Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 169, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1928 — Page 8

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HAYES GAVE LIGHT EVEN TO THE BLIND Great Colored Tenor Brought the Beauty of Music to a Vast Audience at the Murat Last Night. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THERE will be in my memory of the Roland Hayes’ concert last night a lingering dramatic quality which will never leave me. Some of the greatest dramas are ihose that are not written, the just happen, and one of them just happened. So overflowing was this Murat audience that several hundred seats were placed on the stage and in one of these chairs was a beloved blind organist of this city. Hundreds have been thrilled by the spiritual message of song while Charles Hansen, although blind, played hymn after Hymn from memory in church.

Last night this blind master of the organ went to the Murat to hear a master of singing tell a sermon in Negro spirituals. And it seemed to me last night that a great joy and wonderfully sweet light was reflected in the face of the blind organist as Hayes sang right into the hearts of the thousands present. Something clutched my throat when Mr. Hansen’s hands moved as if they were passing over the keys and the controls of a great pipe organ as Roland Hayes sang his very soul into “The Water Boy,” a Negro labor spiritual. There were those near my seat who shared in the wonderful sight of seeing this grand blind man of the organ enjoy a great concert. Mr. Hansen could not sc- the singer or the great audience. It was all darkness to him but he did possess great musical light. And I am sure that both the true artistry of Roland Hayes and the glorious experience of a blind man who loves great music will not soon be forgotten. You may think that this is a very odd way to start a review of a concert but to me there was great drama last night during the Hayes concert, both on the part of those who could not see and those who could. And I was thankful after the concert, when the glory of Hayes’ voice and his way of making a capacity audience respond to great music, that there is no such thing as musical darkness. When that fact is apparent to those who can see I think that I am justified in bringing the name of Mr. Hansen into my story of what happened last night. We have a greater soul artist in Roland Hayes today than we ever have. I remember his first Indianapolis concert some years ago when he appeared at Caleb Mills hall and the seat price was very small. In that short space of time Hayes has become such a commanding spirit of song in spite of his color that the Murat auditorium was not large enough last night to.hold a

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vast representative audience that not only filled every seat, but occupied the stage and even standing room. And there is every reason in the world for this. There probably is no singer on the concert stage today who can enter more entirely into the spirit of every song. It makes no diference whether Hayes is singing “Die Post” and “Wohin?” of Franz Schubert or the “Songs of Georgia” as composed by Rachmaninoff, he catches the soul of the song and brings it forth in the richest possible "oice, both in the low and the high register. I always get the feeling when hearing Hayes that here is a singer

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