STRANGE SONG RECITAL
A woman who was once Queen Victoria’s favourite singer gave a remarkable recital in a London mansion on a recent evening. No one. is sure of the age of Blanche Marches!. She is more than seventy. Covent Garden acclaimed her in the ’nineties. She sat by candlelight on a gilt, damask-covered chair and sang. Her songs were of four types: mystic, tragic, heart's agonies, joy. . And the spotlights played on her .. . mauve for the mystic, blood red.for. the tragic, green, mauve and red for the heart’s agonies, golden yellow for the joy. She said, when interviewed after the recital: “I have realised the ambition of my life —to have sung and seen the colours of my songs.”
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 167, 11 April 1935, Page 3
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120STRANGE SONG RECITAL Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 167, 11 April 1935, Page 3
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