Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-10-08
The Musical w orId
BY Geneyra Johnstone-Bishop

A meeting was held yesterday morning
committee of the symphony orchestra:
Mrs. Judge Chapman, Miss Mira Hershey,
Miss Wilmer, Mrs. Alfred Solano, Mrs.
Koepfi, Mrs. Mossin, Mrs. Botsford, Har-
ley Hamilton, Fred Walters and L. e.
Behymer, to settle the matter of soloists
for the coming season, for suggestions
and symphony work. The concerts will
be held at the Temple auditorium. The
orchestra will be seated on raised seats
this year. according to plan suggested
by Mr.. Hamilton, as the European or
chestras are seated also new stage
scenery setting will be used
The first concert will be given Novem-
Der is, soloist, Mrs. Otie Chew-Becker;
second concert December 10. soloist, Mrs.
Walter Raymond The rest of the SOLO
lists will be announced later; among them,
however. will be Arnold Krauss and
Bruce Gordon Kingsley.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Balfour have Joined the
! San Francisco opera company. II
| A letter received only yesterday from
Paris announces that Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Lott have again changed their plans and
will return to Los Angeles February l.
Miss Bessie Abbott, the American prima
donna, has formed an organization of her
own for the concert field for this season,
presenting master arias from the differ
ent grand operas. Among her artists is
the delightful harpist, Miss Ada Sassoli.
Very seldom do we have better artist
than this young woman, titled "Kubeiik
of the harp" Castellano is the tenor.
He it was who succeeded Caruso in vari-
Gus South American opera houses, and is
favorably compared with him. They are
to travel in the private car Iolanthe
through the courtesy of Mrs. Patrick
Campbell who owns the car I under
stand they will reach Los Angeles late
in March.
Miss May Nuke, the celIist who will
make her first appearance in this coun-
try early next January, has just played
in Queens hail. London, with the Royal
Amateur orchestra, under the immediate
patronage of King Edward, who gra-
ciously led the applause bestowed upon
this gifted artist. 1t was at this con-
cert that well known critic. who was
late arrival, was forced to walt until
her solo was finished before gaining adj
mittance, said: II could have sworn it
was Patti playing"
Playing in Australia with an accom-
PIANIST who rather wanted to test his
strength, Miss Nuke gained the sympa-
thy of the audience. for in response to
tumultuous applause she returned to
play again. Some one in the back of the
hall shouted: play it without the plan
ner!
Not every composer is as lucky as
Louis Lombard. At one time a music
teacher, then the director of conserva-
tory in a Western New York city, he
suddenly blossomed into a millionaire and
went to live in the picturesque Swiss
town of Lugano. There he purchased the
elegant Chateau de Trevano and converts
ed it into a musical center. Like the
Esterhazys of Haydn's time and other
princely personages, he has his private
orchestra and musical performances
whenever he wants them. Instead of go
ing to an opera house he has the opera
house come to him. Not long ago he
wrote an opera called "Errisino1a" to a
libretto by the well-known Luigi Illica.
When it was finished he hired the chorus
and ballet of the Scala in Milan, engaged
Yvonne de Treville and other singers
and had it performed at his chateau be-
| fore an audience of invited guests.
Philip Hale who is really considered
1.-THE critic" of Boston, gays IF The late
lamented Joachim:
AS composer, Joachim had little In
yention, little or no imagination. His
lists His other works are notes, no,es,
notes. He was feeble conductor of
orchestra or chorus-we write from per-
scpal knowledge. He was merely time
beaten not always sure of his beat. never
Ia leader of authority. Beginning his
career as radical, he grew into a
crusted conservative, and he had no
sympathy for List and Wagner and for
the ultra moderns who in turn followed
those men or were influenced in any way
by them. His strong prejudices against
composers who did not follow beaten
paths vitiated his influence as teacher
and as director of music school.
.I have always wondered" says a
humorist, whether music is the result of
long hair or long hair the result of
music" The man of jokes has expressed
in a sentence problem which psychology
lists have not thought unworthy of atten-
ton. The men of metaphysical science
have not concerned themselves with the
length or brevity of the musicians hair.