Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-17
Musical

HHE board of directors of the sym
phonv orchestra met yesterday
n morning for the first time TINS
summer and discussed plans relative 10
programs for the winter season.
The opening symphony cohcert OF SiIe
season of 1909-10 has been set Tor NO
yember 70, when Nine. Jeanne Jomelll'
sonrano. better known in the east
than west of the Rockies, who last sea
son was with the Metropolitan opera
company, and who has been dellgHtlIs
| audiences In Buffalo and other music
! centers this summer, will be the sololst;
While the program has not assumed
definite form, Director Haniiton nas as
! decided npon one orchestral NUMBER 10
be given at this time, DVorak sym
rhony, "The New World" .,...
IT is probable that George HamIll.
| tenor. will appear on the occasion OF
the second concert, December H. anu
| as Beethoven's birthday anniversary
comes in December 1t Is also 10 De eA-
pected that Mr.. Hamilton VIII Ioltom
| his usual plan and arrange dlStlnctlNe
Beethoven afternoon. 1t is certain thal
the third symphony, in nat Ero-
! ica " will he one of the numbers
The list of compositions which Mr;
Hamilton will program this winter VIII VIII
include the following, many OF Whlci'
| are new to Los Angeles; ,,-, Nv,
World" Beethoven, No. 3, In n Ila'
fEroical. Schubert, No. 7, in C; Tschai-
kowsky. No. 1, in G minor; Men1eI-
ssohn. No. 1, in C minor; Mozart NO
% w oVertures-Busoni, # "Festival;" Bee
tboven 1.-THE Ruins of Athens;
Tschaikowskv. "Romeo and Juliet;
Mascagni, civilian Ratcliffe:' COLI
marg. I'm Fruhling;" Smetana' line
Bartered Bride" ,,,,...,aaou
Suites-Ippolitow-1 1vanoW. EnuiS@ses @
c,anca casiennes." Mcdowell. Indian
| suite" Rorodire. petite Suite.
Symphonic poes. ballet music etc
| c,ardsen ."Zora h ayda:" Saint Saens,
@Pacchanale" (Samson and Del'lahl
| Grieg. symphonic dances: Wagner, AL
bumbla TT" D'Indy, "Serenade ana
Waltz" Mack "CanadiNn Rnap-
| sodie. Coleridee-Taylor. "Danse Ne
ore" AFRICAN Suite): Delbes, ballet
music from Lakme. and many cthers'
| plans for the three concerts to ne
| qiven this winter bv the Los Angeles
music center, were discussed by Arthur
FarwelI. Eugene Nowland and Harley
Hamilton during the visit of the FORMER
to Los Angeles week before last and
several numbers were selected Tor tne
first concert which is to take place
|
chestral selections only.
AS outlined the following works will
be presented:
"Dawn." Arthur Farwell's SYM
phonic poem: overture and dance from
McCoy's (San Francisco) cantata,
"Hamadryad:" a part of "The Death
of King Arthur (Carl Busch) 1.-THE
Culprit Fay" H. H. Hadley's SYM
phonic poem. while last but by no
means least in point of interest for Los
Angeles friends will be heard a new
orchestral work by Frederick Stephen
son. "The Salutation of the DAWN
which is based on a smaller work
which he wrote for piano and strings
| and which promises to rank anything
yet produced in the same class.
The choir of the First Methodist
Episcopal church is preparing to give
Elgar's "Light of Life soon. Quite
recently this organization was heard
In 1.-THE Creation" with 10S voices in
the chorus.
The New York correspondent of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer says:
Announcement has been made of
Hammerstein's plan to give New York
grand opera at popular prices in order
to educate the public taste up to the
point where regular prices will not
cause heart failure every time ticket
is purchased. But It is not generally
appreciated what this will mean to
music lovers. Hammerstein believes
and rightly so-that If he can only get
more people interested in grand opera
they will become regular patrons.
Cleveland demonstrated that. There
are thousands of prosperous citizens
who balk at regular grand opera prices
because they don't care for the stuff,
anyway" Hammerstein thinks he can
get them to come to the Manhattan
opera house when the prices are scaled
down from So. and he believes that if
they only come a few times they will
continue coming after the regular sea-
son has begun.
The lighter operas will be given dur
ing this preliminary educational sea-
son, which will begin August 3O The
casts, of course. will not contain the
singers with the greatest regulations
they will be saved for the regular sea-
son-but wonderfully good perform
ances will be given.
Music lovers are looking forward
with great delight to this experiment,
and there is every indication that it
will have the desired results-although
it will cost Hammerstein a pretty
penny to do it.
New York will have more than it's
usual amount of grand opera, for an
Italian COMPANY will give the better
known operas at the Academy of Music
at popular prices in the fall, in addi-
ton to the season at the Metropolitan.
eS-S
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