The Washington times., 1922-09-28
WASHINGTON TIMES MUSIC PAGE FOR LOVERS OF MUSIC
Famous Voice Expert
Makes Home in D. &.
cambridge crist, Authority on
Vocal Production, Is Added
to Long List of Capitals
Musical Celebrities.
BY WILLIAM MOORE.


Washington. as the great musical
center Of the future, is slowly but
surely attracting to it's hospitable
portals the great leaders of the music
world.
1t is, therefore, with little surprise
but with a great deal of genuine
pleasure, that musical Washington
welcomes the coming of the famous
composer and authority on vocal re-
Observation-Disclosures Crist.
Mr.. Crist told the writer today
that he knows of no place In the
world he would rather have as the
center OF his musical endeavors than
the Nations Capital.
Your city-and mine. too, now
has always appealed TO me-" said
Mr.. Crist, with the engaging smile
which appears to be highly charac.
teristic of the man. 1T Is beautiful
/ can conceive Of no happier place
in which to continue my life work
And the people are fine, outstanding
Americans. 1t will bC a pleasure in.
deed to count myself a Washing
tonian."
Mr.. Crist is a tall, spare man. with
light gray hair, and with a super
modest almost to n fault, and seeks
to place his own great achievements
we'll in the background.
Few Can Equal Him.
But musicians know his worth.
They realize that as an authority on
voice production few can equal him.
And as a composer. his works for
voice and violin and his symphonic
compositions rank at the very top.
Bainbridge Crist received his mu-
sical education in London, Paris and
Berlin. In the English capital he
was a pupil OF William Shakespear"
who came to Washington about two
years ago and opened a studio. In
Paris he studied under Charles w
Clark, and in Berlin his teachers
We're Franz Emerich and the great
Moratti. In composition he was the
pupil of Paul Juon.
For many years Mr.. Crist has been
teaching in Boston, attracting to
that city many of the Country's
foremost voCalists His symphonic
works have been produced bv the
Boston, st. Louis and San Francisco
symphony orChestras, and the press
criticisms from the pens of eminent
iiHee are ldNISH IN tnelT praise.
Critic Lauds Songs.
OF his songs. William Treat I-ptOn,
critic OF Musical Observer. says:
Among the song writer's so con.
sidered perhaps none stands higher.
both as to quality and quantity Of
material produced than cambridge
| Crist."
Undoubtedly" Mr.. Upton con.
| tinues, "Mr. Crisis finest work Of
the past two seasons Is found IN his
| song cycle OF 'COloured Stars'-a
superb piece OF work from every
point OF view. Within its four songs
there is infinite variety OF exprC 3
sion, from the exquisiteness and re-.
straint OF The Emperor TO the wild
passion Of Leila"
| In Musical America Of February
II, "a. w. X" highly COMMENDED
Crist's "Abhisarika," scored for violin
and orchestra. 1t is an Oriental
poem.
The critic says:
| Among living Americans. Mr.
Crist has taken a place Of honor as
a creative musician. One expects
much from him in each new work
and rarely. indeed, is one disappOint
eu. Auueu 10 his line creative gift he
has the literary background and the
intellectual balance to make his
work authentic, to give to it that
note OF undeniable beauty that dis
tinguishes the real from the ephe
neral. In "Ahhisarika" he sings
with a lyric charm and warmth
much greater than that which hC
has commanded in some other works
He has thrown himself into the mcOG
lof his subject so completely that what
he has uttered is packed full with
the glow of the East. the East as
revealed to us by those Russians
Rmsky- -Korsakoff. Balakireff, anC
the men who have won for the Rus
sian school a place of affection ir
the hearts of music-lovers the worlt
over. One might truly listen to this
work Of Mr.. Crist and think /; the
production Of a Russian composer
Nor il has the pulsating fire and the
languor of that nations musicians
And so one might go on indefinite
ly, quoting the laudatory comments
II critics both here and in Eu-ope
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