EMPRESS OF SONG.
FINE AMERICAN TRIBUTE.
PERFECTION OF SINGING.
IMPERIAL DISTINCTION.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 24. 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23.
Tho New York Herald Tribune says: It is startling to realise that Melba—great lady and great artist—has passed. Sho was tho last of those soprano empresses of song who made glorious the lyric history of the last half-century. Those who recall tho peculiarly radiant beauty of Melba's voice as heard from the stage of tho Metropolitan Opera House in flic 'nineties possess a memory unique und treasurable. Those who realise what is meant by tho perfection of coloratura singing, what is meant by a voice really ideally equipped for that perilous and most exacting art, may imagiiio the best they can of the Melba of thoso days. But she gave us more than that.
Melba s singing was touched with greatness of style, with imperial distinction. Her utterance was patrician. The fineness of her musical taste and her sovereign mastery of beauty and tho means whereby beauty may most excellently be achieved, made such singing the thing of rarity and wonder that it was.
No doubt tho golden ago of song will return, but no Melba. will sing for us again.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20807, 25 February 1931, Page 11
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204EMPRESS OF SONG. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20807, 25 February 1931, Page 11
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