Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-19
The Musical w ord


H HE second chamber concert of Miss
Alice Coleman takes place at the
Il Shakespeare club house in Pasa-
dena February 20. at 8 p. m. The
Krauss quartet and Miss Coleman will
give Beethoven's quartet In and a
new quartet by Edgar Stillman Kell.
ings, whose work has been so well
received by Berlin critics. They will
also give the sextet for piano, strings,
trumpet and contra bass of Saint
Saens.
A Chicago paper says Mark Ham
bourg was disappointing in his recital
there and adds: I'm Berlin his name
will soon be synonymous with rush
and rattle, heavy storming and fire
eating proclivities." Evidently Mr..
Hamburg does not do as much adver-
Using as this paper would wish!
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Another American girl who seems to
be promising we'll for big career IL
Miss Brola, who recently made her
debut in Nice. Miss Brola is a Call
fornia singer, born near San Jose.
Madame Melba is busily engaged in
organizing a good opera company for
Australia. Edouard de Reszke and
Plancon are her DaSsos.
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william Harper Is another new singer
who ia coming to the coast for recital
work.
It is sure that smaller cities are get
ting little too much music this sea-
son, especially in piano recitals. hear
Josef Holman is losing money In his
tour. When this great artist loses
money there is something wrong with
local conditions.
Olga Samaroff is singing in Toronto.
Henri Scott, the basso, is scoring pro-
nounced success in oratorio'
Mary Peck Thomson, the pianist, is
touring the middle west.
In the middle states the musical
societies are holding a great many
eisteddfods, which stirs up a great
musical interest. In Hammond Ind.,
they are to give one February u, and
offer prizes in this way: Baritone solo,
at is Enough" prize SIS; tenor solo,
"My Hope is in the Everlasting" $15;
soprano solo, "Provencale Maiden" sis;
piano artists, $25; chorus (male). $40;
(rnixed) SIS. The musical societies all
over the state are going to the con-
test and great excitement prevails.
Special trains are to be run from Chi
cago. A special prize for children is
offered for the Spring Song" of Men
delssohn; prize. S.. Child must be
under II years of age.
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Madame Blauvelt sang in Chicago at
the morning musical given for charity
at the Annex ballroom at the Steinway
building. Critics speak of her as the
'prettiest singer before the public now
in concert" and say she sang as well
as she did before forsal1ing the concert
stage. l never knew she had given up
concert singing. She will sing in Los
Angeles during the spring.
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The fourth event of the Philharmonic
course is the coming of that most IA
nous of all woman pianists, Madame
Teresa Carreno, whose name is known
worldwide and whose interesting per-
sonality appeals as much to the FEM
inine heart as that of the masculine
sex.
For thirty years Teresa Carreno has
oueened it I'm the realms of music. Her
personal fascination and beauty is as
potent as ever, and piano composition
in her hands is a heart to heart talk,
and great as have been her achieve
ments in the past her work of today is
as beautiful and as impressive as ever.
On this point the critics have declared
themselves emphatically.
Carreno Is considered one of the
greatest soloists who play with orches-
ira accompaniments, and this is one
of her fortes which has gained her
worldwide recognition as an orchestral
soloist but her work. however, is more
interesting in recital. Her Beethoven
selections are the revelation given to-
her mature years; to the tried and
deeply versed artist and to the woman
of worldwide experience, and that is
why she is considered the greatest in
terpreter of this wonderful composers
works.
There is music that Carreno specially
loves and that she regards as personal
legacy from the masters of her art, the
Rubinstein barcarroles and 1mpromp-
tus, which the master himself played
for her in the early days; some or the
almost forgotten music of Gottschalk
and the cermorceaus of Schumann, for
the Interpretation of which Clara Schu-
mann was her instructor.
The program for Saturday afternoon
includes the following numbers:
Sonata. op. 81 tAppassionata) Beethoven
Allegro
Andante con motto
Allegro ma non troppo--Presto.
(a) Prelude. Op. 2s, No. 15..-.........
(b) Nocturne, Op. SO. No. 1........-.
(c) Etude in C Flat ...-..............
(d) Polonaise in Flat OPP. 66. Chopin
(b) Barcarolle. d Major. .Rubinstein
(c) La Campanella. ......... Paganini- Liszt
(a) Sonnetto del Petrarca. ,...........
(b) Etude in Flat acknowledgements.
(c) Rhapsodie Hongroise. No. 5....... .Liszt
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Los Angeles is to lose one of the best
operate tenors she has had for years.
Johan Haas zinck contemplates going
east to live. having had two good offers