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...outstanding singers partaking in this Monday evening performance are Mary Garden, star of many performances of the past, Marie Claessens and Rene Mason, who has just completed his successful debut season in Chicago. Vanni-Marcoux, who is a former member of the Boston Opera, and who has always been a favorite in Boston, is also scheduled to sing. Another veteran musician, Giorgo Polacco, the conductor, will partake in the performance...
Both nights will present operas that have proven in the past popular with many music lovers. On Monday night, February 6, Charpentier's "Louise" will be given, Singing in this performance 'will be Mary Garden, Maria Claessens, Rene Maison, and Vanni-Marcoux...
...third of the five groups consisted entirely of French songs of an increasingly deep emotional tinge "Toujour a Toi" by Tschaikowsky, and "Le Captil" by Gretchaninow bracketed the numbers, causing most comment, and aroused the responsive audience for his superb recital of the Prologue from "Pagliacci." Here M. Marcoux first sang with more than authentic charm and purity of tone. His attack on the concluding strong passionate bars, almost beyond the range of the ordinary baritore's voice, removed any lingering trace of uncertainty as to his unusual power and dramatic intensity...
...succeeding series of operatic Italian arias presented new opportunities for display of interpretation and technique. Indeed, had M. Marcoux not possessed a delightful surety of tone combined with extreme simplicity of manner, the widely varied program might have been colored with a suggestion of braveura...
Despite the singer's unquestioned conquest of his hearers, it was not until the last number he showed that he had not as yet reached the crescendo of his ability. "The Airman's Creed" by John Adams Loud completely took everyone aback. M. Marcoux had all the while not been able to bring out his true superbness. Excited applause brought him back at last for an encore, which was sung with a power that convinced everyone he at last had reached his best. Another encoure was demanded; and M. Marcoux sang ::The Open Road" and received a redoubled and prolonged...