Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-13
The Musical w orld
BY Genevra Johnstone- Bishop.

MRS. HARRY DOW KIRK is to
N sing at the Hollywood Catholic
AIA church March II. The well known
organist, John NJ. Loretz, jr, is to give
recital, and among the selections
Mrs. Kirk will sing are ave Maria
by Mr.. Loretz, written by him at the
age of Is years.
Saturday afternoon Fritz Kreisler
comes again and then says 'adios" to
Los Angeles for several seasons. No
one should fail to hear this artist, the
greatest of all violinists now before the
| public.
| Fritz Kreisler has been here before
and has convinced a portion of our
public that they should hear him again.
and wnen on Friday night the first
sound of his violin filled Simpson
auditorium the master genius was
showed the appreciation of his auditors.
But one date had been arranged for
the Krcisler visit, but when a thousand
people demanded the return of this pop
ular virtuoso Manager Behymer and
Fritz Kreisler got busy. Sacramento
was to enjoy visit from Kreisler on
Friday of this week. By careful
maneuvering this date was changed for
Wednesday night, and Oakland ar
ranged for Thursday, allowing Mr..
Kreiser to journey to Los Angeles on
Friday, reaching this city on the Owl
Saturday morning, and give a special
request recital at Simpson auditorium
next Saturday afternoon, March IA,
! leaving for San Francisco on the Satur-
day night Owl ready for a Sunday con-
cert in that city.
| Fritz Kreisler has arranged a most
excellent program for this return visit,
one full of movement that will be pleas
ing to all who are fortunate enough to
| hear him. The seat sale will open
Monday morning at the Bartlett Music
company, and special rates will be
given to both students and teachers.
| The program will include modern num-
bers. as we'll as groups of compositions
by the sixteenth century composers. 1t
is a most beautiful and generous pro-
gram, as Kreiser wishes to give to his
patrons full measure, and his prodigal
rendition of encore numbers is always
delight to his hearers. This is posi-
| lively the last opportunity to hear
Kreisler on the coast this season. The
program numbers are as follows:
! (a) Sonata, A Major. .............H Handel
Audante, Allegro Adagio, Allegro.
(b) Prelude and Gavotte. E Major. Bach
Accompaniment by r. Schumann.
Double (from E Minor Sonata. for
violin alone) ....... .Correli 1e53-171S)
Melodie .................Gl .Gluck q714-17SD
Allegretto ..............P Porpora U6s6-1765)
| Prelude and Allegro. .Pugnani (1727-1S03)
chanson Louis XIII and Pavane cou-
perrin ..-............'..'.' tl6SO-l6oo)
Two old Vienna waltzes. s............ Lanner
Humoresque (by request) .......,.. .Dvorak
Moment Musicale. ........ Schubert -kreisler
Aires Russes ..,..,,,...''....' .WlehiaWski
Andreas Dippel is to be administrative
director of the Metropolitan, in CO.
operation with Mr. Gatti-Casazza, the
| I "A Scala inDreSariO
| -
Two performances a week in English
! by the Metropolitan artists at the new
theater will be given in 1910. Dippel
says his singing days are over
Josephine Schaffer, an American girl
pupil of Emma Thursby, has just made
a successful debut at Ausburg, Ba-
varia, as Elizabeth.
Emilio de Gogarza sang last week
with Cincinnati Symphony orchestra
with great success.
s.
Vande Stucken is very busy arrang-
ing for the great May festival. The
new works recently decided upon to be
given are the Thirteenth Psalm" by
Liszt and the BLESSED DomozeP' by
Debussy.
One of the musical treats of the sea-
! son VIII De lnS dppedIdAC0 mere OH
March 10 of Madame Blauvelt in a song
recital. Her program, an admirable
one, embraces selections from Italian
German, French and English COM
posers Madame Blauvelt has for the
past few seasons been heading her own
operatic and concert companies, both
here and abroad, and this recital will
be the last for several seasons, as
Madame Blauvelt has determined to
remain abroad for two years for the
purpose of study
1t is not many years ago that this
fair singer graduated from the Ameri-
can National Conservatory of Music.
and the instantaneous success of
Americas foremost soprano both in
this country and abroad is musical his
tory 1t is a remarkable fact that as
a child Madame Blauvelt's inclinations