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Musical Courier 1928-03-01: Vol 96 Iss 9, 1928
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1"A PARAGON!
2"A PARAGON!
3Virtuosa's hand and musician's spirit!"
4— H. T. Parker,
5Boston Transcript.
7"BEATRICE HARRISON again establishes her right to be regarded as the best of our English 'cellists"
8— Ernest Newman,
9London Sunday Times, Feb. 5, 1928.
11BEATRICE HARRISON and "Bennie"
13Beatrice Harrison
15New York Times, October 17, 1927.
16"Beatrice Harrison's recital was a revelation of what a 'cello can express when technical power is combined with understanding and depth of feeling. Through a long and exacting program her technical mastery seemed absolute. Her intonation from the first number to the last was impeccable, and she gave such expressiveness to her playing that her instrument of wood and string became alive and eloquent."
18The Chicago Tribune, October 23, 1927 (Alfred Frankenstein).
19"To say Beatrice Harrison has musicianship is putting it mildly. She displayed enough musicianship to equip an entire symphony orchestra. To say her technique is perfect is to put it mildly again. I firmly believe she could make her instrument get up and walk at the word of command if she wanted to!"
21Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, November 8, 1927.
22"Miss Harrison after her success as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra may be regarded already as a favorite, as her classification as foremost 'cellist needs no limitation of sex."
24New York Sun (W. J. Henderson).
25"Miss Harrison's command of her instrument is a joy to hear."
27Boston Evening Transcript, October 10, 1927 (H. T. Parker).
28"The quick and the dead amongst composers owed much to Miss Harrison, and in these days she plays the violoncello with unfaltering and impeccable skill. To skill she joins sympathy for the instrument and susceptibility for it. A loving kindness that will never force it to excess or humiliate it with tricks. Her tone is the voice of its grave sweet dignity and depth—the stately graces—the cool brightness—the darkling mystery—the sudden fires when Hungaria calls. Her sensibility to music as music lends her playing poise, intuition, felicity, strikes her Kodaly with sparks of white fire. Intelligence as well as sympathy—her Handel, Bach, Kodaly, Delius, even Senaille and Nardini have each its own accent and manner. She characterizes as she plays her violoncello in the mirror."
30Baltimore Sun, December 3, 1927.
31"Beatrice Harrison rose to the most superb heights, revealing a rare combination of technical feats and interpretation. She draws from her instrument a tone that flows with suavity yet undulates every curve of the music, and vibrates to every accent the composer has laid upon it."
33Philadelphia Public Ledger, November 8, 1927.
34"Miss Harrison's next rendition was one of the most remarkable feats of violoncello playing that have ever been heard."
36Bookings Made Now For American Transcontinental Tour, 1928-1929
38RECITAL MANAGEMENT ARTHUR JUDSON
39George Leyden Colledge, Director
40Laura Rechtenwalt, Personal Representative
41Steinway Hall, 113 West 57th St., New York City, N. Y.
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