The San Francisco call., 1913-11-29

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
|, flute virtuoso OF France. and M. Cab
riel Lapierre famous pianist and
accompanied
FIRST CONCERT DECEMBER
At the opening concert one week
from tomorrow afternoon Nine. Melba
will sing the aria from 'I'Allegro ed
ii Penseroso." by Handel. with flute
obligato played by NJ. Moyse; the aria
from Mozart's I'll Re Pastore," with
violin obligato played by Kubelik; the
Ave Maria" from verdis masterpiece,
"oteIlo." and the "Addio" from La
Boheme," by Puccini.
Kubelik's offerings will include
Concerto No. 2. by Wieniawski; the
witches Dance" by Paganini; Dvor-
axis sssHumoreske" and "A Spanish
Dance" by Sarasate-
Burke's numbers will be the aria
from the opera "Benvenuto Cellini."
by Diaz; two old English ballads, and
the delightful Irish numbers by Tom
Moore, Meeting of the Waters" and
"The Minstrel Boy
For the second concert complete
change of program is to be given.
The farewell concert to be given by
Nine. Teresa Carreno. the pianist. will
take place at Scottish Rite auditorium
tomorrow afternoon. starting at 2:3o
o'clock.
This queen of the pianists' hasy
had most successful visit TO this
city. The playing of Nine. Carreno
is of that dignified type which makes
well for the pupil who has the
advantage of hearing her play. The
concert will start with the famous
"Waldstein" sonata of the great Bee
thoven, and includes Chopin's noe
turne, B major. op. 8; Fantasie I'm
promptu. c minor, Barcarolle and Bal
lade, A fiat, op. Al; Schumann's Fam
TASTE. C major, op. II, and Rubin
stein group including his famous mel
ody in f major, Barcarolle in A minor
and La Fausse note (etude).
Manager Greenbaum will present
another great pianist in Fannie
Bloomfield Zeisler. the only great ar
tist touring Europe with America as
the starting point. Nine. Zeisler has
lived in Chicago since she was years
old and all her studies were made in
that city, with the exception of five
years work with the great Leschet-
izky in Vienna.
Nine Zeisler's husband is one of tho
leading attorneys of the windy city
and one of her sons is a professor in
the law department of the Chicago
university.
1t is IL years since Nine. Zeisler last
played in San Francisco.
There will be only two Zeisler con-
certs, the dates being December 9.
night, and December 13. afternoon.
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Only one other city in North Amer
lea supports company giving the
standard French plays in the original
languages besides San Francisco. and
that is Montreal The French dramatic
literature is replete with interesting
and beautiful plays and charming
comedies. and one of the latter will
be given at the second performance by
the Theatre Francais de San Franciscov
at the second performance of the sea-
son Thursday night at Scottish Rite
auditorium.
The title of this comedy is "L'Este
de la Saint Martin" ('The Indian sum
mer'), the authors being Meilhac and
Halevy.
This will be followed by a produc-
ton of Offenbach's little gem of
masterpiece of true opera comique.'
Marriage aux Lanternes' ("Marriage
by Lanterns'). with splendid cast OF
singers and a complete orchestra un-
! der the baton of Emilio Puyans.
| This work by the composer of Love
Tales of Hoffman" La Perichole.
'aThe Grand Duchess" and other light
opera classics is a delightful musical
setting of an old peasant love story,
| and among the numbers is a quartet
| sung at the hour of the Angelus that
| Is one of the most beautiful bits OF
work in operatic music.