Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-12

nou, MeyerDeer, ROSSlnl, wagner, MAS
senet and Salnt-Saens. Other records also
include orchestra selections and airs by
Kuhelilk and other great instrumentalists.
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Maria Gay, the Spanish singer, who has
been in this country the past month,
sailed for Europe last Wednesday on the
Adriatic. She is to marry the new tenor.
Giovanni zenatello, who is singing at the
Manhattan opera house In New York
The wedding, Miss Gay says, will take
place in Milan next spring. She signed
contract with Conrled before sailing, said
contract to cover a period of three years.
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Sickesz, the Dutch pianist, is to play at
the White House for President Roosevelt
next Friday evening. The president, him
self Dutch descendant, is interested in
this new artist.
George Ferguson, the we'll known
American vocal teacher in Berlin, is re-
turning home in the early summer to
marry Miss Katherine Boyle of Ann Ar
bor Mich. They will live in Berlin.
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One of the most remarkable operatic
performances ever given in Paris was the
presentation of Carmen" recently at the
Paris opera house by the combined
troupes of the Opera and Opera Comique
Note took the role of Escamillo. The last
act was rendered notable by the partici-
patton of fifty bull fighters, mules and
horses brought specially from Spain for
the occasion.
A new oratorio by Father Lorenzo Pc
ros was given recently in Sala Regia OF
the Sacred college, Rome, in the presence
of the pope and many invited guests. 1t
was most successful, and the pope warm
ly congratulated Father Perosi.
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A piano recital will be given by Mrs.
Frank Eaton and her pupils, assisted by
Mr.. G. Stanley Macpherson, vlolinist,
and Miss Pauline Fredenberg, accom-
panist, at Chickering hail. 392-3Si South
Broadway, Thursday evening, January
16, at o'clock.
Tuesday evening, January IA. at Simp
son auditorium Manager Behymer viii
introduce to the Los Angeles public an
other artist of international fame in the
person of Herbert Witherspoon, basso
cantante, as the third event of the great
Philharmonic course. Mr. Witherspoon,
than whom no artist has received greate'
encomiums, makes his first appearance
here in recital and that he will have his
usual great artistic success Is assured by
the very flattering notices he has received
elsewhere. He is the possessor of voic }
of great natural beauty which he has de-
veloped to it's full capacity by careful,
conscientious and thorough study In the
best schools Of vocalization. He has COM
plete command of the resources OF the
artist and uses them with rare Judgment.
His voice has great power, extended COM
pass Virie, vibrant resonance and a
beautiful sweetness In soft passages. Its
carrying power Is unusual and his perfect
breath control gives to his singing feel
ing of ease and reserve power that is most
satisfying.
Mr.. Witherspoon succeeds in making
the song recital worth wilhelm making
1t something more than an exposition OF
vocal method and the display of a
knowledge of schools" To the profess
sional singer his method is a matter of
absorbing interest. The qualities OF his
art are finely balanced and his intellectual
mastery of the music and its message
paramount. But the men and women
for whom, after all, music is written-the
men and women who care little for the
method of its painting so long as the fin
ished picture is beautiful or interesting
provide the best test for the art or the
singer.
Mr. Witherspoon chooses his programs
with fine discrimination, selecting compo-
stions which are among the finest ex-
amples of the different epochs Of musica
development His perfect artistic mas
terry and the intensity and versatility OF
| his dramatic force are, perhaps. mos
strongly shown in his interpretations Of
Schumanns Contra bandiste,' Siding's
LIGHT" and Sidney Homer's "Prospice." p"
His singing of Reynaldo Hahns mono