Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1928 — Page 19

STARCH 9, 1928

NEGRO SPIRITUALS DONE MODERN WAY Florence Cole-Talbert, Colored Dramatic Soprano, Shows Influences of Intensive European Study and Thought in Concert Here. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN The singing of spirituals by Negroes on the concert stage generally turns out to be more vocal and mental than spiritual. Last night, I again had that thought while hearing Florence Cole-Talbert, colored dramatic soprano, who is making her first American concert tour following several

years study in Italy. To the spiritual, Mrs. Talbert brings a highly trained and powerful voice. Her mood seems to be more continnental than strictly of her own race. One can understand perfectly each word as her diction is very good but she brings to the spiritual no personal emotion. I know that Roland Hayes, whom I consider the outstanding singer of the Negro spirituals, does not approve of the Jubilee or shouting method. He believes that the spiritual should be honestly emotional but properly controlled by the singer. It is the hidden quality of reverence and love for the message of the spiritual that gives Hayes his great prominence as a singer of the spiritual. After studying Mrs. Talbert, I have the opinion that she agrees

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with Hayes. She sings her spirituals with splendid knowledge of the atmosphere of the song but the emotional quality is confined only to the voice and not to her personality. Her spirituals seem to be of the drawing room method. They are songs to be done in good voice. Probably we trill never agree to what extent the emotional quality should enter into the singing of a spiritual. Mrs. Talbert in all of her songs clearly showed the effects of careful and intensive European study. She has been trained for grand opera and has sung “Adia” in Italy. She proved last night that she knows how to sing “Aida” as her program included the aria, “Ritorna Vincitor” from that opera. Here we saw the result of her study upon her voice as well as her manner of singing. In singing Leighter’3 “The Fragrance of the Rose” she displayed more emotional power than she did in her spirituals. She sings

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a restrained intelligent spiritual. For an encore at the close of her concert, she sang “Home, Sweet Heme” and made a spiritual out of it. Her program included English. French. German and Italian numbers. Her singing of “A Vucchella,” pioneering days in concert. MISS CLARK * WINS AT KEITHS Here is some “nut stuff" and impressions that are good. Sylvia

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Clark romps through her act of a Neapolitan folk song, was charmingly and beautifully done. Her voice is rich and has a wide range in the higher register. One of her most remarkable attributes was her clear diction. Mrs. Talbert is equiped by both voice and training to take her position among the most commanding concert singers of her race today. Goldie Guy Martin was at the piano during the concert. The concert was given last night at Caleb Mills Hall under the auspices of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. It is to be regretted that so few were present to hear this singer on her first concert appearance in this city. But I recall that Roland Hayes did not sell out in his songs about different kinds of people and successfully gets her

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mostly a clothes horse but she has a very fair voice. Burt Shepherd is an expert. There are lots of experts but Shepherd is an expert with a whip. He clips pieces from paper held in the mouth of his assistant and tears cigars in two. The whip is wrapped around the young lady who is the assistant without hurting her, although it is accompanied with a great deal of noise. Shepherd has what he says is the biggest whip in captivity, and it is some size, but he can crack it. At Keith’s today and Saturday. (By the Observer.) Jt n NOTED CHOIR TO BE HERE TONIGHT Transporting an organization as large as the Zion Choir and orchestra, coming to Cadle Taber-

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nacle for a choral concert tonight, is a task in itself that requires th personal attention of an entire staff of traffic experts. The arrangements for special trains, such as the choir of 300 voices and orchestra of 35 pieces, always requires, are made by A. F, Hueneryager, Traffic Manager of Zion Institutions and Industries, Mr. Hueneryager and his assistants also supervise all details of a business nature in connection with the engagements of the choir and orchestra, his staff including baggage masters, wardrobe care-takers and commissary experts. The special train bringing the choir and orchestra to Indianapolis will arrive at 6 o’clock tonight. Due to the magnitude of the concert program it will start promptly at 8 o’clock.

drove him to seek oblivion in “The Legion of the Condemned,” that fearless band of French Fliers. He was just ai.o’ her recruit for that band of men whose sweetheart was death, and whose mad escapades eons',ilute one of the most thrilling chapters of fiction or history. See thorn in the Paramount Picture

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