The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12
FAMOUS VIOLINIST
TO BE HEARD HERE
Fritz kreisler to Appear in COn-
certs at Novelty Theater
This Week
Benefit TO Be Given Miss Ida Nj.
Graham in St. Francis At
tracts Music Lovers
BY WALTER ANTHONY

."HE mere announcement that Fritz
.Kreisler, violinist. is to appear is
sufficient TO meet the farthest
ends of publicity. Kreisler commands
the rare faculty OF satisfying the taste
of the most captious and critical of mu-
sicians and of winning the hearts of
the unframed. His appeal is finer
combination of mind and soul than that
commanded by almost any other artist
before the public. His technic is Won
derful, but it is never wasted in vulgar
or ostentatious display. 1t is discreet,
yet perfect; it is a vehicle merely for
the expression of the deeper things Of
music. There is today but one Fritz
Kreisler, and he appears this afternoon
at the Novelty theater in the first of
series of three recitals. The second ap-
pearance will take place Thursday
night and the final appearance Will be
next Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile he
will play a concert in Oakland Friday
afternoon at Ye Liberty playhouse.
Today's program will be as follows:
Sonata ID major Haendel
Andante Allegro energico. Larghetto.
Allegro.
Prelude and Allegro. g. Pugnani uIS1 .l7ssl
Allegro moderate. Adagio. Allegro con
spirito.
Grave Friedman Bach q710-17s4)
Chanson Louis XIII snd Pavane. .-...--...-.
............. Louis CoHperin 1880 1861
Harghetto B dat mai ...'.-........ Weber
Rondo G major A, mozart
Poonaise majo .Wieniawski
The artistic Offices of the great DR..
Ludwig Wullner have been secured by
VIII Greenbaum for an additional re-
\
night at the Novelty theater. Wullners
success during the season just closed
here encouraged his mana gers TO ar
range another concert, and so he was
brought back TO this city with his ac
companist. Bos, for a last appearance.
great list of German songs has been
arranged for tomorrow nights pro-
gram. and the barytone is almost GER
tain to be greeted by another crowded
house.
lVI TO the benefit concert to be
4fA given in the colonial ballroom of
the st. Francis hotel next Thursday
evening as testimonial to Mrs. Ida
NJ Graham.
The cause is a noble one; it has
engaged the sympathies of some of the
best artists in this city, and it should
love good music and do not ignore the
appeal of gentle charity.
The patronesses of the affair, who
are sponsors for its great worthiness,
are:
Mrs. Eleanor Martin The Misses Jollne
Mrs. W. W. Van ArsdalelMr An,irew NJ. Welch
Mrs. John McGaw Jr
Mrs. / Z. Lowe Mrs. W. Z. Hammond
Mrs william Nfintzer Mrs J. STOW Ballard
Mrs Guy Manning Mrs. Irving F. Moulton
Mrs Charles L. Acker- Mrs. Henry I. Scott
man
The excellence of the program merits
a full reproduction here of the numbers
and the participants:
The Two Grenadiers'' ............ schumann
Louis Albert Larsen, barytone
Fie5ssf5su@ Fs9ssi5s1g wa,sr No. ds5t
Miss Euia Howard, Pianist
i'i''s hi'SfnS Mackenzie Gordon. Tenor 0'f'ne'en'S
Second Concerto second movementl .vieuxtemps
Herman Heller, Violinist
sketeh-"The Other woman
silEie Graham, young widow
Enid yiv,.n an sctres: Mrs Louise L. Gage
-'1 .......l....... aD' - Mrs. squire varck Mooney
"D9st I.o,i Thou Know That Sweet Land from
.FIaws2 as20S Song from, .:far.t faS@as Gonnos
Miss Georgiana Strauss. COntraito
a "A ndsnte -.-----.-----..-...-- Molique
Nine. Ksethe Pieczonka. ceiiist -'''''''e'
Frederick Maurer Jr., AccOmpanist
A announced last week the second
~ concert of this season to be given
"A by the Loring club will be heard
Tuesday night, December IA, al Chris
tian Science hall.
The soprano soloist of the occasion
will be Mrs. Grace Davis Northrup who
in addition to assuming the solo role
in the clubs fine arrangement of
Adolph Adams 'Cantique de Noel" will
be heard in a number of songs
Much interest naturally attaches to
the presentation for the first time of
Frederick Maurer's violin solo. which
will be played by Hother Wismer and
accompanied by the composer. These
two musicians will also be heard in
Max Bruch's beautiful "Adagio."
The concert will be under the direc-
tion Of Wallace A. Sabin.
HNHE concert which had been planned
by the San Francisco center of the
American music society has been
postponed until Friday evening, Jan
uary Z. The rush of contrary activi-
ties preceding the holidays, the desire
TO present Chadwick's quintet in its
entirety and the difficulty in holding
proper number of rehearsals were
some of the reasons for the postpone
ment
William J. Mccoy, president of the
San Francisco center, expresses his
confidence that the forthcoming recital
will be a vigorous impulse in the en-
couragement of good native music, and
that the artists who will appear will
be much appreciated.
Mrs NJ f. Blanchard and Lowell
Redheld will contribute vocal selections
taken from the best of American music:
Signor di Grassi, splendid artist win
appear in violin numbers, and male
quartet will render concerted music
from American pens. The members of
the quartet are Frank Onslow Carl
Anderson. John de p Teller and Harry
Perry. Piano solos VIII be furnished
by Eugene Blanchard, and the climax