Evening star., 1924-08-17
American Singer Visits
Mozart S Birthplace

program in the rendition Of the arias
from Figaro" and The Masked Ball"
But also in the songs by Brahms she
unfolded rare tineness, and the "Wehe,
SO Whilst Du Mich Wieder," she sang
with animated swing. The song.
"Norgebtiches Staendchen," rendered
nuhly and delicately, was followed by
horid colorature encore from Men
delSsohn.'
"S.tzburg being the birthplace of
Mozart. Miss Redell sang a number Of
encores by Mozart. The following day
the American group accompanied the
singer to MoZart's house. The two
rooms are now museum. One finds
there the piano and the Spinet on
which Mozart played his wonderful
compositions, the chair on which he sat,
photographs of the composer and his
family and even the photograph OF
Mozart'S worst enemy. who was at that
time the conductor of the State Opera
in Vienna, certain Italian. In the
corner where MoZart'S cradle stood now
stands a fine bust of the composer.
Visiting artists have a pretty custom
Of bringing flowers to place in the vase
standing near the bust
Miss Redell was particularly inter-
ested in picture depicting the funeral
of Mozart 1t was raining and not one
genius to his eternal resting place; the
coffin was followed only by Mozart
dog. The picture of this episode
touched the singer and. with tears in
her eyes, she approached the manager
OF the museum and asked why such
conditions prevailed She was informed
that his family was actually starving,
the wife and little children were i'll and
could not go 10 the funeral and the
friends who did start out for the ceme-
terry abandoned the idea because of bad
weather. Turning to our group Miss
Redell said: Let us hope that our
country will never fail to recognize her
composers and will not permit SIM
liar crime to be committed
In a glass case in the center of the
room are the small violin which
Mozart played, many of his handwrit-
ten manuscripts, letters In his hand
writing and the skull Of Mozart Ten
years after his death it was decided
that something ought to be preserved
and. inasmuch as he had been buried
in the cheapest coffin possible. there
was the danger of everything being
destroyed, they exhumed his skull
in the above picture. There is also
shown hanging in the case the watch
presented to Mozart by Maria Theresa,
Queen of Austria
Upon my suggestion the Washington
singer consented to have her photo
graph taken in the room where Mozart
was born and near this glass case
Upon applying for permission to the
manager of the place We were informed
that never in the history Of the museum
had anybody been permitted to be
photographed on the premises. but he
continued, L attended the concert last
night of this American singer and her
singing of the Mozart numbers was so
beautiful that / feel duty bound to make
an exception in her case and shall even
consider it an honor to have her photo
graphed in the place where the immor-
tai Mozart was BORN
The TonkuenStler Symphony Orchestra
Of Vienna has invited Miss Redel to give
some concerts with them of all-American
compositions She is now in search
for some of the best American COM
positions written for orchestra with solo,
as the Viennese audience would like to
hear an American artist present some
of the best American classical produc-
tions. 1t might be well for the leading
composers to make their suggestions to
the singer by addressing her at Dob
linger Hauptstrasse SO, Vienna XIX,
Austria, bel Silberstern 1t will be in
the interest of American art AS soon
as her engagements in European coun-
tries come to an end she hopes to re-
turn home and sing for American audi
enceS, but it will be another year prob
ably before she comes home.