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MUSICAL COURIER
February 2 3, 1922
URTIS
aptivates
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VERA
In Recent Solo Appearances with Cleveland Orchestra in Lancaster, Pa., and Shamokin, Pa., and Recitals in Springfield, Mass.,	Bedford,
Mass., arcd SaaP S/e. Marie, Mich.
“Brilliant Concert by Curtis Was a Delight
Soprano Voice and Musicianship”
—Sault Ste. Mane Evening News.
Miss Vera Curtis, dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, sang several pleasing selections and she was very warmly applauded by the audience, being required to appear for encores three times.
—Springfield Union, Jan. 30, 1922.
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It seemed to this hearer the most perfectly composed song group in a memory of countless concerts. It has just dawned on the writer that Miss Curtis sang every song in English. Such pure music of sound and sense, like a gentle flame, fanned to a glow by a beautiful mental grasp and practiced art that conceals art, was a thing of no language. The singer’s absolute purity of tone ran through all four songs—an unbroken joy of perfection. There was a quality in the beautiful poise and balance of the voice that one finds sometimes in the string choir of an orchestra—a poise and balance responsive to the weight of a hair in direction of tone.
The eye dwells upon her with absolute satisfaction. She is simple, wholesome and abounding in life—a woman well made for the Wagnerian roles in which she has specialized. This opera opulence of voice, well hidden in the perfect poise of the recitalist, came out gloriously in the Schubert “Allmacht.”
—New Bedford Morning Mercury, Feb. 13, 1922.
Versatile Artist Demonstrates Rare
Had Gluck, Farrar, Garrison or Galli-Curci sung in this city last evening, it is doubtful if the audience which filled nearly 1000 seats at the High School Auditorium would have been more delighted than at the unusually brilliant concert given by Miss Vera Curtis, than whom Sault Ste. Marie has heard none more pleasing in a decade. The pure soprano voice of Miss Curtis, combined with the rare personal attractiveness of her, was a decided and welcome surprise to those music lovers who swear only by their Victor catalogues.
The program was varied enough to avoid any possibility of monotony, being made up of several Italian, French, one German and a gratifying number of English songs. There were times when the singing of Miss Curtis had all the flute quality of Galli-Curci, and at no time was her voice not full and rich and under certain control. Diction, too, was of pleasing quality.
—Sault Ste. Marie Evening News, Feb. 4, 1922.
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Mine. Vera Curtis, with a voice of bell-like clearness absolutely true and always sweet, and her charming manner, shared honors with the orchestra. Her rendition of the aria “O Crudele” from “Don Giovanni” was perfect in every detail. “Song of India” (Rimsky-Korsakoff) always a favorite with concert audiences, was■ exceptionally good, showing to advantage the exceptional flexibility of her voice and her fidelity to tone. In answer to insistent demands she responded with an encore.
—Lancaster Intelligence, Jan. 31, 1922.
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