Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-10
MUSICAL EVENT OF
SEASON rs AT HAND
IN HE most important event of the
season from a musical standpoint

IN HE most important event of the
season from musical standpoint
- will be the engagement of Walter
Damrosch's New York symphony Or
chestra at the Mason opera house the
latter half of this week. The orchestra
comes here under the management of
l.. e. Behymer. 1t will be under the per-
sonal direction of Mr.. Damrosch him.
self and will offer as soloists Madame
Hissem de Mosse, soprano; Henry
Bremsen, cellist, and Alexander Sas-
lavsky, violinist. In addition to the
concerts to be given at the Mason
there will be a special concert at
Shrine auditorium Thursday afternoon
for the school children.
Foremost organization of it's kind in
the country, the New York Symphony
orchestra this season successfully car
ried out a program which embraced no
fewer than twenty-eight symphony
concerts in New York city. an under
taking regarded as almost impossible
when 1t was first announced. The Or
chestra is said to be the only organi-
cation of its kind in the country which
meets daily for rehearsal and which
is at all times at the call of it's con-
ductor.
Concert for Children
Thursday and Friday nights and
Friday afternoon concerts will be given
in the Mason opera house. The Thurs
day afternoon concert, however, will
present a special program for the
school children in Shrine auditorium.
This concert Is an achievement upon
which Mr.. Behymer justly prides him.
self. Its program has been In the
hands of public school teachers for
several weeks past. Hence the teach
ers have had an opportunity both to
study the music themselves and to
familiar1ze their pupils with 1t. Di-
rector Damrosch will deliver a short
talk to the children before the con-
cert opens.
Through the corporation of Miss
Stone, superintendent of music in the
public schools, and Miss Parsons of
the high school, the attendance of 1000
Los Angeles school children at this
concert already Is assured, while 1000
more are coming from Pasadena, Long
Beach, Ocean Park and Hollywood.
Thus Manager Behymer has been able
to make fiat rate of rs cents admis-
sion for the children, though adults
desiring to attend this concert will
have to pay the same scale of prices
established for the regular season at
the Mason.
Los Angeles is the only city in the
country where special concert Is to
be given for pupils in the public
schools, and the plan was made possi-
BILE here only through the enterprise of
Mr.. Behymer and the able assistance
rendered him by the school authorities.
Moreover, no such concert ever has
been given before anywhere by this
organization.
SasIavsky, violinist
Alexander Saslaysky, the dis
tinguished violinist who is to appear
in this city with the Damrosch orches-
ira, was born In 1876 at Charkoff, Rus
STA. He studied first In his native
country, under the celebrated Forski
and others. and later at the Vienna
conservatory under Prof. Jacob Gruen.
For four years he was concertmaster
of the Russian Symphony society, of
which he was one of the organizers but
later resigned to join the New York
Symphony orchestra, of which he has
been the concertmaster and soloist for
the past five years, meeting with great
success wherever he has appeared.
Henry Bremsen, 'celist, one of the
principal soloists, is a native of Den
mark. A pupil of julius Klengel in
Leipsic, he made his debut in that city
and for fifteen years toured Europe as
a concert 'cellist, appearing before all
position of court 'cellist to the king of
Denmark For the past two years he
has been in America, having been
brought over by Emil Pauer for the
Pittsburg orchestra. He Is the princi-
pal 'cellist of the New York symphony
orchestra.
Praise of unusually flattering sort has
been heaped on. Mary Hissem de Mosse,
the New York soprano, whose local ap-
pearance is set for the Friday matinee
of the Damrosch symphony orchestra.
"She certainly appeared as very
shining light last evening"" declared
the Denver Post Her voice is a very
high soprano, well adapted to The
Shadow Dance which won her Won
derful applause and compelled her to
return four times to acknowledge her
ovation.
The Montreal Witness is equally law
ish in it's praise. Madame Hissem de
Mosse added to the splendid impress
sion created on her former appearance
here. She sang with such quiet dignity,
the quality of her voice was so pure
and enunciation SO distinct that the
audience was spellbound Come Unto
Me- in particular was sung with ex-
quisite feeling"
The program for Thursday evening is as
follows:
Overture lie Roi vs." G-alo).
Lalo holds a high position in France among |
native composers, although his works are |
not so we'll known elsewhere His distinction |
lies in beauty of workmanship and brilliant |
Instrumentation. rather than in inspiration |
of the highest order.
Under the Trees" clarinet obligato, Mr.. |
Le Roy; violncello obligato. Mr.. Bramsen |
(Massanet).
Andante and scherzo from string quartette
(Debussy)
string quartette in G minor was
composed in December, 1893. and first pro-
dGced by YsZye's quartette in Paris in De-
cember of the same year. 1t holds a high
place among the brilliant composers works.
Debussy is composer of singular and strik-
ing originality, a man apart from others. As
Alfred Bruneau has expressed 1t, he is a
very exceptional. very curious. very soi-
tary." His life has been remote, and In a
measure lonely. Knowing poverty, he was
befrended by the publisher Hartmann. De-
bussy's "Pelleas and Mellisande' made him
famous, but his simple manner of life re- |
manned unchanged. lie has appeared from
time to time in chamber music concerts as a
pianist, and has written articles for music
journals and reviews in addition to his work
as a composer
ARABIAN Love Song" Saint Saens).
French Military Bal' (Sant-S aens)
Ball Scene" from Symphonic Fantastic"
Berlioz).
March to the scanold," from Symphonic
Fantastic" (Berlioz)
As to the meaning of the Fantastic Symph-
ony.' Berlioz has himself supplied the fol-
loving detailed explanatory preface: "a |
young musician of ardent imagination poisons
himself with opium in a fit of amoroiis de- |
SPAR The narcotic dose. too weak to result
in death, plnnges him into heavy Sleep ac-
colnpanied by strange visions, during which
are translated in his sick brain into musical
thought and images, The beloved vnnan