Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1914 — JOEL MOSSBERG IS GIFTED AND FAMOUS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOEL MOSSBERG IS GIFTED AND FAMOUS

To Sing on Chautauqua Program In This City This Season. Worcester (Mass.) Svea, March.— “The next number on the program belonged to the prominent baritone, Joe) Mossberg of Chicago. He made'his Worcester debut with the prologue from ‘Pagllacci.’ Greeted by storming applause upon his entrance on the stage, the applause after the song became an ovation. Of a singer with so stately, an appearance one expects stately things, and the audience was not deceived. The way Mr. Mossberg rendered the prologue has never before been beard in Worcester. The delivery of this difficult aria was dramatic, effervescent with life and color, and Mr. Mossberg’s voice was resonant in all its registers, his brilliant high tones ringing and bell-like in a way one seldom finds in the most gifted baritones of international fame. In

one word, the prologue was sung Friday evening in a way that could only bfe done by a great singer and an artist, who has the advantage of voice resources extraordinary, and the public rewarded him with tremendous applause, to which he responded with the ‘Toreador’ from ‘Carmen.’ To sing so taxing an encore after such a big number as the prologue was almost too much to expect, but we by this time expect almost anything of Mr. Mossberg, and the ‘Toreador’ was greeted with : storm of applause well deserved.” Mr. Mossberg will arpear in this city on the Lincoln Chautauqua program on the sixth day. Ho is a member of the National Grand Opera Company, which will sing the preludes to Congressman Fred B. Jackson’s addressee. Lincoln Chautauqua to be held in Rensselaer, Sept. 12th to 17th,

JOEL MOSSBERG, BARITONE.