Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-01
Musical World
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work in music centers of Europe,


Archibald Sessions will open his season
here in organ recital Wednesday even
ing In Christ church. Eugene Now
land, violinist, who came west last year
with Ellen Beach Yaw, will assist.
This is the sixty-sixth recital that Mr..
Sessions has given on the Christ church
organ, and to his many friends in Los
Angeles words of praise of either the
man or his art are supertluous. Lovers
of the best in organ music will avail
themselves of the opportunity offered.
and the programs will be a source of
inspiration to all earnest music lovers.
The program for Tuesday evening s
recital is the following:
Sonata No. 1, op. AZ, introduction and allie
gro, pastorale, allegro assai. tGuilmano'
ITO the Evening STAR CWagneO.
Caprice CWolstenhome)
Violin, Adaigo from Suite op. 10 tsinding);
Romance, from d Minor concerto CWieniawskp
Fantasie Op IS, No. 1 (Sjogren).
Spring Song CMendelssohn).
Finale in b Flat Cesar Franck).
Mr.. Sessions next recital will be given
the afternoon of November Is at 4
o'clock. with Mrs. Philip Zobelein, con-
tralto, assisting, and the recitals will be
continued each first Wednesday even
ing and each third Wednesday after
noon
other soloists who will assist Mr.. Ses-
sions during this series of recitals are
John Douglas Walker, Mrs. Maude
Reese Wankowski, Mrs. E. 5. shank,
Arnold Krauss. Natorp Blumenfeld,
Miss Maude Elizabeth Richards, Abra-
ham Miller and f. w. Seager
Besides the Christ church recitals
Mr.. Sessions will do a large amount OF
outside concert work this season, not
ably his appearance with the Los An
geles Symphony orchestra. Two sea-
sons ago Mr.. Sessions had great. sue
cess with that organization in the ID
minor Guilnant concerto. This year he
will play Boellmann's "Fantasie Dia-
logue," op 35, which work he studied
with orchestra while in Paris last sum-
mer. This is the first production of
the work in America.
That the educators of Los Angeles APP
preciate the value of the Philharmonic
course of concerts which has been ar
ranged by Mr. Behymer, and also the
courtesy in regard to rates which is
being extended to teachers, pupils and
schools where seats are being taken In
blocks, is shown by the fact that all the
private schools have made reservation
and a very large per cent of teachers
and pupils from the public schools have
taken advantage of this opportunity to
hear some of the best artists that Will
visit America this winter.
The sale of tickets has progressed so
rapidly that there is little doubt that
when the eleventh season opens No
vember 27 with the appearance of Hart
mann, the violinist, that the house VIII
be practically sold out.
Emilio de Gogorza, dramatic baritone,
who will appear as soloist at the first
Symphony concert the evening of No
vember 49, has promised four numbers,
in addition to which Symphony num-
bers will include Bertram Schapleigh's 8
"Ramayana Seuite" in five scenes,
Wagners Vorspiel to Lohengrin and
Saint Saens' Symphony No. 2 in A
minor.
Joseph Lhevinne, who is to be heard
in Los Angeles later in the season at
one of the Philharmonic concerts, is
playing the Liszt B minor sonata on his
programs in the east, a number rarely
heard on programs. of the present day.
s. 4a-ta
Gustaye Mahler's seventh Symphony
recently had it's first presentation at
Prague under the baton of the COM
poser. It is said that when Mahler
symphony is to be christened the event
is considered of sufficient Importance
to tempt the musical fraternity from
all that section of the country into
making the Prague. pilgrimage.
Students have no longer need of
journeying to Europe for the required
artistic atmosphere which is becom-
ing musically thicker all the time in
America, we are told in the Musical
Leader and Concert Goer. All forces
have pulled together and are working
together for the same high cause, and
while the commercial spirit is not en-
tirely absent, yet the artistic intent rs
daily evidenced. One great factor in
the work of progression has been the
extraordinary influence of the musical
club which exists in America as in no
other country of the world and which
has made possible so many of the great
concerts which win be heard during the
season of 19OS-9. For the present sea-
son in Chicago there are already an
nornced 1870 concerts besides those that
viii be given by the various schools of
music New York alsone has 126 Sun
day concerts, wkich will be given with
in the next six months. These will be
augmented by a vast number of artist
recitals, symphony and chamber con-
certs and by school and college, offer
ings.
When the programs of the symphony
concerts of the Royal orchestra, which
are to be given this season under the
baton Of Richard Strauss, were first
made public, says the Musical Leader
and Concert Goer, there was much dis
content in musical circles at the ex-
treme conservatism displayed by the
greatest modern of them all.
No noveltiesl Only standard classics
with predominance of Beethoven! In
tolerablel But since the first concert
has passed into history there has been
a decided reversal of opinion, and as
one German critic sagely remarks: BE
fore the season is over we may decide
that we have heard a great many
works for the first time!'" Strauss is
a great musical iconoclast, a musician
who never worships at the altar of the
great god of tradition. To many ira
ditional Beethoven means the interpre-
tation which has come to be the ac-
cepted one during the last quarter of
a century. But Strauss has announced
his intention of barking back to the
reading of the classics which was in
vogue during the '40s and sos of the
last century, in other words, before the
scores fell into the hands of the re-
touchers or restorers and While the seal