The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-16

guests III the nome OF IlSiOuy. ITeDeiil
has the same warmth, sympathy and
human feeling in her voice and manner
that distinguished her mother, the IA
nous contralto. Her voice is strong,
clear, ringing soprano of broad range.
with not a false tone in it, 1t is fresh
as the dawn of a summer day. as nm-
pid as the waters of a mountain spring,
and the ideal of the melodious. She
has a range equal to that Of Nordlca,
running the scale for three octaves, but
ordinarily employing two and a haif.
She is not like Nordica, a dramatic
singer, and has little of the operate
manner or method yet in the number
| from ''Travata" she proved her capac-
| ity fully for operate work should she
ever choose to engage in 1t. But IN
! truth she is not to be placed in com
| parisOn with Nordca, for they are of
two wholly different styles and schools.
| Trebelli has distinct cOntraito quality
| in her lower notes suggesting the tones
| Of her mother, but her upper and mid
! die registers are perfectly pure So
prano. She sings with an ease and APP
! parent relish that is phenomenal. We
do not recall any singer in recent years
who, while so accurate and artistic.
was at the same time SO apparently
effOrtleSS in her work. Indeed. in all
| things she was unconventional. Stand
/ ing before her audience radiant in
glowing youth, of fine figure and an in
viting countenance flushed with natu-
raj color, without paint or powder 20
cheat nature, with perfect but I'M
studied ease of bearing, she sang with
the same homelike abandon and heart
feeling that loving daughter might
for her parents and the home circle.
Many concert singers admirable in
| their art, precise and true, skim the
surface of the thought depths that they
| should sound to the bottom. Trebelli
on the contrary, explores the compost
ton she interprets She probes the
thought of the composer, and if not
dramatically effective in SO doing, she
is equally satisfying, because a sympa-
thetic interpreter exposing all the rich
ness of meaning her author had in
mind. The quality of her voice is most
distinguished by a rich resonance and
| fullness without a particle of thinness
in any of it's phases, and by its remark
| able f1exibility and sympathy. Some
times we speak of a singers voice as
| "chaste and pure" but oftenest that
| is the veil of the thought that it is, if
not cold, still lacking in warmth. OF
Trebelli it is simple justice to say that
her style as well as her voice is chaste,
but never cold. One may be a con-
scientiOus and earnest singer, and still
be lacking in sympathy and warmth.
But Trebelli is rich in all these essen
tails. Whether in her middle tones,
which are delicious, her head tones full
clear and penetrating, or her lower
tones, shaded by the richness of the
contralto quality, there is warmth
sympathy, feeling and heart Brilliancy
does not disguise it, self possession
does not render it formal refinement
and delicacy of taste do not lessen it.
She is a singer for the people because
she sings with human sympathy, in
spring every note. Among concert
singers we rank this fresh, charming
unconventional artist as more than no
table. Mons. Loui Crepaux, the basso
proved himself an artist. He sings
with the precision, care and reverence
for the composition that characterizes
true art He does not below, but he
constantly suggests great reserve pow
err. Miss Bowes was accorded fiatter-
ing welcome and pleased with her piano
solos. She was recalled repea tedly, as
was Crepaux, after each of his num-
bers. OF course, Mile. Trebelli was re-
called, and always by a storm Of ap-
plause and if the audience could have
had it's way, she would have appeared
very much Oftener than she did When
the programme was concluded q sug-
geston as foot note on the bill that
she might if not too tired sing Auber's
Laughing Song" brought such de-
mand that she responded Not the
most artistic, by no means the best
number, and of course unsteady con-
sidered not the most deSira BILE vet il
raised the audience to a pitch of en-
thusiasm. Her singing laughter was
so nearly like the genuine, so full of
the heartiness of exuberant youth, that
the audience was infected by it and be-
gan to laugh, too At this Trebelli
caught sight of a we'll known musical
amateur in the orchestra shaking with
mirth. His flushed countenance sent
her into genuine laughter, and for a
moment the accomplished accompa-
mist, Mr. Marion, had to pause, while
the young singer, enjoying the conta-
general merriment greatly to the
amusement and pleasure of the audi
ence. But as her exacting manager
subsequently said. She should not
have done that" However, do these
gentlemen who rule the lives of artists
never forgive, if in sympathy with their
hearers? Artists sometimes lose their
poise and become part and parcel of the
audience. Two musical critics who
have heard both Carlotta and Adelina
Patti in the laughing song, frankly de-
clared last evening that neither of those
singers ever gave it with the abandon
heartiness and human interest with
which Trebelli invested it. Sacramen-
tans heard Miss Yaw sing it only re-
cently-but there. YaW is not to DE
mentioned in the same day with the
daughter of the great and lamented
contralto Trebelli. Such was the i'm
preston made by Mile. Trebelii last
night that before the concert was sOver
q movement was set on foot to secure
if possible, her return to Sacramento
at the conclusion of her San Francisco
enga cement. 1t is 20 be hoped that it
will be accomplished.