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...performed in the most expert manner. As the popular dance music of the hour it was superb. But judged by the canons of high music, as Whiteman demanded, it did not seem to be so excellent. The impression left was much the same as when that subtle artist, Eva Gauthier, included in one of her programs of songs a group of jazz pieces (TIME, Nov. 12). The best of jazz has original and splendid rhythm and instrumentation, but the stalest and most banal of melody and harmony. The harmony adapts a few moderately recent quirks to the use of startling...
...Opera House, to offer concerts to a public already well on its way to satiety. Yet there are managers who will risk such concerts and by the same token there is even now an audience for them. Any doubts on this subject were dispelled last night when Mme. Eva Gauthier sang to an audience that almost filled Jordan Hall at the same time Mary Garden was singing "Louise", in the Opera House. Mme. Gauthier showed a sense of humor, when, apologizing for her lateness in beginning the concert, she explained that she had been delayed in the crowd going...
Seldom does one find a program which embraces numbers so far apart as did the program of Mme. Gauthier. She began with a group of eighteenth century airs from Bellini, Perucchini, and the Englishmen, Purcell and Byrd, followed it with a group of modern Hungarian and German songs by Bartok and Hindemith, rose to a climax with a group of American jazz songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin, and descended through Schoenberg, Arthur Bliss and Milhaud to the end of her program...
Aptly and concisely to describe her singing, one would have to go to Keats for the phrase "singing in full-throated ease." Mme. Gauthier possesses that limpidness and clear contour of tone necessary for the singer of the eighteenth century Italians, but she succeeded best, as far as her first group of songs was concerned, with the "Cradle Song" of William Byrd, a composer of Elizabethan England. The outstanding thing in her program, however, was her group of American songs. She sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band" with a vigor which brought out remarkably well the musical richness of the piece...
Jordan Hall, Tuesday evening, Mme. Eva Gauthier, well known as intelligent artist and especially as interpreter of modern songs, in a program ranging from Bellini to Irving Berlin. Mme. Gauthier is only now receiving appreciation she has long deserved as a singer who is also a thorough artist...