The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-26
CONCERT
PROGRAM ARRANGED

/ The arrangements for the benefit con-
night have been perfected. Everyone
| who has been approached in aid of this
very worthy cause has gladly offered
their services or effects gratis so that
the expense entaiIed will be nearly
nothing and the proceeds will be.
enough to put the moving picture fund
on good basis. There has been a very
healthy sale of tickets in advance. If
an opportunity to contribute to a most
worthy charity then they should know
that they have most excellent even
ing of music and art before them, and
their thanks should be shown for the
work and trouble Of the originators by
their attendance.
The Kawaiahao choir viii open the
program with ssThe Season. one of
Haydn s well known choruses and will
be followed by Mesdames Hurez and
Menant in a piano duet. Neither of
these ladies have been heard here in
public before, and as they are musicians
of the first order, their appearance will
be awaited with considerable interest. |
Madame Menant, who is the wife of the
Consul for France, has not enjoyed the |
best of health since she has been here |
and has also been in mourning but in
the aid of such a worthy charity she |
has signifed her willingness to assist in |
the success of the affair. Madame Ar. |
raj who has most generously donated |
her services and who will supply fully |
half Of the program, VIII be heard in i
Faure' Charlie or Sancta Maria, in /
which she will be assisted with violin /
obligato by Mrs. c. B. Cooper, whose |
violin playing is well known by the |
music lovers of Honolulu for its excel |
lenee
That clever and affecting sketch by |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ''Art Versus |
Cupid, which was for the first time |
produced in this city by Mrs. f. II. |
Humphris and little Miss Harrington.
that Frohman will put it on this winter,
viii be given as they say in theatrical
circles, with the original cast" and
every one who has children should
bring them to see the clever acting of
little Miss harrington, who assists Mrs.
Humphris in the sketch.
The mad scene from Hamlet has
never been heard here and it is i'll it.
self of sufficient Importance to secure
a full house and as Nine. Arral will
both act and sing with the costume
to the part, it win be
big event.
The high standard of Mrs. Ballou s
art as a pianist is well known although
she has been heard but once here be
fore, and as she will play that ever pop
ular piece of the great composer Chopin,
the Second Scherzo in B Flat Minor
lovers of the great master will have an
to listen to probably the
most popular of his compositions. Mrs
Ballou is an enthusiast ON Chopin and
there is no necessity to say that the
work viii meet with sympathetic treat
ment at her hands. The best of the
program will be the selections from
Mignon, from a popular point of view,
as they comprise the principal seiec-
tons from that opera, comprising the
four principal soprano and mezzo sopra-
no songs. The parts of both Mignon
and Philine viii be taken and sung
BY Nine. Arral with appropriate cos
.umes which go with the part
These selections are the ones with
which Nine. Arrai created such SEN
'ation in her recent tour in Australia.
Those who heard Nine. Arral at her
eeent concert at the Opera House knows
hat as an artist she has not had a