Arizona republican., 1915-03-21
PHOENIX GIRL
 GIVEN OVATION
Miss Alice Redewlll Makes
 Debut ill Los Angeles
 and Scores Great Sue cess-To Be Heard Here in Recital Easter Monday

Alice Redewill scored decided triumph last evening when she made her American debut in Los Angeles as soloist with Fishers Los Angeles orchestra She received d tremen- dous ovation, greater perhaps than any pianist was ever accorded on the coast. At the conclusion of Sains- Seins Concerto No. ,, which she played brilliantly. Her group of solo numbers were rendered with true artistry that gained the Arizona girl the reputation in this country all that the music masters of the world pro- | claimed for her abroad.
 | Enthusiasm is growing apace as the day of her local recital draws near The date has been decided and on Easter Monday evening at the Arizona School of Music, music lovers will be given the most notable treat of the year and of many years. | It was from a Phoenix teacher that Miss Redewill received her first les sons in music and she was only a very small child with a very great love for music when Mrs. w. E. Deity placed her tiny hands on the key board. But long before she ac- quired the foundation of her musi- cal education from Mrs Deity. she evinced a strong inclination for mu- sic and before she could lisp the simple nursery rhymes, she would sing the airs dear to all children When she was three years of age, she played with one hand and two years later her playing of popular airs attracted the attention of the musical critics of the papers on the coast where she was at that time Little Alice is a prodigy and we they declared
 | Laura Ramel of San Francisco is the instructor to whom Miss Redewill gives credit for imparting to her. her exquisite touch which has won her such unstinted admiration The young artist always disliked reading by note and at this time depended almost entirely upon her ear. From this has come her remarkable power for memorizing. however long and 1 difficult. It is no task for her today to memorize concertos of thirty to forty pages, occupying, some of them, three quarters of an hour in rendi- tion. She has been known to play through an entire book of sonatos she has not seen for three years. l While she was learning to read music she made excellent progress in school. She was educated at Mills College and while there continued her musical education under Dr. Lisser for three years. The twelve months that followed were passed at home and here she studied with Ho- mer Grunn of the Arizona School of Music and acted as organist for the church services of the Trinity Pro-
 Cathedral as well as accompanist of the Sunday School orchestra of the Presbyterian church of which her brother, Dr Francis H. Redewill was director.
 | Upon the invitation of the Rede wills, Harold Bauer appeared in Phoe- nix. The distinguished pianst also heard Miss RedeWill play. He urged her to go to Paris and at the Paris Conservatory she studied under him for three years She played at the Students Atelier. known as the Paris ian great art critic center receiving the encomium of all the artists pres
 ent. It was on her return home that
 she gave q recital at the School of
 Music that is remembered by all those who were fortunate enough to
 be in the audience
 When she again arrived in Paris
 and was advised by Bauer to go to Vienna and enter the artists class
 All who have followed her work
 abroad remember that the Phoenix
 girl was one of the chosen four of
 the hundred aspirants to gain en-
 trance to the masters class of the
 Imperial Royal Academy. She played
 from Bach, Chopin and Brhams and
 was not allowed to finish before she
 was accepted. The president of the
 academy requested her to play the
 Grieg concerto which had never been
 played there before. Six other pianists
 were asked to play the same con-
 certo and the best artist was to play 1t with the orchestra at the close of the term. There was a tense silence
 as MissRedewill played the final notes then came the words spoken
 quietly, Orchestra rehearsal tomor-
 row morning at nine o'clock"
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