Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-19

deed be a contamination devoutly TO
be wished.
Night after night crowds of pleasure
seekers left the gay throngs in the cot
tages and the thoroughfares to listen
In silence for an hour or more to a
program of good music, an hour whose
inspiration and uplift will follow each
listener out into the busy life of home
and office, and will be a large ele-
ment in the rest accruing from the
vacation.
When considering this phase OF
! summer life at Catalina, ones thought
turns hopefully to the concerts prom
ised by a municipal band, and the
chance Of a somewhat similar expert
ence for music lovers this winter In
Los Angeles.
The Woman's orchestra will meet
for the first rehearsal of the season
the first Tuesday in October in Blanch-
ard hall at o'clock. Anyone desir-
ing membership in this organization
should make early application to Miss
Cora Foy, president, or Harley Ham
ilton, director.
George Hamlin, the American tenor,
writes entertainingly as follows Of his
stay in Switzerland:
Several days l spent In Chamonix,
spot whose grandeur can hardly
be surpassed. From my hotel
could see Mt. Blanc with its snowy
top. So near it appears, when view
ing it through my glasses, that 1t
seems as if I could reach out and
grasp a handful of snow. Yesterday
We crossed the 'Mer de Glasse,' the
great glacier, and I do assure you
that some of the way was most shaky
and 'skarie' and more than once
wished myself back on Broadway New
York, where I will be early in Sep
tember, ready for my tour of the Pa
ciflc coast"
The corner stone of opera is the tenor.
and tenors are scarcer than four-lear
cloYers Comic operas are now written
with baritone heroes, for that reason
but the great operas were written When
the disappearance of the tenor had not
been dreamed of, and tenors must be
had to sing in them, else no opera.
Hence q tenor voice is surer ana
often a larger source Of income than d
gold mine. Opera managers go up ana
down the world listening to cabmen,
truck drivers, old clo' venders and the
singers Of popular songs in the cheap
resorts, in the hope of hearing voice
which can be developed into an operate
tenor. For heretofore tenors, like the
poets, have been born and not maze.
The managers best chance was to md
such a voice before his rivals and pay
for it's education
But Jean de Reszke changed all that
He sang for years as a not especially
conspicuous baritone in Europe. He was
a good enough artist, but nobody
thought of calling him great. Then O
Paris teacher, adding two or three
notes to the top of his voice, In few
months transformed De Reszke from
singer of S2500 a month to one drawing
$2500 a night.
Since his transformation the musical
world has dreamed of raising barltones
into tenors as the alchemists dreamed
of transmitting lead to gold. And now
New York teacher has done the trick
Rudolf Berger, who has long been one
of the baritones of the Berlin opera
was the subject of the experiment. on
Tuesday night he reappeared in Berlin,
after a years study here, as tenor
and sang Lohengrin, with what the
cable reports to be great success. Inc
audience is said to have gone wild over
the success of the singer and his
+aacber and no wonder If that could