The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-14
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Materna Concert Last
Evening.
DEN THOMPSON IN UNCLE JOSH.
Last Nights Conesrt-Harry Emery
settled-The Private Secretary
The Home Dramatic.
The Materna Concert.


An audience notable in character and
appearance, if not in numbers, came
together last evening to greet the dis,
tinguished singer Materna The dress
circle was comfortably filed but tn e
other portions of the house contained
little more than sprinAings.
There was little out of the usual on
the programme except the great singer
herself, and though the supporting art
lists were all greeted warmly, there was
nothing in their performances which
was either new or notable: Neatly
Stevens is well known to Salt Lake
from previous appearances as careful
artistic, but one whose playing IS not
without faults. The piano soleist who
enchains the attention of Salt Lake
audience and rouses it to enthusi-
asm must be the acme of perfection,
which Miss Stevens is not. So
little popular is that form Of solo
playing here, however, that
even Josefy has with difficulty
drawn largely appreciative or paying
houses; the baritone Villain has a
sweet but an uneven voice, and, though
a fairly good singer throughout, is not
= remarkable one; Mr.. Rosewald's vio-
lin solos were warmly applauded, but
were not as well appreciated as they
would have been wereit not for the fact
that we have local violinist who Is fire.
duently heard and who is in every res
pect Mr.. Rosewald's superior; Mr.. Rose
valid plays with considerable delicacy
ard truth and gained recall after his
.fentGsid as well as an enthusiastic burst
after his cradle song; but II. is no dis
paragement to him to say that he has
neither, Mr.. Weihe's breadth, majesty of
style, precision of attack nor technique;
Miss Ella Larvin filed thespart of ca
pable accompanist.
Whatever shortcomings there were in
the programme, however, were amply
atoned for and simply forgotten in the
impression created by the great Mater
ma; she is singer of whom 1t cannot be
said that she is faultless, as certain parts
of her register are Enthusiastically harsh;
but she is singer whose majesty of
tone, whose fire, whose strength,
and whose vocal accomplish
Rent, added to a tremendous but
a proportionate and graceful physique
carry all before them and count with
an audience as effectually as if all her
gifts were Projections. She carries with
her immensity such an air of amiability
and sprightliness, and sings with SO
much mobility of countenance that she
pats an audience in good humor with
her from the commencement. Her high
notes are electrical in their effect, and
the crescendo in the upper register
was grandly beautiful. Her render
ing Of the prayer from Tdahauser was
the great selection of the night, and
though there were none of her appear
ances which were not recalled, the ap-
plause after this was the stormiest and
most uncomfortable. Unmistakable
IS was the impression she created how
ever, we can imagine how much greater
she would appear in Wagner's
operas where physical magni6cence
il IS much requisite for the goddesses,
queens, and imperial creations with
which his works abound, as vocal
powers. Materna shows her dramatic
instincts insevery motion, and the re-
greet is general that we could not have
seen her in one of those operas in which
she received her tuition from the hand
of the master himself.