ADA CROSSLEY’S DEATH
“ QUEEN OF SONG” A STRIKING TRIBUTE Pron Atnociatioa—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 17. A service has been arranged at All Souls’ Church, , Marylebone, which is close to the residence of Madame Ada Crossley, on Monday. The interment will take place at Golders Green. The 1 Daily Telegraph,’ in the course of a striking tribute, entitled ‘ A Queen of Song,’ says that, although it is some years since the deceased retired from the concert .platform, there still lingers the memory of the striking beauty of her voice, with its strange smoothness of quality and almost equally fine natural production. This recalls a tribute from Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1898, when, at a performance of ‘ Elijah,’ in which the contralto soloist did not appear owing to a mistake, he asked Madame-Crossley to take the part. She was sitting in the front row, and, knowing the oratorio perfectly, she steped into the breach, with immense success.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 15
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157ADA CROSSLEY’S DEATH Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 15
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