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Amelita Galli-Curci sang farewell. Thunderous applause mixed with tears of regret at her departure-not so much for her brilliant coloratura airs, bedizened with strings of pearly scale-flights, as for the glamor which the purity of her tone cast over her simplest encore-ditties. That was perhaps most people's idea of what the "song of the nightingale" should...
Those who hear the University Glee Club at 8.15 o'clock this evening in Symphony Hall will hear it, as far as Boston or Cambridge is concerned, for the last time before the start of the regular May concert schedule. Miss Frieda Hempel, since 1912 coloratura soprano in the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York City, will vary the program by singing alone two groups of songs, and another group jointly with the Glee Club, Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will be the conductor...
Regal and Moore, "late of Ed Wynn's Carnival", gave their acrobatic and dancing act--clever acrobatics enlivened with plenty of humor. Followed Belle Storey, "America's foremost Coloratura Soprano". Marvel of marvels, she is not only possessed of a voice and evidently has heard the English language spoken, but she is an extremely pleasant object for contemplation. We had thought that all good singers must be built on the pouter pigeon model and Miss Storey was an agreeable surprise...
...give a similar series next year, but in Symphony Hall. For these concerts the management has been very fortunate in securing three soloists of international reputation. At the first concert, to take place December 16, Albert Spaulding, the great American violinist, will play. On February 17, Frieda Hempel, the coloratura soprano, will act as soloist, and on April 7, Fritz Kreisler will once more appear with the club. These concerts have all been arranged for Thursday evenings in order that dances may not interfere with attendance by the undergraduates...