The San Francisco call., 1908-10-05
EDIT "A il
With the Musical Folk
By Walter Anthony

with fun orchestral accompaniment
Thomas Hamlet" will be one OF the
operas drawn upon From II she WI
sing the mad scene. saint Saens L0
Tlmbre d'Argent," an aria from VnO-
zart's Marriage of Figaro. ana tnT ',
immortal Pollacca from 'Misnon WI"
be other selections
The nrogram for next Saturday night
at the Greek theater. Berkeley VIII oe
a variation from the preceding concerts
under the direction OF PAU StelnuoIl-
At the forthcoming recital the MISSES
PasmOre Will present splenuiu P
gram with the assistance or an OF
cbestra Of 35 musicians under the read
ership OF H B. Pasmore- me Inusician
ship of the three young women i ~
well known to need comment AneS
have recently returned from belli''
where their playing was gwen ,te
tire approval of the best critics IN tid1
critical center of music They VIII play
piano. cello and violin solos and VIII
combine in duets and trios. with or
chestral accompaniment Inc event VIZ
be treat and will be the thlrd eoncerI
of the series OF four. The FOLLOWING
Saturday night will close tne seaso.s: ,sllss
and on that occasion Paul StelndOrn
will again direct his orchestra or 90
musicians through a popular classic
program.
The presentation on the part of Hugo
MansfeIdt of any of his pupils Is an
event worthy of notice. The veteran
pfanist's players have something OF
more than passing interest TO say ana
show skill and training always, an"
usually marked temperament.
Miss Frances Wilson will be heard In
a piano recital at Century hall Wednes-
day evening. October II. when she VIII
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grand sonata in A fiat. op. 80; Sle
so Weiss" Grieg; Mendelssohn's n
minor scherzo. a Heller etude. Schu-
mann aria, and Turbulence, by Helier'
The young pianist will play Tor the sec
ond part of her program CHOPIN ran
taisie impromptu and the same com
poser's O. major nOcturne. op. 81, NO. =
the Gounod-Liszt Faust Fantastic
two numbers by Sjoegren; "Auf Flue-
geln des Gesanges.' MendelssOhn, and
the Strauss-Schuett paraphrase de con-
cert.
Albert Cohn, nephew Of Abe Cohn.
the American theatrical manager.
writes entertalningly from Berlin OF
his music study there. He leaves Ber-
lin next month to go to Vienna, where
Leschetizky has consented TO take him
as a piano student. The instructor Of
many of the worlds greatest pianists
assumes the role of tutor only when
there is much talent in sight. it is
said. and young Cohn feels he has
fallen into wise hands.
Cohn played recently for Van HOOse.
the well known tenor who has toured
Europe. He has also played for Melba.
Sembrich and Gadski- Won HOOse pre-
diets a bright future for the young
pianist
Iye,za1 L~o-to for,,a,.1,, o~e of fba
best known of the local violinists, is
playing successfully in Los Angeles
The single sensation in Europe's
opera world this season is Eugen DIAL
bert's "Tiehand." which is a setting of
the drama Marta OF the LOwlands.
in which Bertha Kalish appeared un-
der Fiske's management in New York;
D'Alberts music is described as beiF-tN
essentially modern in style and welded
closely to the text Only occasionally
does a detachable melody appear. The
orchestral effects. as we'll as the vocal
score, grows directly out of the emo
tional content of the story. The work
is said TO be the best yet from D'AI-
berts pen. and it will be produced by
Hammerstein during the coming sea-
son in New York.
EElueuLly SCnumdNn- -ftelnkS $ Taltn IN
her vocal longevity is unimpaired for
she has contracted to appear in San
Francisco in February, 1910. She will
not come west this year or next. Her
opening engagement in Germany is
dated at Hamburg during the latter
part Of this month She will tour
Europe.
Manager Will Greenbaum announces
that definite bookings have been made
for the appearance in this city next
April of the now famous Mischa Ell
man. whose prodigiOus talents have
been advertised widely since his first
appearance on the @Russian musical
stage The viOlinist is now in Russia
and will open his American tour next
December.