Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04

Chick and quartet. There will also be
o My People" solo by Mrs, Wills
James Tiffany and chorus; Hear, Q
Lord" solos by Messrs. Walker and
Chick: 'T Sought the Lord" Miss
Maude Elizabeth Richards; 'The Lord
Has Done Great Things for U.s." Mr..
Chick and quartet. There will also be
an organ interludium, Longing,
played by Archibald Sessions.
The night of November VIII be heard
a cantata, "Gallia" (GounodD; the mar
velous work, Creation" (Hayden);
"Sancta Mater" ;'Stabat Mater" (Ros-
sinD.
The evening of December 6 there will
be presented "Jubilate, Amen" (Bruch);
gloria, Twelfth Mass" (MozarO, Mr..
Stevenson conducting; Evening Hymn
(Reinecke).
choir will render COMBS Hymn of
Peace" In the evening Saint-Saens'
christmas Oratorio" is to be pre-
sented.
Mrs. Willis James Tiffany of Phoenix,
a mezzo soprano of very distinct charm,
who will be heard at Christ church this
evening, has, with Mr.. Tiffany, been
summering in Los Angeles, and they
are so delighted with our climate that
it is more than possible that this young
couple will elect to make Los Angeles
their home.
While the many friends of Madam
Genevra Johnstone Bishop will be glad
to welcome her when she returns to
Los Angeles they will regret that she
has been obliged to give up her plans
for an extensive tour of the world, ana
will be doubly sympathetic because 1t
was her mothers i'll health which
brought about this change in her plans.
Accompanied by her mother. Madam
Bishop expects to reach Los Angeles
late in October, and will resume her
former position with the Independent
Church of Christ November l.
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Mercedes Ciesielski, an interesting
young Polish woman, who is a promis-
ing pupil of Miss Margaret Goetz and
protege of Madam Modjeska, sang
Luzzis AVE Maria" at a special SER
vice at San Gabriel mission last sun
day.
Madam Butterfly is to be given in
Dutch this winter at The Hague.
Hurrah for us 1t is reported that all
the female choristers at the Manhattan
opera house this season viii be native
Americans. Mr.. Hafnmerstein recently
announced that $50 young women
passed the tests into the chorus Aug
mented by the fifty recruits retained
from last year, the chorus promises
we'll for the coming season.
The Pacific coast is promised visit
in the near future from Clara Clemens,
contralto. daughter of Mark Twain.
s.
Although the one hundredth anniver-
sarys of Chopin's birth does not come
until February %, 1910, 1t is to be cele-
brated in Brooklyn next March. Ap-
propr ately enough, the officers of the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci
ences have asked Paderewsh to be the
solo artist at the concerts to be given
the afternon and evening of that day.
In the afternoon he will play an ex-
clusively Chopin program, and 1t is
promised that he will play again in the
evening.
Josef Lhevinne, the Russian pianist,
will undertake his first transconti-
mental tour, inaugurating 1t in Hart
| ford Conn, October 10. His first New
York engagement will be his own re-
cital in Carnegie hall on the afternoon
of October 81, and his New York ap-
pearance will be numerous throughout
| the season. Lhevinnes first orchestral
| engagement this year will be with the
Russian Symphony orchestra in New
York, and in quick succession he will
play in. the same city with the New
York Philharmonic society, the Boston
| Symphony and New York Symphony
orchestras. The Boston, Philadelphia
and other symphony orchestras have
engaged him for concerts In their home
cities and the balance of his tour will
be given to a series of recitals, ranging
| from Winnipeg, Man, to New Orleans
La, with a series of twenty-five con-
certs on the Pacific coast, opening In
Los Angeles.
| Up to February 1 Lhevinne will play
| in the east and middle west. and in
February will go south into the City
of Mexico, where he will play ten con-
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