Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16
Musical


greeted the Misses Marguerite Cooper
and Margaret Obera Miller at the Ven
Ice Institute of Musical Art Thursday
evening. The program was an am
bilious one and the young women
handled it with great ease.
Miss Cooper was heard to best ad-
vantage in the heavily dramatic Cav
atina," from I'll Trovatore," in which
she displayed a degree of power sur
prislng in such a youthful singer. Her
Swiss Song" (Eckert) was a brilliant
piece of coloratura vocalization, and
in proof that the lighter qualities were
also at her command, Miss Cooper
sang my Mother Bids Me Bind MY
Hair" with delightful grace.
Miss Miller read the dramatic classic
of the southern darlSies, de Valley
an de Shadder," a sketch in four
scenes. in a striking manner. She has
mastered the dialect of the negroes,
with it's deep chest tones and open
Vowels, which are so musical when
well done and so jarring when done
badly. The reading Is a clever story
told in a clever manner.
The accompanist for Miss Cooper's
numbers was Louis Woodson Curtis.
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Mrs. Carroll Elliott. who is a new
conner in the local musical field, enter
tanned with an informal musicale at
her residence Thursday evening. Mrs.
Estelle Heartt-Ddeyfus and Henry
CoggswelI of the University OF South
ern California music school were.
among the guests, and Mrs. II. Hen
nion Robinson, whose delightful ac-
compartments are famed among Los
Angeles singers, was at the piano.
George Anderson, whose vocal stu
dio is in Blanchard building, will en-
tertain his friends and pupils with a
musicale at Garvanza villa Wednes-
day evening.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Balfour were at
home to a group of the better known
musicians of the city at their apart
ments in Cambria Union. Among the
pleasures of the impromptu program
were solos by Mrs. w. II. Portertield
and Mrs. Grace Widney Mabee.
Mrs. Estelle Heartt-Dreyfus and
Margaret Goetz also assisted Mr. and
Mrs Balfour in the program, which
was an exceptional one. Mrs Gertrude
Ross, the talented pianist, who has
returned from an extensive course or
study in Europe, played the accom-
paniments for the singers, as well as
several charming solos.
f. Templar Allan will give a song
recital at the Friday Morning club
November IL, when his splendid bari
tone voice will be heard in number
of Strauss songs. Mrs. Gertrude Ross,
recognition as an accompanist of supe-
rior ability, will play for him.
s.
Immense audiences are greeting the
Bevani Grand Opera company, that or
ganization which Manager l.. E. Behy-
mer has engaged for a three weeks
run at the Auditorium, and which Is
now appearing in San Francisco. Anna
Frery, soprano, and Eugene Battain
two italian singers of much ability and
already well known here, are num-
bered among the members OF the prln-
cipals and newspaper criticisms from
the northern city speak with praise or
the work of the individuals, and COM
ment also upon the size of the audi
ences which the singers are attracting
s.
r. Lucchesi announces a recital to
be given at the Ebell club house Fri
day evening, November IL, when a
number of advanced pupils in the
Clavier club and q string orchestra will
be heard. The singers will include Mrs.
w. II. Sadler, Mrs. Fred r. Dorm, Miss
Eunice d. Belden, Miss Marv Camp
bell Miss Gladys Jeffers, Miss Myrtle
Mahony, Miss Ailene Cothorn and Mr..
Pellicciotti Admission will be by in
vitation only.
At the September meeting of the
Los Angeles chapter of American
Guild of Organists, a committee OF
five was appointed to draft plans for
n choral society There is great need
here for such a society and all singers
and other musicians should be delight
ed to learn the plan has materialiZed
TO the extent that such an organization
with the necessary officers was formed
and rehearsals are already in progress.
There are already more than forty
members, and a rapid growth Is 10 be
expected.
The officers are: President, F. M.
Saunders; vice president; A G. Stumm,
and secretary and treasurer, Mrs. s. ii.
Porterfeld. The club will be called the
Los Angeles Choral society.
Rehearsals are to be held every
Tuesday evening and applicants may
ioin the singers then by applying to
Ernest Douglas, director, at st. Paul's
Guild hall.
Madame Jean de Chauvenet assisted
the choir of ST. Luke's Episcopal church
last Sunday. The "Inf1ammatus," from
Rossinis "Stabat Mater" was sung.
s.
There will be a double pleasure in
welcoming Nine. Bernice de Pasquali.
when she sings here with Signor An
tonic Scotti, on october 9th, first be-
cause of her many brilliant successes
and secondly because she is an Amert-
can girl, coming of old colonial Stock
a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers.
Nine. de Pasquali (Bernice ~James), is
the daughter of United States Army
officer, and received her early educa-
ton in Boston and New York. She
went abroad to learn what actual ex-
perience on the opera stages of the
old world could teach her, add to her
repertoire and finish the stuly of the
languages. It was during her resi-
dence abroad that she married Signor
de Pasquali, q well known italian
tenor. Her operatic triumps in Milan.
Genoa, Marseilles, Lyons, London and
other European cities having been
made under her married name Later
followed by her engagement at the
Metropolitan Opera house where she
assumed the roles so long sung by
Nine Marcella Sembrich. This will be
her first appearance on the Pacific
coast.
Helen Ware, a new conner in the
Levy ranks, made a decided impress
sion on the patrons last week. She is
"a clever singer, giving full value to all
her work
other numbers announced for the
bill at the cafe chantant this week
include Lille Lillian, Fern Melrose,
Bruce w. Baily, Mile. Beatrice and
Herr Seilig.
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