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MUSICAL COURIER
March 9, 1922
OWING TO ENORMOUS DEMANDS FOR CONCERTS
FLORENCE
EASTON
PRIMA DONNA SOPRANO METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY
Will devote more time to this branch of her great art next season, appearing with the Opera Company in New York only from November to February. Fall dates up to November now booking; February-March Pacific Coast tour; en route dates in connection with this tour and for remainder of season also booking.
THE NEW YORK PRESS HAS RECENTLY ACCLAIMED EASTON UNANIMOUSLY IN LEADING ROLES AT THE METROPOLITAN AND IN CONCERT:
As Kundry in “Parsifal” at the Metropolitan Opera House on Jan. 1.
“THE SINGER BRINGS TO THE PART A LARGE INTELLIGENCE, WHICH HAS DEVELOPED A WELL ROUNDED AND SATISFYING PRESENTATION OF THE MEANING OF THE TEXT AND MUSIC. IN ACTION MME. EASTON IS DISCREET IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF GESTURE, POSE AND FACIAL EXPRESSION. SHE NEITHER OVERACTS NOR SLIGHTS ANYTHING. ONE IS NEVER IN DOUBT AS TO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HER DOINGS. SO, TOO, IN HER SINGING SHE DELIGHTS THE EAR WITH A CONTINUAL OUTPOUR OF BEAUTIFUL TONE, WHILE SHE REACHES THE MIND WITH WELL PLANNED METHODS OF EXPRESSION.”—W. J. Henderson, New York Herald, Jan. 3, 1922.
“‘PARSIFAL’ CAME BACK TO THE METROPOLITAN YESTERDAY, TO BE SUNG BY A CAST EXCEPTIONAL IN ITS KUN-DRY. THIS WAS FLORENCE EASTON, IN WHOSE VOICE AND ART, BEAUTY AND REPOSE THE AUDIENCE FOUND MUCH TO ADMIRE.”—Gilbert Gabriel, New York Sun, Jan. 3, 1922.
“FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE PRESENT SEASON MME. EASTON SANG KUN-DRY, AND INDEED WITH FULL SUCCESS. VOCALLY I WOULD CALL HER PERFORMANCE THE BEST THAT WE HAVE LISTENED TO IN YEARS; ALSO FROM A DRAMATIC STANDPOINT HER INTERPRETATION WAS ALWAYS OF A HIGH STANDARD.”—Maurice Halperson, New York Staats-Zeitung, Jan. 3, 1922.
As soloist for the second time during the season with the New York Symphony Orchestra on Feb. 18 and 19.
“THE MOST NOTABLE FEATURE OF THE CONCERT BY THE SYMPHONY SOCIETY, IN RESPECT OF EXCELLENCE OF PERFORMANCE, WAS THE SINGING BY FLORENCE EASTON OF THE SCENE AND AIR FROM WEBER’S ‘OBERON’ AND THE DYING SONG OF ISOLDE FROM WAGNER’S LOVE DRAMA.”—H. E. Krehbiel, New York Tribune, Feb. 20, 1922.
“THE SOLOIST WAS FLORENCE EASTON, WHO SANG ‘OCEAN, THOU MIGHTY MONSTER’ IN ADMIRABLE STYLE, WITH SPLENDOR AND POWER OF VOICE, WITH IMPOSING BREADTH AND FINISH OF STYLE, WITH A DICTION THAT MADE EVERY WORD INTELLIGIBLE. THE AIR IS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT IT IS GIVEN TO FEW ARTISTS TO SOLVE. WHAT MISS EASTON DID WITH IT IS ENOUGH TO PUT HER IN A RANK BY HERSELF. SHE FOLLOWED WITH A PERFORMANCE OF THE ‘LIEBESTOD,’ FROM ‘TRISTAN AND ISOLDE,’ THAT WAS EXTREMELY FINE.”—Richard Aldrich, New York Times, Feb. 20, 1922.
“FLORENCE EASTON THRILLED THE AUDIENCE BY HER SPLENDIDLY DRAMATIC SINGING OF WEBER’S ‘OCEAN’ ARIA AND THE ‘LOVE DEATH,’ FROM ‘TRISTAN.’ LOVERS OF WAGNER’S MUSIC ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO HER ISOLDE AND SIEGLINDE AT THE METROPOLITAN THIS WEEK.—Henry T. Finck, New York Post, Feb. 20, 1922.
As Isolde in “Tristan and Isolde” at the Metropolitan Opera House on Feb. 23.
“THE PERFORMANCE DIFFERED LARGELY FROM THE TWO PREVIOUS ONES BECAUSE OF THE IMPORTANT FACT THAT MME. FLORENCE EASTON SANG ISOLDE. HER PORTRAYAL OF THE IRISH PRINCESS WAS AGAIN WHOLLY LOVELY. HER FINE SKILL IN USING HER VOICE AND HER ABILITY TO TAKE CORRECTLY THE HIGH NOTES, TOGETHER WITH HER ADMIRABLE INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION, SERVED TO PRESERVE THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF THE ROLE.”—W. J. Henderson, New York Herald, Feb. 24, 1922.
“IT WAS A WISE MOVE ON THE PART OF THE METROPOLITAN MANAGEMENT TO RESTORE FLORENCE EASTON TO THE PART OF ISOLDE IN WAGNER’S ‘TRISTAN.’ IT SUITS MME. EASTON ADMIRABLY—HERS IS A VIOLIN VOICE, A TRUE SOPRANO—AND SHE HAS REPEATEDLY SUNG IT HERE, AS SHE DID AGAIN LAST NIGHT, TO THE SUPREME SATISFACTION OF CONNOISSEURS.”—Henry T. Finck, New York Post, Feb. 24, 1922.
“FLORENCE EASTON HAD HER TURN AT WHAT MANY CONSIDER OPERA’S GREATEST FEMALE ROLE, RESERVED FOR THOSE SOPRANOS WHO HAVE CROSSED THE VOCAL RUBICON. MISS EASTON SANG WITH MUCH BEAUTY OF TONE AND EXPRESSION THAT LASTED RIGHT THROUGH TO THE FINAL ‘LIEBESTOD.’”—Frank H. Warren, New York Evening World, February 24, 1922.
AEOLIAN HALL, N. Y.

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