Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20
Musicians and Their Work

string quartet. 1t is more strictl.
considered a quintet Harry Lott
will introduce this number, as well as
three of Beethoven's arrangements of
old Scotch songs for voice and plano,
violin and cello accompaniment.
The program will close with Brahms
piano quartet, opus %, and should
prove one of the most pleasing and en-
Pertaining of the Lott-Krauss- series.
s
Los Angeles music colony, number
ing over 1000 musicians and students,
is augmented each season by the ar
rival of artistes from the Atlantic
coast and Europe, and among recent
arrivals from the old world is Ignaz
Edward Haroldi violinist, of Berlin
and Vienna.
Harold resembles Ignace Pade-
rewsli, his countenance being of the
same classic type, with eyes of light
gray, while he wears mop of "Titian"
colored hair that waves straight back
from his forehead. Harold is not so
tall and carries less avoirdupois, but
otherwise the likeness is striking.
Harold appeared for four consecu-
tive seasons with the Berlin Philhar-
monte orchestra, and has established
reputation with that most critical of
all audiences in the matter of "hu
man interest" the leading music halls
of London. His success abroad was so
marked that it was only the great
longing for her own land evinced by
his American wife that finally weaned
this artistic from his German home and
his adopted London.
Harold, who has been heard In re-
citaly only a few times this season,
will give a program in Blanchard hall
the evening of January 6, presenting
selections from the works of Gold
mark, Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Pa
ganini, Hubey, Brahms, Joachim and
Vieuxtemps.
Emilio de Gogorza, in an interview
published in the Musica. Leader and
Concert Goer voices his views concern
ing an American tour as follows:
"Some of the managers in America
are ready to kill any singer under their
management If he (the singer) is popu-
lar. OF course not willfully, but be-
cause they do not realize conditions. No
one but the singer can realize these.
One of the things a singer must guard
against, especially on the road, is sing
ing too much. Something more than
money should be considered-the sing
er's health, his voice, his attention and
| constant devotion to art, which requires
a days rest between engagements, not
even travelling on such days. This mat
ter of working out the artist is a
| serious one. Artists must keep faith
with the public, and this is impossible
if singer is tired out with travelling.
| The man or woman who sings twenty
songs in one evening is more taxed
than either the opera or light opera
singer for whom the work is lightened
and shared. Mr.. De Gogorza says, "in
advice from artist to artist, let me
warn him to look up his own schedule
see he has a day between concerts, see
that he is fresh to keep faith with the
| public, and he will be rewarded by the
| sincerest, most appreciative audiences
he has ever known. Many a well known
artist has gone west only to fail inglo-
riously by not taking proper caution to
keep himself in trim and through be-
ing too rapacious about accepting en-
| gagements."
The Messrs. Shubert have engaged
Harry B. Smith and Reginald de Ko-
ven to write a grand opera based on an
| incident of life in America, and it is
their intention to present it next sea-
son as the first attraction at the Lyric
theater They have engaged Mile.
Courtenay for the principal part. She
is now with James T. Powers in "Ha-
vana." Miss Gertrude Darrell, who is
/ Mimi in Mile Mischief" will also be
in the cast Only American singers
who have studied abroad win be en-
gagged to interpret the leading charac-
| ters.-New York Tribune.
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Arrangements are being made. to
eclipse all former years at the Maine
festival for 1909. There will be pro-
duced an act from "Parsifal," one great
scene from each one of four of Cigars
great oratorios, 1.-THE Dream of Geron-
thus" king Olaf" 1.-THE Banner of ST.
George" and 1.-THE Light of the World"
and one scene from the "Stabat Ma
| ter" by Dvorak together with the
great dramatic cantata, Song of Prom
| ise" by the late John Knowles Paine,
professor of music at Harvard.
| The latter work was written at the
request of Theodore Thomas and pro-
duced with immense success at the Gin
| cinnau festival.
| In celebration of the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Mendels-
sohn. his cantata, "Hymn of Praise.