Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-21
Christine Miller Comes to
Convention Hall on
March /.
FOR PIPE ORGAN FUND
Is Shown AS One Of the
Greatest Of American
Artists.

Listen, Tulsa music lovers. Here's
some welcome news.
! Christine Miller, formerly with
| Damrosohs orchestra and one Of the
worlds greatest contraltos. will sing
/ in convention hall Monday night,
March /. She has been secured by the
/ Hyechka club as the soloist for the
second entertainment to be given for
the benefit of the public pipe organ
! fund.
Miss Miller appeared in Tulsa sew
eral years ago with the noted Dam
rosCh organization, and at that time
sang her way into the hearts of one
I thousand music lovers Of Tulsa and
northeastern Oklahoma.
Children's Dances.
The event will be given under the
auspices Of the Hyechka club, and at
that time the children of the elite
folk Of the city will participate in the
most unique Juvenile dancing and
singing entertainment ever staged in
this city.
Christine Miller recently appeared
at Evanston, ILL.,, the fashionable
suburb Of Chicago, and the Music
News had the following to say about
her entertainment.
Christine Miller in Evanston.
The bare announcement that Chris
| tine Miller is to sing in Evanston at
any time is sufficient to draw a ca
pacity audience wherever she may ap-
pear, and on last Thursday eevning
Music hall proved entirely inadequate
and scores were turned away unable
to gain admittance.
Never has Miss Miller appeared In
Il more delightful program and never
has her voice been so utterly beautiful
as at this time.
Her appearance and concert de-
meanor are absolutely Of the finest
quality and she carries her audience
with her wherever she wills as much
through the force of her own person.
ality as through the wonderful signif-
icance and beauty Of her musical Of
ferings.
Miss Miller is loyal to the last degree
to American composers and few in
deed are the singers who have pop
ularized so many songs by these
writer's. Scarcely ever does she give
a program without some numbers by
Charles Wakefield Cadman, and on
Thursday she had listed six other
Americans and she gave their work
with a beauty and a finish that showed
them at their very best.
Musically these works measured up
splendid proportion-and If there is
fault to be found it is in some of the
texts selected by the various writer's.
Poetical text, smooth and intense, Is
of prime Importance and the Amer
lean composers must continue to seek
for this ideal; some Of the verses used
in last Thursdays concert were neither
suaVe nor impressive.
The program opened with Come,
My Beloved" from Handels Alta
lanta"-this being an old fashioned
aria of infinite charm and much eff
feet; Where the Bee Sucks CDR.
Arne), which Miss Miller made abso-
lutely delightful and "Be Ye in Love
with April Tide" and Separation"
two songs by Ward-Stephens which
have much worth and were given full
valuation by the singer.
Schumann, Strauss, Mailer and
Roger composed the next group and
in this class of work Miss Miller is
entirely beyond any criticism. There
was power and lightness equally dis
tributed, cXpressivoness and humor
deftly contrastcd, and at all times an
intensity Of vocal beauty which gave
continual Joy to every listener.
"Adieu Forets," the very intense and
dramatic aria from Tschaikowsky's
Jeanne dare" was an example of
this style Of singing which might well
serve as q perfect model TO all the
vocal students present, and II was a
poetic delight besides.
Cadman's THE Place of Breaking
Light" "Ho, Ye Warriors on the War
path" and The Thunder Birds Come
from the Cedar" from the suite From
Wigwam and Tepee," which have been
heard from Miss Miller several times
before, were again given in most
convincingly dramatic way and with
signal musical effect.
The last group was distinctly Amer
lean, and also decidedly Evanstonian
in makeup, and it was listened TO with
much delight by the enthusiastic audi
ence, and, as a matter Of course, every
number was given by Miss Miller with
a full valuation of its possibilities and
effectiveness.
George b. Nevin's when the Kye
Come Hame" is a thoroughly attrac-
tive Scotch song, musical and charac-
teristic Horatio Parker's Morning
Song" is a perfect gem in every way;
the text is perfect and the music fits
the text as glove. Lullaby of an
Infant Chief" proved again that c.. A.
GrantSchaeffer is a writer of great
insight and power and the Mothers
Visits" by Alfred G.. Wathall, showed
tHlS ENdHblOHldn dlSO " DC very muCn
worth while from the musical stand
point.
wind Song" and "The star" by
James II. Rogers. closed the program
and they were examples Of short songs
entirely praiseworthy and wholly de-
lightful as given by Miss Miller.
A number OF encores (besides
Reger) were given. among them being
Candle Lightin' Time" Dunbar
Taylor). "My Love Is But a Lassie
YETI and by Bendermeer's Stream"
the two latter being sung with ex-
quisite grace and musicianship.
Entirely sympathetic and of good
musical values were the Rccompani-
ments furnished by Mr.. Carl VI.
Beecher.