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“THE WORLD’S GREATEST CONTRALTO.”
—St. Paul (Minn.) Daily News.
“Undoubtedly the Greatest Vocal Artist who has visited Baltimore this season.”
—Baltimore News.
ECHOES OF RECENT TRIUMPHS IN MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL, ITHACA, READING, CEDAR RAPIDS, WINNIPEG AND BALTIMORE.
Hers is a magnificent^ voice, of extraordinary power and beauty in its low register but throughout well placed and artistically handled. Her “Seguidilla” and “Habanera” from Bizet’s “Carmen,” the last mentioned sung twice, were capitally done, especially the first mentioned song. Music lovers ׳ felt gratified for the introduction of Bizet’s “Agnus Dei,” most feelingly and beautifully sung and a fine composition with its opening harp accompaniment, trumpet obligato and interlude of orchestral unison.—Minneapolis Journal.
Marguerite D’Alvarez, the soloist, has one of the greatest voices on the concert platform. There was real greatness in the singing of the splendid “Agnus Dei” by Bizet. Not only was the orchestration rich in texture and fine in color, the singer rose to her opportunity with nobility both of voice and conception. This was supremely beautiful singing and there was a continuation of the same high level of achievement in the two arias from“Carmen.”—Minneapolis Tribune.
Nothing under the sun could make her singing seem colorless or lacking in emotion. With a voice of extraordinary range, richness and power, she has the gift of making every note vibrate with feeling. . . . Then came the Bizet “Agnus Dei,” with its lovely orchestral interlude, altogether one of the outstanding episodes of the entire musical season. Seldom has Bizet’s music been more superbly sung, and every word was given vivid significance.—Minneapolis Daily News.
Both vocally and physically, Marguerite D’Alvarez, soloist at the concert of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra last evening, is magnificent. Her musical equipment is a contralto voice of extreme beauty and power—a warm, flexible voice. Although she does not call herself the world’s greatest contralto, she has my enthusiastic permission to do so.—St. Paul Daily News.
Mme. D’Alvarez’s voice is the nearest to being round of any contralto I have heard since Schumann-Heink’s Heyday. It literally soars, seeming to be limitless in power, while her pianissimos are fine, steady and clear. One is inspired to desire to see her in opera.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
She possesses a rich contralto voice of unusual range, particularly beautiful on the high notes.—Ithaca Journal.
One of the most pleasing vocalists who has ever visited Reading. Proved a splendid climax to a series of exceptionally notable musical events.—Reading, (Pa.) Eagle.
One can think of few things more satisfying than the art of Mme. D’Alvarez. Warm, luscious and of a glorious beauty is her voice. Its power and volume appear to be unbounded.—Cedar Rapids, (la.) Republican.
And what singing! The rhythmic life of these two gems was a-glitter with sparkling vitality, while one was fascinated with the sinuous and sensuous sway of the vocal curves. Incidentally, Madame D’Alvarez sang as wonderful a Spanish love song as has surely ever been penned, “Mirala Bien,” by Pedrell, a fragment teeming with warmth and opulence.—Winnipeg Tribune.
Mme. D’Alvarez could move an audience to the point of tears by singing selections from the multiplication table.
-—Winnipeg Free Press.
There are few singers today whose artistic insight and expressiveness can equal that of Marguerite D’Alvarez. Her projection of mood and meaning was complete last night and her voice more beautiful than it has seemed at any other time this season.
—Baltimore American.
Aeolian Hall, New York
VOCATION RECORDS
DANIEL MAYER
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