The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1899, Page 26

26 THE SUNDAY CA |JVSIE HERT - MAR | SoPRANG s Flynn {s sald to bave the highest ur sopranos. Bhe is a busi- & person, who knows the of the cold, d to put a d to salarles, and there are 8o a home for herself and little s s a cozy home, too. There arc ters who d Mrs. Tenney's work and to whom she is grateful. nd 1 hoth sing at Satur- 8, ie sajid. ‘“‘She at the Tay- lor street Temple and I at Bush street; 1t keeps us busy.” Yes, busy; and there's another phase of the matter. A New York paper is saying that the synagogues are having the best of the bargain In such cases, and the same thing holds true herc. “The g only the fag ays a writer. end of the sin “What with Friday rehearsals for the eynagogue, Saturday’s elaborate and dif- ficult service there and Saturday night's rehearsal for Sunday’s service, the singer arrives at the Christian service Sunday morning pretty well worn out.” Mrs. Birmingham has come back to us with method refreshed by European lifs. Her dramatic personality and voice qua ity suggest “La Traviata” or “Santuzza’ far more than Episcopal anthems. One of Henschel's puplls is Miss Ella McClosky of Holy Cross Church and Taylor street Temple. “There was such a little time to study with him.” she said FIRST CONSRE- regretfully. “But I tried to make the J. DAVIS most of every minute. He was kind and 5 > TATIONAL encouraging, too, although he has a 3¢ ) frankness that is German In its complete- ness. I know that I owe a great deal to even the little time that I could study with him, for the man’'s personality is an inspiration.’ The soprano of St. Mary's Cathedral is Miss Katherine Black, who is known on weckdays to educational circles. She divides the rounds of our seventy-two public schools with one other speclal teacher of music, and on Sunday she la- bors with the elaborate music required in the cathedral. “The first time that I remembered einging was when. I was 12 years old,” Miss Black sald. “I sang a solo in church and I had on a beautiful red dress. I wasn't a Dbit afi of anything except that some one might think 1 was afraid, and I paid much more attention to keepe ing my knees still than 1 did to the solo. But my knces would waggle, no matter how hard I trfed to stop them.” Miss Black's mother interrupted, “No, that wasn't your first singing, my dear, though it may be the first you rememe ber. When you were three years old we used to put you on a table to sing for company, and you remember old Mr. Smith of the Mint? He would give you money to sing, and after you were once #tarted you enjoyed your voice so that he had to give you more money to get you to stop.” Miss Black recalls a long Interview with & SEARY ST ~portraits of mas- , i) | Il i TS (o L il g B KATHERINE BLASK SOPRANS SAINT MARY'S SATHEDRAL i Teeav | a7 I"\”'\‘.LQjKEy TAYLOR jTREET TEMPLE M55 17ELLA VAN PELT CONTRALT® SALVARY THURCH A Melba when the great Marguerite visited San Franclsco: “That was three years ago, and I was so discouraged at the time because I could not go to turope. But Melba said that it would e time enough when I was almost thirty. If I would keep on in concert and church work In the meantime I would be maturs enough and able to make the most of my study then. She tried my voice, playing the accompaniment herself.” A new contralto in circles iz Miss Isabella V vary Church. Her v Pelt teaching. of music as the day Is lon to Mr. and Mrs. Don Pard sings in the irst irch, where her experienced asts the vouthful, Mrs. Susie Hert-Mark {s the soprano of « a Decker. Calvary Church. She inherits a love f ‘“The work is hard in Dr. music and says she cannot remem church,” says M Decker, when she did not sing. “I used to ¢ it. I alw vanted to sing in a the atlas on the piano stool and church’s r, and now I am d ferno’ on top of that and sit I remember being around our out my own musical ides [& rch at home when I was a n It must have been that as a chil and hearing the choir rehea soclated the high tones with he close to the I have al had an {dea angels sing in soprano voices. nonsense, but ycu know how an gion clings. t it must is <uch mpres- on es g0 here. sy Cohn, soprano of Emanu ra—$5 apiece. home. “The salari i nate lately—I M.DES KER p to a girl who has a home —that is, a great many . she says, “hut they are not enough in d and have had erals.” themselves to live o and teaching Lelp out. Concert Decker Miss matter, isn't it? singing blushed. Wi F'RST PRESBY TERIAN B L ALTO o e . ’i‘!‘.v‘"‘v/’ \\\nmuummmuumm|l|l|llll|m|mmm T I I [T Il_llfllllllfl|Hfllflfllfll«IHIHWMM!IIIWIIII!IHMIMI Il fise 5 & (3 | MI35 XENA ROBERTS ALTO PLYMOU TH CONSREGATIONAL S T i) of Cal- ce is young and has a gooud deal to learn, but it is worth A home out on Pacific avenue is as full It belongs soprano velvety centralta Mackenzie's but I love an and be the th to sing there month, and that is a good Weddings s We have mean un- people It's a delicate