The San Francisco call., 1909-12-05
GREAT VIOLINIST
WILL PLAY HERE
Much Activity in Music Circles
Will Keep Ticket Buyers
Busy During Holidays
Frederic Maurer Will Show
Skill as Composer as Well
as AccOmpanist
By WALTER ANTHONY


The last shall be greatest. Fritz
Kreisler will close our year for us. He
is the last great artist to appear in
San Francisco in 1909. Greenbaum's
selection of the Titan of violinist to
round out our musical year was wise
and happy choice.
Kreisler never fails in this city to
attract large audiences, for he adds to
a wondei ful technic the charm of an
unusual personality and the temper
mental appeal of a genuine genius. His
programs are marvels of perfection,
ranging the history of music for num-
bers. heard of and unheard of, and he
brings forth to the light of the TWEEN
tieth century many a perfectly cut
gem of the seventeenth.
His first program will be heard at
the Novelty theater next Sunday after
noon and these are the numbers he will
present:
(a) Sonata, ID major. 0r................... Handel
Andsnte, allegro energico, larghetto allegro
Ibl Prelude and allegro. C. Pugnsni lI31,l!ssl
Allegro moderate, adsgio allegro con spirito.
(al Grave ..-..-.. Friedman Bach 1710l7s4)
Louis Conperin isso 1861
(cl Alegretto -....... l.. Boccherini G743 lso5)
ID Larghetto. nat major. Weber
le) Rondo, major r--..--.......--......M Mozart
(al Canzonetts .....--......... .Dvorak
o
On the occasion Of the second con-
cert Tuesday night, December 16, he
viii present an entirely different pro-
gram. as also he will at the farewell
concert Sunday afternoon, December 10.
Greenbaum announces that seats Will
be ready for the series Wednesday
morning al sherman. Clay & Co.'S in
Kearny street. A program for akland
at Ye Liberty theater is arranged
for Friday afternoon, December Il.
The St Francis art society will hear
this great artist Tuesday night, De-
cember IA.
George Hamlin, whose concert last
Thursday night was a great artistic
treat but sadly neglected in attendance,
yet big with musical worth, will
sing again this afternoon and for the
last time this season in this city next
Tuesday evening Both recitals will
be heard at the Novelty theater.
The sincere artistry, genuine musi-
cianship, sympathetic understanding
of the poem, and the beautiful tenor
voice which form Hamlin's chief quail
fications as song interpreter have
been discussed in these columns before.
1t will soon be too late to hear this
noted singer. and to neglect the oppor-
tunity would be pity. Look this pro-
gram over. You'll find it an interest
ing schedule of wonderful songs. 1t is
his program for this afternoon. There
have been a few changes made since
the program was first announced. This
is the correct list:
Deb Piu Me Non vaseondete - Bononcini
Where 'er You Walk Handel
Elm Frohlich Gesanc'' ......--... Old German
'.Dass Sic Hier Gewesden" .--....-- Schubert
Der Kuss' Observation-Disclosures. Beethoven
..ProvepcsIisehes Lied ........s schumann
20 Kom i'm Traum -----------.--.--- iaszt
.Jugendglueck l-iszt
-.verschwiegene Liebe'' .....--.... Hugo Wolf
port IN den Walden .............- Brahms
sVSseTlS weep You No More. % Mistress Nine
blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind -......
..Hvmn 10 fhe Night .Campbell-Tipton
I'm Moonlight -.......,-..---- .Elgar
I'm Not Myself at All" -: Glover
Flower Rain. Bird Raptures''
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Edwin schneider
Frederic Maurerss skill as an ac-
companist is an established and deter
mined fact in local music circles. If
we didn't know it of our own accord
it would have been impressed upon us
by visiting artists who have heard him.
An illuminative knowledge of song
forms covering the field of vocal music
from the classics of Scarlatti to the in
voIutions of Strauss is back of his
piano playing when he sits down to. ac-
company.
But accompanying is thankless
task. If it is good it is likely TO go un-
observed. because, good as it is, it is
no better than it should be. If it is
bad, then the wrath of the singer and
the scorn of the listener are the por
tion of the unhappy player. If the
singer himself is poor, wobbly in his
rhythms, and uncertain when to begin
and when to stop, a frown from the vo-
calist is the usual method of placing
the blame on the man al the piano.
After the concert is over few indeed
know that half of the success won and
the applause invited are due to the sym
pathetic instrumentalist who has fol-
lowed every curving phrase, attacked
every awkward movement and kept his
part of the production dramatically dis
Greet and artisticaily reticent. Let us
give more credit to the accompanist
This will serve as preface, trust, to
the statement that Maurer is going TO
introduce himself TO US in the role of a
composer. He should be a successful
one, for he has a musical nature imagi-
nation. and. If he is grounded well in
the science Of building music, should
rear admirable works of tone
The composition to be played is a
Romance" for violin, and to Hother
Wismer, the talented local violinist, is
assigned the honor of introducing il.
time and place Will be the Loring club
concert-the second of this series-et
Christian Science hall Tuesday even
ing. December IA.
The program announced by the club
contains nothing but promising appear
ing numbers The Night is Cloudless
and Serene" by Schubert, is a sonorous.
melodious number for male voices. 1t
will be given its first presentation in
this city. The important tenor solo
which forms a part of the number will
be sung by J. F. Veaco, one of our best
tenors
There Will be a group of Hungarian
songs. the choral ballad "Lochinvar,"
the musical setting to which is by a
rising native composer William C.
Hammond; Alexander Mackenzie's "A
Franklyp's Dogge Leped over a STYLE
which is a humorous English compo-
sition, and some music appropriate to