Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-16
HUGH Martin
MONDAY NIGHT
Famous Tenor Returns To
Home Of His Child
hood Days.
FIRST APPEARANCE HERE
Knows The World Over as
The Foremost American
Musician.
FIRST APPEARANCE HERE

Quite the most pretentious musical
affair Hopkinsville has known will
take place next Monday night at the
Tabernacle. All Kentucky knows
the tremendous success which its
gifted son, Ricardo Martin Chris
tened Ilugh,) has gained in grand
Opera. Yet, next Monday night, he
will face, for the first time in his ca
reer as singer, his fellow towns
men. incidentally, Martin will sing
to Kentuckians living in more than
one Kentucky city save that in which
he was born.
Those who have known Hugh
Martin personally are not surprised
at the success he has won. Great
vocal gifts were his and great musical
talent, also. But it was due to the
fibre of the man-his quick percep-
ton, his vigilance and his industry
that placed him alongside of the great
Caruso and other illustrious tenors Of
his time. For IN the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York; in the
great Covent Gardens in London, as
well as in other foremost opera
houses of the world, Ricardo Martin
is recognized as one Of the first half
dozen living tenors, and man who
has won his position by right of music
might.
Last year, and this year, too, Mr..
Martin has shared with the great
Zenatello the first tenor roles in the
Boston-National Grand Opera Com
pany and it is only due to the fact of
the holiday lay-off, which this distin-
guished organization is taking, that
Martin, the Tenor, is able to sing this
concert engagement.
Those who know this young mans
voice say that it has the clarion ring
in the fortiSima passages, or is as
soft as velvet in quietest phrases pos
sible for human voice to sing. 1t
is a voice described as absolutely
equal from top to bottom, a voice OF
the pure tenor timbre, and pro-
nounced by connoisseurs to be the
most sympathetic and most vibrant OF
any American the opera or concert
stage has known. II is not in voice
alone, however, that Martin is SUI
preme. In technique, no less than
in his finished Interpretation of aria
or song, Martin is the artist supreme.
On Monday night he will sing arias
from operas in which he has APP
peared before the crowned heads Of
Europe and the most fastidious social
dictators of New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia and Chicago. He will also
sing group of English songs that
carry an unquestioned heart appeal,
and he will sing operate duets with
Miss Blanca Saroya, another gifted
American, who is one OF the first
sopranos of the Boston-National
Grand Opera Company, and declared
by many experts to be one of the flu
ture great sopranos of the world.
There will be then a double inter-
est in Mondays concert: First in
Martin, the tenor, singing great music
as an artist should, and second, in
Martin, the Kentuckian, come home
to sing for the first time to the people
who called him Hugh"
The programme in full is as fol-
lows:
/. Songs
(a) Happy Song Teresa Del Riego
(b) Songs My Mother Taught
Me ................ .DVorak
(c) A Painted Butterfly.
| 49,. .... Joscelyn Noel
Id April Rain.
y 49,, Huntington Woodman
| Miss Saroya 2
IL. Aria -. 49,.
Flower Song from Gar
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men ............ p'1es
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