Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-01
BLANCHE MARCHESI.
She Will Probably Succeed Patti As
the Worlds Greatest Vocalist.
Daughter of the Woman Who Devised
the Famous Marchesi Method Is
Now Most Prominent in Mu-
sical Circles.

sical Circles.
The world is never without greai
master in every art and profession. This
is as true in the realm of music as in that
of invention, of literature or of painting
There are lesser lights. Among other
useful purposes, they also conserve to
furnish standard of comparison by
which the magnitude of the great master
may be properly estimated and under
stood.
b Jenny, Lind became natural successor
of the great musical light of the previous
generation, ard as naturally appeared
Patti to succeed the Swedish nightingale.
For decade the ey of the musical world
have scanned the horizon to discover the
star destined to replace the waning lustre
of Patti. Today the European and Amer
lean press are announcing the appearance
of the new chanter and are paying homage
in manner 80 marked, so enthusiastic, as
to leave no doubt as to her power to cap
tivate and charm the public with fervor
equal to that of her famed predecessors.
Not only musicians, but the friends Of
listen, are entertained in knowing some
thing Of the
HISTORY OF BLANCHE MARoHEsI,
the woman destined during the next few
Iao Jac - L. kha Ion HAT
Blanche Marchesi is French. Her home
is in Paris. She was born in that city.
She is the daughter of Mathilde Marchesi,
the woman who for half century has
been recognized as the foremost trainer
of the female voice, and whose musical
works are used by most musicians of all
nations.
From childhood this daughter has been
the pupil of her mother. She learned to
sing before she learned TO talk. At 8
years of age she was considered musical
wonder, and was visited by Gounod, God
ard and Massenet. In childhood she be-
came accustomed to render for her moth.
er's advanced pupils the difficult parts Of
which they we're incapable, and the music
al conservatories where she studied at
Munich and at Vienna early recognized
her superior talent and predicted her des-
tiny. As a public singer
HER CAREER
began in Berlin during the winter of 1896
and was followed the same season by her
appearancein in Paris at the concerts of the
noted Breidtners Philharmonic society.
Henry Mapleson of London, hearing her
in Paris, WAS instrumental in inducing
her to 20 to London, and she sang for the
frat time in that city last June. She sang
for the English second time in Novcsa-
Der, but passed the winter ig Paris and
her singing there last December in the
"Contes Mystiques" gained her a success
which the Partisan and London press
pronounced unprecedented, truly sensa-
tional in the career of great singer.
At the present the noted woman is
again singing in London, and Americans
are there to arrange, if possible, for her
to visit America during the coming
autumn.
Something of the enthusiasm which the
singing of Blanche Marchesi is creating
may be judged from her
ESTIMATE BY THE LONDON PRESS
which ordinarily considers reputation
for conservatism the most desirable thing
to be sought.
The musical critic of the Times said
last month: "Nothing is more remark
able than the versatility which enables
Blanche Marchesi to adapt for French,
German and Italian songs the style ap-
propriate to each school, and to express
through them all the ideal of their COM
posers." The critic of the Mercury, in
describing one of her concerts, said: "The
exc uisite art of Blanche Marchesi has
never been more convincingly displayed
in this country. Her Forentine serenade
was wonderfully sung, and served TO show
the singers unequaled command of every
possible shade of expression" The staid
editor of the Musical World writes him
self, using the first person, and says
among other things: II can honestly af-
firm that never in my life have l met a
singer who so entirely attains my ideal of
what singer should be. Blanche Mar
chesi is the most satisfactory vocalist
have yet heard because she has solved the
problem of how TO employ the refinement
of voice production in the heiRhtening of
interpretative effects. ! have never be-
fore understood the beauty of Schumann's
'Herzelied' and 'Waldegesprach'; had no
idea what could be done with Gluck's old
fashioned dramatic music; how, by the
mere force of intelligent phrssing and
sensativeness of tone colour, combined
with restrained fervour of defamation, it
could be made full of dramatic meaning
and effect; nor had before realized the
poetic tenderness of Brahms Sand man
chen.' Blnnche Marchesi's singing has
the effect of beautiful painting in which
every tone is in correct relationship to
every other tone. Her singing is so per-
feet because she possesses an intellectual
as we'll as an emotional appreciation Of
the musical ideas, because she possesses
temperament, method, taste, in fact every
thing that 10 required in singer"
Before Blanche Marohesi began her
public career as q singer she was already
famous as an instructress, and her Amer
loan pupils assert of her that though am
bitious, resolute, and exacting, she is most
kind, sympathetic, and generous, possess
ing anature Of deep poetic instinct
Those who know the gifted woman In.
timately, assert that she scorns pretense
lsuds originality, and in her opinions ID
truly cosmopolitan. In the estimation oi
the American masses these are qualities in
dispensable in a great singer, and will b
likely to win for Blanche Marchesi, In the
hearts and confidence of Americans, .
place which no European artist has held
since the days Of Jenny Lind.