MADAME CLARA BUTT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 February 1908, Page 2

MADAME CLARA BUTT.

Madame Clara Butt and her busbaud, Mr Kennerley Rumford, will give a conceit at the Theatre Royal next Tuesday. A recent criticism of the great contralto says:— Tho voice of Clara Butt is one that "makes sunshine in a shady place. There is. no suggestion of gloom in her singing. The average contralto who mistakes indigestion for inspirations and who wraps, herself, round wrtb dulness in the belief that it is dig.. nity, brings into the concert hall the crypt-like atmosphere of a Gothic cathedral on a foggy day: In a radiant and a refreshing contrast tq this lugubrious type of a singer. Madame Clara Bwtfc makes ono th.nk 1 of a sunlit garden all in nWer with ' i branchos full of birds. Her song is the song of a cheerful heart and a i cheerful spirit. And bcsideß being generous in the use of a gorgeous voi^c,, Madame Butt is ft 'picturesque' singer — a singer who has imagination and the dramatic sense, and who rcpards the voice, as an instrument that is quite profitless unless it is used for the intelligent and cjear expression o< a thought or an emotion; one who realises that tbe singer has to bo the interpreter poetically as well as musically in reproducing for the public tho truth in the heart of the compose-." The book'.ng office is at Mr Bolton's, next" tbe Theatre.