Show Joh John CO d P I L' L A School Girls Girl's Impression The voice and art of John McCormack Mc l Cormack who will be heard in recital at the tabernacle Friday eveni evening g under th the a auspices spice of the Musical Arts society have been the inspiration of many eloquent tributes tributes tributes trib trib- utes but it is doubtful if anything ever penned by the ablest and most enthusiastic critics gave the singer himself more pleasure than the one which is here reproduced It is really really really real real- ly an excerpt from a letter written written written writ writ- ten by a school girl to her mother r following her first experience at a l McCormack concert When he first in came in I 1 sort of expected him to act up as if he were the worlds world's worlds greatest greatest tenor He did not hot He just we went t and leaned up up against the piano and if hed he'd been in his own p parlor rl r at t home honie ho he couldn't have been en more simple It seemed as tho though gh we were all aU one me big family and he was just talking to us quietly with h his a head a little little little lit lit- tle on one side and his eyes closed telling us fairy ta tales es as they came into his head making ng us smile and sigh by turns weaving spells a about out us and sometimes wringing our I hearts by y the pathos of his his' tones tomoS It was t the e tone the s sympathy that did it not the words words for for who doesn't know the song Kathleen en I J. used to hate it till I McCormack nearly made me cry over it i You didn't know V exactly when he was going to start singing There was no getting wound up beforehand like some of them do who think they are great singers Once hed he'd get settI settled d' d by the piano he would not shift his bis position at atall atall all hardly and you'd find yourself listening to that quiet soothing d voice that just came with no apparent apparent apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent effort and seemed to be talking confidentially to each i in in- in r in th the theatre The only thing I have to s say y I against the show was that the songs weren't anything like long enough I was right in the middle of a lovely dream dream building building a palace palace palace pal pal- ace in Spain when Spain when he said The clock is striking 11 and children should be in bed And at the end of every song I felt just the wa waa way waya way waya a child does and said said Not yet oh please not yet just one more He gave save one more and more than just one more but the more I heard the more I wanted t to hear and aril if r I wished to say all I really felt about it its it's to Ireland Id I'd have to togo togo togo go to kiss the Blarney stone |