Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-27
Musical

afternoon and it makes such good
| reading that | am sharing it with
readers of The Los Angeles Herald.
Mr.. Behymer, with Harley Hamilton
and other music-loving folk from
Southern California, it will be remem-
bered, are attending the Musical festi-
val in New York. Mr.. Behymer writes
the following:
Eighteen thousand struggling peo-
pie, fighting and pushing to get into
| Madison Square garden; 5000 male
voices in a chorus 1S0 in the orchestra,
5000 people standing up 80 in the
shade, and all to hear this great chorus
! and peerless Schumann- Heink. And
they all did hear her! Such a mar
velous voice, and such sweetness, and
| such velvetness-oh, it was good to
be herel Harley Hamilton, DIR. Nor
man Bridge and 1 simply reYeled,
and then went back and reveled
some more; and the applause-why, [
never knew what applause was be-
| fore! s. Oh, a music festival like this
| is WORTH WHILE!
1T is the biggest musical success New
York, or for that matter, the United
States, has ever known. / only wish
Los Angeles musicians could nave seen
it, 1 am sure each would have become
a life booster" for a Greater Los An
geles musical festival run on the right
plans.
II have investigated every side of the
| festival question-had access to all the
committees could learn by their mis-
takes, and looked into the foundation
work, such as the management, the
publicity, the finances-while Mr..
Hamilton took the artistic end or 1t.
1 do not think 1 overlooked anything.
The management here was most kind.
They have made many mistakes, some
we could not have made ourselves, for
we know a few things on the coast;
! but their kindness has been very re-
freshing. MIR. Hamilton is coming
home with many new ideas, and L
know our symphony season Will be
immense. / am coming back Win
many new plans, particularly Tor the
school children. I have festival plans
and symphony plans that 1 know will
make good and boost Los Angeles as
a music center. l have fine line OF
artists-Madame Marcella Sembrich,
| soprano; Madame -Heink,
lcontralto: Madame Fremstead, dramat-
ic soprano; Madame Teresa Carreno,
pianist; Herr Moriz Rosenthal Fritz
Kreisler, Damrosch orchestra and
Isidora Duncan, La Loie Fuller and
her fifty dancing girls and symphony
orchestra, George Hamlin, tenor; David
Bispham, baritone; the Flonzaley quar-
tet, chamber music; DR.. Ludwig
Wuelner of Berlin and few other
good things to make it worth while to
live in a musical atmosphere in Los
Angeles.
"Mr. Hamilton and shall take in the
New York State Music Teachers
convention, and visit the Boston SYM
phony orchestra, and get around to
Chicago to hear the Thomas orchestra.
Mr. Hamilton is getting new music
and new ideas, and / am NOT letting
any new ideas get past mean can
ming them.
"The Pacific coast delegation has
been treated royalty. Yours truly,
IL; E. BEHYMER"
A testimonial concert and dramatic
entertainment is to be rendered Eu-
gene Nowland the evening of July in
! the Majestic theater, the first half of
the program being presented by Mrs.
Clara Henley Bussing, soprano; Harry
! Girard, baritone, and Herr Eduard Ig-
mace Haroldi, violinist.
Francois Coppees beautiful drama,
THE Violin Maker of Cremona,' in
which Mr.. Nowland has appeared with
such marked success, will occupy the
second part of the evening.
Playing the principal role of Filippo,
the hunchback. he will be supported by
| Clara Williams as Giannina, Sherman
cambridge as SandrO and William
Harris as Ferrari.
|
| Carpenter, Ellen Beach Yaw-Goldth-
waite, Genevra Johnstone- Bishop, Will
| loughby Rodman, Charles FarWell Ed
son, Claiming Higbee, William J. Va
riell, Partridge Wood, Beatrice Hubbel
Plummar Harry Clifford Lott, Carrie
Jacobs Bond, E. w. Martindale, G. A.
Bobricz, Albert Woodbury. Dow, Maud
Davis Baker, Edmund S. Shanks Olive
Morosco Edward L. Doheny, Frank
Mcdonald, Charles Noyes, Edward C.
| Dieter, George Goldsmith, William H.
Jamison, Fred Beau de Zart Carl Do
ran, A. K. Brauer, Donald Keller J.
Champion Anderson, B. f. Church,
George Kress, e. j. Brent, Machem w.
Everhardy, w. j. Hole, Augusta w. S.
Cross. Lewis Clark Carlisle, c. @. Stan
ton, Fred Selwyn Lang, Walter f.
Covington and Miss Margaret Goetz.
| $
At the annual election of officers of
the Lyric club, held June Is, the fol-
| lowing were chosen TO serve for the
season of 1909-1O: President, Mrs. Jen-
ME Lawrence; vice-president Mrs. w.
II. Jamison; Secretary, Miss Mary E.
Comins; financial secretary, Mrs. c. A.
| Post; treasurer, Mrs. G.. j. Vieira; Ii
brarians, Mrs f. r. Droby, Mrs. j. I.
Meyer; directors, Mrs. David Perry,
Mrs. Ida Marshchick. Mrs. c. L. Bis
| bee, Mrs. l.. l.. Merrick.
Inc cluD mas just 1nlShed Its most
prosperous year. Preparations for
next years concerts will begin with
the first rehearsal September a. at
Symphony hall. Mr.. Pouln continues
his work as director, and Miss O'Dono-
ghue accompanist.
Three free scholarships in music will
be given to the most industrious stu
dents of the Won Stein academy, in ac-
cordance with a rule esta blished
eighteen months ago, which provides
for three such prizes to be awarded for
unusual industry in study.
The formal awarding of prizes will
occur at o'clock and is to be followed
| by a musical program rendered by
! students of the academy.
Beginning July l and continuing un-
til the reopening of public schools in
Won Stein academy will be held Thurs
day afternoons instead of Saturdays.
! One hundred and fourteen such re-
citals have been given during the past
| two years All programs are played
from memory and the performers are
| Invariably students, a record of which
any music school may justly feel
proud,
Meanwhile, the management of the
Won Stein academy is busily engaged
| in carrying out it's promise to the Los
| Angeles public for one of the largest
colleges of music in the United States
| Not only has a most strenuous cam
paign been made for enrolling new
students, but four branch schools have
| haan ODeOad this month for the con-