Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-05-23
LULU JAMES ABERcR0nBIE.

hHOWH III JnlS CITY, has Decu iHcOoii6
with great success in singing opera in
English in Boston, Baltimore, Phila-
delphia and the eastern cities. She
is with the Aborn English Opera
company. On May I'd she sang in
"Il Troyatore,n in Philadelphia and
the following are some of the press
notices which she received on that
occasion
Evening Star" Miss Abercrombie
as Lenora, scored an individual sue
cess and received unstinted applause.
She has soprano voice of excellent
range and her acting is also above the
ordinary. She was forced to give a:1
encore when she sang the duet tae
'Misere' with Samstopp in the tow ar
scenes"
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: "The
part of Leonora was sung last even
ing by Jane Abercrombie, tall, hand
some woman of stately and graceful
manner, good actress, and the pos
SCISSOR of rarely beautiful soprano
voice. Her tones are powerful and of
rich, mellow sweetness, with none
of the piercing quality which so often
mars the work of dramatic soprano.
She sings with perfect ease, and exc
cutes florid passages with facility, her
vocalism throughout last night being
such as to delight her listeners and
demand praise even from che most
critical 1t is a long time, in fact,
since the role of the hapless Leonora,
the lady who loved q troubadour, has
been more satisfactorily sung in this
city"
Telegraph. "Jane Abercrombie as
the Leonora, and in no way fell short
of the exacting requirements of the
role. Vocally she was misGress of its
most difficult phases, singing with a
limpidity and assurance that won
several curtain calls Her phasing
was excellent and her enunciation
unusually clear.
On May 9th she sang in Baltimore
in Ada and the Sun said miss
Jane Abercrombie who impersonated
the title roll, secured the good will of
local operagoers, and deservedly So.
She is an artist possessed of well
controlled voice of power and of ex-
cellent quality. She sings easily and
effectively without ever once forcing
her voice, moreover, she has the ad-
vantage of strong historic abilities
which enabled her to make fine
showing in the part
Baltimore Star: "Jane Abercrombie,
the talented soprano of the Aborn
Opera company, who will sing in the
title role in the Majestic Grand Opera
of ancient Egypt, Aida, at Fords' this
week, started her career as a church
soloist in Chicago. Her voice at
tracted attention of concert managers
and she was sent on several concert
tours. In the meantime she studied
grand opera roles under Hinshaw,
now of the Metropolitan Opera House
New York, who has developed num-
Der Of opera stars. Miss Abercrombie's
debut in grand opera was made year
ago, but her remarkable voice has at
tracted attention throughout the
country"
Baltimore American The title role
in Aida was song finely by Miss Jane
Abercrombie, who invested the role
of the slave princess with much feel
ing and passion. She sang with ex-
preston. Her clear voice with its
sweet high notes and variety of shad-
ing and in the stronger parts its
dramantic intensity giving full effect
to the music of the role"
Miss Abercrombie, in an interview
with the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can of May 7th said: Like most
opera singers, who have been educated
artistically in this country | suppose
| must contemplate the time when
shall appear in Europe prior to effect
ing a re-entry in the native musical
field. 1t is a ridiculous notion that
Americans must sing in the opera
houses of Milan, Berlin, Brussels,
Vienna or Paris, in order to secure
acceptance as an artist of the first
rank in their own land. The reaction
must set in in time, but such condi
tions are certainly prevailing now"