Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-11
The Musical World
INHE New York Evening Post says
BY Gcncvra Johnstone-B Blshop

able 10 get so mucn MUSIC, 50 AiuCli
undiluted toy out of the small wooden
box known as the violin? Depth, spir-
itful insight, consummate mastery and
control of . the highest technical
powers"
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In the fifteen symphony programs
that have been played in Boston by
the Boston symphony orchestra this
year DR.. Muck has presented total
number of eighteen works which are
new to Boston, and a majority of
them have had their first hearing in
America. In the next four programs
are seven more novelties and these
twenty-five works have not exhausted
the list prepared for the season, for
in the last concerts one or two inn
portant novelties will be played. The
works new to Boston which DIR. Muck
has placed on his program this year
so far are Vincent d'Indy's "Wallen-
stein Trilogy," Pfitzner's overture to
1.-THE Little Christ Elf" Loeffler's "a
Pagan Poem," Rdznicek's adagio and
scherzo finale from his suite in L
minor; Ernst Boehes symphonic poem
'"Taormina," Humperdinck's overture
1.-THE Forced Marirag ge," D'Ambrosio's s
concerto for violin in B minor, Bossi's
'Intermezzi GoldOniani," Rheinberger's
concerto in F major for organ, three
horns and strings; Franck's symphonic
piece THE Redemption" Bischoff's
symphony in E major, three German
dances by Mozart, Schelling's fantastic
suite for piano and orchestra, Chad
wick's symphonic sketches" Rogers
variations and fugue on merry
theme of J. A. Hitler. Schelderup's
Summer Night on Fjord" and Sun
rise over the Himalayas" and Rimsky
Korsakoff's caprice on Spanish themes.
In the next four concerts he will pre-
sent Dohnanyis concert piece for or
chestra with cello obligato, Converse's
Jeanne dare" dramatic scenes for
orchestra, Hinton's concerto for piano,
Balakireff's symphony in c major,
Halvorsen's "Fossegrimen," suite for
orchestra, and two pieces for orchestra
with viola obligato by Gustav Strube.
The Bischoff symphony and Loeffler's
"A Pagan Poem are both repeated.
s.
The Woman's Lyric club will give
it's second concert March 13 at Simp-
son auditorium. Mr.. Poulin is the
director.
LA Vie de Boheme' Puccini has
been given at the Opera Comique in
Paris one hundred and fifty times,
while the opera Louise" of Charpen-
tier has already neared its three hun
The Knabe interests are being well
looked after in Europe, says the Chi
cago Leader, especially in Russia,
where the American piano firm is
making great headway. The first order
from the Russian agents in st. Peters
burg was for sixty grands.
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The man of the hour musically is
Edward johnson, the young tenor who
is tasting the sweets of brilliant sue
cess, and in a way that not one singer
in a thousand of light opera enjoys.
For Mr.. Johnson's success is from the
purely artistic side and shows that a
fine musician can win honors where
honors are least expected; wrestling
them indeed from old stage favorites
and funmakers who are the attractions
in comic or light opera. Mr.. Johnson
is a Canadian with a voice the peer
of Edward Lloyd at his best and with
the art, study and advanced ideas
which our modern progress demands
and which were never in the possess
sion of the English singer, since he
lived in a different and more conserva-
tive age. When Mr.. johnson was
heard recently in Chicago it was said
then that "he should be in grand
opera-his is voice for the Metro
politan," and it may be that this en-
gagement in New York where he is
singing in THE Waltz Dream" is but
a precursor of what is to follow. Not
yet 26 years of age and with a career
already marked by tremendous sue
cesses all over the country. Edward
Johnson is only on the Threshold; with
a voice of such beauty and a person.
anything to which he cannot aspire
and accomplish.
At last the musical public of Los
Angeles is to be satisfied Fritz Kreis-
Ter, musical genius, has consented to
return to Los Angeles for a special
matinee next Saturday afternoon at
Simpson auditorium.
Fritz Kreisler as the man is an in
teresting, even a striking human fig
ure, with his due share of idiosyncra-
sizes: so doubtless was many a jovial
priest or prelate. Kresler. the violin
ist, however, seems less the man than
the servant of his instrument, and his
music the comprehending. the COM
glorified servant. He has
become their disembodied voice. and
he sways the audience before him by
the command or the caress that is in
it. The power of Kreisler is the power
of the violin itself.
Kreisler has been preparing special
all this season and he is
one to Los Angeles next Sat
urday which is full of interest to
and teachers and laymen as
well. Kreisler has been making care
full research and has unearthed many
highly interesting compositions, and
what he decided to use will appear
in his program when he is heard here
One of these finds was the
ViValdi concerto, which KreiSler PLAYED
in a recent philharmonic concert in
New York, when the critics sang its
praises and as Henry 7. Fink said
in his review of the concert: Several
of the audience, during the intermis-
sion, We're heard humming it's melodies
in the rear Of the hall" 1t was Kreis-
Ter who decided that the little piano
piece by Dvorak, entitled "Humor-
esque" would make a capital violin
and he succeeded in making
it a craze not only among viOlinists
but also among 'cellists. Kreisler's
researches have brought to light COM
positions by Martini, FTancouer. Cou-
perrin. Lanner and others, which have
added considerable to the violin litera-
ture, and to the repertoire of his con-
This is positively his last appearance
in Southern California.
Bruce Gordon Kingsleys lecture re-
cital on Wagners "Parsfal." as pre-
scented at tho Auditorium last evening,
was vcrtable success and was truly
a wonderful performance, for Mr..
Kingsley not only delivered the story of
"Parsifal" in a learned and verv enter
tanning manner, but also played tho
music descriptive of the different word
themes upon the piano and tho glorious
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