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Musical Courier 1897-05-12: Vol 34 Iss 897, 1897
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1Elizabeth Northrop.
3MRS. ELIZABETH NORTHROP'S success this season has been of the most pronounced character, and places her among the leading artists of the concert stage.
5In the famous 21,000 miles tourney of Sousa's Band the press and the public have been most lavish in praise of her voice and method, and pronounce her one of the very best singers Sousa has ever had with him. Combining a correct school with unusual purity of tone, a captivating presence with a modesty of bearing has made her a great favorite in the music world and on the concert stage. Her success has not been confined to any one section of the country, but seems to be universal. The following are only a few of her thousands of press notices:
7SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
8The soloist of the evening was Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, soprano. She sang Meyerbeer's Shadow Song with splendid effect. It is a difficult work, but Mrs. Northrop acquitted herself most creditably, and there was an outburst of applause when she finished that continued until she returned and sang Coming Thro' the Rye.—Union, April 23.
10BANGOR, ME.
11The audience became very enthusiastic over the singing of Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop. This lady has a natural soprano voice, round and sweet in tone, of great power, and she has the skill, the confidence and the artistic expression that come from long schooling under a great teacher. She sang the Shadow Song, by Meyerbeer, and in response to a recall Coming Thro' the Rye.—Daily Whig, April 28.
13PORTLAND, ME.
14Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop has a pleasing soprano voice of much flexibility, and sang with considerable brilliancy. For an encore she sang Coming Thro' the Rye.—Daily Press, April 29.
16BUFFALO, N. Y.
17It was a great pleasure during the last few days for Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop's many friends in this city to see her again, to hear her and to welcome her. Mrs. Northrop's tour with the Sousa organization was begun only a short time ago, but it has been long enough for her to demonstrate her ability as a successful concert singer. While her reception in Buffalo was exceedingly cordial, it is safe to say that even with utter strangers she would create enthusiasm. Her voice is a soprano of pure quality, very flexible and of good carrying power. She sings with excellent taste and uses her voice artistically. She has a charming stage presence and is an undoubted favorite. Mrs. Northrop received many floral offerings, tributes of her popularity. Her selections during her engagement were the celebrated Shadow Song, from Dinorah; Clayton Johns' I Love and the World Is Mine; aria from Lucia; Maids of Cadiz, by Delibes, and Se Saran Rose. Mrs. Northrop was obliged to respond to encores after each number. A continuation of her success is the wish of her friends.—Buffalo News, March 27.
19Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop sang the Shadow Song and a ballad. It was pleasant to see Mrs. Northrop once more upon a Buffalo stage after her long absence, and she was very warmly received. Time has dealt most gently with this very attractive vocalist, and she never appeared to better advantage than last evening. She was presented with a basket and bouquet of superb flowers.—Buffalo Courier, March 27.
21BOSTON, MASS.
22Mr. Sousa has been especially happy in his selection of artists for his present tour, his soprano being possessed of a decidedly superior quality of voice, pure, flexible and skillfully handled.
23Last evening's concert was for the benefit of the Emergency Hospital, and must have realized a handsome sum for that institution. The band will give a matinee at Tremont Temple to-day.—Boston Post, April 20.
24He, too, afforded a treat in the excellent performances of his assisting soloists. The soprano, Elizabeth Northrop, with a most pleasing appearance, has a voice of rare purity and sweetness. Her Shadow Song, by Meyerbeer, to the band accompaniment, was sung with fine artistic effect, while as an encore she gave Coming Thro' the Rye with more than ordinary sweetness.—Boston Daily Globe, April 26.
25Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, the vocal soloist, has a soprano voice of much sweetness, and it was heard to excellent advantage in the Shadow Song, by Meyerbeer, and as an encore she sang Coming Thro' the Rye most sweetly.—Boston Traveller, April 26.
27MINNEAPOLIS.
28Sousa never comes without soloists. But it is not as a rule that he brings so fine artists as he has done this time. Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop is a young soprano whose singing is almost puritan in its simple beauty. There is something so strangely clear about her voice, the sound sometimes resembles that produced by striking a bowl of crystal. At the same time it is soft and warm and gratifyingly well handled. Arditi's Se Saran Rose has been rendered more vivaciously, no doubt, but seldom more melodiously.—The Sunday Times March 14.
