The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-17
FHE QUEEN OF SONG.
The Great AIbani Heard Here
for the First Time
AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY GREETED
Her Excellent SuppOrt-A Chat With the
DIVA - Echoes From the Great
Tabernacle Recital.

The world famous Albani gave her first
and only concert in Salt Lake last evening,
and Salt Lake is now numbered among the
Tosts who own her sway as the matchless
queen of song, and count themselves willing
captives in her train. The audience which
assembled to hear her at the theatre did
not entirely fl the house-the town is too
far from being educated up to the double
price ideal as yet-but those who We're
present made a good representation OF our
most critical strength, and the unrestricted
Nd overwhelming verdict they gave will
be the verdict of our city. That Judgment
is that Albani is one Of the first lyric
artists of the world and it is a broad ques-
ton whether she be not entitled to the place
of the very first Certainly only one singer,
Patti, can be named in the same connection,
and placing the two great voices together,
it is doubtful whether as voices, that OF
Patti should be called the superior. Re
calling the faultless execution OF AIbam as
seen in the bird song and remembering the
WOr derful moving strength and quality OF
her tone il is difficult to see how she could
be surpas sed, and the reflection is apt to
strike us that the great figure Patti Is able
TO command, and the wide fame of her
name may both be due in some measure to
certain oXtraneOuS circumstances of a char
acter more or less celebrated, it is true; but
having little to do with vocal accomplish
ments.
Despite the fine company with which
Nine. Albaui has surrounded herself, and
her exquisite artistic training and instincts,
like those Of Parepa, make themselves eVl-
dent in the class of artists she employs.
Last nights audience was inclined to be a
little cold until Albani herself swept upon
the stage. But her first notes warmed the
house like an electric current, and the IN
terest and enjoyment We're kept up
10 a high pitch every moment thereafter.
She met with thunderOus recall after her
exquisite rendering of the ''IraViata' Sc
lection and responded with Home, Sweet
Home in which her pure, ilute-lil1e tones
Flad full sway. Her second number was
NHandel's CANCELS Ever Bright and Fair
and here she reveled at her very best.
Her magnificent sweeping tones essentially
suggest the Oratorio, and invOluntarily
IS we hear her, rises the vision with which
Ler name has been so often connected, of
Crystal Palace, of Albert Hall, of chorus
Of 1000, an orchestra of several hundred,
an audience of lO,Oe0 to 1900 with royalty
in the stalls waving its handkerchiefs and
dispensing its smiles. The most mar
VelOuS executions were given III the
sweet bird song, II Pensierosa, "by Handel,
with flute obligato. Her trills, runs and
shakes showed the skillful instrument, and
the very tones seemed to laugh and rOllick
away from the instrument in its attempts
TO follow. Her celebrated cadenza was here
presented her by Jenny Lind. She was
called out half dozen times after this, and
finally had to give Il familiar air from
Linda, and her only other appearance was
!, in the trio from Faust at the close, when
she gave ore exhibition of force, power
and magnetism telling in the extreme. All
the support is good, but Mr.. F,OOte, the
basso, possessOr of rich manly
cantata voice, and Mr.. Ansorge, the
pianist probably deserve first mention
both were heartily applauded and Mr.
Foote was strongly encored Miss Damian
has strong and pleasant cOntraltO and
Signor Massimi is light tenor who sings
kyith sweetness but not much else. The
y Tist Mr.. Barrett and the accompanist
,tr Bevignani are both excellent artists.
The company leave OIL their way to San
Francisco this afternoon.