The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-15
GREAT ARTIST HERETONlGHT
FIRST GRAND OPERA WOMAN
 STAR

To Sing in New Haven in Years--Ma-
 dam Homer's Husband, Sidney Homer,
 the Composer, Will Accompany the
 Singer in His Four SOngs-A Fasci- hating Programme Arranged by This Great Artist.
 Madam Louise Homer, the first Met ropolitan Grand Opera house prima donna contraltos or mezzo- sopranos to give song recital here in years will be in Woolsey hall this evening at 8;15 in a delightful programme of English, German, Italian and French songs.
 This great singer, who was among the Metropolitan Opera house stars that barely escaped with their lives last spring in the San Francisco earth quake, is in splendid voice after a long rest in a Chicago sanitarium. Those who heard her sing in Bridgeport last night, where she gave Q recital before an audience that fairly overf1owed the theater, declare that she never sang so well.
 Of course in Woolsey hall, where her glorious voice can have full sway, she will be at her best.
 Madam Homer is one of the few con traltos with soprano range, yet with all the mellow quality of the pure con- tralto. She sings all the great mezzo- soprano roles sung by Madame Calve and others of that caliber. Her song recital programme might be that of a dramatic soprano,
 For example the Liszt setting of To- relei and the Delibe song on to-night's programme were both sung by Ma dame Nordica when she gave recital here six years ago or more. Madame Homer will arrive in New Haven this forenoon, and with her hus- band will go at once to the home of Dr. and Mrs. Horatio Parker on Tenn pie street, where they will be enter tained during their stay here. MT. Sid- ney Homer has written a number of charming songs four of which his wife will sing tonight to the composers : piano accompanist. of the evening is to s be Mr. Lewis Williams of the univer~ sity department of music
 The recital tonight arranged by the ' university department of music as supplementary number to the series of symphony concerts ought to be enthu- siastically patronized, as much because ! it would be an evidence of the public's Y appreciation of the schools efforts to < give New Haven the highest and best < in music. as because 1t IS a fascinating entertainment. .e.
 Seats, and many good ones, are left ' for tonight, may be had at 9 8. m, to- ! day, either at the M. steinert Sons Co., or at the Woolsey hall box office. T Prices are popular, beginning as low as l25 cents to those who have course tick cts to the symphony concerts or to the 3university extension lectures. \ The programme complete follows: z a. Die Lorelei .....................L ..Liszt b, Er Ists ..........,........ .Schumann T C. Wer Uur die sehusucht Kennt..... 4i .,.......,.. .......,... Tschaikowskf !, d. Dinja .Reinhold Herman ! a. Waldeiensemkeit ....... Max Reger ID. SSapphische Ode .............. Brams Z 1c. Caecille ..........,.. Richard Strauss
 8.
 a. Sing Me a Song of Lad That Is
 Gone ...............R R. h. Stevenson b. The Stormy Evening ..,.,.......... c. The Last Leaf ..,.....O. W, Holmes q. How's My Boy Sidney Dobell
 Composer, Sidney Homer.
 1.
 # a. u uEselaVe ....'..'....'..'''s'... Dalo b. Les Filler de Cadix .....,...Deliber a. May Day .................,. Walther b. My Laddie ....................... c. Milk Maid Song. "Horatio Parker