St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-19

as beauty in that long white column
There are long necks and feng necks,
TO be sure, but there is but one YaW
neck.
In Kansas City last year.<Miss Yaw
attended a reception after a concert,
and among the guests were a certain
matron and her daughter the latter
! noted for the unusual and scrawny
length of her neck. IT was not long
before the mother brought the girl
within comparing distance3 of Miss
Yaw.
'Therew she said. turning abruptly
upon a friend my Felieia's neck is
just as long. Look at it! You'd think
she'd ought to sing just as high notes. :"
well, does she?" Inquired the
friend.
NO, not yet: but she's got the neck
all the same Shes got the neck" and
the proud matron trotted off with her
promising offspring
Ellen Beach Yaw has a personality
almost as unique as her altitudinous
voice and her swan-neck. She is a
tall, beautiful girl with blue eyes,
blond hair and delicate features. She
is graceful, elegant in poise and man
! ner, and thoroughly artistic in nature.
She designs all her own gowns in ad-
dition, and they are characteristic OF
the wearer.
She was born near Buffalo, N. Y,
but the greater part of her girlhood
was spent in California, near Los An
geles. Her vocal genius early mani
tested itself, and after studying with
various masters she came under the
tuition of Nine. Theodore Bjorksten, Of
New York, who. recognizing her phe-
ncmenal gifts, took the girl 10 Paris.
Here she studied under Dele, Sedie
and Bax, and the extraordinary quail
ity of the voice housed in the shapely,
firm Yaw neck quickly attracted at
tention in the French capital.
Last year the Yaw voice and the
Yaw neck essayed a concert tour of
the West and South, and both created
a furore. Then came more study
abroad, and now she returns to Amer
lea to court favor from the highest
musical tribunal of the land, the New
York critics She will make her first
appearance at Carnegie Hall, JAN 81
Anton Seidl will conduct the orches-
ira, and there will be several other
soloists
The vocal marvels Of the Yaw neck
have been best described by a Texas
critic who heard Miss Yaw sing last
spring, and was moved to thus ex-
press himself r
Patti, Sanderson, Melba, fEames, all
had been heard with pleasure night
after night at the big house down
the street, but life UP to THAT time
were in vain, for we had yet to listen
to the phenomenon of the. age, the
exponent of notes in art, such as had
not been heard since the days of Mo-
zarts sister-in-law. The first stroke
of the baton brought cut a crash of
complex harmony, and the seance be-
gan. The number seemed to have the
spirit of BeelZebub in it, s.
up this little dream figure started,
and away went her voice, slxinmering
through the immense auditorium like
a pistol ball. 1t fingered awhile,
searching all the corners of! that huge
theater until it struck the elevator,
where it took passage for the next
flight. -
"From gallery to gallery it went,
touching here, there and at all places
the heart of every listener, breaking
away only to run into some hidden
nook, where she dwelt on tone of
liquid sweetness. This was her fam
GUS E fat in alt, which she simply
caressed and then with bound be-
yond all human comprehension, took
| complete octave above-and held it.
eye Gods! what applause followed
1t seemed she had left the theater
and gone scrambling over the roof,
and when the din subsidized she stands
still smiling, holding her note sweet
as ever; then coyly coaxes it down
by degrees and drops it into the bal
cony, where she lets it wander around
idly.
"a short symphony follows, and
| here she comes tumbling down steps
III cadenzaS at breakneck speed, one
note rolling over another with such
utter recklessness you wonder where
she will light, but a soft tone in her
| lower register serves as cushion,
| and away she goes again with the
ori1i nf nIot Io
heights hitherto unknown.
Something seems to scare her-she
| hesitates, trembles-and one of the
! sweetest trills breaks forth human
| soul has ever heard. Then some suit
| able motif attracts her from her wild
| flight to a more soothing tempo, and
| soft, smooth melody pours forth. Each
note seems sweeter than its sister, and
then dies away into nothing. You rub
| your eyes; the spell is broken The
| little bird is gone, and your dream
is air"
The recently organized Church Choir
Choral Club of st. Johns Church is
| starting out energetically under the
direction of James Blaikie, to inaugu-
rate a series Of musical events, the first
Of which will be given shortly after
Easter. At that time the operetta
Penelope" will be put on at Conover
hall, by the members for the aid of the
st. Johns building fund and the choir
The club has already large member
ship and has for a nucleus the vested
choir of the church. The officers are:
| President, Fred S. Bryant, vice president
| George +. Ames; secretary, Z. B. Barton
treasurer William T.. kirKe; director James
! Blaikie; executive committee, Fred. S. Bry.
ant Robert Hood, Arthur Lufsky, T., b. Bar
| ton.
| Music committee, James Blaikie, Percy b
Churchill, Thomas Newhousen, NJ. u. Badly.
Appended is partial listsof the members
| r. i. Delano, George F. Ames, D. r. Var
| Week, Fred c. Badly, E. y. Barton, M. u
| Badly, Paul Hersch, Frank Relf, and Masters
| Walter DeLano, Paul Stevenson Clark Elier
| harry Lawton, Charles Learned, Tnos. Sven
| Win Moreland, Gale Merrick, Victor Larken
| Hariand Johnson, Don Taynine, Harry Dorge-
lob, VIII Peterson, Parke Learned, Walter
| Chase, Clark Farnham, Charles Powers
| Harold McGuickin, Fred tleckenhem, anC
| Joseph Dorgeioh.
AT the musicale given by the third
| division of the Schubert club at Con
over hall Wednesday afternoon a
vote of thanks was rendered Mrs. r. r,
Dorr, president of the club, for her eff
| forts in it's behalf and also for the slim
illus she has given musical culture in
the city.
Mrs. Dorr was greatly surprised and
made a graceful acknowledgment.
Director George Seibert has arranged
for popular carnival concert at Con-
over hall next Sunday afternoon, when
an unusually attractive programme will
be given. This concert will be the sixth
Of the series and a glance at the num-
bers to be played shows that the selec-
ton is an excellent one.
| The orchestra will NAV tha