Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-21
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concert of the Symphony series will
be given at Temple Auditorium. This
program is to be one of great interest
as 1t is the only time in which the
great organ will be used in conjunction
with the Symphony organization.
Bruce Gordon Kingsley will present
HandePs celebrated concerto in G
minor, with orchestral accompaniment.
The remembrance of the beautiful
work given last season, with Mr.. Archi-
bald Sessions at the organ, which was
the browning musical treat of the year,
Is still fresh with those who were for
tunate enough to be present, and UNI
doubtedly Director Hamilton and his
men, as well as Mr.. Kingsley, will be
greeted by one of the largest houses
Of the year.
The Symphony organization is
great education and particularly when
presenting a program of such brill
liant beauty as the one below:
PART
Trompenten overture. OPP. 101. .Mendelssohn
Tone Poem. Finlandia, OPP. 20, No L..
Concerto in G Minor. Handel
PART II
Sixth Symphony in F (Pastorale) $50.
Allegro. non troppo-The awakening Of
cheerful feelings on arriving in the
country.
Andante, motto moto-By the brook
Allegro; merrymaking of the country
Allegro-thunder storm.
Allegretto-song of the shepherds.
Glad and thankful feelings after the
storm.
soloist, Bruce Gordon Kingsley, organist
Waldo Harrington Chase will enter
tain with a musicale at his studio,
1914 Oak street. Tuesday, February
26' from 8 to 6 o'clock.
DIR. Felix Won Kraus is made wort
ragsmeister at Munich Royal opera
and professor in Royal academy. DR..
Won Kraus, who is q Viennese by
birth, is favorite artist In Germany,
both on the concert and opera stage.
He married an American girl, Miss
Adrienne Osborne a talented soprano,
well known in the east.
Musical America has received exclu-
sive information regarding the forma-
ton of an American opera company,
the purpose of which is to present
grand opera in English in the leading
cities of this country and offer to ma
tive singers and musicians an oppor-
tunfty to display their attachments
without having to resort first to the
acquisition of a foreign reputation.
Many talented American singers who
are winning degree of fame abroad
but have not as yet been able to Sc
cure American engagements In this
country Will also, through this I'M
dertaking. receive a hearing.
The company has already been in
corporated under the laws of New York
state as the American Musical Art
company and it is backed by a number
of influential and wealthy people who
purpose, eventually, to capitalize it for
not less than half million dollars.
The stockholders In the venture will
form a board of trustees who will ap-
point board of directors. The latter
board will decide on the operas to be
given, the selection of singers and
musicians, the purchase Of scenery,
costumes, ETC., and other details Incl
dent to the presentation OF opera.
1t is proposed to establish opera
clubs in various cities, membership
to which will be enjoyed by subscribing
for two seats for the productions to be
given by the company when 1t visits
these places. Musical people in Buffa-
10, Baltimore and several other cities
have already been interested In the
become associated with 1t. One of the
founders said to a representative of
Musical America:
"This will be the first attempt to
give recognition to our native artists.
Besides the encouragement it will
give them, the company will consti-
tute potent educational factor, enab-
ling the American public to hear the
standard operas sung In their own
language. Then, too, we hope to afford
the American composer an opportunity
to show what he can do in the creation
of operate music"
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Kaiser Suspends Free List
The emperor of Germany has di-
rected that the free list and the sale
of tickets to the public for the Royal
Opera be suspended for six evenings in
February and March, so that what is
called society nights" may be held
For these special evenings, tickets will
be allotted to subscribers according to
their social rank. Subscribers whose
names are on the court list having the
first privileges.
The object of the emperor in taking
this step is to add to the brilliancy of
the social season and because many
complaints have been made that it Is
most difficult to obtain satisfactory
seats. The emperor maintains the
opera out of his private purse and has
permanent free list of 400, probably
the largest list of any theater in the
world.
The emperor spent almost $1,000 900
more in 1907 on grand opera and comic
opera at the royal theaters in Berlin
and Wiesbaden than the receipts
amounted to.
When Theodore Chaliapine, the Rus
sian basso, goes to Monte Carlo at
the close of his engagement at the
Metropolitan, he will sing Coline in
la Boheme," associated with Selma
Kurz, Maurice Renaud and Charles
Rousseliere in the cast.
s.
Nine. Carreno to Play Saturday
Madame Teresa Carreno, the we'll
known pianist, will reach Los Angeles
this afternoon in time to take quiet
rest preparatory for her first recital
in this city, which is to take place at
Simpson auditorium tomorrow after
noon.
Madame Carreno feels her program
should be patriotic one, owing to the
day on which she is to appear in this
CITY,, but musicians call patriotic pro-
grams unprofessional, and she will
probably have to content herself with
the truly artistic compositions of the
old masters.
Carreno is distinctly an American
product in birth, training and devel-
opment. Her earliest triumphs achieved
in America, where also for years she
acquired the foundation of her method.
Although born in South America, in
Venezuela, of excellent antecedents,