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...Schubert songs are among the best-known of that great composer and illustrate the early period of the Romantic School; "Gretchen am Spinnrade" is a masterly treatment of the voice and pianoforte in combination. The songs by Faure and Koechlin are examples of modern French style; Faure is noted for beauty of melodic line and Koechlin for the fantastic and rhythmical use of the pianoforte...
...sang it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, four years since. At any rate, Miss Braslau far overleaped it last Sunday, singing the song, as she did, with a realism too intense to be excelled. In other numbers of Schubert she triumphed as well. Especially did she impart to "Gretchen am Spinnrade," the soft sheen, the delicate shadings, which the composer intended. She succeeded not so well with some of the other numbers of her program not because of consistently bad singing of them as because of blotches, occasional hard topes which grated on the ear. It is to be regretted...
...dancing and humour there was an ample supply. Valodia Vestoff led the dancers, both in skill and pleasant ability, with Ula Sharon a close second. Never have we seen a more realistic interpretation of an Apache dance, moreover, than that given by Gretchen-Eastman and Donald Kerr. Nor a more complete travesty than the one staged by Joe 'Brown and Gordon Dooley; this pair were the funniest part of the show, and whenever they appeared kept the audience in a continual series of hysterics. Honorable mention should be given as well to Mr. Brown's mouth. As a combination...
There will be six performances: at the Pi Eta Theatre, March 19; Jordan Hall, March 22; Cummings Theatre, Fitchburg, March 23; Music Hall, Quincy, March 25; Pi Eta Theatre, March 26; and Exeter Opera House, Exeter, March 27. Princess Gretchen, S. K. Knott '16 Robin, the Robber Chief, P. Blackmur '15 Billy Turner, Movie Agent, J. S. Pfaffman '16 John Rabbit, his assistant, W. E. Wellington '17 General Rout, W. D. A. Foote '15 Prince Hal of Valentinia, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Ichabod Gotten, a rich tourist, F. F. Munroe '15 Agnes Gotten, his wife, S. F. Haines...
...Whiting, at the pianoforte, will be assisted by Miss Susan Metcalfe, soprano, and Mr. Horatio Connell, bass. PROGRAM. (Voice and Pianoforte). Franz Schubert, 1797-1828. (Pianoforte). Sonata, op. 42, First Movement. (Soprano). An Mignon. Heiden-Roeslein. Die Forelle. Rastlose Liebe. Gretchen am Spinnrade. "Hark! hark the Lark." (Bass). Aufenthalt. Der Doppelganger. Fruehlingstraum. Wohin. "Huntsman, Rest." Du bist die Ruh. Gruppe aus dem Tartarus. (Pianoforte). Menuetto, B minor. Moments Musicals, op. 94, A flat--F minor. (Soprano). Liebesbotschaft. Die junge Nonne. Der Wachtelschlag. Nacht und Traume. Auf dem Wasser zu singen...