GALLI-CURCI’S GIFT
He who would analyse the art of GalliCurci from a technical point, or diagnose its gripping quality through an exposition of its intrinsic elements, undertakes the impossible (says on American critic), for that art, in its sublimity and its power, defies dissection. It is/a composite of all the gifts of the gods. As Juliet, Violetta. Lakme, Dinorah, Butterfly, Lucia, Gilda, and other famous heroines of grand opera, as well as in concert, GalH-Curci has revealed her matchless art. She has a song for every heart, a message for every mood, a balm for every care. The wonderful purity of her voice, its amazing flexibility, its marvellous "floating” quality, so elusive in its witchery, so satisfying and entrancing to the ear*, her uncanny ease in the delivery of passages of the utmost technical difficulty—these and other phases of her art have inspired a thousand pens to attempt, with glowing superlatives, to describe the beauties of her voice. But words have never expressed the full sense of its exquisite charm and pathos or conveyed the meaning of its technical appeal. Singers sing, but Galli-Curei communes through
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 14
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186GALLI-CURCI’S GIFT New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 14
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