Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01

WOTh. l. ain sorry 10 say, however, LfdC
a recent letter from an intimate friend
speaks of his deafness as increasing at
an alarming rate.
Mary Hissem de Moss the we'll
known eastern soprano, is to make a
concert tour with Frank La Forge as
her pianist during the spring months.
So great interest attaches to the
American production of the notable
English comic opera success, Tom
Jones'" which Henry W. Savage now
has under ways that the composer. Ed
ward German, has come over from Lon
don to give personal attention to the
music rehearsals of principals, chorus
and orchestra. Mr.. German arrived on
the Lusitania with Robert Courtneidge,
one of the authors of the opera, who
made the production at the Apollo
theater in London. The active partici-
patton of Messrs. German and Court
neidge with Mr.. Savage's regular pro-
duction staff In the American prepara-
tion of Tom Jones" indicates the de-
gree of elaboration that will be de-
voted to the staging of this celebrated
comic opera.
Upon the recommendation of Walter
Damrosch, the New York Symphony
society has engaged the Misses Vir-
ginia and Eugene Sassard as soloists
at the first concert of the coming sub
scription series at the Academy of
Music on November IS. The orchestral
numbers of this opening program will
be entirely by Dvorak, including the
popular symphony From the New
World" but the first appearance in
Philadelphia of the novel duettists will
perhaps be an event in itself. The
Sassard Sisters, as they are becoming
nnnn1Qr1U pn cir dara h Ia |
favor in London and Paris last season,
and Mr.. Darmosch was apparently the
first great conductor to appreciate the
pleasing artistic possibilities of their
unique entertainment, duets for So
prano AMI contralto.
Madame olga samaroff the pianist,
arrived in New York on Tuesday. Oc-
tober &c, on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
zweite, She was met by her manager,
c. A. Ellis of Boston, and found to her
great surprise that the work of her
season began on the 2Sth instead of No
vember as she had expected, for her
first recital, which is to be in Boston, |
was moved forward week in response
to request from the west that Nine. |
Samaroff might be out there in the first
week of this month. Nine. Samaroff
was the picture of health and an
nounced that she had not only brought
back some new music but some new
gowns which she thought were rather
nice AS a matter of fact if there is
one thing in the world that Nine. Sama- |
rolf detests it is shopping. with the
resultant dressmaking, and this is the
one great trial of her devoted mother, |
Mrs. Carlos dckenlooper. IF / did
not keep after her all the time" said
Mrs. Hickenlooper after they had
landed, "Olga would never have thing
fit to wear. I never knew a<woman
who cared less for clothes. She likes
pretty things when she has them but
the trouble of getting them bores her
o-that 1t is almost impossible to rouse
her interest in them. She was never
so happy in her life as she was last
summer in Bavaria when she adopted
and wore the costume of the peasant
women and Paris and its dressmakers
We're 500 miles away"
At the Gloucester (England) festival. |
among the soloists were the time hon
ored Plunkett Greene and Ffrangcon
Davies Truly the endurance of the
English people surpasseth all musical
understanding.
Oscar Hunting, new American
baritone, has been engaged by. Mollen-
bauer to sing at the opening concert of
the Handel and Hayden society OF
Boston.
/ understan it is reported in New
York that Nine Nordica is to be mar
ried again. This is her third attempt, |
and we hope she will find 1t all roses
and no thorns Who is the lucky man?
Promised not to tell until later.
Miss Bessie Abott is having great
success in concerts. Buffalo went wild
over her beautiful voice.
Mime. Gadski and Frank La Forge are
giving concerts in the far west. In |
Salt Lake City the Tribune said of Mr.. |
La Forge and his compositions:
Frank La Forge is a sympathetic |
accompanist, and. more, he is a pianist
and composer of great ability. He
played Liszt's Ninth Rhapsodie' with
fine conception and perfect technic, |
and at the conclusion of part II of the
program rendered his own Theme |
Varie,' which has not yet been pub
lfshed and was given for the hrst time /