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Show f SEXTETTE" SUNG 1 ANEW BY WORLD ' FAMED ARTISTS Celebrated Voices also Hean in New Interpretation of "Rigoletto" Quartette Great Course in Singing Sing-ing Announced. Probably every music lover know that the "Sextette" from Lucia stand, alone as one of the most gorgeoui pieces of ensemble singing in th' world. So a new Victor record of i by artists who are supreme on the oji eratic stage is an eent to thrill th great Victor audience with nntlclpa tions of keenest pleasure. Caruso am Galll-Curct blpnd their voices witl Egener, De Luca, Journet and Dada ii a powerful, dramatic Interpretation and in consequence the "Sextette should take a fresh and if posslbl stronger hold on the affections of mu sic lovers. Three of these artists Caruso. Gal li-Curcl and De Luca with Perini unite to create another record of im portance and great vocal boauty, ir singing anew for the Victor the "quar tette" from Rigoletto. As this char acteristically Italian composition is ii this record sung by an all-Italian quar tette of artists whose fame is work wide, it is not probable that Verdi him self could have selected voices mon perfectly adapted to his masterpieces Seemingly anxious to make April t long remembered month in musica crlcles. the Victor company announce a complete course in vocal training b Oscar Saenger. The full import oi this can hardly be realized. Its ef feet will be felt for years in the ad vancement of music For it mean.' that everyone anywhere who wishes tc sing and has a voice, even though it be entirely untrained, can now devel op his or her talent under the direc tion of Oscar Saenger, America's greatest and most successful vocal teacher. In a word, the chief obsta cles to obtaining the instruction oi teachers who have trained great ar tists the high cost of lessons, the time and expenses away from home-have home-have by this announcement beer swept away. Aspiring young singers everywhere have reason to rejoice Victor dealers are prepared to give full information about the new Saengei records. Besides singing in the Sextette and Rigoletto Quartette this month, Cti-ruso Cti-ruso gives us one of the most forceful and beautiful records in his entire rep ertoire, a song of extraordinary dra matlc appeal from Samson and Delila The exotic beauty of Saint-Saen's op era has long been known in America mainly through Victor records of the passionate contralto song, "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice," and now Caruso offers a song hitherto unrecorded by the Victor which will make appreciation apprecia-tion of the opera still more widespread. wide-spread. It is a song of powerful appeal, ap-peal, exceptionally suited to the histrionic his-trionic and vocal gifLs of Caruso. Contrasted with the passionate utterance ut-terance of the mighty Samson is the quiet song of sentiment, "I Love You Truly." by the composer of "A Perfect Day," Carrie Jacobs-Bond. This is sung with remarkable sincerity by Sophie So-phie Braslau and should be a great favorite. "O Bright and Fleeting Shadows" though from one of Verdi's earlier operas. op-eras. Ernani. is a famous song, and beautifully displays tho gifts of Giuseppe Giu-seppe De Lnca, noted baritone, of the Metropolitan Opera. It will have been ' noted above that De Luca is one of the i great company of six in the new rendition ren-dition of the "Sextette," and one of the artists in the new Rigoletto Quartette. Quar-tette. Musical picturization and his usual brilliant playing characterize Mischa Elman's latest record, the "Orientale," i by Cesar Cul. In It he has gone home for composition, local color and interpretation. inter-pretation. For bp himself Is of Russian Rus-sian origin, while Cesar Cui was a Russian army officer and the music depicts de-picts a fiddler playing to the accompaniment accom-paniment of a crowd of Russian mou-Jiks. mou-Jiks. Needless to say this record will help to meet the present craze for Russian Rus-sian music. The whole world of the opera is talking talk-ing of the wondrous success of Ame-lita Ame-lita Galli-Curcl, the latest of the great Victor artists to "arrive." Her triumph tri-umph during tho season of opera Just closed in Chicago was of "the kind you read about" a genuine old-time ovation. Galli-Curci has a coloratura soprano voice of extraordinary flexibility and tone quality, and so It is a pleasure to learn that for the first of her three Victor offerings this month she has chosen that superlative coloratura aria, the waltz song from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet. Sho does not hesitate to give us also that test of tho coloratura soprano the Mad Scone from Lucia a teBt In which many of the foremost coloratura sopranos of tho past have won thoir laurels. It Is a song which displays Galli-Curci's marvelous virtuosity vir-tuosity brilliantly and delightfully. Though American opera lovers hope Galli-Curci feels at homo with us, for our highest honors have been showered shower-ed upon her, still fow singers have so touched hearts with the home longing as she In her "Home Sweet Homo," the third of her Victor records of this month. With voice of sensuous beauty sho sings the old song with a simplicity simplici-ty that will make this a greatly admired ad-mired record. Close kin to Oalll-Curci's tender home-plaint is Mabel Garrison's "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls," from the beloved old opera, the Bohemian Girl. It is ono of the loveliest songs in an opera full of beautiful melody, and lives on through all tho fashion changes of operatic art. Miss Garrison's Garri-son's silvery sweet rendition should delight many a home. |
