Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-11
AN INEVITABLE PERFORMANCE.
THE WONDERFUL coycERr OF
MISS YAw.
A Tribute 90 the Phenomenal Powers
of the LSdy ms Displayed Before
Cultured Audience In the city of
Houston.

From the Houston Post, Wednesday.
The grand concert given by the Hous-
ton Qnartette club. assisted by the Cal
weston ouartette society and orchestra.
vt the opera house last night was the
musical event OF the season. In fact,
1t might be called the event Of series
OF seasons. Houston has had nothing
in many years. n ever, that would sur
pass II. 1t was such musical feast as
It Is seldom given a Houston audience
an opportunity to enJoy.
That the opportunity was appreciated
was amply evidenced by the large and
brilliant audience which alled every
seat and thronged the alsles--an audi
ence largely made up OF musical people.
people OF culture. taste and discrimina-
tion. and Included many representatives
Of Gaiveston's dilletante. having come
on n special train especially for this
concert. There were also many musi-
cal people FROM other towns in atten-
dance.
The bright particular star of the even
ing was Miss Ellen Beach Yaw. the
wonderful soprano whose range Of voice
~ said to be the greatest the world has
ever known IL was said of her In id
vance OF her coming that she possessed
compass OF voice greater than any
soprano recorded by history, extending
from G below to f In altlssimo. n range
OF nearly four octaves. The New York
Herald had said OF het
"a soprano who can sing high and
sustain the note wen is supposed to
have n good vocal range, but Miss Ellen
@Na NHr 90 HH.IlN LTD.
above high f.. She sings higher and
lower than the great A1ugari. who Is
recorded in the Encyclopedia Britannica
az the greatest ranged singer ever
known. The thing that has
attracted the most attention is that
singer who possesses such high range
should be able To sing In her lower
register with the breadth OF contral-
to"
Coming with such n reputation much
was expected OF her by the large and
critical audience which had assembled
to test the quality OF her voice and there
was no disappointment In fact she
rather surpassed expectation.
she ls the greatest singer have ever
heard On the American stage" was the
comment OF an enthusiastic member OF
the Galveston Quartettc society.
Her equal has never been heard in
Houston." said an admlrcr of the local
musical club and nearly all compared
her to Patti. not at all TO her own dis
advantage, Patti has more volume
and perhaps fuller tones, but not such
sweetness and sympathetic quality"
said one. EVEN III her highest notes
her voice retains It's vibrant quality.
which ~ the most wonderful thing
about It," said another. And so they
spoke. all I'm terms of highest praise.
Miss Ynw was down on the program
for fewer numbers than she sang, for
she was too amiahlc and too muDh de-
lighted with the heariiness OF her roccp-
ton and the tokens OF unmistakable app
probation to refuse 10 respond to the
irresistible encores that followed each
rendition OF program number, She
sang nrst Alabieft's Russian Nlghtin-
gale" which the older or the music
lovers will remember as favorite song
OF Patti, and It established her In the
good graces OF the audience at once.
This was followed by Willamette"
which further tested her vocal quality
ana method, and then. In response to a
hearty encore. she captured the entire
audience by her rendition OF the ever
popular hnll0d, Comm Thro' the Rye"
II was not alone the voice, but the
eNpression-the coquetry. It may be
sald-which ntted the words so dis
tinctly cnunclated, FOR Miss Yaw not
'lllN blllEh WIN fNllItNNlhnt uuN HAS u
wonderfully clear enunciation,
Miss Haw was accompanied on the
piano by Miss Georlclla Lay who, like
herself IS "A young American girl, whose
star w Just now In the ascendant. MiPs
Lay also rendered some Nauo solos
which were much npprecinN-l a, especj-
ally an arrangement OF "Iiome, Sweet
Home" for the left hand. No one who
heard without seeing could have been
persuaded that this solo had been eye
cuted with one hand.
Mr. MaNimlllian Dick wns on the pro-
gram for only one violin solo, but tho
audience was TO much pleased with
that, "schcr22o Funtastipuo. and with
his reaponae to a hearty encore that he
was Induced TO appear again at q later
ntagc OF the program. lie Ia gralt
violinlst and he. too. Is a young Ameri-
can,