Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-03

Derby, Gamut club. Promises of
hearty cooperation were received
from the Ebell, Friday Morning,
| Dominant and Orpheus clubs.
s.
Signor Lucchesi is preparing his ad-
vanced pupils for recital little later
| in the season, when they will present
his trio "Carattemistaoin," for violin,
! piano and cello; Arthur Foote, writ
! ing to Signor Lucchesi of his latest
composition, "Marquise de Pompa-
dour," speaks of it in terms Of the
| highest praise.
Jules Koopman, violinist, and his
brother, Maurice Koopman, 'cellist,
who have come to Los Angeles to re-
side, will be heard in recital in the
Gamut club one evening early in No
vember. Harry Clifford Lott will as
sist with the program, and Mrs. Lott
will accompany. Jules Koopman is
we'll known conductor and soloist IN
his home in the south OF England
The sale of Rouget de iIsle's old
house in Paris has revived the old
question whether he was the composer
| as we'll as the author of the "Marsei-
laise. The air has also been claimed
for a violinist of some note in mis- day.
named Alexander Boucher who i'm
/
oblige a colonel whom he met at
hotel. The colonel. the story contin-
! ues, hummed it to the band master OF
his regiment, who wrote it out ana
orchestrated it, and Rouget de f1sle
wrote words for it (merely altering
six-eight time into common time) at
the suggestion of the jailer Of the
prison in which he was confined at
Marseilles. What truth there is in the
story it Is practically impossible to
! saw: but there is no doubt that Alex
| ander Boucher, who lived to be 81,
told it to journalist in 1850, two
years before his death.-Dundee Ad-
vertiser.
Miss Adele Case passed through Los
Angeles en- route to San Francisco on
Wednesday and was entertained by a
group of local musicians. Miss case Is
said to have a fine dramatic contrallo
voice, and was heard in a number Oh
her late songs. She has won an enVl-
able reputation as a singer in London
| and Paris, and last season was sololst
with Harold Bauer in his tour of the
continent, and made a sensation IN
l England 1t is the intention OF MISS
Case to rest a while at her home IN
oregon City before leaving for the
east, where she is to appear in concert
the early part of the season; she eX-
coast during February.
s.
Nine. Marcella Sembrich, who will
make her farewell appearance in Los
Angeles during the early part of De-
cenber, will sing at the Coliseum Octo-
her 25 for the benefit of the Kingdom
House settlement. The Damrosch or
chestra, booked for an appearance in
Los Angeles in May, will assist at the
same concert.
Paderewski is reported to be hard at
work at Riond- -Bosson, his chalet on
Lake Geneva, near Morges, revising the
first part of his opera, "Manru," which,
it will be remembered, had its premiere
in Dresden several years ago, afterward
having a series of successful perform
ances in the Metropolitan opera house,
and later being included in several rep
ertoires in Europe. "Manru' is TO De
presented at the Opera Comique this
winter.
Paderewski has also completed the
preliminary outline of his new opera,
which has for its inspiration "Sakun-
tala," by the late Catulle Mendes.
Under the direction of DR.. Cornelius
Rubner, a course in church music on
the organ, choir training and manage
ment, leading to the certificate as or
ganist and choirmaster, will be given
this year at Columbia university.
The divisions will include choir train
ing and choral conducting, by Walter
Henry Hall, organist at ST James
church, New York, and since 1898 con-
ductor of the Brooklyn Oratorio soci-
ETY.. Harmony, advanced harmony and
musical dictation, counterpoint and
choral practice, by Frank T.. Ward
organist of Columbia university. Com
position, advanced composition, orches-
tration and symphonic form, by DR..
Rubner. Organ course, advanced, by
Felix Lamond, organist and choirmas-
ter of Trinity chapel and pupil of Will
liam Henry Monk of Kings college,
London, and general musical course, by
Daniel Gregory Mason, Harvard, 1895,
the we'll known lecturer and writer on
music.