Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-03-08

Who lie arranging an Art day progr
| gan to play the violin at 4 years old.
| You can well believe 1t when you hear
| that technical mastery, beautiful sing
ing quality of tone, poetic insight. Few
| violinists in the world can approach
him. Such warmth of tone, sympa-
| thetic to a degree and exquisite finesse
| in everything he did. A true artist ne
| is and fine, strong man, kingly, Win
a. personality and temperament OF
/ charming nature; clear, superior IN
| telligence; a master musician and one
of the greatest living violinists. Can
you say more? Not by trickery or
acrobatic performances does this Won
derful artist hold his hearers, but by
| the most splendid, genuinely human,
| legitimate violin playing ever heard in
Los Angeles. The program itself tells
the story. In response to many re-
quests Mr.. Kreisler played the beauti-
! full G. minor concerto of Max Bruch.
His performance of this alone would
place him among the greatest violinists
/ of the age. AS compared with Ysaye's
PLAYING of this inspired work ut has
probably never been equaled) Mr..
| Kreisler seemed little hurried and
| in places his work was uneven, but
he awakened the audience to the fact
/
fore them with something to say. The
second number, sonata G minor OF
Bach, was a majestic performance,
and 1t is in his Bach playing he excels.
The four movements will long be re-
membered. Ovation after ovation at
the close of the big fugue and bursts
of applause and recalls too numerous
| TO mention at the close of the work.
Again that wonderful singing tone,
found only among the chosen few v1o-
| linists recognized as supreme OF To-Day
| His next group, consisting of old
time selections by Martini Francour,
| Couperin, Porpora and Tartini, were
the finest, daintiest compositiohs IN
aginable 1t was too good, almost, to
| be true. Kreisler's dark eyes. MS
magic bow, his whole being welded
everything into perfect performance.
THE freshness of the old-time music,
it's simplicity, its magic melody, held
us in tears-toy-and we We're en-
chanted beneath the spell OF this
ma gical artist, Kreisler. In response
to long and genuine applause ne re-
turned and gave us Dvorak's "Humor-
| esoue." 1t is written in G major, but
he played it in f sharp major, and in
1 this key it sounded richer and better
than in the original key. Then fol-
| lowed the "Canzonetta" of Dvorak,
canrice Wieniawski and Paganini ca
l
him go and his encore to the standing
| audience brought ''mistiness to the eyes
| of many" as the lights were turned
out and the spell under which we had
listened was still upon us. IAN even
| ing of perfect song" says Hubbard,
| the we'll known Chicago critic, and
briliiance which a Patti, Sembrich or
a Melba at their prime never has APP
proached-and the singer was Kreisler
/ "a master singer of the violin. The
voice Is one of the loveliest heard in
the world today from this master
artist, I believe. taking all into con-
sideration, the greatest of them all.
| ID
The symphony concert given last
Friday afternoon at the Auditorium
was the fifth of this season, with Bruce
Gordon Kingsley as soloist. The next
date and sixth concert will be April
8; soloist. Alma Krausse, soprano.
Local lovers of good music and of
beautiful paintings will have an OPP
portunity to crafty their desires Tues
| day night, when Bruce Gordon Kings
| ley will give an organ recital OF Par
sifal," with the paintings together with
a lecture on the great play.
The music of this immortal master
niece is heard in dramatic selections.
arranged with the utmost care from
| the orchestral score. The story is so
vivid in its portrayal that we almost
| take part in the events of this mar
velous drama.
OF Bruce Gordon Kingsley, he is adj
mittedly ranked with the great masters
| of this instrument, and though he has
been heard infrequently here, except
at the services of the Temple church,
those occasions have been enough to
secure him a prominent position as an
artist.
The Orpheus club, of which ]. p.
Dupuy is director, Will give It's Sec
ond concert of this season at Simpson
auditorium Monday evening, March 8.
The soloists are Miss Annie Motham
| Craig. Soprano Mrs. Ada Stlby,
pianist Members Of the club who will
sing incidental solos are Howard r.
Pratt, tenor; T. H. Ostram, baritone.
An interesting number will be THE
| May Song" by Van der Stuken. The
accompanist of the club is William
Edison Strobridge.
On Friday, March 10, Alfred A. Far
and, the worlds greatest banjoist. will
| be heard in concert at Blanchard hall.
Mr.. Farland will be heard in classic
/ selections and will be assisted by Ethel
Lucretia Olcott, guitarist, and G. S.
De Lano's Mandolin club. Those who
have never heard Mr.. Farland will be
astonished to hear his effective rendi-
ton of the classics on the banjo.
| q
| Miss Irene Louise Carter and her
pupils gave a very interesting and en-
| 1oyable piano and elocution recital in
! the hall of the Los Angeles Conserva-
1 tory of Music and Arts last night.
! a
! Among the many pleasant features
of the social life at the Hotel Lanker-
SHIN recently was the concert given
last Sunday evening by the Madrigal
quartet. This body of singers is COM