The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-17
The Cleveland Festival.

The Matinee of Thursday afternoon, one
of the five concerts given in the May Festi-
val of the Cleveland Vocal Society was
quite numerically attended by Wellington
people, several going early in the week,
staying in the city and making of it a
musical feast Some had purchased tick
cts in advance supposing Miss Anne
Louise Cary and Mrs. Osgood would be
the leading stars, but the illness of both
these caused the substitution of Fanny
Kellogg and Miss Winants, of New York,
for the soprano and alto solos, Miss Kel-
logg's distinct articulation as well as the
purity and richness Of her voice, and the
excellent taste with which she rendered
her parts, made her very popular. She
did not go out of her way to show what
she could do in extravagant vocalization,
but conscientiously adhered to the text Of
her music, and no one who heard it ought
ever to forget the grace and feeling of her
rendition of the Prayer from Der Freis-
chutz, or how charmingly she sang the Sc
lecticnfrom Taubert On A March Night"
which she was induced to repeat, singing
Bizet's Habanera In response to encore af-
ter her first number.
Miss Winants looks, appears, and is so
fluent In her German that one may sup
pose her to be of Tuetonic antecedents.
She has the reputation of throughly ed
ucated contralto, and is in high repute as
an artist where best known, but has not
sung in the West before. Like Miss Kel-
logg, she is of substantial physical proper
ticns, and unmistakable lung power. She
sang the plant of Orphers "I have lost my
Eiuydicen with dramstic intensity, and
retppeared singing Beethcrsn's"In Questa
Totaba,n and sang the solo in the last
nnHaher Of the programme, "The Redemp-
ton Hymn in which the orchestra also
and chorus performed grandly. Those who
heard her in the oratorio's gave her praise
for high artistic qualities BETTING the ele-
waited character Of the music. For our
selves we were perhaps too much disap-
pointed in her substitution for Miss Cary,
or had anticipated too much to be enthus-
iastically pleased with her somewhat SOM
bre style, though it had its merits: and
there was neither vanity, frivolity or yisi-
BILE self-consciousness in the woman, quail
ties as rare in public singers as they are
praiseworthy.
The singing of the tenor Mr.. Theodore j.
Toedt was all that could be desired, full,
rich, smooth, flowing, his words distinct,
manner without affectation, and no disa-
greeable effort in inspiration or execution.
He sang Romanza and later two select
ions very unlike, from Rubenstein, ''The
Dream and aThe Lark"
Miss NJ. s. Wright, of Clevelsnd, the
piano accompanist received the handsom-
est floral tribute of the day, double harp
presented by her friends of the chorus
The pyrotechnics of the day were intro
duced lin the person Of Mile Zelis
de Lussan, q petite French canca
trice, not named in the programme, who
came almost summing upon the stage
: dressed in satin as yellow as q dandeiion
and very becoming to her brunette style
She is full Of those little coquetries
and kittenish ways SO much affected BY
many prima donnas, and in her singing
resembles Litta; but In the two numbers
eiveu Thursday did not display the re
sources of that lady. She sang high and
low, too high for agreeable execution, ano
resorted to those surprises, sudden explos
i've terminal notes, that seem to be sc
much the fashion, though it is a question
n II be the best style Of musical art Aside
! from all this she has unquestioned ability
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