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MUSICAL COURIER
May 4, 1922
“MISS CASE GIVES NOTABLE RECITAL״—BOSTON HERALD
FJ. Mclsaac, writing in the Boston American, headed his article, dated March
•	29th, 1922,
CASE RECITAL DELIGHTS AT SYMPHONY HALL
“Anna Case gave a recital at Symphony Hall last night. Just to look at Miss Case was worth the price of admission. She was the daintiest, most exquisite little person who has stepped upon the big platform at Symphony for ever so long.
“This young lady was for a number of years in the Metropolitan Opera Company. Then she went into the concert field and has been singing everywhere but Boston for the past five years. Why she didn’t reach Boston is something for the managers to explain.
“Ordinarily the better the singer the worse she looks. Which would mean that Miss Case looked so well she must be a very poor singer. But this isn’t so at all. She owns a very lovely voice. A lyric soprano with a lot of dramatic expression in it, and she sings easily, gracefully and intelligently.
“Her program was a formidable one. It ranged from sixteenth century, Italian composers like Scarlatti, through the Germans and French of the eighteenth century right down to Debussy, Strauss and other intensely moderns.”
' | HE above headline in the Boston Herald, March 29th, 1922, followed Anna Case’s.first recital in Boston, another emphatic success for America’s favorite recital soprano. The writer continued:
“Miss Case showed skill and originality in her program making, and as well, good taste. . . . Good taste, furthermore, she showed in her songs. Her tones were in themselves of a truly surpassing loveliness. Miss Case has a beautiful voice, a clear lyric soprano of long range, with a fine even scale from its lowest note to its highest. She produces this voice with absolute ease, because, in part, of her admirable breath control, making it carry to the end of the hall. She has in short, an uncommonly fine technique, and she sings in tune. She turns her phrases with elegance, she shows a high order of musical and rhetorical intelligence.”
ANNUAL NEW YORK RECITAL AGAIN A TRIUMPH
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good look at Miss Case ought to make th e whole world happy to hear her sing. It is no news that she sings with much charm delightful fancy, and not infrequently with serious feeling.”
—W. J. Henderson, N. Y. Herald, Oct. 20, 192
“A stage decked with palms, chrysanthemums and red autumn leaves; a large and devoted audience; oceans of applause; bushels of flowers. All these at Carnegie Hall last night, where Anna Case gave a song recital. Her program was a delight. There were seventeenth century songs in Italian and English, a jolly trifle by the indulgent Johann Sebastian Bach, two lovely Swedish folksongs, lyric bits by Emile Nerini, songs by Strauss, Schumann, Schubert and Anna Case, and Debussy’s famous ‘Nuit d’Etoile.’ Miss Case never built better, and few singers build as well.”-Deems Taylor, N. Y. World, Oct. 20, 1921.
1921
“An Evening of Effervescing Charm.”
—Katharine Spaeth, Evening Mail, Oct. 20,
A LWAYS a social as well as a musical feature of the New York concert season, **־ Miss Case’s annual recital at Carnegie Hall last October brought forth a representative audience including many important dignitaries. Her art was given widespread attention by the press, from which we quote:
“Anna Case sang in Carnegie Hall last evening to an audience of Metropolitan quality, recalling her ’prentice days of opera, but in eager cordiality, more like the concert throngs of her own transcontinental tours. A stage set with flowers, Sembrich footlights and a Jenny Lind gown, made a picture instantly applauded when the slender singer appeared. She sang unaffectedly, vivaciously or plaintively by turns, the voice flute-like in its lightest flights, faint but not forced, and the sheer youth, beauty and charm of it, disarming any who looked for more pyrotechnic display.”—New York Times, Oct. 20, 1921.
<<]\ /[ISS ANNA CASE gave her annual fall song recital last evening in Carnegie Hall before an audience which plainly adored her. Small blame to any audience for that, for surely if ‘a beautiful maid is a cheering sight to see,’ then a
CASE OPENS CAPITAL SEASON, MRS. HARDING PRESENT
AMERICAN GIRL IS DELIGHT IN LOCAL CONCERT
“Singing as it should be done, by a genuine American girl, whose entire musical education and experience has been gained in the United States, was the artistic feast of the large audience at the Lyric Theatre, Friday evening.
“Miss Case is a concertist who has few equals, and it was the verdict of those who heard her in both of her local appearances that she has made much progress in the intervening years. It is a genuine treat to listen to her marvelous voice, with its purity and limpidity of tone, richness of color, delicacy of shading and nuance and its wealth of expressive beauty. One of the most satisfying things about her singing is that she does it with such naturalness and ease, and is withal so expressive in the various moods of the composers.
“Her enunciation is superb and even in the most delicate pianissimos there was bell-like clarity and correctness of vocal methods. No more pleasing artist has been heard here during this or any other season, and the audience was rapturous in its appreciation.”
—The Memphis (Tenn.) News Scimitar, March 1.1, 1922.
I ’ HE concert season in Washington was opened yesterday afternoon by A Anna Case, soprano, who gave a song recital. Miss Case was greeted by an audience which filled the National Theatre, with Mrs. Harding in the presidential box, accompanied by several members of the cabinet circle.
“Miss Case gave a program of charming songs, ranging from the ancient to the modern. The program had an added interest in a new song by Miss Case, which was received with spontaneous applause by the audience. It is Spanish in type and rhythm, and she sang it in excellent Spanish. Miss Case displayed brilliant attainments as a linguist, singing in Italian, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and English. Her phrasing and breath control were delightful, her light, delicate vocal work exquisite, and her enunciation, by which no word was lost to her hearers, was excellent, adding much to the effectiveness of her singing.”
—The Evening Star, Washington, D. C., Oct. 22, 1921.
SOUTHERN CITIES GO WILD OVER CASE
AUDIENCE IS THRILLED BY MUSIC TREAT
ANNA CASE SETS ’EM YELLING AT NATIONAL
Anna Case Wins Instant Popularity and Takes Away Admiration of All Who
Heard Her
“It was the occasion of one of the most enthusiastic demonstrations ever witnessed in Charleston. Greeted by an audience which filled the High School Auditorium, the artist received an ovation rarely accorded any other singer who has appeared here.”
—The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette, April 27, 1921.
Not since Galli-Curci Has a Singer So Stirred Greensboro Music Lovers
The headlines above from the Greensboro (N. C.) Daily News, February 1 1 th, 1922. are a fair sample of the sort of reception Miss Case gets on tour. The paper continued:
“Anna Case set ’em yelling at the National Theatre last night—the first time a phlegmatic Greensboro audience has added shouts to handclapping in approval of a singer since Galli-Curci set the town crazy three years ago. But after the second group last night the rafters rang again; and the Case concert will go down in the musical history of Greensboro as one of its most remarkable popular successes.”—Greensboro (N. C.) Daily News, Feb. 1 1, 1922.
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