29The voice of Miss Northrop proved equally captivating as before. She sang an aria by Meyerbeer in beautiful style. It gave her a chance to show that the range of her voice is much out of the common. The extent of her register upward is so much more surprising and gratifying, considering the value of her lower notes.—Minneapolis Times, March 15.
31ST. PAUL.
32Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, the soprano soloist of the organization, was well received and sang for her first number Bemberg's Nymphs and Sylvaino. The selection is brilliant and difficult, but the singer, who has a pure voice and excellent method, met all its exactions with ease. She responded with a ballad that also met much favor.—The St. Paul Globe, March 12.
33In his soprano, Elizabeth Northrop, Sousa has a voice and personality that commands success. She sings with a beautifully finished style, and her voice is simply refreshing.—St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 12.
35NEW YORK CITY.
36Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, the soprano, is a strong addition to Sousa's company, and her number, Meyerbeer's Shadow Song, was applauded to the echo. She has a sweet, clear voice, of a pleasing strength, over which she has exquisite control. For an encore she gave the old favorite, Coming Thro' the Rye, and at its close bowed acknowledgment to a beautiful floral testimonial of appreciation.—The New York Daily Mercury, April 5.
37Mrs. Northrop, looking a pretty and refreshing specimen of fin de siècle young womanhood, sang with great purity, delicate style and finish. Personality goes a long way, as is evidenced in the case of Mrs. Northrop, who is nevertheless a graceful and sympathetic singer.—MUSICAL COURIER, December 27.
39SIOUX CITY.
40Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, the soprano soloist assisting in the concerts, possesses a sweet and clear voice, her high notes, though light, never becoming harsh. Her selection was one of Arditi's waltz songs called Se Saran Rose. It was rendered with reed and light brass accompaniment. Coming Thro' the Rye proved a very enjoyable number.—Journal, February 7.
42KANSAS CITY.
43Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, who has a sweet and exquisitely trained voice, though not of great power, sang a happy soprano solo by Arditi.—Times, February 10.
45LOS ANGELES.
46Hazard's Pavilion is at best not a particularly inviting prospect for a vocalist, but Elizabeth Northrop is a plucky as well as a charming soprano. Elsa's Dream, from Lohengrin, was her selection, and it admirably illustrated the excellence of her method and the quality of her voice. If a Body Meet a Body was given as an encore with a quaint and pretty expression.—Herald, February 23.
48JACKSONVILLE.
49Mrs. Northrop, the soprano soloist, sang Se Saran Rose, by Arditi, and as an encore she gave Sweet Miss Industry, by Sousa. She was most pleasing in her personality, and her voice gave pleasure and roused much enthusiasm.—Daily Florida Citizen, January 11.
51PORTLAND, ORE.
52Miss Northrop, the soprano, is new to Portland audiences, though no stranger to Portland people in a social way. She has clear, sweet tones to her voice that made her at once a favorite and brought her an encore.—Oregonian, March 3.
54ATLANTA, GA.
55Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, the soprano, made a wonderful impression on the audience and no singer ever more richly merited the warm reception given her.—Constitution, January 12.
57RIVERSIDE.
58Mr. Elizabeth Northrop, the soprano, has a handsome stage presence and a pleasing voice. There is a brilliancy to her execution of difficult passages that is quite enchanting.—Daily Enterprise, February 20.
60DENVER, CO.
61Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, the soprano singer, is by all odds the best vocalist that Sousa has had with him since Marie Decca. Her voice is signally pure and true, and modestly sympathetic. She sang one of Arditi's ever charming waltz songs.—Times, February 13.
62Sousa is accompanied by Elizabeth Northrop, soprano. The soprano is a singer of unquestioned superiority, with a pure, flexible voice and fine method.—The Daily News, February 13.
64BUTTE, MON.
