The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-05
TETRAZZINI AND ASSISTING ARTISTS
 SCORE IN RECITAL
(Review.1

There is one glory of the sun, an other of the moon and another of the stars, and they are not the same glory.
 Thus roughly runs some scriptural phrase, which may be applied to Mime. Luisa Tetrazzina, the greatest cobra tura soprano in the world, and a. sun in that field of songs in which. talent is so common and genius so rare.
 This remarkable woman is more a song bird than woman, more an in- strument of wonderful quality and su- preneiy sweet. than either woman or bird. for her song is so brilliant. her voice so true, her trills so wonderful that it seems as if the result must flow from something not subject to human imperfection.
 Bridgeport is not a musical town. It turns out cold audiences to greet the great artists Of music But last night was the exception. The Park theatre was filled with an audience second only in numbers to that which met John Mccormack recently, and it was an enthusiastic audience. The diva was greeted with thunderous ap- .pIause, regarding the sincerity of which there could be no mistake. She generously responded. with encores, resorting in two. cases to songs in the English language, by which her listen CTS were enabled to appreciate her mastery of sentiment.
 All good humor, grace and smiles Mime. Tetrazzini bowed to the floor, bowed to the gallery and bowed again row of seats, a child who showed by it's attitude that it was a. loving listen CT, and one in whom the songstress took a great interest.
 Mime. Tetrazzini, as the years have progressed has grown to an increasing (N--- A. -LT-- missing breakfasts of which her press agents told so freely. are omitted rath- CT as a sacrifice to adipose than as an accessory to song. An attractive personality nevertheless is the great Tetrazzini; but what matters person a1fty in the presence of a gift so tre- mendous as hers.
 Were madame's song detached from any personality, and were it a success sion of sounds floating in air, like the song of talking machine it would ravish- an audience, command a thou sand dollars a night, and compel the admiration of the world
 She sang in concluding, responding to an encore, the song which many great soprano singers have assayed She sang Home Sweet Home so won derful1y that even those who had heard Patti sing it, pronounced it sur passtngiy sweet. Yet, 1t must be con fessed. so brilliant is her power. that the old fashioned, tender plaintfve song seemed flat and insipid, compared with such song as she uttered in eCare Nomes'' from Verdrs Rigorletta, a norid number, which opens the way for wonderful use of brilliant orna- mentation. beyond the grasp of ordi- nary singers.
 It was part of the penalty of her power that the more familiar song lost by the contrast, as a. thrush in it's soft brown p1umage may appear insignifi- cant beside a. cardinal coated oriole.
 Mime. Tetrazzini was assisted by some clever musicians Her accom- panist, Yves Natis did really admirable work. and should have a future, His interpretation of Lstz's Second Rhapsody" could not have been bet tered by Paderowski.
 Pietro Caso, f1utist, did intelligent work. Madame's tenor so1oist, Rafael