Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-05
Music Notes
BY FLORENCE BOsARD LAWRENCE

best bill of the season this week
with singers who can sing, not
only the songs that appeal to popular
taste. but the moro classical numbers
as well, and with a Spanish dancer
who presents one of the most pic
turesque and graceful dances ever seen
on a local stage.
La Estrellita, slim, young and beau
tiful, not only dances with lightness
and grace, but sings with a pleasant
musical voice that favorite Spanish
song LA Paloma," Her costumes are
handsome with all the rich coloring
that the Spanish fashion demands, and
her own beauty finds most effective
setting in the pale blue and white. and
later in the rose-cOIored satin with its
spangles. The act is billed as "A
Dream of Old Seville" and has a song
and two solo dances by this delightful
young woman, and closes with q
Spanish dance with castanets in which
Senor II. Garcia assists the little star"
There are languor and the poetry of
motion in the first and second dances
and 1.-THE grace and abandon in the
two dances which close this highly en-
jOyable number. La Estrellta promises
to be the great hit of the season, and
will undoubtedly prove Il most attrac-
Another number which proved in
tcresting yesterday was the appear
ance of Edmund Bosanquet, who plays
upon a most unique instrument that
resembles a com bined horn and fiddle,
and evolving many curious and in
teresting effects His selections also
included pizzacato work that showed
strength and agility of the left hand,
and various other amusing If rather
tricky devices were introduced. Hon
Bergere delighted her audience again
with songs in which her lovely clear
high soprano voice is displayed to adj
vantage, and offered a novelty by sing
ing the GLOW Worm" song with the
popular male trio which is still re-
tanned on the bill. The singers, Rogers,
Steward and Elwood, received their
usual applause yesterday and offered
new medleys and solos which were en-
tertaining. Georgia Russell sang sew
eral Irish ballads, many of them IA
miliar, and offered a picturesque ef-
feet with the quaint costume of the
Irish girl.
The Municipal band will play the fol-
lowing program in Central park today:
Falcon March" (Chambers), wiener
Blut Waltz" (Strauss), Spanish Suite"
Uacome), "Traumerie" (Schumann),
First Heart Throbs" (Eilenberg),
Overture to Der Tambour de Garde"
TitD. "Pizzicatto Polka" (Strauss),
Loves Dream After the Ball" (Czi-
bulka, Porto Rican Dance "Rosita''
(Missud), and grand march from
'Tannhauser" (Wagner).
An appreciative audience assembled
at Blanchard hall last night to hear the
benefit recital given for Norman Sim
clair, the distinguished artist who has
been so i'll all winter.
Vocal, dramatic and instrumental Sc
lections were given by Mrs. Anne Kav-
anaugh, Miss Frieda Peyske of this city
and Mrs. Willard Tiffany Of Pasadena
Mary LeGrand Reed has just re-
turned from San Francisco, where she
was the recipient of many social hon
ors, making many friends through her
brilliant singing. After her appearance
in conjunction with Miss Maud Powell
at the st. Francis, she was entertained
extensively by Mrs. Mark Gerstle and
Mrs. John P. Young.
Miss Ethel Lucretia Olcott, gultarist,
will give a concert in Blanchard hall
Friday evening, April 10. Miss Olcott
will be assisted by La Badurria
Guitar trio, Miss Charlotte Powers.
reader, and Miss Myrtle McCabe, plan
ist. The program is varied and will
prove of great interest to all lovers of
the guitar.
Madame Adenee, announced as the
worlds highest living soprano, will ap-
pear at Simpson auditorium April IA.
Madame Adenee sings 1.-THE Magic
Flute" written in the original key,
also holding the original music that
was written for Carlotta Patti and
has not been sung since by anyone
since that celebrated artist appeared on
the boards.
The Matinee Musical club will meet
afternoon, April 7, at the
home of Mrs. William Reeve. 1850
Harvard boulevard. Mrs. Reeve will
be assisted by Mrs. Charles Eastman
and Miss Pauline Eastman. Meyerbeer
and Moszkowski will be studied, and
the following program will be rem
dered:
Vocal solo, 30 Mic Fernando" DonizettD,
Mrs. F. Long; piano solo, a group of Mosz-
waltzes. Mrs. T. V. Davis; poper on
Miss Ella Holmes vocal solo,
Mrs. ]. II. Hanst; piano solo, "Waltz in e.
Miss Pauline Eastman: piano
solo First Movement Of Sonata Pathetique'
(Beethoyen), Miss Viola Lownes paper on
Meyerbeer, Mrs. W. Hilbish vocal solo.
Roberto, o Tu Che Adoro'' Meyerbeer),
Miss Ethel Coleman; plano solo, Forest Muir
murs" QAszO Miss Lillian Stanton; dis
cussion Music in the Orient" led by Miss
Myma Baldwin, in Oriental costume. Mrs.
Kate Handy will speak on the by-gone days.
Mrs. Handy is the widow of the late
II. B. Handy who wrote the songs of
the long ago, such as "Nellie Gray"
Mrs. ]. H. Ballagh and Mrs, Charles
Richards will sing the old songs.
Il
The appearance tomorrow night of
Mrs. Hugh Livingstone Macneil in
recital with Archibald Sessions at
Christ church will be an interesting
event in musical affairs of the week
This will be the eighty sixth organ
recital with which Mr. Sessions has
entertained the members of this
church and other musical folk who en-
10Y organ music and find the oppor-
tunities for hearing it all too few.
Miss Myrtle Ouelett, harpist, will as
sist. and with Mrs. Macneil and her
violin the program promises to be un-
usually attractive. These numbers will
be offered
The oath Psalm. sonata Reubke), grave,
larghetto, allegro. grave, adagio, allegro;
violin, harp and organ prelude (Mendelssohn),
Berceuse Qljnsky, Bell Rondo CMorandD, Ro-
nance (Schutt), VIOLIN harp and organ prayer
Marche Mlitaire (shelley).
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