The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-09
ELLEN REPP IS SCHEDULED FOR
 CONCERT SOON
Contralto Returns for Sixth Juneau Event to Be
 CivenN Next Tuesday

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 night for a brief visit with her many friends here. and to give her sixth Juneau concert.
 The Everett, Wash, girl who has made good in New York, where she has been for the last two years. III Saizberg, where her concert was an event of the season in that music center of Europe three years ago is always welcomed in Juneau and though her visit here this summer will be short it will give Juneau music enthusiasts an opportunity to hear her in concert Tuesday, July 12 at the Northern Light Presby- terian Church.
 About Miss Repp's name; The Se- attle Times. July 1, commenting upon her concert the previous night in Meany Hall at the University oi Washington said, Ellen Keep went to New York an ambitious young music student: Ellen Repp returned to sing in her home city, judged and acclaimed-as a mature ar tist.'
 The change in the name is re- turn to the Norwegian form, from the Americanization of Repp. Miss Repp's family name is known Tn Norway: she sings as a Norwegian American artist; she specializes m Grieg. ITO Norwegians Repp means something. has significance, where as Keep is just another American name" said Miss Repp, explaining the Repp- Keep -Repp that has been her family appellation.
 In her concert Miss Repp will be accompanied by Carol Beery Davis, who made arrangements for her appearance here. In both classical and modern groups, she will also be accompanied by Blythe Kelly Rowe well-known cellist.
 Probably because her cousins, Magnhild and Lars Oygard, are Ju- neauites, and her sister, Mrs. Mary Torkilsen lives in Petersburg, Alas kans have always considered Miss Repp one of their own, and all who know her are looking forward to her appearance in concert Tues day.
 Of interest especially is the fol- lowing story about Ellen Repp and her recent Meany Hall concert writ ten by J. Willis Sayre in the Seat- tie Post-Intelligencer July l:
 "Ellen Repp's largely attended concert last night in Meany Hall under the auspices of the summer quarter of the University, afforded a genuinely pleasurable evening to everyone there; it was a real home coming for the artist. The Everett contralto is a credit to her old home town. to the University of Washing ton. of which she is a graduate, tc her chief teachers here, August Werner and Clifford Kantner, and to the high standards of the na- tional music honorary sorority oi which she is a member, Mu Phi Ep- silon
 Miss Repp comes home with in- ternational honors to her credit, within the year she has won plau- dits both in Salzburg and with the symphonies of New York and Brooklyn. And she is going back tc New York for her concert debut there in Town Hall on January B She is a Norwegian girl and aside from the big turnout of students tc hear her, the audience included a substantial. delegation of her coun- trymen, headed by the Norwegian consul. It was a case of hands across the sea on a Seattle-Oslo axis.
 Her program was of five groups and as many ages-Italian German, French, Norwegian anc English. She is of attractive appear ance, graceful and poised, devoid of mannerism and with as much stage presence as a prima donna with many years of professionalism behind her. She won her audience without trouble; it was an evening of flowers, and encores, and pro longed applause.
 With all the variety of song she offered, every phase of he singing art was well illustrated. He opening Secchi and Handel mum bers demonstrated lower tones par ticularly full and resonant; ther was sweetness in the succeedin Old English ballads. In the follow ing group were two oddly conceive' compositions by Von Takacs, tn second in particular Slavian sons but written in German, with natur al notes in the left hand and sharp in the right, for the accompanis and with the voice in differen key from the instrument. It sound very Stravinsky, but was delightft to listen to.
 Tn the French group her inter pretations were vivid and spirited with her rich, powerful high note coming into their own, especially