MRS. FOWLER’S LAST CONCERT
Given Before a Large Audience Last Evening
Miss Caroline Lyon Makes Her Debut as a Pianist – Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Karger Delight Those Present By Their Solos.
Notwithstanding the fact that it is the Lenten season, the largest audience of the course was in attendance last evening at the last concert of Mrs. Fowler’s course. It is safe to pronounce it the most artistic one given this winter. The artists were Mrs. Eloise Morgan, an operatic soprano of renown; Mr. Max Karger, violinist, and Miss Caroline Lyon, a debutante who made a very creditable showing and is already a pianist of more than ordinary attainments. With talent and ambition, she is fitting herself for a long course of study with European teachers. Mrs. Fowler may feel a just pride in her young pupil, who is but fifteen years of age and off to a good beginning in sending her into larger fields of musical education. Miss Lyon is the daughter of Mr. Howard Lyon, the well known lumberman.
The audience had reason to expect much from Mrs. Morgan, and they were not disappointed. She is a singer of large reputation, and this city rarely has an opportunity to listen to such singers. She did not give the audience a program of the modern so-called intellectual music, suggestive of a scientific search for melodious effects, in which the listener is often baffled regarding his or her ability to appreciate the true harmony of sound and sense, but gave numbers lyrical, emotional and brilliant, in which the singer has an opportunity for displaying every artistic effect. Mrs. Morgan’s voice is sweet, flexible and has an extraordinary range. In the “Polonaise from Mignon” she took G in altissimo with as much ease as many artists would take a note five or six degrees lower.
Mr. Max Karger, the violinist, is a young American about eighteen years old, a pupil of Joachim, and has played before the finest musical audiences in Europe and America with marked success. He certainly enraptured his audience last night.
The artists were loud in their praise for Mrs. Fowler as an accompanist. One little blunder was made in the “Mignon” number which was readily explained by Mrs. Morgan. Having been accustomed to singing in opera she forgot for the moment she was singing a concert arrangement and did not make allowance for the interpolations.
It is sincerely hoped a large guarantee fund has been assured for next winter’s concerts, as up to the present time Mrs. Fowler has not made expenses, and unless financial encouragement is given she cannot be expected to continue these musical treats.
