900.
Vt "Tvraanic Love- from Susanna" 1885,
| 1853 (HandeD. r,,,..,,,,
| .Verrah" (Brahms).
"Sehnsucht'' (Strauss).
| "Das Lied des Steinkiopfer' (Strauss).
| ..Fruhlingslaube'' (SchuberD.
.swohin. .Das Wandern.'' Mullerlieder
(schubert). -, ..rroer
| Recitative and Aria from the opera Eugen
onegin'' (Tschaikowsky). ..,,-
Ell Uchnem," kalinka ttussia" Ao'A
songs). . ,,,..,
.Floods of Spring (song in the original
| Russian text, (Rachmaninor)'
| mo More CHenscheD.
| "a Complacent Lover" Oh. Parke).
Long Ago" (MacDowelD. .
| "sing Me Song of Lad That Is Gone
"The Old Black Mare" (squire).
| Nine. Gadskfs recital in Chicago NO
vember 10 was a great success. Orcnes-
| ira hall was packed, over one hundred
people being obliged to sit on the stage
The Musical Leader says: Her program,
| arranged with excellent care and regard
for the fitness of the various songs sung,
was made up of the German classics ana
modern English songs. Nine. GadsKl
was not in the best physical condition;
slight cold, together with news just
received of her mothers severe illness,
were circumstances difficult to fight but
| her perfect art atoned Temperament OIL
the highest order, such as is seldom
heard, she possesses and this enables ner
to express any form of emotion. In the
Schubert "Gretchen am Spinnrade' ana
| the Franz "Die Trauernde" she arose
to heights of dramatic effects that are
seldom heard on the concert platform
| The Franz group was composed or
songs which ran the whole gamut of
| emotion, and in notable contrast were
the two last of this composer, Fur
| Musk" and "Im Herbst," which the
singer gave delightfully."-. The English
group was rather ordinary in its make
up with the exception of the La Forge
songs. one of which, "Wie leib ich dich
bab," was one of the best which the
composer has written. The accompanl-
ments which he offered were absolute
perfection and played as they should be
where the accompanst is associated en-
tirely with one artist, without the printed
music
| The Minneapolis symphony orchestra
has been incorporated with capital OF
$3O0 900.
| Hans Won Buelow has this TO say of the
| Knabe piano:
"My renewed and by more use-under
laggravating circumstances, as bad health
| and tiresome travelng-enlarged expert
ence of your pianos this Second and
last transatlantic) season has through
| out confirmed myself in the opinion l
expressed last year, viz: that sound and
| touch of the llrabe pianos are more
sympathetic to my ears and hands than
sound and touch OF any otner pltlnoS III
the United States. AS | met with fire.
ouent opportunities of establishing COM
| parisons between Knabe pianos and in
struments of rivalizing or would rivallz-
ing producers, dare now add that de-
clare them the absolutely best in
| America"
] Tn the competition for the prize of $lOO'
offered by the Chicago Madrigal club for
the best setting of an original poem,
the award was made to DR.. H. j. Stew
art of San Francisco.
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The Oratorio society of Claremont col
lege will give Elijah in January. They
are endeavoring to secure the services
of Herbert Witherspoon. Prof Bacon is
the conductor, and hear the club is one
of the best in Southern California.
Those who have seen Paderewski dem
onstration may have thought the gamut
of excitement run, but those who saw
| and heard at the Hippodrome Sunday
| night know that larger crowds can be
swayed by the whisper of a violin string.
ISubelik was the sensation of the hour,
and far beyond sensation, for he is a
great artist There is no one whose play
ing stands in the same category as
KubeliI's: vet there are those who are
more virile and who have a deeper emo
tional and a greater intellectual message.
But the purity and the wooing quality
of his tone. the wonderful agility Of his