Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
MUSIC

poSlllOnS. Inc second VIII COHSIuor
'Beethoven's Piano Works." the third,
Chopin and the fourth, Modern
Piano Composers.
Oscar Selling, vioIinist, will give a
recital at Blanchard hall Tuesday even
ing. With Miss Coleman at the piano
he will render the following program:
Carmen Fantasies Jeno Hubay; Con-
certo G Minor, Max Bruch; Scenes de
la Scarda, Jeno Hubay; Polonaise,
Wienlawski; Zigeunerwe weisen, Pablo de
Sarasate.
Herman Klein has been obliged to
abandon his Sunday Pop concerts in
New York for lack of support, and it
is understood that he has made good
a heavy deficit.
Since Los Angeles is more or less
interested in the same proposition, the
following extract from letter appear
ing recently in Musical America is
apropos and of sufficient Importance to
occupy a leisure moment:
Il attended some of these concerts,
and came to the conclusion that, in
the first place, such concerts are out of
place in New York in the afternoon,
and particularly so in the New German
theater, which I found cold, unsympa-
thetic and thoroughly unSuited for such
entertainments. I think if Mr.. Klein
will get a larger theater, somewhere on
the Broadway main line, and really
give popular concerts at popular prices,
he can trust to the American people
to support him.
''That Mr.. Klein gave a very high
class of music, rendered by artists of
unexceptionaI excellence, is undoubted,
but much of the music they gave was
classical, certainly not POPULAR and
the prices were also not popular.
Years ago a series of Sunday night
concerts were given at the New York
Casino, in the old Aronson days, when
the admission was so cents and re-
served seats 81. They attracted a crowd
at every performance. 1t was at these
concerts that Emma Juoh, the beauti-
full German singer, was such a favorite,
and Mime. Carreno, the pianist, and
Tagliapietra, the baritone, at one time
her husband; and Madeleine Schiller,
the pianist, too. The concerts were of
a high order, but they were always
kept within bounds, and they were
sutt1clently popular to appeal to the
mass of music-lovers, rather than to
the elect and select few. Calling con-
certs popular doesn't make them so,
and very often what the public under
stands by popular is very different
from what an educated musician like
Mr.. Klein understands"
The first popular Sunday afternoon
concert, under the auspices of the
Gamut club and in the Gamut aud
itorium, is definitely announced for
the first Sunday in March.
A new enterprise, an Educational
Chorus society, will be inaugurated
Friday night in Blanchard Music hall
under the direction of ]. N. Whybark
The feof11rn on EsT opdo,o n Io cr;,-1,.
in Symphony hail. Blanchard building,
tonight by B. r. Baumgardt, is said to
be perhaps the most interesting in the
series, as in addition to his already
large collection Mr.. Baumgardt Sc
cured large number of new slides
last summer when in London To these
he has added other data, and the even
ing promises to be one of great enjoy
ment.
On the occasion of the next concert.
March 5, the Symphony orchestra, will
give MacDOwells symphonic poem,
'Launcelot and Elaine Goldmark's s.
Rustic Wedding Symphony" andI
Glinka's famous overture, "A Life fer
the Gar" Ignace Herald, violinist, is
announced as soloist, and will give the
Saint-Saens concerto.
s.
The fourth recital of the grade school
SSIISS Will UG given w 6Qn6SQdY AFTER
noon at 4 o'clock in Simpson audito-
rum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thilo Becker are the
artists, and their program is as follows:
Sonata, Violin and piano in D major
(BeethoVen), (a)Fantasia in D minor
lMozarD, OBJ Butterfly" (Grieg), (c)
To Spring (Grieg), (O waltz in E
minor Chopin, (a) 1.-The Swan" (Saint-
Saens), OBJ humOresque (Dvorak), (c)
minuet (Mozart), est. Francis Preach
ing to the Birds (Lizt, (a) air on the g
string (Bach), (b) Perpetual Motion"
(Ries).
The Woman's Lyric club will give it's
second concert of the season March <
at Simpson auditorium, the program to
be given entirely by club members. The
program includes an organ and piano
number, vocal. solos and several inter
estlng choruses, among them Gounod's
"Gallia," Brahms "Gypsies'' and the
old favorite, 20 Vert Thou in the
Cauld, Cauld Blast"
Jaime Overton, son of Mr.. and Mrs
William S. Overton of Normandie ave-
nue., a gifted lad who has Just passed
his 18th birthday and for whom as a
violinist brilliant future is predicted,
left Monday night for New York en-
route for Paris, where he plans to study
IIiS CIoseH Instrument Tor year with
Franz Wilczek.
since his fourth year with his uncle.
A. ID. Hunter, is said to already possess
a mastery technique, unusual temper
ament and to have memoriZed a re-
markable repertoire Of classic music.
y
A cable received lately from Nine.
Schumann-H -Heink reads as follows:
"SanU fO6aU hQfnro
press of Germany, king and queen of
England, Princess Louise Victoria and
Prince Joachim at the Royal castle.
Quite informal. Presented with dia-
mond brooch
An exchange states that when H.
Godfrey Turner, who has so S11ccessA
fully managed the Maud Powell trio
collectively and individually" placed
in his advertisements a question mark
after the name of Anne Ford" the
pianist Of the organization, a good deal
OF speculation was aroused and many
a proofreader was perplexed. 1t was
not until after "Anne Ford" had proved
that she was a pianist and an accom-
panist of unusual ability-in fact quite
as satisfactory as any who has ever
visited America, that Mr.. Turner ex-
planned the Interrogation mark.
May Nuke, the 'cellist, and Anne
Ford are sisters" he said Il always
think names of relations on a program
have a weak appearance Now that
Miss Nuke has made quite a success
as an unknown person l don't mind
owning up to the mild fraud l perpe-
trated on the American public, which,
by the way, was quick to recognize
talent"
Vernon Bettin, the young lad who is
often referred to as "the boy soprano"
was heard in concert Friday night at
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