. The Argonaut. THREE YEARS AFTER The Story of San Francisco Beautifully IllustratedIn the APRIL NUMBER of Sunset Magazine Now on Sale 15 Cents April 3, 1909. THE ARGONAUT 219. BISPHAM AT THE GREEK THEATRE. By Josephine Hart Phelps. More and more does Bispham make onerealize the wonders possible with a right useof that most lovely and flexible instrument,the human voice. On Saturday afternoon itseemed as if this singer of scholarly tastes andardent enthusiasms was lifted up to a pitcheven beyond his usual lofty plane of achieve-ment, by the inspiration of singing for thefirst time in the Greek
. The Argonaut. THREE YEARS AFTER The Story of San Francisco Beautifully IllustratedIn the APRIL NUMBER of Sunset Magazine Now on Sale 15 Cents April 3, 1909. THE ARGONAUT 219. BISPHAM AT THE GREEK THEATRE. By Josephine Hart Phelps. More and more does Bispham make onerealize the wonders possible with a right useof that most lovely and flexible instrument,the human voice. On Saturday afternoon itseemed as if this singer of scholarly tastes andardent enthusiasms was lifted up to a pitcheven beyond his usual lofty plane of achieve-ment, by the inspiration of singing for thefirst time in the Greek Theatre. On a chilland cloudy day that constantly threatenedrain, he held spellbound an audience of sev-eral thousand. Never had he more trulyproved himself possessed of the supremestgift of vocal expression. Bispham wiselychose for this farewell concert the choicestjewels from his casket of treasures. Weheard the prologue from I Pagliacci, TheEvening Star from Tannhauser, The ErlKing, which, as is so often the case withmasterpieces, seemed to take on a new mean-ing, because whatever Bispham gives us, nomatter how familiar, is vitalized anew; inthis the sufferings and
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