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MUSICAL COURIER
May 24, 1923
EAST IS WEST

Kansas *City, March 27, 1923:
“MUCH APPLAUSE FOR ALDA״
“Frances Alda’s art and personality set a departing glow on the last of this season’s Fritschy concerts.
“Alda gave herself generously ye s te r d a y. Of course, she gave her voice; the better fact was that she gave her brain too. She stressed interpretation with really marvelous results and without the silly affectations that pass for interpretation.
“It is the astonishing manner in which she uses her voice that gives her power. Yesterday her mezzo voce was as nearly perfect as human singing ever is, and all the technical virtues were present in a degree very little lower.
“Mme. Alda is first and foremost a great artist. Added to that she has a glorious voice and a charming personality. She distinguished herself yesterday by giving what many thought the most notable voice recital of the season.”
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Syracuse, May 1, 1923:
“SYRACUSE HAILS ALDA AS GREATEST OF SOPRANOS״
“Mme. Alda, who I am inclined to hail as the greatest soprano of her time (certainly the greatest we have heard in Syracuse in the last decade), gave the first number on part two of the evening’s program. The golden mellow'ness of Mme. Alda’s voice, the clarity of her diction, the tinkling bell-like coloring of her high notes and the flexibility of range mark this Metropolitan songbird as a peer among sopranos.
“A very polished and perfect art is hers and she left a most agreeable impression.
“Her voice has lost none of its liquid mellowness and she exhibited her old mastery of colorature in the ‘L’Altro Notte’ from Boito’s ‘Mefistofele’ and ‘Jewel Song’ from Gounod’s ‘Faust.’ Mme. Alda is as great an artist as ever.”
FRANCES ALDA
Management: CHARLES L. WAGNER
D. F. McSWEENEY 511 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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