65The prima donna Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop combines a voice of uncommon beauty and purity with an appearance that is captivating, and with an intelligence that betrays the genuine artist. Her rendition of her more difficult selections was perfect, and for encores she responded with simple and well-known selections.—The Miner, March 8.
67SAN FRANCISCO.
68Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, the possessor of a very pure soprano voice, with which she sang a selection from Arditi in a particularly pleasing way.—Evening Post, February 26.
70INDIANAPOLIS.
71Mrs. Northrop's voice is characterized more by a delicate quality than by mere strength. Yet her intonation was good, and her Arditi selection was indicative of artistic schooling and good command. On her recall Miss Northrop sang Miss Industry, a composition of Mr. Sousa.—Journal, January 31.
73LOUISVILLE.
74Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, the new addition to Sousa's forces, has a light voice of sweetness and considerable power. With such a song as Arditi's Se Saran Rose she was so successful in winning the instant approval of her hearers that they would not let her off with one selection, and she was forced to add a ballad, which, while it required no great effort of voicing, was one of the most delightful bits of the evening.—Commercial, January 25.
76MEMPHIS, TENN.
77Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop has a soprano voice that is sweet and sympathetic and shows the result of careful training.—The Commercial-Appeal, January 21.
79PHILADELPHIA.
80Mrs. Northrop's air from Lucia in the afternoon and Arditi's waltz song, Se Saran Rose, in the evening were finely sung and won deserved encores.—Press, January 1, 1897.
82NEW ORLEANS.
83Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop, soprano, sang very sweetly, exhibiting much cultivation and control of voice, Arditi's Se Saran Rose, and being very earnestly encored sang a pretty little dainty ballad which originally appeared in the St. Nicholas Magazine some years back.—The Times, January 15, 1897.
85OMAHA.
86Mr. Sousa in selecting his soloists showed the rare judgment he is credited with possessing. Mrs. Elizabeth Northrop possesses a clear, sweet voice and has perfect command of her tones. The beauty of her singing is the ease with which she takes her high notes. Her stage presence is pleasing and she is in every respect a very charming lady.—The World-Herald, February 8.
88Jeanne Franko's Success at a Bernstein Concert.—At a concert given by Mr. Eugene A. Bernstein, on Thursday evening, April 29, in Terrace Garden, Miss Franko played in a Sternberg trio with Mr. Bernstein and Mr. Modest Altschuler, and scored the hit of the evening in her solo number, a Rhapsodie Hongroise of Hauser. The other soloists were Mme. Cornelia Meysenheym, soprano; Victor Clodio, tenor, and Mr. Modest Altschuler 'cellist.
90Rosa Linde.—Mme. Rosa Linde sang a most successful return engagement at the Lynchburg Lyceum, Lynchburg, Va., on April 29. Madame Linde has been engaged to sing at the Nashville Exposition in the latter part of May. The following are among recent flattering press notices of Madame Linde's work:
91Madame Linde has undoubtedly a splendid voice, and her program numbers, together with the numerous encores the audience compelled her to respond to, showed her voice to full advantage. Her first number was the most difficult of the three arias from Samson and Delilah, and was rendered as only an artist of ability can render such a song. Besides the Amour Viens Aider, of Saint-Saëns, her program numbers were Ave Maria, from Cavalleria Rusticana, and Spanish Love Song by Chaminade. Among her encores were Godard's Florian song and Reinecke's Fruehlings Blumen.
92While Madame Linde is known as a contralto her voice has a range as high as many sopranos, and the highest tones are equally as musical and powerful as the low chest tones. In Luckstone's Remembrance the middle tones were used throughout the first part of the verse until she came to the serenade refrain, when her voice dropped just an octave lower, rising again to the high B flat at the last.—Nashville Banner.
93Mme. Rosa Linde's voice is a mezzo soprano of good range and quality and great volume. She sings with intelligence, and made a very favorable impression. Her numbers were O Don Fatale, from Verdi's Don Carlos, and Reinecke's Fruehlings Blumen, a beautiful song, which was exceptionally well rendered. She sang as an encore to this Parlate d'Amour, from Faust.—Baltimore American.
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