The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
PATTI WILL SING HERE
ON NIGHT OF MARCH z
Manager Robert Grau Says This
Is Positively the Diva's Fare
we'll Tour"
T TOMLINSON HALL

Nine. Adelina Patti will sing in Indianap-
oils on the evening Of March 1.-TWO weeks
from next Wednesday-and as her concert
here will be the only one that she will give
in Indiana on her farewell tour of America
the event will prove of interest through
out the State. Robert Grau. the well-known
impresario and brother of Maurice Grau.
so long the manager OF the Metropolitan
Opera House, spent yesterday in this city
making the final arrangements for the ap-
pearance here of the world-famous diva.
Patti will sing at Tomlinson Hall, and
will be accompanied by a concert company
made up OF Vera Margoles, the distin-
guished young pianist; wilfred We Virgo. a
tenor from the London Philharmonic; Rosa
Zamels. the noted young violinist. and
Claude Cunningham, a baritone of reputa-
ton.
Mime. Patti has many farewell tours
before, I know said Mr.. Grau yesterday
afternoon. but this tour is, indeed, posi-
tive goodbye to the people of the United
States. The Indianapolis concert will be
the fiftieth one of the sixty which she is
under contract to sive. and she declares
that at the end of the sixtieth concert.
which is to take place In the Metropolitan
public, except perhaps at charity benefits
in London. This last American tour has
been a most extraordinary one. and shows
| that the people OF this country are just
as DESTROYS of hearing the glorious soprano
voice as they ever were in the days of
PATHS youth
$50 far as Nine. PATHS voice is con-
cerned, leave that to the music critics. l
have only to say that when she renders
her last number and her final encores at a
concert the audience is never content to
| leave the hall until told that the great
singer has started for her hotel. In all
of the larger cities the crowds that as
| sembed to hear her have been enormous,
! this being especially true OF Philadelphia.
| 5000 night and so per cent. of the re-
| ceipts when they go over $500. In Philadel-
phia she was paid s7,10o In all, or 100 more
| than any other singer has ever received
| for single nights work"
! Mr.. Grau said that Patti would sing three
1 of her favorite arias at her concert here.
and number of her most popular encore
songs The arias will, in all probability, be
che one from THE Marriage of Figaro" the
| Jewell Song from Faust and another
| Gounod number-a serenade with violin OBJ
mels. The impresario said that the prices
for the concert would not be higher than
the prices for witnessing the best theatri-
cal entertainments. The diva comes TO In,
dianapolis directly after filling her second
| Chicago engagement at the Auditorium In
the Western metropolis. She sang In Rich
nond, Va, last night
Mr.. Grau declares that he would gladly
| book the great soprano for ten additional
concerts but that she is unwilling to pro-
long her tour. Next season Mr.. Grau will
bring Sarah Bernhardt to this country for
| a tour in the new Sardou drama, and will
also direct the concert tours of Mime. Calve
| and a new American soprano, Miss Nina
David, about whom he is very enthusiastic