Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
The Musical w orld
BY Genevrn Johnstone-Bishop

"HE Gamut club will give a fine pro-
gram tonight at the club building,
"A entirely by the members of the cluk
The following Is their program:
PART
Welte. Mignon panoT(a) Norwegian Bridal
Procession" (Grieg), (b) Grand Polonaise. op.
% Chopin. played by Raoul Pugno.
Songs Charles Bowes.
Lightning Fun Makers" Williams and
Gregg.
Senate in G-minor, op. 10 tsjogen), A. Low
insky and Wm E. strobridge.
Welte. Mignon piano-(a) ''Impromptu' in
B-flat, op 142 (SchuberD; Cb) ''Tannhauser"
overture (Wagner-L Ltszt.
The Negro Preacher l.. j. Selby.
The Shrine quartet. Messrs. Gregg, Walker.
Chick, McComas.
'The Battle of the Ghosts" Walter Funny
Skeele.
Talk, Jud r Rush
Impersonation. mile. Calve-rine." Johann
Haze Zinck.
A new contralto has come to Los An
geles to make this city her home, Mrs. j.
Frank Curns, from Wichita, Kas. Mrs.
Curns is pupil of Mrs. Ogden Crane Of
New York.
Miss Joanna Frances Kinsinger, the
well known harpist, will play at the In
dependent Church of Christ next Sun
day morning
Miss Bessie Bartlett will begin her con-
cert tour in February.
The Dominant club has it's usual tea
on Saturday. January A. at the residence
of Miss Eva Pike, 22s9 West Sixteenth
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lott sail on the
Majestic February A for home, reaching
Los Angeles Some time in March.
Enrico Tramonti. the great Italian
harpist is the soloist with the Thomas
orchestra this coming week in Chicago
The advance cash sale of "The Merry
Widow" company now playing at the
New Amsterdam theater in New York,
reached $90,S4S75 last Saturday night. So
says the Courier, and practically every
seat in that enormous playhouse sold
for the next six weeks
Courier says: Miss Mary Garden need
not worry herself about any part of
America outside of New York. She could
not get any approval because her method
could not appeal successfully; 1t is not
musical"
In January Siegfried Wagner's new
opera, "Sternepgebot," will be given at
the Hamburg opera.
From Brussels comes the news that Van
| Dyke, the great tenor has been promoted
to the rank of officer in the Order of
Leopold, and that Mr.. Gervaert, director
of the Brussels conservatory, has been
created a baron by the king.
Ysaye appeared with the Queens Hall
Symphony orchestra December 20, receiv-
ing an ovation.
A New Haven fiasco for Paderewski:
The great artist arrived but the audience
was not large enough to suit his lord
ship, and he took the first train back to
New York. He would not play to the
500 people who braved a severe storm to
hear him. This may be called eccentric
ity of genius'?
Fanny Jones Thomas, well known
choir singer and wife of John Rogers
Thomas, composer of many well known
ballads, died at her New York home last
week. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas were for
merly from Wales
May Mukle, the English 'cellist will
arrive in this country January l. ready for
| her concert tour OF the eastern states.
The third event of the great philhar-
monic course is a musical event Of great
interest, not only 10 the teachers and
musical students, but to the general pub
lie as well. The coming of the singer
who is considered Americas greatest
basso, Herbert Witherspoon, and whom
Mr.. Behymer considers to be one of the
strongest cards. musically, that he has
brought to Los Angeles in the last five
| seasons.
There is no musical center in the east
in which Herbert Wltherspoon sings that
| will not assure him OF a large and cul-
tured audience who recognizes the SUI
periority of this great basso and his
splendid work. There may be those
singers with more beautiful and more
extensive range of voice. but for artistic
perfection, and ability to sing a story
J and depict drama. WItherspoon stands