Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29
Musical

HE music lovers outlook for the
season of 1909-10 in Los Angeles |
promises well. The forecast in
eludes Jomelli, dramatic soprano who |
Is comparatively new in the east, and |
who created something of a furore |
wherever she was heard last spring |
and winter on the Atlantic coast: Nine |
frieda Langendorff, principal contralto |
OF the royal grand opera in Vienna for |
the past three months who made so |
good an impression in Los Angeles last |
year as soloist at the February sym |
phony that her welcome this winter |
should be most cordial. Dr. Ludwig |
Wullner, who was announced for a To- |
cal concert late in the spring but who |
tailed to materialize; George Hamlin |
tenor, and our dearly loved Nine |
Schumann- Heink OF the glorious voice |
and the beaming smile. Tillie Koenen, |
who has been member of the grand
opera company in Berlin for several |
months Is also promised.
l.. e. Behymer is talking of an en-
gagement for the Russian symphony |
orchestra, under the baton of Modest |
Altschuler and with a quartet of sing |
ers, March 3, the organization to come |
direct to Los Angeles at the close of
the New York season, and he even
hints that If we are very good and give |
the Russians good house he may even |
bring Loie Fuller and her dancing |
maids for our edification little later
probably in June Damrosch and his |
people, with Isadora Duncan, the cele- |
brated dancer, may be expected in Los
Angeles about the middle of April.
The Flonzaley quartet of Munich are |
due some time during the season. They |
have been devoting the past two
months to practically unbroken prac-
tice in Lausanne, Switzerland, where
they have little auditorium especially |
designed for them and where they |
achieved the wonderful team work
which has gained for them an enviable
reputation abroad. They will leave |
Dresden late in November and open
their American tour in Washington, |
d. c., early in December.
S
LOS Angeles Takes the Lead in Mu-
sic" is the caption of a two-column |
article written by Arthur Farwell, |
which occupies the place of honor on
the first page of Musical America in |
the issue of August II, and opens as
follows:
ITO make ones way into the musical |
world of Los Angeles is like entering a |
beehive Not that one is likely to get |
stung, but he will find one of the busi- |
est colonies that he has ever encoun- |
tered Everywhere enterprise, enter |
prise, is In the air.
lone hears of great CONCERT series for |
the school children under the auspices
of the schools, of symphony and cham |
ber music concerts, of projected festl- |
walls, of plans for bringing great artists
to the city, of plans for the permanent
Identification and upliftment of the |
city through art. One could have pre-
dicted all of this several yearsgago.
Los Angeles had an enormous pop |
ulation, with almost no actual poverty |
This population was In large part one
which already had a greater or less
f,, vi xxftl
east The great need a few years ago
was leaders to set this enormous pop |
ulation in action and produce results
by these accumulated forces. Leaders
have since arisen, and now big men
with big plans are found on every
hand.
"Another decade will show astonish-
ing results There are said to be 1000
piano teachers in the city, and the
teachers of singing would number al
most as great. Thus, together with
the work in the public and private
schools there is a broad ground work
of musical education being established.
"And il is the popular appreciation
of music, which is being awakened IN
this and other ways, that is going TO
make possible the carrying out of the
large plans of the leading thinkers and
workers who are projecting the great
features of the musical future OF Los
Angeles"
1t is unofficially announced in chi
J cago that business men of that city
& have guaranteed the 100000 mortgage
loan demanded by Hammerstein, and
that he will at once begin to formu-
late nlans for the erection of grand
opera house which shall cost In the
vicinity of $1,0oo,OOo.
d
Dudley Buck who sailed with his
wife for America the middle of August,
after an absence OF four years In Eu-
rome, is credited by an exchange with
saving that he feels that he has done
his best work, and has stopped COM
posing.
Is II fancy, or can the fine italian
hand of the president of the American
Music society be plainly discerned in
the following editorial in Musical
America? a..
The writer forgets to mention that
the guest of honor on the. occasion re-
ferred to was none other than said
president:
''If San Francisco has its Bohemian
club, It is not to be forgotten that Los
Angeles has its Gamut club, the growth
of which has been no less extraordinary |
In its way than that of the San Fran |
cisco organization
1.-THE Gamut club was organized by
musicians who held a dinner meeting
once a month. It's purpose was to cen
tralize the most powerful musical
thought of the city, to constitute a
meeting ground for musicians and their
"Four years ago the club met at
downtown hotel. and one long ta1le