Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
Musical
DHE project of permanent festival
organization in Los Angeles re-

H1HE project of permanent festival
organization in Los Angeles re-
- ceived it's send Off at the Sep
tember meeting of the Gamut club,
when a committee of five, consisting OF
J. A. Stamm, A. Francisco, e. E. Penn
berton, George Derby and L. e. Behy-
mer, was appointed to act for the club
and in conjunction with members of the
music and art committees of the cham
Der of commerce, and representatives
from the Merchants and Manutactur-
ers association, the Dominant, Lyric,
Orpheus, Ellis, Treble Clef, Ebell, Rus
kin Art and Friday Morning clubs, the
board of education, L. A. and Polytech-
mic high schools, to work out plan
that should make possible the first Of
these events in the spring of 1910.
This committee held the first meet
ing Wednesday, Mr.. Behymer acting as
chairman and Mr.. Derby secretary, and
tentative plans were made for a week
of music in April or May of next
! spring. All vocal and instrumental or
ganizations in Southern California will
be invited to participate. OF the seven
proposed events two will be given by
chorus and orchest of children from
chorus and orchestra of children from
will take place afternoons. 1t was de-
cided that $4,000 would be needed TO
make the festival a success.
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Sousa and his band are coming to
Los Angeles under the auspices of the
Fitzgerald Music company and will
| give twelve concerts at popular prices
at Temple Auditorium the last week
in October. The seat sale will be with
the Fitzgerald Music company ami an
nouncement of the opening sale will be
given later.
| Two American artists will assist at
the opening of the Philharmonic course
| this season. Miss Marie Nichols and
! Miss Magdalene Worden, violinist and
| pianist, who are announced to accom-
pany Nine. Jeanne Jomelli on her Pa
cific coast trip. Miss Nichols is a vio-
| linist whose work abroad has been re-
ceived with approval, and Miss Wor-
| den, in addition to being an excellent
| pianist, is a composer of ability, and
several of her songs are incorporated
in Nine Jomelli's programs. The trio
| will be here in November at Simpson
auditorium.
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DR.. Ludwig Wuellner the German
liedersinger, who will give one recital
| in this city in December, bade the Mu
Mich public farewell the afternoon of
| September II, In recital of songs ap
| propriate to the Brahms festival last
week. His farewell to Germany will
be at recital in Berlin with the Phil
harmonic on September 20, the day be-
fore he sails for America.
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President and faculty of the Fillmore
| School of Music announce a recital the
evening of October In Blanchard hall,
when the following program will be
| rendered:
| Two pianos
Concerto in minor (romance and rondo)
Chopin
| Thomas H. Fillmore and Jessie B. Small.
| 'Lo! Here the Gentle LARK ............ Bishop
Helen Guilford stadden
Flute obligato, VIM. H. Mead.
| (a) Who Knows? ...............,........ Waller
(b) L'Envoi ............................. Kiplins
Hazel Dell
Violin
"Jota Aragonesa" ...................... sarasate
| Marie Approx
| La Gazelle' ......................,,...., Kulak
verna Janice stahl
| (b) "Arml Arm, Ye Brave!' ........ Haendel
| ]. Benson Starr.
"a Set OF Turquoise" ........"........ Aldrlch
| Miss Dell
Soprano and baritone
''Ihe Return" 81; Bantock
MIS- SlhuueA anu NIL oLadA
Two pianos
Mrs. Small and Mr.. Fillmore.
! Accompanist-Mrs. Small.
The free monthly recital of the De
| Chauvenet conservatory pupils will be
| held Saturday afternoon at o'clock
at S45 South Figueroa street. A spe-
cial feature will be the duo piano num-
Der, "Mozart's Sonata" by Ards Olds
and De Chauvenet. De ChauVenets 8
''Polonaise Heroique" will be played
by the composer. Preceding the re-
| cital at 2:15 the Composers Study
club will meet, and those interested
in the study of the composers will be
admitted.
The twenty-frst free concert of the
First Methodist Episcopal Sunday
school orchestras of Tropico and Bur-
bank, Earl B. Valentine, director, is
| announced for Tuesday evening, in
the First Methodist church, Sixth and
Hill. H. B. Clark, basso, and Charles
Yglesias, violinist, will assist.
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Some we'll known vocalists and in
strumentalists are to make tours
throughout the southwest this season,
and will appear in concert in Los An
geles and before, the various music
clubs of Southern California and the
| southwest. Georg Kruger pianist, has
been engaged by the Amphion club of
San Diego, and will tour Arizona and
New Mexico, going. as far south as
Amarillo, Tex. Mrs. Mary LeGrand
Reed dramatic soprano, soloist at the
public school demonstration at Temple
Auditorium Thursday, has been en-
gagged by the Riverside and Redlands
clubs as the opening soloist for their
season, and will also be heard in a
series of concerts throughout Southern
| California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Herr Ignaz Haroldi violinist, assisted
by Miss Helen Goff and Lottie Buis-
secret, violinist, is scheduled for a
tour of the southwest.
| Il
| When George Hamlin, the tenor, was
| a youngster of or Z years he was as
| full of questions as a civil service eX-
animation. His chief delight was to
ply a favorite uncle with queries of a
sort that no one but an imaginative
6-year-old could possibly devise. One
day he rushed indoors, all excitement.
"Uncle Jim," he demanded, where does
| the hole go when we close the win
dow?" And though Uncle Jim devoted
considerable thought to the problem he
hasn't framed an adequate answer yet.
|
Tina Lerner, the young Russian plan
! list whom Loudon Charlton is to bring
| from Europe in October for her second
| American tour, is only 20 years of age,
and yet her reputation is world wide.
Moreover, she is an extremely beautiful