Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-01
The Musical w orId
Nv Generra Johnstone-Rishop

I'M
VE fined and charming in Marrying
AiA Mary" and made a good impress
sion Monday night. her first appearance
in Los Angeles. While she never pre-
tended to be a great singer, her voice is
sweet and far above the usual comic
opera singer. l think the opera a sue
cess and the music is refreshing, bright
and has merit. Eugene Cowels is a great
favorite and made success of his role.
His voice is a glorious one-true, full of
resonance-and L could not detect any
failing of his powers al all. His enun-
citation is beyond criticism, always was,
and his compass good, his voice rich and
magnetic. He ought to have made a
great success in grand opera.
s.
A new opera by Giordano called La
Fiesta del Milo" will open next season in
Italy at the La Scala.
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Jane Noria, who is singing with the
San Carlos opera company. is a St. Louis
girl. She sang two seasons with the
Savage opera company.
s.
Everyone is anxfously waiting for
Madame Butterfly" l understand Saw
age is sending his best company to the
coast. / doubt If any house will hold
the people. 1t is very sad. but wonder
fully well written, the orchestration be-
ing superbly given-by their own or
chestra.
Eugene d'Albert's comic opera "Tragal-
dabas" made a failure in Hamburg last
week.
Albert Rosenthal, the young California
'cellist who has met with great success
abroad also met with flattering praise
in New York at his debut there Decem-
Der II.
1 see Marshall Giselman has founded
choral society in San Francisco. How we
wish somebody would found one in Los
Angeles. We have many good singers
here, sufficient for club of, say 800, ex-
celent voices. If they find a conductor
who has had experience and possesses
the demands and requirements necessary
to make this society a lasting success,
they will not fail in support. The musi
cal success of Los Angeles depends upon
the interest and enthusiasm created for
music in every way, choral, orchestral
and oratorio. We blush with shame when
we recall the performance of the "Mesa
siah,' December r. in this musical city.
We do not need any new director from
San Francisco or the east. We have two
excellent ones here, Mr.. Campanari and
Mr.. Poulin. Either would lead such an
o ganization to great success. We need
d velopment of choral music here. Why
not make the call, selecting the best
voices and admitting none but the best,
chosen by a committee of our leading
vocal teachers?
Few people not directly interested in
the business have any idea of the i'm
portant part that women are taking in
music in this country, in the business
side of music. Managers having artists
to place do at least half their local bust
ness with women, and most satisfactorily
is 1t done, as a general rule. Illustrative
of this is the coming western trip of
the Boston Symphony orchestra, which
will be made in the last week of Janu-
airy. The orchestra will give six con-
certs on six successive days, in Buffalo,
Detroit, indianapolis, Columbus and two
in Cincinnati. Five of these concerts are
under the local direction of women, all
of whom are taking large risks in bring
ing to their respective cities so expensive
an organization. These five concerts are
in Buffalo, indianapolis, Columbus and
the two in Cincinnati. Local manage
ment of musical affairs has opened up a
wide field of usefulness to many women
in all parts of the country and very few
of them have made failures of their I'M
dertakings
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Olga samaroff is telling of an odd ex-
perience she lately had. She was
scheduled to give a recital at a woman's
school in the middle west. BY some mis-
chance her piano failed to show up. By
another mischance her trunk went astray
and her third mischance was when she
arrived at the little town after dark in
pouring rain, there was absolutely no
cab, carriage or bus, not even the VIII
lage express wagon, nothing but a sea
of mud. Madame Samaroff and her
mother, who was with her, took counsel
with the railroad agent and got no COM
fort from him. Then learning that the
school was only half a mile away she
hired a stray boy to carry her luggage
and the two women with a protector four
feet and half tall started for the school.
They were wet, not to say muddy, when
they reached their destination, but the
welcome they got was a warm one.
Madame Samaroff wanted to beg off and
come some other time, but the students
were al ready for her, and If she would
play on an upright piano everybody
would be satisfied. Some dry clothes
were found for her and in borrowed
clothes at an upright piano she played
through her program and then added as
much again for good measure. after
which the floor was cleared and every
body danced. Madame Samaroff being dis
tinctly the belle of the ball. Bright and
early the next morning, c. A. Ellis.
Madame Samaroff's manager. received in
Boston a telegram asking him to make
another date for her in this school be-
fore the end of the season.
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Experiences Of more than ordinary in
terest and liveliness usually accompany
the college lad in his travels to and frorl