The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13
SINGER BRINGS A
GREAT REPUTATION
Tilly Hoenen Said to Possess
Wonderful Voice and Broad
Interpretative Talent
By WALTER ANTHONY

American musical magazines have of
late had much 10 say about Tilly
Koenen, the Dutch contralto who came
recently to America with a trunk load.
II would seem. of European critical
approval. We are 10 have chance 10
Judge for ourselves this afternoon, and
the indications are that the singer is
all she is said 10 be. Certainly she
has laid out a splendid program, cath
olic in taste and well arranged.
Miss Koenen is said to be the pos
SCISSOR of a wonderfully beautiful voice,
the mistress Of splendid vocal art and
a poetic interpreter of the masterpieces
of German, French and other schools of
music.
She resembles Doctor wullner in
this" says viii Greenbaum, the local
impresario. under whose mana cement
the artist is TO sing at the Garrick
theater, she not only sings, but she
interprets the poetry to which her
songs are welded. On the side of her
vocal art she is greater than Wullner,
and as reader of poetry and an inter
prefer OF its emotional content she is
his equal. When she comes to this
city predict for her a success equal TO
that achieved by Wullner."
This is the program that Tilly Koenen
will sing this afternon at the Garrick:
Dem. Unendliehen'' n''..:.,......-.'. Schubert
Die kraehe'' Schubert
'Sapphische ODE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Brahms
'-weBe So Whilst Du'' Du''................. Brahms
La Zingsreila 4 Sisieilo
All Sc Iu Dorm .-----.-- bassahi
"Ridonsmi Ia Calms" "...---.'..-...--..-.-.T .Tosti
''Furibondo Spirs IL Vento' Handel
.-Sunbezms''. ms''....-..........-----. .Lsndon Ronald
XVII Wi zoon Iustib spannetje.'' ''Poppen-
gedoe, Zen Dansje' three put9h chi, no.s
r7rcrr
.'WiegenIied'' ''...--.............. Richard Strauss
..ria Wesser-ose'r Richard Strauss
pie Zigeunerir'' ir''................-.H Hugo Wolf
'.Er Ist's'' Hugo Wolf
The second Koenen concert Will be
given Thursday night, when another
unusual program is promised. inelud-
ing four songs by Heinrich Van Eyken,
the Dutch composer, and four Malay
songs arranged for the singer by Con-
stant Van de Wall, Dutch orchestral
director who lived for several years
among the Malays.
The farewell concert will be given
next Sunday afternoon. March 20 An
Oakland concert will be given at the
Liberty theater next Friday afternoon
Maude Powell. violinist, who. as is
said of Chsminade. happens to be a
woman" will be the next musical star
TO fash locally. She is an American
woman who by reason of her genius
for playing and her application In pur-
suit Of perfection stands shoulder to
shoulder with the greatest violinists
of the present. Men like kreisler,
Ysaye. Thibeaud and other great musi-
clans call her "a brother artist
Although Miss Powell has played in
nearly every large city in Europe and
America and has twice visited Califor-
mia this will be her first appearance
in this community. She has never
played in San Francisco nor in Oak
land. Other engagements confiicted
with hers and she is thus making her
debut TO San Francisco after having
won the praises of the most exacting
critics in the most exacting musical
communities in the world
Miss Powells father was of English
Welsh extraction and her mother of
German-Hungarian stock. so her tenn
peramental qualifications are not diff
cult to trace. She commenced her
studies at her birthplace, Peru, Ill,
and later went TO Leipzig, where she