Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-12-12
Mlie.. scaIar Sings to Home People.
DELIGHTED AUDIENCE GIVE HER A
MOST ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.

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| MOST ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.
The long-anticipated opportunity al
torded South Paris people to hear III
singing Of Mile. Scaiar, known in he
youth in South Paris az Miss MINI
Plummer, was fully appreciated, and a
the concert given by her in New Hal
Thursday evening every seat was taken
In the audience were number from sew
eral neighboriug towns, from Auburn
\ Gorhaw, n. H., and other places, VIII,
were here especially to attend this con
cert.
After singing in grand opera for (;
number of years in Europe, Mile. Scala
| came to America with the French Oper;
Company as prima donna last February
landing at New Orleans, and after severa
weeks there making a tour of some o
| the larger cities of the United State,
and Canada. At the close of the tour a
Montreal she came to the home of hel
parents, Mr.. aud Mrs. j. r. Plummer, al
South Paris, and has since remained
here. The concert of Thursday evening
was the first occasion on which she has
sung 10 Maine.
And those who had so much anticipat
ed the occasion were in no sense dis.
appointed, but went home with their
highest expectations fully realized, and
prouder than ever TO have the oppor.
tuuity to claim Mile. Scalar as daugh-
ter of Maine.
At her first appearance upon the stage.
on the arm of Thomas S. Barnes, Mile.
Scslsr was received with continued ap.
plause by the audience, to which she
responded graciously. She wore beau.
tiful costume of white relieved with
bands of delicate pink, of refined sim.
plicity, with pink roses in her hair.
Her stage presence and manner are per-
feet.
The burst of applause which greeted
her was mild compared with that which
she received after she had been heard.
Her voice is what is known as "Fal-
con" soprano of rare quality. 1t is of
large compass, and the high notes are
sustained with remarkable ease and
power. The ball in which she was sing
ing is too small to allow the audience to
comprehend fully the volume OF her
voice, for the full appreciation of which
a much larger room is necessary. In it's
quality it is clear and pleasing.
In all her rendering there is apparent
the solid foundation which she has laid
for her success by years of hard work
One of her hearers who has attended
most of the music festivals in Maine says
that it is necessary to go back TO Sem
brich 10 find, among the festival artists,
one who shows this same foundation laid
By hard work. And it is complemented
by a musical intelligence which per-
mestes everything she does.
The program rendered was as follows,
and for the benefit of the audience, the
printed programs contained not only the
words sung in the original lsguages-
French, German, Italian and English
but also the translation of the foreign
songs in parallel columns, made by Mile.
Scalar herself:
Retour, French melodie Sachs
Plus grand dams son obscurlte-
air from the opera, La Refine dc Saba,
Where the Bee sucks-old English air,
Arne. l7lO.i77s
ISTERNIssIoN.
(s) Die Yunge Nome, German melodie,
10 Die Post, German melodie .. Schubert
Di re, Italian melodie 80. Tirindeli
The Rosary, melodie (by rtquest --Nevin
NrERNssIos.
II est doux, Il est bon-Air from the opera of
"a, Thy Bea@iog Eles. nciodle... epo%sli
,b) Deserted, melodie Mac Dowell
Goodbye (by requestl Fosti
This program was well fitted to dis
play the singers versatility in interpre-
tstion, from the lightsome ballad to
those passages where great dramatic
strength is required. To take one single
instance, in The Young Dying Nun,
nothing could be more impressive than
the gloom and stress Of the storm with
which it opened, and the perfect peace
and joy expressed in the "Alleluiar'
with which it closed. 1t is evident that
Scalsr's success in opera has been due
not solely to a rare and we'll trained
voice and a perfect presence, but to her
power of dramatic Interpretation as we'll.
1t is also notable that program could
be prepared which, while really classical
gave so much pleasure to
All hearers, whether of trained apprecia-
ton in music, or practically ignorant of
even its rudiments.
The work of Mrs. Cora s. Briggs as
was faultless, as it always
Is, and she showed that she was in full
accord and sympathy with the singer
throughout. The piano, q Steinway
grand, was brought from Portland for
the concert.
At the end of each period of the con-
cert Mile. Scalar was presented with
arge lunches of chryssnthemums and
roses, and prolonged applause brought
ler back to the stage, where, after the
first period, she sang, with tender ex-
preston, verse of Sweet Home"
After the second group she sang "Old
Folks at Home" aud at the close of the
concert, when the audience did not
move but demanded her return, she sat
Town at the piano, and to her own ac
gave "Annie Laurie" To
The audience, needless to say, these sim
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