The San Francisco call., 1909-09-26
VETERAN SOCIETY
PREPARES CONCERT
LOring Club Begins New Season
With Recently Appointed
Musical Director
C0nstabuIary Band on Way
Back for Final Series of
Programs Here
By WALTER ANTHONY

thirty-Lhird year Of its existence has
now begun and the date of the first
concert Of the new season has been set
for October Il. at Christian Science
hall Wallace A Sabin is the director
The invitation of the club to Sabin
has been accepted and the noted musl-
clan is now formally installed in the
position made vacant by the death Of
". c. Stadtfeld. who served the club
long and faithfully.
IN the new director the club has
found q musician OF high attainments
serious musicianship and practical
methods Sabin's recent work, ST
Patrick at Tara" stamped him as a
creative force in the musical circles OF
the west. He had long been recog-
nzed as an fnterpretative force through
his superior organ playing and his d.
rection OF some Of the best choral
bodies in the city Sabin's attitude to-
ward his art is serious; his musician
ship is refined and his expression ele-
CANT and authoritative. The Loring
club is 10 be congratulated on securing
him for director.
-Four concerts are planned for the
forthcoming season, the first to be
given on the date named. the second
70 take place in December and the
other two in March and May of the
coming year. Skill in reading. and the
sense OF vocal contrast and nuance
have been developed during the years
OF the Loring clubs existence, and
Sabin has before him body OF singers
which viii rank well with any similar
organization in the world-only the
Limitation which arises out of the ex-
clusion OF treble tone can be pointed
10 by the csptiOus as q disadvantage;
on the other hand the vocal effect OF
merely male voices is, by some. ad-
mired more than an equally well drilled
mixed choir. However, Sabin finds
himself confronting an excellent, well
balanced vocal volume and he should
do wonders with it in the work he pro-
poses TO interpret.
For the first concert z number of
new things are promised. Sir Charles
Nilliers Stanford's cycle Of Songs Of
the Sea" viii be given for the first
time in this city. The composition is
for male voices with barytone solo, and
il was a brilliant success when it was
first produced at the Leeds festival in
1904. John Darlington has been en-
trusted with the solo role. and there
viii be an accompaniment Of piano. or
gan and full orchestra
hremer's chorus for two choirs of
mems voices, 'Thro' Whispering
BOughs." VIII be another novelty and
George W chadwick's 10. Now Nights
Shadows viii have q place of import
snce on the program. The Vintage
Song. from MendeIssohn's uncom-
pleted opera, The LoreIei," VIII be
card Sir Arthur Sullivan's The
y yLong Day Closes" will be a grateful
'ugmber and John Hyatt Brewers
Break. Break" viii also be heard.
Brewer. who is usually at his best
when writing for female voices. has in
the setting OF the Tennyson poem
somewhat surpassed himself. and the
tender phrases which he has set to the
words And, it's oh, for the touch of a
vanished hand" may be accepted as an
In Nemoriam" for the late director of
the club. ". c.. Stadt1eId.
Frederic Maurer Jr. viii precide at
the plano and Sabin viii direct chorus
and orchestra
They are called "Taft's Pets these
Philippine musicians Of the constabu-
larry band. which is returning by easy
stages across the country from Wash
ington. where IL was a feature of the
Inauguration ceremonies which made
the former governor of the Philippines
president Of the United States.
It was while Taft was governor Of
the islands that the idea occurred to
him 10 organize the musicians into a
band and encourage the cultivation Of
the gentlest Of the arts as against the
warlike enterprises in which the Phil
ippine braves had INDUCED. Seven
years ago. scarcely q man now in the
band had ever played on an occidental
hand instrument, but a natural apti-
tude for music. which resides In all of
the natives Of tropic and semi tropic
lands. asserted itself and the little
brown brothers soon were playfng
masterfully on tuba. trombone. trum-
pet and drum. The stringed instru-
nlents came even easier, so that now
the band converts itself in a moment
from military organizat ton into an
orchestra. convenient to play the clas-
sic masterpieces Of Beethoven and
Brahms and the romantic compositions
of Wagner
At present the constabuAary band is
in Seattle. but IL will be heading this
way soon and viii play its final con-
certs in this city. The long tour Of the
United States. including nearly all of
the great cities OF the land will end
here at the Golden gate and the band
Will embark for Manila on the trans
port Logan. October 3. Arrangements
have been made for concerts in Dream
land rink on the afternoons and even
ings Of the preceding Sunday and Mon
day.
The California conservatory of music
announces a series of musical events
for the coming season A series of
six chamber music concerts will be
given three before and three after
Christmas. the dates of which will be
subsequently given. Herman Gems,
Giulio Minetti. Arthur Weiss and II. J.
Stewart viii participate as members of
the faculty in the recitals and they will
be assisted by other artists
Miss Hazel Wood and her sister. Miss
Myrtle Wood. viii appear in a song re-
cital early in November. Miss Seta
Stewart, young pianist of whom
great things are expected, will play an
ambitious piznoforte program. Charles
Bulotti, tenor, will be heard in an
evening of song, and the well known
Minetti quartet, which has been sup
plying splendid string music for many
seasons. viii use the hall at the con-
servatory for recital purposes The
acoustic properties OF the auditorium
are excellent. and the size Of the room
is conducive 10 the establishment of
that sense of artistic intimacy which
f. essential in chamber music.
Finally. Hermann Genss, president
OF the conservatory. viii give two pi-
ano recftaIs. in which he will intro
duce some of his newest compositions.
besides novelties rarely heard here.
A concert viii be given by the pupils
OF the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music. assisted by professional talent.