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Show Miss Linn's Recital a Success A Miss Ednali Vlvion Linn's recital at the Presbyterian Church Friday evening even-ing proved one of those exceptionally good things that comes to us unexpectedly unex-pectedly at times. Though Miss Linn has been at the head of the department depart-ment of music at the New Jersey -Academy the past two years and has appeared ap-peared publicly many times to marked advantage, even those most intimately associated with her had railed to appreciate ap-preciate that she possesses sucti control con-trol of her voice and the piano as was demonstrated Friday evening. The program 'was an artistic one, well chosen, well done a pleasant and thoroughly enjoyable surprise to a church full of music lovers. In her vocal work, Miss Linn's success suc-cess came not in dramatic capacity or power of voice, but In the Interpretation Interpreta-tion of the composer's idea In songs requiring perfect rendition to give even passing pleasure. In this she was remarkably successful, and her every number was enjoyed. Before rendering piano numbers, Miss Linn gave In well-chosen sentences sen-tences a brief but comprehensive history his-tory of thcNllfe or the composer and the story of which the selection was descriptive. In this she was quite effective, and In her rendition of the number was not less so. Miss Linn leaves for the cast shortly to further her musical education, probably golug to Boston. That she will do much for herself Is certain, and many friends here join in wishing her the perfect fulfillment of rondest ambitionc. In the recital Friday evening, Mrs. Dena Bexell acted as accompanist. Only those musically inclined can thoroughly appreciate how much a first-class accompanist adds to any performance, and these know better than any how few, even among expert musicians, are fitted to perform this duty. On this and other occasions, Mrs. Bexell demonstrated her splendid capacity there are none better here. |