The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-08-07
Much Interest Being
Shown in Concert of
Miss Eleanor Steber
Will Present Program in Amphi-
theatre at Park Sunday,
August II

Much interest is being shown in
the coming of Eleanor Steber, Met
ropolitan opera singer, to Mt. Lake
Park. She will present a program in
the amphitheatre on Sunday, August
II, at 3 o'clock p. M, under the
auspices of the Maryland Chautau-
qua.
Miss Steber is pictured as not only
talented but lovely to look at too.
She is tall slender, with fair hair,
blue eyes and a radiant complexion.
She is a native of Wheeling, w. Va.
She began her musical studies with
her mother, a musician and solOist
of Wheeling church, who taught
her voice and piano until she was
graduated from high school Her
first experience of singing in public
was as soloist of the Second Presby-
terrain church of Wheeling
She attended the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston
after graduating from high school.
There she worked her way in the
best American tradition, paying most
of her tuition by scholarships and
supplementing these by additional
money earned playing the piano for
a dancing school, acting as desk at
tendant at the dormitory where she
lived and making occasional appear
ances as soloist with various musical
organizations. Her teacher was Will
liam Whitney, and it was due to his
interest that she began to sing in
OratOrio in Boston, Cambridge and
other New England cities. A recital
tour took her through the Eastern
Seaboard States, the South and into
the Middle West. Radio heard her
over Boston's Station WEEI She had
her first glimpse of operate success
when she sang the role of Senta in
"The Flying Dutchman" at the Bos-
ton Opera House, and later the lead
ing soprano part in Louis Gruen-
berg's fairy-tale opera "Jack and the
BeanstaIk"
In the summer of 1889 she went to
New York to coach with Paul Alt
house, Metropolitan Opera tenor. The
following winter she entered the
Metropolitan Additions of the Air
and in April was chosen for first
honors.
With this announcement, Eleanor
Steber not only got contract with
the Metropolitan, she got a taste of
what it is to be public figure.
The "Victory Broadcast" present
ing her to the nations radio audi
ence as the Metropolitan's choice was
attended with all the fanfare of an
event in involving the National
Broadcasting Company and the Met
ropolitan Opera Association.
Flashlight photographs, interviews
with the press, rehearsals, hundreds
of kilograms from known and un-
known well-wishers, demands for
autographs, fan mail piling up-and
right after the broadcast came a for
NAL reception, when she was con-
graduated by Edward Johnson, Cen
eral Manager of the Metropolitan
Opera Association, and many famous
singers and members of the Board
of Directors of the Metropolitan
Opera.
The next week, her home city of
Wheeling declared Eleanor Steber
Day. The soprano arrived by special
train, was met by the Mayor and
other officials and great crowd of
admirers. A motorcade took her
through the streets That night she
gave a concert for her fellow citizens
with the Governor of the state in the
audience. The demand for tickets was
so great that a second concert in a
larger theatre had to be arranged.