And the Champagne Still Flows by Joseph Roger Winterrath

Author:Joseph Roger Winterrath
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joseph Roger Winterrath
Published: 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

RAPPOLD AND AMATO AID RUBINSTEINS

“The walls of the Waldorf-Astoria ball room almost literally bulged with the crowd of enthusiasts that came to hear the final concert of The New York Rubinstein Club on April 16 with two star soloists, Marie Rappold and Pasquale Amato of The Metropolitan Opera Company. The two artists were received with a welcome which left no doubt of the esteem in which they were held.”

By early June Marie had already appeared in Colorado and she had stayed on after her concert appearance at the Spring Festival because, according to Musical America, she “Had such a good time that she plans to return in July. With her daughter and Lola Carrier Worrell, the Denver song writer, Mme. Rappold spent ten days at Central City where friends of Mrs. Worrell gave a house party. There the prima donna experienced life in a genuine mining town.” There is a really delightful picture of the group ready to descend into the Topeka Gold Mine. “On Saturday evening Mme. Rappold and Mrs. Worrell gave a concert at a local theatre for the benefit of the miners. The House was packed to suffocation. Central City will long remember the visit of this famous artist and her beautiful singing.”

By the third week in June she was in Philadelphia in time for the “Banquet at Belmont” for Saengerbund. As reported on June 21 by The Philadelphia Press. “Among the speakers will be the impresario, M.H. Hanson of New York through whom the Saengerfest Executive Committee had engaged Mme. Rappold as soprano, Ludwig Hess, tenor, and Henri G. Scott, basso, as soloists.”

On June 25-27, The Musical Currier, reported, “Mme. Rappold was scheduled to sing at the convention of the New York Music Teachers’ Association at Columbia University.”

It is difficult, indeed, not to note the diversity of her engagements and audiences. To go from the stage of The Metropolitan Opera House, to a theatre in a mining town where most of the audience had probably never heard an opera, not to mention the name of the woman who entertained them with such joy, and then on to Columbia University with full shading of range in between, was no small feat, and Mme. Rappold was lauded for them all.

Musical Courier, June 5, 1912: “The prima donna is to sing two concerts of the Saengerfest to be held in Philadelphia from June 30 to July 4 under the auspices of Northeastern Saengerbund of America. The Saengerbund is held once every three years and is one of the most important events of the German-American musical clubs within the limits of Connecticut on the north; Washington D.C., on the south, and Harrisburg, PA. on the west. About 6,000 singers attend the Saengerfest and these, together with members of their families, bring to the city where the triennial festivals are held something like 15,000 visitors. Only artists of the highest rank are engaged for these festivals, and this year the choice for soprano fell upon Rappold for two concerts, for which she is to receive $2,000, a fee of $1,000 for each.

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