Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-11-24
NEW YORK LETTER.
A LADY FROM BALTIMORE WITH A
PURE TENOR VOICE.
People who Hum and Whistie-How Edi-
con, Cleveland, and Others Hum
Two wild Young English
men in Gotham, etc.
rcorrespondcucc Of the Richmond Dispatch.

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week the operatic managers OF New YORK
claim 10 have discovered something even
moro remarkable. Ii is nothing less than
q feminine tenor. with double register:
The lady Is Miss {. +. Mcolai. native OF
baltimore. whore she is well known and
moves in the highest society. Wealthy
and passiOnately fond Of music, Miss Moo
lai has had every opportunity for the cll-
fivati0n Of her voice. Some OF her teach
srs in Baltimore concluded that she had "a
contIalto register. hut famous New fork
professor who trains pupils for the operate
ftage and who has lately had the lady un-
der his care, was not long IN making
THE STARTLING p1scovKBy
that she had pure tenor. The only other
cases Of The kind during period OF twenty
wears were those of Mrs. Howard Paul ana
Miss Minnie Briggs. both OF whom were
considered phenomenal at the time ana
excited comment among musical people All
over the country.
Miss Nicolai. who is a very pretty, stYllsh
brunette about twenty years OF age tens
on interesting story # her struggles with
her voice az 2 time when 10 was "a puZllc 10
herself and an hor friends She sad,
MY SISTER was also unsteady inclined
when we sang together "a children J no
ticed that she sang better than }, yet lett
rs though I could do better, Int did not
exactlv know how or why / thought 50; /
attributed 10 10 inv bronchial troubles;
which was then afflicted with. / hked
music. vet ! was dis satisfied with my Ell
forts, with no remedy, and no one seemed
10 be Heie 10 sug-eSl any .e,.r'.r5 ~
my siuuitS. - A." n'"i' ga. ia
'4Alnt nl"s.."' f,,t,,.,o.-c NM, homo n
ChuiVu I'i =" r. r-.,. ,,,..,,.cd ~ like
WIS JuN' 'i-1 = 49,. t,to IL r,,eaIf
my Singing ana "'u i'' 4'N' 81 ''''
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",f..,..:,o ,.ci+h,r contralfo nor eo-
~ .,+b,- ,,,.,,.,.,-., ntr,lto or more
G,,t.,, 4 ,,..e s,uoin,- IN the
- 80 laoli 49, ~ ',r.r.lto to which
uV.' ,..., ,o,..li .nit.l and knew
ny Is,lI ne 5r,t. ,e in. t,.n and those
49,. r,,.1;a- With p,us,c also knew it,
W. w '-.l..il 49,. l'r,te,I,,. / dia moi
III" 81, III. ooco. .,...lf,. the tenor
~" N. '.. On 49,. cl,,~.h and Sane
-. W. e.,,.,'.. ( san, thai nlr-
N'' III. - IA co,.-,lt.7 liked IL
~ -, ma ~ 81. ,..,ra ~ homo IN
60 ''' .,.. .- ,"'.'.,l 4, ,q. flen that |
-.", ID. ,,''r,,li.--., ~ INV voice
C 49, .',, ,..itb 49,, ,.ira--a tenor end
T. cortralto. Yes: 10 seems n. though !
should receive two sa Names. nee nav
two voices. Ouf. Gta n. 10 -'' ms. am liN. ''
~ tac tf.u-af p0, .l.n "i hiN.h- Do fo5'
Or. rItatr uo o.-litc Noc,, toA-'uu'"
burhs ths lIt i'sN,.E 'iNl-" "o
reAiu-' voice OF 'ti-~ N-.'. " '"l'-
tones. or .' Ii'Hr7 i'. we .l.p
tenor it1A Ho, soc" i"I1 49, NAE
Ntt-ii~ ".Ni' nave ''-s '''4O '-~ ''"
listening 10 AlAn'
protiF WHO hum
1--WE are GRADUALLY getting 20 Io mu-
sicgl pooplr." -a.d o. native composer tho
other dav. mot that w. have vet begun
NV.
buf tber. is uuaue,t,oratlv vast differ
euco in tle popular musical tastes ot too
aevqfl tlr-, .f the DAVIS II our lwmndII-
a. forlft,h.r-. / expect That tine present
reuerat,on viii live-o ethereal American
opera. NOWADAYS almost every body I- more
or less musical. and. uu.Iusciou9lv or
otberwieo. There are very low men or WOO
men who haven't acquired the habit of
humminc over some hIr or eaton - them
Relve in moments when the mind needs
eouctIiug 10 sootlo II. whether IfI, enc
rrosse3 In lus,rss. or pleasure. I could
,,,.,,t,,.,. ff4, ,.o,,le who ho,a this lnlit
-.'eii r-or,afi,iod ana IN +. an Interesting
et,,.lr ~ watch fheir pcc1lur.tios and n--
Ten 10 chem whom tlcy aro supposedly free
from restraint
now rr,r-ov AND crryr.rAND HUM.
"Nov, tbors'. Ellison. the inventor. Tie
uso6 foIo 81 orea. tobacco consumer. Since
taken - whI4tlinr softly aud grooming
over ia low tones the old plantation uI.
WAY down among de waller corn or
something very like 1t. Ii seems 10 rest
him. and he VIII labor for hours on the
most complicated electrical cantriylnces
and keep up his hummiuc, for all the
world ike Is human top, while Lis
assistants move about him. careful not
% interrupt They tell mo that cX-Ircsi-
dent Cleveland. too, IS am luVetelate
hummer, and tnat when at hs desk
in his law Office ou William street pa mo-
mcnts of abstraction hc taps h- plump
Fingers on tho arm OF the chair and muir
murs in Il deep bias stavc from ihe o.d
song Wen hunt the lui-ialo. varying u
with John Brown Inc bui-ia-i9 @ an
old-timcr, and may yet Dee hcard shouted
by conycntion-g0iug parties when they -'t
% the trOlhckn~ point. toloAel Lamont
also when IN Nash iugton used TO tap ms
foot and hum johnny get your gun f't
your gun lie does so stll, tut IN a slower
and more pblosophc manner, as becomes
q man who has csShcwed pohllcs and SET
tied down 20 business.
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