Musicians: F. Gilder, Prof. Hartman, Prof. H. von der
Mehden, Ernest Schlott, Mulder Fabbri, Prof. M. Schultz,
C.J.J. Smith (flutist), Louis Boedecker (pianist), Stephen
Marsh (harpist), George L. Blake (cornetist), Bender,
Shepherd, Emerson, Wilson (horn quartet), Miss Rotier
(pianist), Prof. G. Cellarius (violinist), A. Kessels
(pianist), Miss E.M. Burkhardt (Chicago pianist), H.F. Todd
(cornet).
These men and women singers and musicians took part in these series of
concerts given by Frank Gilder in 1874 and were available at any time
when needed. They were only a number of the many fine singers then in
San Francisco. I doubt if you could be so successful today, for these
were genuine tried singers, ready to go at any time and fill the
place, either with sacred, secular or operatic music. There were also
the members of the Loring Club, all good singers, picked and tried,
who sang in choirs, concerts and also in prominent musical
undertakings of the period. I have tried to leave no name out of the
list of singers. Professional jealousy does not exist in any of my
musical life. It never did, and if people will use their good, common
sense and judgment and see a singer in her true light they will find
out very quickly that there exists no grounds for such a feeling with
true artists. In the first place no two people look alike, neither are
they made alike. I have had the strange experience of teaching five
pairs of twins.
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