The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-22
CaIve captures Minneapolis.

The greatest audience ever assembled at
an entertainment in Minneapolis greeted
Nine Calve last Tuesday evening, more
than five thousand people hearing her sing
The Times thus describes her appearance:
The next number was to be by Cam
panari. But in his place appeared TALL
dark-eyed dark-haired, beautiful woman
who Immediately was recognized as Mile.
Calve herself. She was greeted with an
outburst of applause which would have
been still more accumulated had not ma
jority of the audience been so busy holding
opera glasses to their eyes
She sang an aria from DaVids Ihe
Pearl of Brazil, with flute obligato. How
she sang H. OH ask Bliss Carman nrit now
great or small are made of too tough
clay to give faithful description OF
to it is to use some wild Oriental meta
First, she does not sing in the common
sense of the word; she breathes music, and
once in while she laughs or cries 1t forth.
In either one Of these three cases, the
music uttered by her Is equally pure equal
the first aria should be from the Pearl
of Brazil The entire aria, as rendered by
Calve, was a playful Juggling with the
pearly notes dropping into bowls, of crys-
tai And yet, that aria did little but show
what wonderful command the great ar
fist has over her voice. Calve-the great
CaIve~whose fame has been waited west
ward from the great musical centers of the
East-the real Calve did not appear until
in the encore which followed; which en-
core, to the great JOY OF the audience,
proved to be Bizet,s t .Habanera. a
maidens of Spain; a glimpse of a heart
vibrating with passionate, impulsiye love;
and what more it was a glance into the
easily stirred soul of the singer.
But the climax came when Calye sang
the mad scene from Thomass Hamlet
and, by the by, what difference there
is in that scene and the mad scene from
Lucia" In that scene she demonstrated
to a wondering audience how perfect sing
ing can go hand In hand with the highest
dramatic art. Those that doubt the right
of grand opera to exist as an art form
ought never to hear and see Calve render
grand opera, for they are liable to have
their pet theory overthrown. Her voice
winds itself around the spirit of the music
and the thought of the words as the vine
clings around the trunk of the oak, en-
HANGING its beauty, but never hiding II.
ture, voice were Ophelias. But one thing
must be taken for granted: Had Hamlet
heard those divine notes uttered by me
real Ophela. he would have forgotten MS
revenge and his grievances to make love.
Chicago Tribune's Estimate.
The Chicago Tribune of yesterday had
the following to. say of the opening of the
Indianapolis festival:
The ninth May musical festival opened
tonight Lfhe chorus is greater than ever
heard here Musical people here from Chi
cago Cincinnati, Louisville and from all
parts OF lDuldHd piONOuiiSF liz lASff 40
far and away ahead of all previous
choruses here. The singers were encored
after both the Beethoven Choral Fantasia
and after the Goring-Thomas cantata The
Swan and the Skylark.' The greatest hit of
the night was undoubtedly the chorus, and
next to that was the Van der Stucken or
chestra which opened with Bachs
Prelude Chorale and Fugue.
Mime De Nere-Sapto, the main soloist
Tonight was also success. Her aria
The Magic Flute was encored Other
soloists were Ffrangcon- Davies, Miss Sara
Layton Walker and Evan Williams. Oliver
Willard pierce the pianist. took part in the
beethoven fantasie. The attendance was
cut down somewhat by terrific storm that
came up early in the evening
Notes of the Festival.
This festival is notable for the large