Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
Music

The Society of Musical Art was or
ganized last Monday evening and to-
morrow a board of directors will be
elected The study of oratorio, can
tatas and opera will be continued un-
der the direction of Jarosaw de Zie-
linski, under whose baton many of the
singers have been studying for the
past several months. The society al
ready has eighty members and appli-
cations for membership may be filed
with the director at his studio in
Blanchard building. The society Will
meet each Monday evening.
Ethel Leslie, balladist, singer of
| American songs, and classical COM
positions, continues to be a favorite
at Levy's cafe. The Cosmopolitan
trio for next week, their closing week,
/ have arranged a new series of trios,
duets and solos. A newcomer on this
bill is Doris Wilson, commedienne
and singer, whose work on the roof
gardens of New York and Chicago was
a feature of last summers program.
The Kammermeyer orchestra will con-
tinue its splendid program
Miss Lillian Adams is preparing her
Z pupils for a prize contest in piano
/ playing, to be held in her studio in
Hamburger's Majestic Theater build
ing the first Saturday in January. Tho
afternoon will be spent in playing and
discussing Mozarts works and hand
some picture of that composer will be
given to the pupil who does the best
work Those who will take part are
Mrs. Ada Coutellier, Mrs.. Vieweger,
Misses Greta Rebok, Delta Kahn, Anna
Denitz, Sophie Green, lone Jordan,
Elsie Frese, Ora Carry, Pearl McCord
and Carrie Mooser..
| Jaroslaw de Zielinsld now resident
of Los Angeles apd a recognized au-
| thority on musical matters through the
! country, has an interesting article in
4 the Musician November on Liszt. Rem
iniscences, historic items hitherto un-
| published and an exposition of the life
/ and compositions of this great artist
! are to be found all treated with that
! convincing knowledge and authority by
right of which Mr.. de Zielinski stands
among the most eminent teachers and
writer's upon musical subjects in Amer
lea today.
The operatic program to be given at
| the Friday Morning club. December 30,
| by Madame Constance Balfour and
Henry Balfour will include these Sc
| lections:
Cavalleria Rusticana-"Ceciliana"
............... ...............Pletro Mascagni
Henry Balfour.
Louise-"Dupuis lie Jour- .........:.......
........... ............. Gustave Charpentier
| Constance Balfour
| La Tosca-'E luce van lie stele' .,....'..
........... ................. .Giacomo Puccini
Henry Balfour
| Manon-"Adeu notre petite table" lie
Mr.. and Mrs. Balfour.
| Norma-"Casta Diva" 'Belhnl
Constance Balfour.
Luca-"Tu che Dio" ................'D 'Donlzetti
Romeo Juliette-"Grande duo, -; ;.;.
.''''''''. Mr. 'i.1ci'ilir and Mrs. t''i Baifour
At the pano-Gertrude Ross.
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The Classic Music Study and Re
cital club of Chino membership 40;
presiding director, Madame Rudorf,
! from Dresden) can look back to
| highly successful years work.
The composers, Chopin, Mozart and
Beethoven, were studied and the pieces
were rendered. The 70 lowing musicians
ably assisted at the various programs:
Mrs. Mayne Windsor and Miss Bell OF
Los Angeles; Mr.. Todd and Prof. and
Mrs. f. Hayden as lecturers
The California School of Artistic
Whistling will give an entertainment
at Blanchard hall Tuesday evening.
Solo numbers, whistling duets and
choruses will be given, and representa-
| tives from the vocal, piano and express
!
Members of the faculty of this school
are Miss Edna lyle Mode, Miss Agnes
woodward, Miss Clara Ivorson, Ma
dam Anna Elaine Fisher and Miss Ella
| MacGIashan. Pupils who viii give the
program are Gertrude Wiley, Ruth
/ Kilton, Miss Enid Behymer, Helen
| Walker, Harold Stewart Henry Ste
vens. Roy Knudson, Margaret Mckee,
! Naomi Sweeney, Miss Kilton and Ell
mer Rudeen.
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Friday night in Blanchard hall
Bruce Gordon Kingsley gave his music
travelogue on 1.-THE Passion Play as
| Saw It' to a large and appreciative
| audience. BY the aid of colored Ian
tern views and a very interesting de-
| scriptive talk he conducted his hearers
to the quaint little village of Oberam-
mergau, where the great world drama
is produced every ten years, passing
on the way through sunny Italy and
lovely Switzerland.
Noteworthy samong the views were
the famous blue grotto at Capri, whose
water scintillated with a mother-of-
pearl iridescence, also a very effective
sunrise on the Alps, one color after
another appearing in the early morn
ing sky, and the interior of the great
| glacier at Grindelwald cavern cut
through several hundred feet of solid
Ice I1O SlOTl6S VI INOtllCJ 4NoPlSo'
Venice and Milan, with its marble
1 cathedral of 1000 statues, were aptly
dwelt on by the lecturer. AS speaker
Mr.. Kingsley uses we'll chosen words.
has clear enunciation and an expressive
voice. The musical program, rem
] dered by a master hand, was unusually
| interesting and made most telling
effect by being played almost entirely
in the dark. Its numbers included
I selections from Bach's "Passion Music"
Spohr's Calvary" Elgar's Dream OF
Gerontius'' and Richard Strauss
death and TRANSPORTATION" The last
Kingsley music travelogue for this
season will be given at Blanchard hall
next Friday evening, the subject being
picturesque Europe and Its Music"
which will include the musical news
of England, Paris, the Rhine country,
Cologne, Dresden, Berlin, Leipsic,
Bayreuth and a visit to Wagner's
home. His piano program accompany
ing this lecture will include. these
solos, Selection, '"The Merry Wives OF
Windsor" (Nicolai); melodies of Rural
England" "The Swan and Love Song"
(Saint-Saens); Moonlight Sonata" ex-
cerpt (Beethoven); "The Lorelei'
| Q.iszt) "Serenade" (Schubert); '"rhe
| Rhine Maidens' Lament" "Dahoe Of
the Apprentices" CWagner). Tickets
on sale at the Bartlett Music company.
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The Congregational Church Orches-
ira concert last Thursday evening was
devoted entirely to the works of local
| COMPOSERS. Mrs. w. H. Porterfield
sang two numbers, '"The Nightingale"
by DR.. Ross Harris, and "The New