Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04

| for our city first, last and all the time.
| The time has come when the support OF
every citizen who has the musical in
! terest of the city at heart is needed
put up their money and spent their
time in holding together our present
orchestra.
Seattle raises $4,000 for it's SYM
phony orchestra, st. Paul $4,000, Den
| yer $4,000, and Los Angeles, with an
organization that has been in existence
for eleven years, can only raise $4,000.
This Is a simple matter of business,
and no community should divide its
efforts but should support the project
that lies ready for development, ana
| give it the necessary money. A chorus
in connection with our present organ
iZation will put us on footing with
the large cities of the east and give us
the material with which to work, and
that is what the music and art com"
mittee proposes to do. But we are Tor
the Los Angeles Symphony orchestra
for what it has done and for what it
will be. Boston spends about 100000
| q year lust for an orchestra; we spend
$4,000! Can we compare? No. How
can we compare? By putting our hands
in our pockets and showing that we are
| not an ungrateful people and that we
do have some pride in and appreciation
of our men who have placed our city in
the same class as the big cities of this
country that have had orchestras for
the last ten years. 1t is no time for
sentiment but is a simple, straight out
| business proposition. Are the people
of Los Angeles going to say to the
men who have stood for the artistic
| life of this city even to the extent OF
personal sacrifice: We appreciate you
and are with you with money and
with faith or are they going to say:
We have no desire to build up mu-
| and artistic community ~
A glance at the accompanying pho
tographs of artistes who are to appear
in the Philharmonic course of concerts
this winter makes assurance doubly
sure that this series, which has STOOD
| for the best in music for ten consecu-
tive years in Los Angeles, gradually
improving as higher grade artistes
found their way to the music lovers OF
the Pacific coast; will include again
this winter only the best talent and
will prove more than satisfactory TO
! patrons.
Regardless of the fact that artistes
are demanding this winter a guaranty
greatly in excess of any previous year,
Impresario Behymer is presenting for
| his eleventh season stars of the first
magnitude, both as VocaliSts and IN
strumentalists.
The first event, set for Friday even
| ing, November 81, will be the appear
/ ance of an artistic who has cOncert1zed
with Patti, Grieg, Godowsky, Harold
Bauer Saint-SaenS, De Pachmann and
others-Arthur Hartmann, who Is not
only a virtuoso on his chosen 1nstru-
ment but composer as well. accom-
panying Mr.. Hartmann will be Alfred
Calzin, a pianist who has won honors
before the most critical audiences in
Europe.
Los Angeles will welcome Friday
evening, December 4, Maud Powell,
who plays with breadth, dignity and
passion that set her apart from other
woman violinists. With Miss Powell
win come a black-eyed London girl,
May Nuke, 'cellist. There is some
thing almost startling in the self-pos-
session, the surety and depth of MISS
Mukles work, and it is precisely be-
cause of these qualities that Miss Mu-
kle is making such deep impression
in Furope and America. Anne Ford,
pianist, is the third artistic of this trio.
and their chamber music work places
them in the same class as the Krelsler-
Gerardy- Hoffman, concerts which were
q feature of trio music several years
: ago.
Madame Lillian Nordica, Tuesday, De-
cember 30, who Is appearing in concert
the first time for a number of years.
= She will bring her own concert COM
pany, giving a new program, ana TINS
should be the crowning musical event
of the year, as her great success at
Asbury Park shows she is singing bet
: ter than ever before.
The fourth event will be the intro
duction of a new singer to Los Ange-
les Madame Frieda Langendorff, mez-
zo-soprano, one of the successes of the
Metropolitan opera house last season.
, and called "the new Schumann- Heink"
by those who love Wagner music and
oratorio and recital work. Madame
Langendorff is much admired as Elsa,
Ortrud, Azucena, Erica, Brunnhilde,
and has sung in grand opera In the
t Royal opera at Berlin, Vienna, Dres-
Y den, Hamburg, Wiesbaden and other
l European countries. She comes Tues
: day evening, February Is.
A second artistic new to Los An
geles will be the fifth entertainer, Josef
LheVinne, considered Russia's greatest
pianist, who is booked for March 3.
For four years it has been the endeaVor
of the Pacific coast managers to Sc
cure month of Lhevinne time. and
this is the first season the Atlantic
coast public would allow him to come
west He ranks with PadereWski, Hof-
mann and De Pachmann
The last date, March %, reintroduces
l to us that grand exponent of vocal eX-
} preston, David Bispham, whose clever
work entities him to the crowning po-
= sition of male singers in America. His
| new programs are replete with ballad,
; song cycles, oratoria and operate Sc
, lections, and this artistic is entrusted
with closing this excellent series.
If anything should happen because
, of illness or accident that one of these
i artistes could not fulfill his obligation,
Mr.. Behymer has reserved Madame
} Johanna Gadski. with new programs,
: assisted by Frank lie Forge, as sub
stitute. or Ossip GabrtloWitsch, plan
, ist. whose clever work is already well
known in this city,
:
The first rehearsal of the Los Ange-
les Symphony orchestra was held last
week in Blanchard hall, and If this re-
lbearsal is any criterion the symphony