The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-10-20
MUSICAL SEASON IN
MAYSVILLE OPENED
BY TWO ARTISTS
Barbara Maurel and Oscar Seagle,
Famed Inter- National Artists VIII
Open the Musical Season at
the Washington Theater
This Evening.

A concert series of unusual merit
opens at the Washington Theater this
evening when Barbara Maurel, mezzo
soprano, and Oscar Seagle, baritone,
give a program of high class musica!
numbers.
This concert is being given under
the personal direction of Messrs. ]. G
and VIM. F. Murphy and promises to
be one of the biggest musical treats
Maysville has had the privilege of
hearing.
The grand piano to be used for these
artists Is Smith G. Nixon and is fur
nished by the Richard Spaniard Piano
Company.
In spite of her youth, Barbara Maui
rel has had career full of interest.
Born of French parents in Alsace-Lor-
raine, in the very heart of that terri
tory which for more than four years
has been so bitterly disputed by the
allied and enemy armies, she was
" <ttucliCd do q Shiiu " NV
Here she resided until her sixteenth
year, when she returned to America,
she lived for two years in Philadel-
phia and New York, where she first
conceived the idea of vocal career.
On her return to Paris, she was &C
cepted as a pupil by Jean De Reske.
She studied also with that noted rep
resentative of the Fugere School,
Jules Chevallier, to whom she was
sent by Mary Garden, who had heard
and admired her. Remaining three
years under this eminent tutelage, she
then entered upon her professional ca
reer a full-fledged product Of the
most Authoritative French instruction.
Coveent Garden promptly claimed her
as welcome acquisition, and engaged
her under a two-year contract. Com
ing to America few seasons ago, she
was engaged by the Boston Opera
Company, for leading mezzo-soprano
roles. With this company, she was
heard all over the United States and
Canada, appearing in "Rigoletto,"
Butterfly" "Cayallerja Rusticana",
Tales of Hoffman," and other stan
dard operas. Her success was immed-
late and unqualified, and the audiences
which welcomed her so enthusiastical-
ly in operate roles have accorded her
equal admiration in the concert field,
how much can to some extent be
gathered from the notices of her re-
cent recitals which follow:
Oscar Seagle rises head and should
ers above the crowd Of concert aspir-
ants" This is the verdict Of Henry
E. Krehbiel. dean of the American
critics. II is a verdict attested to by
tie Judgment of a hundred other ex-
perts and thousands of music-lovers.
The reasons therefore are easily dis
covered, Upon voice of great natur-
al beauty Seagle has superimposed a
&C mmand of technical facility, a
pESutn VI cutoLiohui ypoMei, "oaith
OF vocal color. clarity of diction, in
short a perfection of utterance that for
it, counterpart we must 80 10 the
6 eat singers OF the golden age of
bel canto.
His versatility Is amazing. He does
all kinds OF song equally well. His
twelve years of training under the
6 cat Jean de Reszke have given him
a mastery OF the French song, both
ancient and modern. and keen in
sight into the delivery OF operate
alias; his coaching with Won Eur
muehlln. the renowned master, a rare
knowledge OF German lieder. His Eng
lish songs spring from the heart and
manifest a rich fund OF emotional
power.
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