NEW YORK, February 6,1922 CHICAGO, February 11, 1922 (New York Tribune) DEVOTEES of MUSIC FIND CLAIRE DUX is an EXCELLENT SINGER She sang well, with a pure and rounded quality of tone, fine phrasing and excellent control of breath. Her program contained many charming numbers, and to each she gave its full value, both in vocal skill and in sympathetic and intelligent interpretation. ---- • (Max Smith in New York American) Mile. Dux disclosed completely the exceptional beauty of her middle register, so peculiarly vibrant in full-th.oated emission, so limpidly expressive in mezza-voce, and only occasionally and appropriately made use of the delicate head-harmonics which she has at her disposal. Artistic singing it was, too, with which she delighted her listeners: singing, that is, which showed not only a command of technical requirements but interpretative taste and intelligence, and a fine feeling for emotional values. {New York Evening Telegram) CLAIRE DUX {Photo by Daguerre) {Karleton Haekett in Chicago Evening Post) LIEDER SINGING of CLAIRE DUX is HIGHLY ARTISTIC Mme. Claire Dux was the assisting artist of the afternoon and she sang beautifully. In Mozart and German lieder she is thoroughly at home. The spirit of the music appeals to her instinct and she has the voice to give it expression. The Mozart was lovely. The tone was warm in quality, evenly sustained and under admirable control. It was the kind of singing that makes the music of Mozart so exquisite and demands not only fine artistic perception, but excellent vocal control. Her singing of the Lieder, arranged with orchestral accompaniment, was delightful, particularly the two Strauss numbers. The Strauss “Morgen” is a trying song to sing, because it really was conceived as a violin solo, • with vocal obligato, and it is seldom that the singer has the art so to adjust the proportions as to bring out the charm. Mme. Dux caught just the balance and Mr. Gordon’s playing of the solo part was very fine. The Strauss Serenade was charming in tone and in the expression of meaning. The audience gave Mme. Dux a most hearty demonstration of approval, which she acknowledged with a warmth of appreciation which had something of the quality of a big night at the opera. An Artistic Singer is Mme. Claire Dux She uses her voice with exquisite taste. There are few singers who have such a command of legato, such a control of quantity and quality of tone as she displayed yesterday. Her voice, too, is of lovely quality, especially in its softer ranges. But she has more forceful tones which can be used effectively, as was noted yesterday. {New York Sun) . A charming singer, an unusual and intelligently chosen program and an appreciative audience made Claire Dux s recital yesterday afternoon in Carnegie Hall memorable among this season’s musical events. J־n songs which demand delicacy, -Mile. Dux’s tones are exquisitely fine and never thin, however pianissimo they may be. After the rather flowery closing aria from Bizet’s “Les Pecheurs de Perles,” Mile. Dux was recalled many time’s That she sang the “Chanson Hindoo” as encore was• no surprise, but when she came through with the coloratura stuff of the handkerchief song from the audience gasped. Mile. Dux, it seems, is a coloratura of quality—and sings trills and cadenzas with amazing purity. {New York Globe) CLAIRE DUX Mile. Dux’s quality of voice, her skilful phrasing, and her varied and delicate expression delighted her hearers. (Paul Bloomfield Zeisler in Chicago Herald and Examiner) MISS CLAIRE DUX CHARMS HER AUDIENCE IN RECITAL Miss Claire Dux, the soprano of the Chicago Opera Company, journeyed hither from New York this week to appear as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in its eighteenth pair of week-end concerts. The news is that she made a big hit. Altogether she sang six numbers, two before and four after intermission, and she sang them all in a fashion to make the audience glad it was there. The two Mozart arias she did with a ^____________________ good deal of delicacy and light caress, Y displaying to much advantage the purity of her voice and the restraint of her art, besides an understanding of the simplicity and unaffectedness of the music. Her phrasing was rounded off beautifully, highly finished, exquisitely colored. If her first offering was splendid, her second was even better. It included a very pretty song by Weingartner, a gem of a lullaby by Humperdinck—sung, with an infinitely lulling tenderness and with sympathetic humor and grace, in a velvet piano—and a couple of the best of Richard Strauss’ songs, “Morgen” and “Staendchen.” An excellent musician and a superb artist is Miss Dux; one thinks in vain of anj׳one who manages lieder better than she. (Edward Moore in Chicago Tribune) A pronounced hit with the audience. For this there were a number of reasons, many of them sound, artistic ones. Chief of them is a voice, not of large dimensions, but of exquisite quality, especially in its upper reaches. This golden thread of lyric soprano is a lovely thing. Exclusive Management: International Concert Direction, Inc. MILTON DIAMOND, Director 16 West 36th Street, New York City Claire Dux records exclusively for Brunswick Records (Herman Devries in Chicago American) Claire Dux is Feature of Concert Miss Dux is an irresistible concert artist, her demeanor a mixture of verve and. simplicity, her toilette sober yet smart, her delivery severely correct with the sobriety decreed for the platform. The voice is admirably suited for lieder. Its expressiveness and quality are beyond criticism. The public liked her immensely and proved it with about four or five vigorous recalls. {Chicago Daily Journal) Claire Dux bestows a gracious gift upon this week’s regular activities of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is that of life. Dux has such a gracious wealth of vocal ease, such polish of expression and such a sure sense of where a melody finds its climax that her musician-ship alone would rank her as one of the finest artists America has heard in many years. She has, too, a fervor of thought, a very deep instinct for the human elements of her material. She brings to the surface of her art things which are often hidden from musicians. She does so with an economy of means which is most satisfying. She is simple where her subject might betray her into extravagance, and she has the valuable ability of making suggestion serve in place of demonstration.. Her art has attained a rare degree of poignancy and vitality, and is capable of exceeding all the enchantment with which distance endows the memory of her previous hearings.