Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-20
celebrated vOCAL|sTs
d WILL SING IN RICHMOND
Rosa Ponscllc, Ena Roberts and
Forrest Lamont Coming for
= Spring Festival.
iAIN ENvIOUs Regulations
Musical Artists Have Won Unusual
Recognition Recently in Grand
Opera Circlcs-F'lorcnCc Hink and
Arthur HaCkctt Also Booked.

With barely, a, week, 10 pass before
tho opening of tho spring music fcsti-
val. on April IS, final arrangement
have now been completed by the We'd
beSday Club for the most elaborate
concerts ever attempted by that or
Eaniatidn in Is history of twenty-siN
slub TO secure the celebrities of the
operate and concert stage through
the liberal supper, of large sub
scribins membership, as the orrsania
lion has never been conducted on a
commercial basis. its purpose being
The educational ono OF making il pos
slblc for every member Of the comnu-
nifty TO hear the best music at mod
crate scale Of prices.
While most OF the artists engaged
Tor this season arc now to the Rich
current of musical affairs. assurance
is given 10y the Board OF Governors
that they have been chosen as the
Egost briilian, successes Of the season S; N
In this connection that the moSt-ialked
of sensations in previous spring fcs,i-
walls have been created by other sing
ers who have been brought 10 Rich
mond under the auspices of tho We'd
ncsday Club al the beginning OF their
careers. including Cali Cnrci. Gluck,
Garrison SraSlau. Martinclli, Dc Luca.
Julia CUP and others.
The concert given on artists night"
april 2s, will INTRODUCE to Richmond
opera al and IN
sellc. Emma Roberts and Forrest La :
mon, will come here fresh from a
iss p wnsNf made IN NeW Ter f9T rs ppea
anco in opera last Novembc on the
stage OF the Metropolitan. where her
voice had been appraised as so re-
- prira donna singing opposite
Caruso. an honor never before accord
cd debus.n,e in the history of that
famous institution.
Emma Roberts: mezzo-contralto. has
also been secured to appear on artists
night. Miss Roberts IS acclaimed as
concert field, in which she has chosen
to develop her distinctly unusual gift
tor stirring the emotions of her au-
diences. That most blasc of the
Huncker, confesses that that the way way
Roberts sings folk songs is entirely
and makes his eyes suspiciously wet
The third star for rhc artists con-
cor, is young Forrest Lamont; latest
precaution which he exhibited in the
case OF CALI Curci, of signing up the
new American tenor for a three year
contract with the Chicago Opera Com
rany Lamont has been on tour with
this organization during the pas; win
ter, and has had tho honor of Great
new operas. He is considered in must
cal circles the foremost young Ameri-
can tenor, and the superior of any
foreign tenor now singing in this
country with tho exception of CaruSo
On Monday night the Wednesday Club
chorus, assisted by three celebrated
oratorio singers and the Metropolitan
orchestra. will present Haydn's ora
torio, The Creation" The orchestra
with Harteman as conductor, will come
70 Richmond, from Atlanta. whore it is
and HackeSt also arc concluding their
engagements for tho season with the
metropolitan opera just before coming
here. Florence Hinkle, conceded 10 be
the foremost American ora,orio So
prano. is favorite here, where she is
well known. Middleton has sung the
baritone role in The Creation" more
than fifty times, it is said.
Arthur Ilackctt, who was discovered
at the Boston concerts in the fall Of
1915: was an, important event in the
musical world.