The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06

The transcontinenta1 tour of Tetraz-
zini will begin in this city early next
month. DOC" Leahy, who really dis
covered the great soprano, assures us
that he has captured the services of
his remarkable protege. Perhaps Tet-
razzini realizes that If it hadn't been
for her impresario of the old Tivoli,
whose sense for music seems as normal
as his ear for gold, she never would
have had an opportunity to appear later
at Convent Garden and then still later
in New York, where Hammepstein made
the world Of music~listen to her glori-
Gus tones. So Tetrazzini is coming.
Leahy assures us that she is and Green
baum has her western tour booked as
far to the east a st. Paul. After the
tour of Tetrazzini Leahy will devote
his energies to the rebuilding of the
new Tivoli where the "old' Tivoli stood.
He promises that within few months
work on the new structure will begin.
Nine. Johanna Gadski will give a
series of three concerts this week. The
first will take place this afternoon at
the Columbia theater. The second-the
only evening recital-wiu take place
Thursday night at the Novelty theater.
next Sunday afternoon at the Columbia
theater.
One Oakland recital will be held next
Friday afternoon at the Liberty thea
ter.
This afternoons program will consist
of Robert Franz, Brahms, MacDowe1,
Schneider and Grieg songs; also selec-
tionS from Wagner's music dramas will
be presented by the greatest of all
Wagnerian sopranos-Gadskf.
A special, point is made of the intro
duction of the group of Franz songs.
Few artists who are capable of the
bigness of d Wagnerian stretch of mu-
sical defamation and magnificent mel
ody could cope successfully with the
minute perfections of a Franz '1ieder."
OF all the great song writers Franz is
most liable to be overlooked because
his works are so exquisite in detail
that only an exquisite artist can bear
them forth from the printed score. He
is like Heine
At Che concert next Thursday night
Nine. Gadski will sing an entirely diff
ferent program. composed of songs by
Schubert, Henry K. Hadley, Richard
Strauss, Schneider and, of course. some
excerpts from Wagnerian music drama,
including "Brunnhilde's Awakening"
and "Brunnhilde's Appeal"
The coming OF Gadski is always an
San Francisco. 1t is never overlooked
The great soprano conjoins the unusual
abilities of pleasing the musical and
the unmusical. She proves that real art
asserts itself without the aid of an in
terpreter and that the real artist
thrills and thinks.
Impresario Greenbaum. under whose
auspices Nine. Liza Lehman comes
shortly to San Francisco assisted by
her own English quartet of singers,
suggests. three excellent reasons why
the visit will be notable. In the first
place. he says, not since the visits of
Edward MacDoweH and Pietro Mas
cagni have we heard complete programs
of famous composer under the direc-
tion of the one who created the COM
positions. In the second place, Liza
Lehman will be the first famous
woman composer to visit this city, and
sented will be English through and
through. In verse and music every
number presented will be stamped
MADE in England" save, perhaps Liza
Lehmann's use of Omar Khayyam,
whose first translator Fitzgerald, the
poet penned an English version to the
oriental Rubaiyat. Browning, Kipling,
Leigh Hunt and Lewis Carroll are some
of the writer's who have supplied Liza
Lehman with inspiration for her
music.
The members of the lehman quar-
tet, who will be heard here this month,
are Blanche Tomlin, soprano; Palgrave-
Turner, contralto; Hubert Eisdell,
tenor; Julien Henry, barytone.
A concert will be given by the Pacific
musical society Tuesday evening, No
yernber Is, but as this will not be a
public affair, admission being open only
to the members of the organization.
what we are concerned with Is the first
public concert, which will be given at
the Novelty theater, Thursday night,
November IT. On that occasion Liza
Lehmann's complete song cycle. Tn a
Persian Garden" will be sung. This is
the work which conjoins the Rubaiyat
verses with Lehmann's melody and
harmony. The cycle of songs from
..Alice in Wonderland" will constitute
a mart of the program, and among other
things the barytone will sing the COM
poser's setting of Browning's verse,
IAN Incident of the French Camp"
The Berkeley musical association
opens its season of 1910-1911 Wednes-
day evening, December IA. when Emilio
de Gorgeza will be the distinguished