Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-10
'NAMARA HEARD
WITH VOCAL STAR
Young Paterson Singer Has
Beautiful Voice, but Lacks
Accomplishment.
APPEARS AT CALDWELL
: WITH SCHUMANN-HEINK
Large Gathering at Cleveland
Memorial Concert AppIauds
Opera Star and Protege.

Nine. Schumann- Heink has present
ed her Singing policeman" as he has
been called, to the public and Ed
ward Mcnamara, whilom guardian
of the peace in Paterson, is. now
launched on a career which is to take
him across the continent this sea-
son as the vocal protege of great
and renowned artist.
5 The local debut of Mr. Mcnamara
was made last night in the First Pres
sbyterian Church in Caldwell before a
vast and enthusiastic audience. The
Occasion was a benefit for the Grover
Cleveland Memorial Fund of Cald-
we'll. What shall be said OF this man
whose fate has led him into path
which offers so great an opportunity?
What were the thoughts that arose
as one heard him? The first one was
he has, indeed, a beautiful voice.
Nine. de Stael says that music, es-
pecially the singing voice, redoubles
the idea that we have of the facul-
ties of our soul. Does Nine. Schu-
mannHeink's newly discovered star
have the power to arouse any such
noble idea? Alas! no.
) Dante, in the purgatory of his "Di-
vine Comedy" relates that in this
middle realm he encountered the
spirit of one of the best singers of his
time and that he asked him to sing
one of his most delicious arias. The
spirit consented and the listening
souls ravished, lowered spellbound
until they had to be recalled by their
guardian spirit. Is such triumph
In store for the singing policeman?
sAlasl no.
I Just as beautiful voices as that of
Mr. Mcnamara are heard in churches
all over the country and sometimes
in resorts where worship is far from
the thoughts of the audiences. AS
baritone his range Is perhaps two
octaves. His phrasing and delivery
are good and he has satisfactory con-
troll of his vocal organ.
But Mr.. Mcnamara can never be
great artist. This, unfortunately for
him, was only too apparent when he
appeared upon the stage directly aft
er the diva under whose auspices he
sang. The noble presence of the one,
the grand manner of the thrice-tried
pet of the musical world of two hem
ispheres, was too quickly replaced by
the bourgeois mien of one to whom the
grand opera stage will be terri
BILE ordeal One could not but think
of the vocal aristocracy, the patrician
tones of Scotti or the magnif1cenoe of
the delivery of Tuta Riffo.
= As his opening number Mr.. Mona
mara sang the prologue of "Pagli-
acct" He rendered it in a manner to
show how skilful had been his school
ing, how much his teacher had done
for him, but no teacher can give the
soul of music, and of the fire, the pas
sion, demanded in composition all
fire and passion he had none. He
mas not communed with great souls
nor have their sublime thoughts en-
nobled him.
2 It may be said that great singers
rome from the people, and they do,
but they manifest from the first a
flair, the intuition of the artist. Then,
Indeed, the hind becomes a peer.
Then the aspirant sang several
songs. among them "A Red, Red
Rose" Why should a thing of earth
try to guide the horses of the sun?
Why should an amateur try to sing
the outpourings of one of the most
subtle of poets? - Il
! Then. again, why should one, even
though his voice be pleasing, attempt
to render that classic. most dramatic,
{ most emotional of songs, "The Two
Grenadiers." without a semblance of
dramatic power in his musical ex-
preston? The star sang Schumann
splendid composition lamely, pitifully.
The grand organ tones of Nine.
-Heink show use and wear
and age, but only the wear that ap-
pears In some grand structure that
time has touched. The power of the
artist who electrified her audiences
when she sang Fides in "The Prophet
and Ortrud. in "Lohengrin" is little
strained with years. AS she poured
forth aria after aria, as she INDUCED
in coloratura, in pyrotechnics which
she knows so well that Americans
adore, substituting it for the mellow
magnificence of a chaster style, she
evidently glorled in her spell which
could win the widest applause from
a nom German speaking multitude in
the decline of her days.