Evening star., 1924-08-17

EMMA REDELL, Washington os-
prano. who has been receiving
Favorable comments from European
critics while touring abroad, gave
her last concert for the season l923-24
in Sal2hurg. home of Mozart. the
great composer. on Independence day,
July 1. Joseph Marcus. reconstruc-
tion director for Poland. Latyia and
Lithuania. of the American Joint Dis
tribution Committee. was tn" only
WaShinstonianS who attended this
concert. II" told an interesting story
upon his visit here last week of the
Impression Miss itedell made upon
her Sai&burg audience. and also of
the SingrrS visit to the house where
Mozart lived. Her program for the
Mozart festival concert included that
composers "Aric der Graetin." from
Die HoChz"it des Figaro; Nerdi's
aria from "The Masked Ball and an
aria from "'Fraviata." Richard straus"
''Ich Trage Meine Mime and "Zueig
nung" Rubinstein's "Gebrochenes
Herr" Gretschaninow's "Nor Mir die
Steppe," Brahms 20 WuenSst Ich Doch
den Veg Zurueck.' 'Wehe. So Whilst
du Mich Wieder," "Auf dem kirchof''
and "Vergebliches Staendchen," and
Ltoncavallo's prologue from "Ba-
jazzo."
Mr. Marcus tells of Miss Redelrs
success as follows:
Every music lover considers ii his
or her duty to visit the birthplace OF
that great composer. w. a Mozart.
on the third floor of the brick build
ing located at No. Getreide Gassc.
IT SalZburg, Austria, are two rooms
with low ceilings. In one of them
Mozart was born, and in these rooms
90, i1,- fn,
years Every day of the year the
place is filled with pilgrims from all
over the world, who come to pay
their respects.
"On the Fourth of July the writer
and group of Americans tempo
rarily residing in Vienna. Austria.
spent the holiday in Salzburg- That
evening Miss Emma Redeil, the Wash
ington singer whose home is at 300
NJ street northwest. gave concert
in cooperation with Maxim orlof.
Russian baritone. Despite unusually
warm weather. beautiful Mozart Hall
was filled to capacity The first i'm
preston that the American singer
made upon the audience seemed to
De that she was native or the 'rlcn-
est country in the world On all
sides you could hear women in the
audience making remarks Is to hcr
beautiful SILK dress. ner JeNeily, anu
her general appearance. She looked
the true representative of America
That was all until she began to sing.
All that the SalZburg audience. one
of the most critical in matters mu-
sical, had expected, but what they
had not expected was that she would
move them to a point of admiration
seldom accorded by SalZburGers. she
displayed remarkable technical skill,
fine command of the languages in
which she sang. and a vocal quality
of unusual beauty. In her aria from
the Masked Ball she touched the
audience to such an extent that many
men and women were in tears 1t
was later on ascertained that only
few DAYS before her concert she had
received word from home in Wash
ineton that her mother had passed
away. But this situation did not
keep the artist from presenting the
songs by Brahms, such as We, so
Whilst Du Mich Wieder. or verge
bliches Staendchen,' with such spirit
ed Swing that it could hardly be be-
lieyed that it was the same person
who only a few minutes earlier made
everybody cry.
.The Salzburger Chronik wrote OF her
under date Of July 5. 1924: The so
nrano of Emma Redell, native Ame7-
can. is of extraordinary beauty. Rich
ness and brilliancy of voice combined
With superbly cultivated expression
,vara noticed at the very outset OF the