Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06

L is good news to the patrons OF
grand opera to know that a sea-
Il son of opera will be given at the
Mason opera house, commencing Mon
day evening, February 81, by the Lam
bardi grand opera company.
Impresario Marie Lambardi states
that the strength of the company has
been increased by new artists who
were secured from Europe this year.
He promises that the company will
present four new operas here.
OF all the artists of the Latin constel-
a2tion of singers Madam Ester Adaberto
is perhaps the very especial star.
Other singers in the company include
Isabella De Frate, coloratura soprano,
one of the youngest members of the
aggregation of artists; Dolores FRAU,
mezzo soprano, was heard here last
year: Elvira Bosetti, dramatic So
prano, and Marina Calvl lyric soprano,
are new comers in Los Angeles. The
three tenors of the Lambardi grand
opera company are Alessandro Scala
brini dramatic tenor; Attllio Mauflhl,
lyric tenor, and Giovanni Nadal tenor
legero, who will essay the lighter roles
of the various operas.
Signor Giuseppe Maggi is from Cow
ent Garden, and with Angelo Antola
will sing leading baritone roles with
Pietro Bugamelli and Pompeo Elena.
Vincenzo Viola and Alceste Mori, bas-
SOS, complete the list of singers There
will be a chorus of sixty voices. The
orchestra will be under the direction
of Cavalier Fulgenzio Guerrieri ana
Edoardo Lebegott. Fifty instruments
are represented.
Cavalier Guerrieri was with the
Lambardi grand opera company three
years ago, but for the past two sea-
sons he has been at the Palermo opera
house. Lebegott has handled the baton
with the Lambardi company for three
seasons and last year received much
notice for his masterful way of con-
Quoting.
The First Congregational Church or
chestra under the direction of William
Mead, gave it's first concert of the
season Friday night. This association
of players, many of them amateurs
gave a program which was eXcellent
in composition and exceedingly good in
execution The orchestra numbers in
cluded: March, 1.-THE Fairest of the
Fair" suite, La Source" (Delibes);
Lyric Serenade G1lgar); "Humor-
esque" Dvorak); serenata, Love In
Idleness' (Macbeth); Martha selec-
ton for various instruments (Flotow);
and overture. LA Forza del Destino"
(VerdD, with first and second harp
parts by Miss Ouleet and DIR. Harris.
The soloists were Miss I<ie Julie
Christin, who sang 80 Thou That Tell
est" from 1.-THE Messiah" (Haende),
and Miss Myrtle Outlet. who played
(Charles Oberthur)..
A concert will be given at st. Luke's
church on Tuesday evening by Mr.. and
Mrs. De Chauvenet, assisted by several
of their pupils and the ST. Luke's
choir. Leone Morressey Will play De D,
Chauyenets "Polonaise Hero1que;
Professor and Mrs. De Chauvenet viii
give a twenty-minute sketch entitled
"The Disguised Sweetheart" Ards
Olds, the child virtuoso, will play De
Chauvenet's Hungarian Concerto
Pathetique," accompanied with organ
and orchestra; Nine. De Chauyenet
will sing the Faust Waltz Song"
The Municipal band, Harley Hamil-
ton, director will play the following
program in Central park today:
March, 'Aristolat' .......................'. cine
wedding of the Winds waltz, ,............ Hall
Two Hungarian dances ..................Br .Brahms
Cornet solo, 1.-THE Lost Chord" ..........S Sullivan
VIII e. Bates.
''The Dream After the Feast" ..... .Laurendeau
sMiserere," from III Trovatore'' .....".,... Verdi
rhe Sleigh Polka ,Julliell is
Coronation March ..................' .kretschmer
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Owing to the illness of DR.. Bruce
Gordon Kingsley, DR.. George Wharton
James will substitute for him at the
Blanchard Symphony hall, 2S2 South
Hill street, this evening at S:15.
The subject will be Indian Music, ,
illustrated by vocal selections and
stereopticon slides, and the lecturer
will detail many interesting and gen
erally unknown facts about aboriginal
music. Some of the beautiful and me-
Iodious songs of the Indians will be
presented and their themes analysed,
both from a musical and popular
standpoint.
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Katherine E. Stone, director of music
in the public schools, announces the
second recital given for the children,
the teachers and their friends at Simp-
son auditorium on Thursday afternoon,
February 10, at 4 o'clock.
The artists selected are Mrs. Bertha
Vaughn, soprano and Bruce Gordon
Kingsley, piano soloist and lecturer.
The program numbers are built in
such a way as to introduce a lecture
recital on Wagner's "Tannhauser,"
after which a group of Irish, Scotch,
French and Italian songs will be given
by Mrs Vaughn, who also lnterprets