Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-28

will please hand in their application by
September 8, 1910.
from Los Angeles. He is associated
with Harry Girard in the latter's
school of music.
Like all who are in any way con-
nected with the bankers show, Mr..
Balfour is very enthusiastic over 1t and
says it is going to put the bankers at
the head of the list as entertainers.
"Lassie Lou" is a beautiful solo that
falls to Mr.. Falfour's lot and '"The
Men Behind the Guns" and 1.-THE Sig
nal Code" are others. A quartet OF U.
S. Jackies will assist him. The four
are r. T. Van Cleave, F. A. San
some, F. H. Mccormick and John Cald-
well, all members Of the local chapter
of the A I. B.
Members of the Congregational Choir
al club will reassemble for the regular
rehearsals which begin the first Mon
day In September and will continue
each week throughout the winter. This
club gave a very creditable presenta-
ton Of "Elijah" last spring, and this
winter 1t is purposed to study 1.-The
Messiah" No vocal work is more i'm
portant for singers of all classes than
the work in oratorio. 1t improves the
musical perceptions to a wonderful
degree, and as an educational feature
is of decided value. Many singers ac-
customed entirely to solo work profess
an unwillingness to sing in large Choir
uses, fearing that the vocalistic de-
mands would prove too taxing for their
voices. AS the singers of this club are
under the constant direction of Will
liam Henry Lott, an experienced IN
structor in voice placing and training,
there is little danger of such trouble,
and he insists upon such careful work,
CT H.
cient guidance over the voices of the
singers that it is almost impossible for
a singer to place any strain upon the
voice.
For the production Of 1.-THE Messiah"
it is desirable that the club have more
voices. Already it numbers many of
more than ordinary ability, and the
new singers to be taken into member
ship this year will add materially to
the musical quality of the chorus. w.
G. Cross is the president of this club,
and Mrs. A NJ. Foster is secretary All
rehearsals as well as the productions
themselves are under the immediate
direction of Mr.. Lott who Is the musi-
cal director Of the church also.
Los Angeles music students should
make 70 hid progress in their work this
year. The reason for this is that near
" u ~ them will bo studying under
teachers who are particularly enthusi-
asUtc and confident. as a result of re-
cent studies abroad or in eastern mu-
sical centers.
A number Of the better known teach
ers of the city are now in Europe,
and letters by every mail tell of op-
0,,"e corcertg classes in which fa-
NOUS continental instructors are coach
ing them in Schumann, modern COM
posers. and many other interesting
fno op1,f oh n
this year. however, those others who
left us last year are returning, and
each week now sees some new names
added to the roster in the various down
town buildings devoted to the uses OF
musicians.
Among the latest of the well known
teachers to return to Los Angeles is
Miss Mabel Cooper, who has been
studying In Boston for year taking
thorough course in work for younger
children and coaching with Charles
Denee at the conservatory, in solo
work. Time was when music lessons
FOR children meant hours of agony for
mother teacher and child alike With
modern music methods all this is
changed and under inspiring and novel
suggestions the childish mind is de-
veloped along lines which lead to a
love for music Miss Cooper thinks
that the most satisfactory of these
methods is the Fletcher method, ana
this she studied carefully while in
Boston. She saws that the system am
ply merits all the claims made for it.
1t teaches tone production, positive
pitch, the playing. singing and writing
of original melodies, a thorough knowl-
edge Of the major and minor scales
with the intervals, triads, and chords
up to the dominant ninths and secon-
dairy sevenths. A special memorizing
course. and broad, intelligent technical
work round out a course which Miss
Cooper thinks will produce musically
trained intellect instead of merely we'll
trained fingers. Miss Cooper will share
studios in Blanchard hall with Roland
Paul and Jaroslaw de Zielinski.
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Mrs. M. HenniOn Robinson has been
appointed accompanst for the Lyric
club to take the position left vacant
by the absence of Miss Mary O'Don-