Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-26
The Musical World
BY Gcnevra Johnstone-B Bishop.

| A NNOONCEMENI L is MADE by the
| u First Congregational orchestra of
"A its second concert for the season
Friday night, March 27. The usual in
teresting program has been arranged
The principal numbers in preparation
are Mendelssohn's Midsummer Nights
| Dream" overture; a Strauss concert
waltz, the ''Traumbilder Fantasie'' by
! Lumbye and a symposium of melodies
from Verdi's well known ''Ernani." Two
of these are expected to be with either
obligato.
Miss Louise Nixon, soprano, and Miss
Helen Mead, flutist, a member of the
orchestra, will be the soloists.
| The orchestra numbers forty-five
members, and this will be the thirtieth
popular concert given under the direc-
tion of it's organizer, William II. Mead,
during the past thirteen years.
s.
A concert will be given at the Gamut
club by the De Lano Mandolin, Banjo
and Guitar clubs Friday night, April 8,
assisted by Gertrude Whitney Scofield
reader; T. Hance, flute, and G. Green
halgh, cello.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lott
are hoping they will give recital soon.
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| Miss Jessie Gaynor is lecturing
through the middle west on The
NITOWln OI f1dTInOuy. MISS Gdy llOL 10
the we'll known song writer.
Josef Hofmann and Fritz Kreisler are
giving Joint" recitals in and around
Chicago, says the Leader.
The famous Sheffield England
chorus of 200 voices is to visit America
next October. 1t will proceed first to
Canada and may visit the United States
if satisfactory arrangements can be
made with DR.. Harriss, the conductor.
The fifth and last concert of the Bos-
ton symphony orchestra will be given
this week, at which DR.. Karl Muck
says "addio" to America to resume his
duties as principal conductor of the
Royal opera at Berlin.
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A notice to this effect in an eastern
paper is that the present farewell
tour of Madame Calve will in all like
lihood be her last. She no longer draws
the large audience which formerly pre-
vailed, and her manager, John Cort,
is said to be regretting his investment.
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The Courier gives full accounts of the
debut of Madame Nevada's daughter
Mignon at Rome in the Barber of
Seville" and all say she reached the
highest expectations of the musical
world. The timbre, the perfesct intona-
ton, the ease with which she sings is
astonishing, they say. and the purity
is absolute, the method magnificent, the
vocalization perfect the roulades, the
runs are given with an Incompatible
precision. All critics seem to agree
that she gave a great performance.
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Miss Marie Thomas is engaged for
the oratorio Messiah at Phoenix,
Ariz.. April IA. 1t is to be given at
81 re 10 Of furht lob re
Shirley Christy is the founder and
director.
The Treble Clef club will give pri-
vate rehearsal tonight at Symphony
hall, Blanchard building. Leandro Cam
panari is the conductor. 1t is an invi-
| tation affair.
Los Angeles musicians will remember
Alberta Jones, the Spanish pianist who
has appeared here in concert. He mar
ried Miss Elsa Won Grave, and the
world thought it a happy marriage.
Musical America announces this week
their separation" Mrs. Jonas is In
New York; Signor Jonas in Berlin.
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ut is difficult to make hero out OF
Bauer" writes Ethlyn Middleton in an
entertaining article in which she dis
cusses the personality of the famous
pianist who is TO appear here for two
concerts at Simpson auditorium for
March 80 and April 6. "Ail the elements
are there and to spare, but he will not
have them put together and consent
to stand on pedestal. Just as he let's
you know at once that he is not a
'wunderkind,' but reached his excel
lence as a pianist through perseverance
and hard work, so now that he ranks
among the most proficient virtuosos of
the age, he discusses his and other peo-
pies music with the calm good sense
so often lacking in many great artists
who seem to feel, that part of their cap
ital is pose.
Mr.. Bauer is a worker. When he is
not giving recitals and lessons to few
favored pupils, he is away on tour in
some part of Europe. Or he is busy
with his books; or else out on an eX-
cursion among the antiquary shops or
Paris looking for old woodwork, for
which he has a particular penchant,
and of which he has a number of eX-
cellent specimens in his home.
81 dabble in lots of things he said
to me. smilingly, but I'm not bit of
a savant.'
II took a look about his charming
rooms, whose walls are covered with
good pictures and engravings signed by
the artists themselves. He has also one
or two superb Japanese prints, and no
Gus names. There are photographs of
many musicians, all autographed, and
other photographs representing jovial
scenes in the two Americas where Mr..
Bauer appears in quite a different light
than that of pianist Best of all there
is a finely stocked bookcase. Mr..
Bauer's room, like himself, suggests
that if he is a pianist first of all, he has
interest in many other things besides,
and is trained to put into his interpre-
tation of great piano literature the cul-
ture and esthetic sense of a we'll stored
brain"
On Thursday evening, March 26, Miss
Ethel Lucretia Olcott, guitarist, will
furnish a program for Los Angeles
lodge, No. l, of the Fraternal Brother
hood at Alhambra hall, corner of Lin
coin and Figueroa streets.
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Monday night, March 30, a splendid
program will be rendered at the First
M. e. church, corner of Sixth and Hill
streets, as a complimentary expression
to Miss Ada Showalter, who for years
was the successful organist. A silver
offering will be taken and the entire
proceeds presented to her.
Among those participating will be
Mrs. Edmund S. Shank, soprano; Ma
torp Bloomenfeld. violinist; Asa Pond,
tenor; Frank Colby. organist, and a
grand chorus of more than one hundred
voices under the direction of DR.. Eu-
gene E. Davis.
Mrs Hennion Robinson and Ray
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