The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-23
PROVES A DELIGHT
Large Audience Attends Miss
Gord0n's Recital.

A very large and an exceedingly
smart audience heard Miss Katherine
Richards Gordon's song recital last
evening at the Park congregational
church It is regrettable that the
Schubert club did not select a larger
auditorium for the recital, for many
were obliged to stand throughout the
programme, although chairs were
brought up from the lecture room to
increase the seating capacity of the
auditorium. But even those who were
obliged to stand must have felt in part
compensated for the discomfort en-
tailed by the efficient presentation of
very brilliant programme. Miss Cor
don was in excellent voice. the num-
bers which she sang were particularly
well suited to her voice and tempera-
ment, and she had in Miss Eleanor
Sche1b an accompaniSt who was thor
oughly in sympathy with the singer;
one who made her Accomplishments not
only support and a fine background
for the voice but a harmonious express
sion Of the mood of the song as ex-
pressed by the singer.
Beautiful as Miss Gordon's voice I'M
doubtedly is, and finely cultivated, it
IS doubtful if she would succeed in
arousing her audience as she does
were it not for the fact that she has a
temperament that enables her to COM
pletely lose herself in the spirit of the
song. Yet her abandon is always the
abandon of the artist. ForgetN lness
of audience and of self never results
IN an artistic blunder. A keen men
tally and the interpretive faculty add
imneasurably to the value of a fine
natural organ. Because she is thus
happily equipped Miss Gordon is able
to manage effects that are greater than
her voice. Because so much of
q nj
she. sings, her programmes have an
individual value that adds immeas-
urably to its attractiveness.
The aria from nt-SaenS' Sam
son ct Dalila" revealed better than
anything else last night this value of
temperament. It is a great aria, de-
handing superintendent strength and
vitality, and unusual dramatic power
Temperamentally, it suits Miss Gordon,
and, though the church was not filled
last night with tremendous outburst
OF passionate song, the audience miss
ed nothing of the significance and
beauty of the music. In the two Sc
lectons from Carmen" and in the ex-
quisite ''Valse de Musetta,f' from Puc-
cini's La Boheme," she charmed her
audience completely, and at the con-
clusion of the songs spontaneous out
bursts of applause that would not
be St1lled until encores were given re-
warded the singer. But it was in the
delicious scene from Humperdinck's
pretty fancy, "Hansel und Gretal,' that
Miss Gordon undoubtedly pleased her
audience most last night She sang
it with delightful abandon and with a
rare appreciation of it's quaint humor
that made many in the audience tap
their feet in time to the dance music.
Miss GordonS programme closed with
Brunhilde'S' cry from die WaIkure''
Besides the numbers already mention
ed and her encores; she sang two Sc
lections from Mozart's Don Giovanni"
Recit ct Ballata di Media, from Leon
cavallo's I'll Pagliacci," and Rect ct
Strophes, from -Delibes' ''Lakme."
Miss Scheib played two solos, Abend-
stern, "Tannhauser," Wagner-Liszt.
and Frulepgslied, Die WaIkure," Wag-
er-Tausig. The pianist deserves the
title, artist. Her numbers last night
rounded out a most satisfactory pro-
gramne.