Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-01

4 Oh his career cdfASe III loofs WtiSu llS Woiil
to Vienna to study the piano under his
countryman. Leschetitski. The obsta-
cles that faced him were tremendous.
He was beginning at the bottom of his
| career at an age when most Virtuo5oS
have succeeded or failed. Excepting
the short time when he taught in the
conservatory of Strassburg, for nearly
four years he iabored in Vienna. The
vast amount of work he did, the hours
he spent daily in scale playing are yet
told of by those who were in Vienna at
! that time But he accomplished the
| almost impossible. When he made his
debut in Vienna in 1887 1t was recog--
nized at once that q new personality
had come into music. Life soon be-
came easier for him. The following
year he made his debut in Berlin and
Paris, but 1t was not until the spring
Of 1890, successful though he had
been, that he came really into his own.
That was when London bowed to the
magic of his playing and the rupIlc
fought to get to his recitals.
| In the fall of 1891 he came to America.
In that first tour he played III concerts.
He returned the following year and
played sixty-seven times in twenty-six
cities He returned again in 1896, In
1900, in 1902, and 1905, and each return
brought increased popularity. In the
summer and fall of 1904 he made his
first trip to Australia and New Zealand,
where he won his accustomed triumphS.
Germany was the sloWest to acknowl-
edge his greatness, but even that con-
servative country now renders homage
to him, and his concerts are the events
cf a season wherever they are given.
| Having to devote so. much time to
concert work, PaderewslSi has not done
| the amount of composing he would
like, but his work, what there is of it.
stamps him as composer of rare
genius He has to his credit two con-
siderable works for piano and orches-
| ira, a number of works for the piano,
songs, and one opera. He is now at
work on a symphony and another opera
| The theme of the latter is the old Hindu
| legend, "Sakuntala," and the book has
teen written by Catulle Vendes.
When not giving concerts Paderewsh
spends most of his time at his delight
full villa In Morgen, Switzerland. In
1901, shortly after the death of his son,
he married Nine. Helene Gorski, a
beautiful and charming Polish woman,
who is his constant companion on his
tours.
s.
To those who have followed the work
of Fritz Kreisler violinist, in both
| America and Europe have found that
of all the fine artists in violin virtuos-
| ity there is really but one man that
stands over and above all of these, and
| that is Fritz Kreisler. No other artist
of the violin school could have played
three consecutive times in Boston and
| to capacity audiences. who in frenzy
almost, insisted on encore after en-
| core until Kreisler was compelled to
| leave the auditorium in an exhausted
condition
KreisIer is the priest of the violin,
and his chosen music. Unlike most
! violinists, Kreisler does not compose,
| or still hides his compositions in his
portfolio, but equally unlike many of
them, he has studied the theory and
the practice Of composition.
| Kreisler first came to America with
Rosenthal twenty years ago, under
very different musical conditions to
those which prevail today. In due
course after the reviewers had given
| him some praise for his work, he went
back to Europe; back to study as he
| had already studied in his native
Vienna, and not merely his instrument
and one school of playing, but the
whole art of the violin and the whole
school of music, and he comes to us
today fresh from European triumphs
and at the head of his chosen profess
sion, and as the public have said, there
| is only one Kreisler.
Such is the artist whom Manager
Behymer introduces to us at Simpson
auditorium on next Friday night, and
1t is only to be regretted that there
is but one Kreisler concert. He will
present the same program as the fare
well program given in Boston.
Sonata, A major, andante, allegro adagio,
allegro &C. f. HandeD.
Sonata, q minor, No. (for violin alonel,
adagio, fuge. scilano, presto u. s. Bach).
Andanto, F major, Padre Martini Q7O6-17S4.
siciliano and Rigaudon, Francois Francoeur
Ce9S-172D.
La Precieuse, Louis Couperin (63o-1665).
Menuet, Nicola Porpora u6se-17e6)
Variations, Giuseppe Tartini Q6s2-1To).
Canzonetta Dvorak).
Caprice (Wi 1iawskD.
Twenty-foursh Caprice (PaganinD.
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Mr.. Hamilton has been introducing
at each concert this season something
new in orchestral music. His splendid
selections secured abroad last year are
row delighting the admiring public and
followers of symphony music The fifth
concert of this season will be given at
the Auditorium on Friday afternoon,
March 6. This program is to be one of
great interest. The great organ will
be used in conjunction with the SYM
phony organization only once this sea-
son. Bruce Gordon Kingsley will pre-
side, rendering HandePs celebrated con-
certo in G minor. with orchestral accom-
paniment. This is a novelty in SYM
phonic work, and proved so eminently
satisfactory last year that the sym
phony management concluded to incor-
Iorate in this seasons service one or
gan concerto.
The remaining numbers on this very
excellent program include the follow
ing:
Trompeton overture. Op. 1O1 (Mendelssohn).
Tone poem, Finlandicia. op. 26. No. Z (sibel-
ius)
Concerto in G minor (HandeD
Sixth symphony in F (Pastorale) allegro bon
troppo ''The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings
on Arriving in the Country; andante motto
moto, "By the Brook; allegro. ''Merrymaking
Of the Country Folk; allegro, Thunder
storm; allegretto. song of the shepherds.
'Glad and Thankful Feelings After the
Storm" (Beethoven).
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