The Recital at the Town Hall So long is it since one had heard a really great singer that one had Jalmost forgotten how perfect thing the human voice can be. 1b has been the present writer's, good Hortune to hear most of the great singers of 20 to 25 years age: of them all, perhaps, Destin as Sent io "The Flying Dutchman" left the brightest memory. But none made deep an impression as does Miss Mabel Garrison, The beauty. of her velvet voice, the mastery of her art, the exquisite appropriatences of all her interpretations are such us tone will never forget. 'The programme she gave on Thursday wa one of the widest variety: Mozart, Rossini, Debussy, Ravel, a Greek folk song recalling those st old melodies aid to be of Etrunene origin, which i you are very luo, may sometimes hear' peasant tinging inthe Campagna Youth Rome, and? fora ong, Schick, Mise cath Ter pleasant oat bee To" each cam brings the sympathy. axl aptes very ra ow gem Th het moning nang marvel at? she ton the sine note. in" twenty diferent toner and with Nwenty various hails "of colour; "th Hextiity And ease. of her singing "are doserable; "and always' there the sense of tremendous power heh In" reneeve, with nich eomtvol. that she might' fil the er St. Peter's or soothe a child to sleep in an attic, Where all wax truly worthy of the word perfect, one' hups, pick out four for special tion." "First ree paca fi?
this, it Miss Garrison particularly enjoys singing, Tt be-Jonge to the seroot aye of rom music, the great dayx of the duke Rudolph and the C Braun, when times were and spacious, when mann jan art, and set of musicians, And then would come "I Rattitori ti of the going out ta Feteh Hows echo of thed morning Miss Gi to repeat. Then sand this
would put. Dus Zerheechene perhaps, was best all, partly because there ix 10 because is one of thave music like German music, and also
Jximple melodies, which everybody knows and dozens of raw hands mande, and which, like similar pieces for violin or piano, are. the Eeverest text of the trio musician, And last one would like tu say something of Burns! "My heart is sain," because, in a way, really "s I, but Full of Jove Jand_roguishness and "scimebody" as Al to be straws from and) Miss Garrison's Singing of those last two liner— wad do—what wad 1 not For the sake of sontebouly too adorable for anything, Miss Garrison ix accompanied by her husband 3, wan in manner beyond praise by bility to suggest on the one, to carry out on the other, and a joint felicity of expression
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