Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-25
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NHE SWEETEST dinner of the season is

| IN HE SWEETEST dinner of the season is
to be given at the Hollywood hotel
tomorrow night by the Dominant
club in honor of Nine. Carreno, the cell
ebrated pianist. Covers will be laid for
one hundred. Private cars will take
them to the Hollywood.
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Alma Krausse will give a concert at
Longs recital hall next Thursday
afternoon, February ~, at 3 p. m. Miss
Krausse has a charming program.
Among her selections is a ballad. Lad
die" written especially for Miss
Krausse by Mrs. Baker p. Lee.
Miss Dorothy Lethbridge. a new Eng
fish pianist, daughter of Sir Wroth
Lethbridge, baronet, and Lady Leth-
bridge, is coming ito this country next
season. A Berlin critic says: II had
the pleasure on Monday last to hear
Miss Lethbridge of London, a favorite
pupil of Edouard Schirner, play. Such
a temperament and abandon can only
be found in a Hungarian Jewess. Ip a
very short time we will place the name
of Miss Lethbrldge beside those of
Carreno and Paderewski. She will I'M
doubtedly be one of the foremost plan
lists of the generation"
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Miss Priscilla Carver, a young and
talented pianist of Chicago, is in Los
Angeles Miss Carver will undoubtedly
be heard in Los Angeles in a recital
soon.
Carrie Jacobs-B Bond will leave the
city Thursday for San Francisco, sail
ing Saturday for Honolulu, where she
will give two song recitals, returning to
Los Angeles the last of April.
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Francis r. Soule director of the Cali
fornia Conservatory of Music at Tu-
lare Cal, is to give a musical festival
this spring and many soloists from Los
Angeles are to take, part.
David Bispham, who is having a re-
markedly active season in concert after
q years absence abroad, is of Quaker
origin, and consequently parental OPP
position was one of the obstacles that
he had to overcome in entering the pro-
fession in which he has been so emil
nently successful. He was sent to
Haverford college, where music was
tabooed, and so 1t was necessary for him
to go outside the college grounds when
he wished to play his either or strum
up his guitar. When he left college
he entered upon a business career with
his uncle, a field previously chosen for
him by his parents, and for seven years
he followed commercial pursuits,
though outside of business hours he
devoted his time entirely to music. He
was well past 30 years of age when he
made his professional debut after a
number of years of study in Italy.
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An interesting feature of last Sun
days concert of the New York SYM
phony orchestra under Walter Dam
roschs direction, was Strauss "Sym-
phonia Domestica," in which the COM
poser sought to depict unsteady the
humdrum effect of his own family life.
The entire program was of domestic
character, the opening number being
DR.. Leopold Damrosch's "Hymenean,
written in honor of his wife of twenty
five years, and Wagner's "Siegfried
Idyl." The orchestra is to make brief
winter tour under Loudon Charlton's
direction, and an extended tour to the
Pacific coast and south early in the
spring.
Ellison Van Hose has proved this
season that his talents are quite as
we'll suited to recital work as to con-
cert and opera-fields in which he has
won the reputation of being one of the
foremost American tenors. Mr.. van
Hoose has filled a number of recent re-
cital engagements in southern cities
notably in Louisville. 1t Is probable