The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
Bach SOCiCty IS
Busy Under Wolfe
Choral Club Across the Bay Will Produce
St. Matthew's Passion Music

Teresa Carreno. the lioness of the
piano; Frau Tilly koenen, Dutch con-
tralto, of whom high praises are re
corded. but who is stranger to us, ana
then will come the Flonzaley string
quartet and finally Walter Damroscn
will return with an orchestra of 60 men
the New York symphony orchestra
and Miss Isadora Duncan, classical
dancer, to illustrate by the poetry OF
motion certain familiar compositions
for orchestra, like Mendelssohn
Spring Song.
For local attractions Greenbaum Will
stick to his determinations 70 create
musical atmosphere and culture by MS
string quartet recitals 1t is a worthy
ambition and should be given more
encoura cement than was accorded iasl
season This will be the third winter
that Greenbaum has presented his lyric
string quartet in popular concerts. Only
this time for players he has selected
artists of the fair sex. There will be
the Misses Mary Pasmore, Sallie Ehr-
man, Viola Furth and Dorothy Pasmore.
first and second violinists, viola and
violoncello, respectively.
a novelty is promised by Greenbaum
in the appearance some time during
the season of the prodigy Pepito Ar
riola. II year old pianist from near
the Pyrenees The little Spanish boy
is DclfS IndHdSeQ Dy Ddlilcl Nloy'@h ~
London, through whom Greenbaum Sc
cured him. Arriola recently played
Beethoven piano concerto with the Ber-
lin philharmonic orchestra, and critics
said he was another Josef HOFFMAN,.
The Philippine constabulary band,
which played series of concerts last
February at Dreamland rink en- route
to Washington, where it was great
musical feature at the Inauguration Of
President Taft, is on it's way west
again and will play at Dreamland rink
on the afternoons and evenings of Sun
day and Monday. October and A.
After trudging through the snow
that covered the streets of Washing
ton in honor of ''the big governor" as
our brown brothers call the president.
they gave a series of concerts in the
capital and were accorded the honor
of dedicating the new bandstand in
Riverside drive, which President Taft,
who is really responsible for the or
ganization of the constabu1ary band.
hopes to make counterpart of the
Luneta. where the band plays in Ma
Mia incidentally, the snow through
which the instrumentalisIs plodded was
the first they had ever seen.
After the Philippine band had con-
cluded with the duties that it was to
perform in Washington. an extended
trip was made through the eastern and
SOutDtiu states.
Strange as it may seem, it is never
fheless the fact that many of the men,
bers of the band had never seen an oc-
cidental band instrument until seven
years ago; yet now there is not a mem
Der of the organization that does not
play at least two. Thus a symphony
orchestra is a possibility, it is claimed,
and the bandsmen present, side by side,
the masterpieces of military and mar
fill eli !, of a f1ac IN
writers for orchestra
Two concerts will also be given in
the Greek theater in Berkeley Saturday
afternoon and evening, October 2.
Edna. Aug recently returned from
Paris, and will be seen soon in this
city in her quaint act.
Mrs Frances Thoroughman, dramatic
soprano. gave musicale last Friday
night at her studio in the Countryman
building.
ter Herold, tenor, and Miss Therese
Ehrman, pianist. gave an artistic re-
cital at their studio last Friday night,
at which the following program was
presented:
Trio, op, SO, No. / lschumann) songs
lin concerto, first movement (Brahms) !;
novelletten, op. 20 (Gade).
w. S. Gilbert is showing himself
possessed of a Verdi like vigor for
creation. He is now in his seventy
third year, yet he is at work on
comic opera which is to be produced
at the Savoy theater, London. Gilbert
and Sullivan did their first work to-
gether 35 years ago