Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-20 | Page 2 | Noted Singer Visions Western Life Opera

NOTED SINGER VISIONS WESTERN LIFE OPERA S. S L. L Visitor Predicts Cowboy Cowboy Cowboy Cow Cow- boy SOI Songs gs Will Bo Be Made Into Epic Out of wc western tern cowboy and mountain mountain moun moun- tain thin son songs s now rising rapidly in respectability respectability re re will come a true American American Amer Amer- ican opera Elsa EIsa Alsen AIsen famed Wagnerian Wag Wag- soprano declared Wednesday during a brief visit in Salt Lake City en route from the east to California Appreciation of r western folk son songs has las increased tremendously in the past jast few years largely because singers sing sing- ers rs such as Lawrence Tibbett and John Charles Thomas have included them on their programs Madame Alsen said Imagination Imagination imagination Im im- Im- Im Such songs catch the popular with their life and vigor The next step will be the gathering of ot these songs in an epic opera of or wc western life Madame Alien Alson should know whereof where where- of or she speaks She knows music She was only 10 years cars old when she made her first public appearance in her naive native native na na- na- na tive ive Poland My 1 parents said I could sing before before belore be be- fore lore I could talk she explained Madame Alsen first came to the United States in 1923 She made another another another an an- other concert tour in 1924 and In 1925 decided to make her home here I I can lay claim to the tho title of c cosmopolite since I was born In Poland daughter of ot a Norwegian father ather and French mother and now have jave made America m my foster home Madame Alsen said She has sung with the Chicago Opera company and during the past winter appeared with the New York I Philharmonic orchestra and the symphony symphony symphony sym sym- phony organizations of Boston Richmond Richmond Richmond Rich Rich- mond Va ira Philadelphia and Balti BalU- more She will appear on Wagnerian programs at Santa Barbara Cal and the he Hollywood bowl in Jul July then return re re- turn urn to the east for two programs in the New York stadium Although Wagners Wagner's heroic German sagas are her favorites she has also sung ung French and Italian operas Perhaps Perhaps Per- Per haps laps that is why her slight accent in speaking is of ot both German German German Ger Ger- man and French The increased appreciation of opera in the United States during the past few years year is phenomenal she declared No longer is it necessary to o sin sing down to an audience even evenin evenin evenn in n small communities Madame 1 Alsen credited Walter WaHer p wwi a v 4 Elsa Alsen Damrosch famous conductor with doing more more than anyone else t to popularize popularize popularize pop pop- good music She is traveling via the Union Pacific Pacific Pacific Pac Pac- system