Choir Singer to Prima Donni Reminiscences of Concert und Operatic Work Those who have heard Biss! Mabel Garrison sing in Shangha! will mot soon forget the eestacy of that - evening. An. American girl born in Baltimore, Maryland, she took her A.B. degree from Western Maryland (College and studied music in th Peabody Conservatory of Bfusi Baltimore. The marvellous promise of her voice first attracted attention when sie was a choir singer. She made her débu? as Filina in "Mignon," in the Boston Opera Company and afier two years there joined the Metropolitan Opera Company, when she was for eight. years. She is also well known for her work in concert tours and soloist with the lending orchestras.
During the present tour, under the direction of Mr. A. Strok, Miss! Garrison will give six concerts in Tokyo and will also sing in Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe, thence vid Korea for concerts in Peking and Tientsin, returning to Shanghai for two more concerts. After that her programme takes her to Hongkong,—Manila, Singapore, Java and India, where she will give no less than 20] concerts.
When, asked by a ropresentati lof the "North-China Daily News" whether she preferred cancer! singing to operatic roles Miss Garri-ton smilingly replied that while she enjoyed the "dressing up" and reveled in the dramatic background, she really enjoyed her concert work much more because of the greater: it allowed her. "Be. she added, "the greates advantage is that it permits: my husband and me to work together Jand that is the greatest of pleasures to us both." Miss Garrison, as!
Shanghai people know, is the wife of Mr. George Siemon, 'a pi [composer of exceptional al played such perfect accompaniments.
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