Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-18
The Musical w orId
by Genevra Johnstone-Blshop

Clarence Eddy, the well known Amer.
lean organist. is to make his home ir
New York city and is now the organist
at the Tompkins Avenue church al
Brooklyn. ~
A new oratorio society is formed in
Washington. D. c., for this season. II
is to give Domination of Faust for
its first concert, Sydney Lloyd Wright
son, conductor. II will also give four
Sunday evening concerts and has en-
gagged Walter Damrosch and his New
York symphony orchestra for all con-
certs.
A song recital will be- given at the
Gamut club September % by Frank Hem
street, baritone. of New York city, ac-
cempanied by c. Arthur Longwell on the
A. b. Chase artistano
A large circle Of friends will be panied
to hear of the sudden death of one OF
the most prominent contralto singers Of
New York city-Tirzah Hamlen- Chapman
IA singer OF exceptional charm, with a
rich voice of unusual range.
A new tenor, Vernon Stiles, pupil of
G. G. Bennett of New York city, has
just signed with Henry Savage as one
of his leading tenors of this season.
Mr.. Savage will send Mr.. Stiles to
Europe next summer to study the tenor
roles in several new operas never pro-
duced in America which MIR. Savage will
give us in 1909 In a personal letter his
teacher, Mr. Bennett, says: Mr.. Stiles
easily sustains a D fiat above high G,
and his voice is wonderfully sympathetic
IN quality"
Emile Frances Bauer. the critic, says:
There is nothing to be said about the
American voice. / think every one APP
precIates what golden quality lies in the
voices of our girls, and If this were
accompanied with seriousness of pur-
pose, patience and perseverance, and.
above ALL the ability to remain out of
the public until the right moment the
American singers would beyond any
doubt soon lead the world"
The friends in Los Angeles of Nine.
Fanny Decentralization will be inter-
ested to read the following from Carls-
bad. where this great artist is resting:
"Luxuriating in my after dinner
cigar in a quiet corner of the
veranda of the Koenigsville, my ears
were pleasantly assailed by the crisp,
staecato notes of Litolffs scherzo. An
artist was at the piano-but who? Time
without end had I heard the Russians
dainty piano conceit. 1 recalled the elfish
of Godowsky, who was very fond
of It. One night in Berlin 1 remember
new horizons of the possibilities of piano
tone were opened for me as the clear,
cool pearly notes rippled from the worries
under the subtle fingers of Lhevinne.
But the tone now heard awakened other
Beneath all the swiftness
and the crispness there was a note of
passion and an occasional accent of ten
derness that came only from woman's
hand I went back in memory over a
decade to a night in the Arion club,
New York. when a dark, slender, oriental
looking woman sat at the piano and held
me spellbound for two hours. Hers was
the most unique piano playing 1 had
ever heard. She played Beethoven, Schu-
mann and Chopin, and every note was
Individual. No doubt to the pedant her
manner would be distracting, but for me
1t held the keenest enjoyment. 1t was
stimulating and soothing. The tempera-
mental range was phenomenal now tiger
ish in an intensity of passion and again
full of the depth and tenderness of moth
er love. 1t was the first time had
caught the real poetic note in the per-
Torrance of an American artist.
1.-THE scherzo had rippled to its close