Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

above the mournful sobs of his loved
ones surrounding his bed. Among the
most noted paintings with musical set
tings are Paris and Helen" by David;
Rembrandt's Singing Boy (typical Is
this of the great master of the Dutch
SCHOOL,, Van Dyck's "Wife and Cello,
which hangs in the Munich gallery;
Giorgione's beautiful shepherd with a
Flute" Terborch's "The Guitar Les
son." which hangs in the art institute
of Chicago; Reuben's King David
Playing the Harp" Accompanying the
Egyptian religious rites and ceremon-
ials the harp was given an important
part, and in the time of King David
this instrument was at the summit of
it's glory. Singing was also an accom-
plishment of David's, and in the pslams
he composed and sang Hebrew poetry
reached its height. Three thousand
years have passed, yet even today they
stand unequaled. This picture shows
us David in his old age, and 1t is re-
markable for its sympathetic and spir-
itual quality Then the "Sappho," by
Alma Tadema, coloring wonderful;
even the violets in her black hair con-
trast delightfully."- with the white mar
BILE of the exedra and the dark green
olive trees in the back. The painting
is dignified and striking of this
Female Homer" as she was called. 1t
is owned by William Walters in Bal
timore.
Earth covers naught save Sappho's
dust and name,
But her wise song enjoys immortal
fame"
Burne- Jones' lie Chant d'Amour'' is
fine example of the modern pastoral
art. Artists of the last quarter CEN
tury show a tendency to revert to
decidedly pastoral style. Hamman al
SO gives us a familiar painting of our
beloved Handel and George l." but
the Child Handel by Dicksee is the
one that touches our hearts. When he
is discovered by the family way up
among the cobwebs on nights both hot
and cold, moonlit or dark. playing on
his little spinet. The father is holding
lantern up before the child's face in
utter astonishment, he having forbid
den the child to touch any musical In
strument they were dispatched to the
attic. His father wished to make
lawyer of him: This was the blessed
Handel who gave us the great oratorio,'
THE Messiah"
"And the harmonious mind
Poured itself forth in all prophetic
song,
And music lifted up the listening spirit
Until it walked, exempt from mortal
care,
Godlike, DER the clear pillows of sweet
sound"
The next article on "Art and Music"
will appear in next Sundays Herald,
being "The Wonderful Paintin of st.
Cecilia" the patron saint of music and
virgin martyr.
The death of Frau Mfelke, the noted
Wagnerian soprano, in Berlin will be
loss to the musical world. She was to
have been one of the soloists at Bay
renth this coming summer.
s.
An exclusive dispatch from New
York says Caruso's voice shows de-
cded effects of wear and tear es-
pecially in the middle register" Here
is where it first appears, usually from
forcing the voice.
Orpheus club will give a concert to-
morrow night at Simpson auditorium.
s.
Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.
The date of his first is thought to be
1799 although it is rather uncertain
says Upton, when the first one was
written, but his writing of the nine
symphonies extends over a period of
about twenty-four years, 1899 to 1928
To the composition of these great SYM
phonies Beethoven brought unusual
knowledge of harmony and orchestral
effects, inexhaustible fancy and the
highest pitch of human sentiment and
poetical purpose, and now the Boston
transcript says:
"EIeven dances by Beethoven. hither-
to unknown, have been unearthed by
some enterprising inves stigator in Leip-
sic And now we are threatened with
publication and performance of them.
Shades of the great, preserve us!
If these eleven dances are unknown,
probably they deserve to be. The
deadliest enemies of the Olympians are
their devotees. Beethoven was not the
only man of genius who said things he
would have liked to take back. Fan
shave" never gave Hawthorne much
retrospective pleasure; Shelley was all
his life going about contradicting him
self In his later years there is good
reason to believe that Wagner sim
cerely repented parts of "Tannhauser"
at any rate he stopped his ears and
ran one day in Venice, when 1t was
being rather well played New songs
of Schubert have been exhumed from
time to time, but they somehow fail
to arrive The monuments of these
men have long ago been completed,
and even a wreath of laurel resting on
figure of marble soon looks paltry
unless it was carved there by the
sculptor's chisel. Scholarship may be
deadly for politics, but research is
worse for art"
Selections from the oratorio Ell
will be given tonight at the First
United Presbyterian church, Ninth and
Figueroa. Mrs. Maude Nicolas Lyon
has the direction of the choir. other
members are Mrs. Fonda, DR.. Chester
Lee Magee and Werner Campbell. Theo-
dore J. Irwin is the organist
The new Shriner's temple, 631 West
Jefferson street is destined to become
temple of song, owing to its splen-
did acoustics and large seating capa-
city. The Apollo club will give it's first
oratorio there December ~.
Carl Goldmark is 76 years old.
Franz v. vessey, the boy prodigy
violinist, is giving concerts in Vienna.
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Josephine Jacoby, the New York
contralti, is engaged for this season at
the Metropolitan.