Charles Wakefield Cadman: and Princess Tsianina

              CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN
FOREMOST LIVING AMERICAN COMPOSER-PIANIST
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PRINCESS TSIANINA
AMERICA'S OWN PRIMA DONNA GREATEST INDIAN SINGER (MEZZO-SOPRANO)

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In their ALL AMERICAN CONCERT of music and songs that is representative of American art at its best.  Consists of piano solos by Cadman from his most popular orchestral works, and he plays original Indian themes on a genuine flageolet, then analyzes and demonstrates how they are harmonized on the piano.  Accompanied on the piano by Cadman, Tsianina sings some of the classics and several groups of Indian songs, and features arias from Cadman's Metropolitan Opera success Shanewis.

One of the finest things I have ever heard.  They should be heard in every musical center, large or small, in this country.  L. E. Behymer, Past Pres., National Concert Managers, Association.

Management: D. F. BALSZ,
2847 N. Grand Boulevard
St. Louis, Mo.


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TSIANINA (pronounced Chi-nee-na) translated Wild Flower is a Cherokee-Creek Indian maiden, born in Oklahoma.  She appears in the artistic costume of her race, wearing a gown of beaded leather, moccasins and a beaded band about her head.  Her general education has qualified her for university degrees, and ten years musical training under the best masters has made her one of the foremost artists America has produced and the greatest singer the Indian race has ever given the world.  Duo to her mental and artistic equipment her personality and charm, she has been made an honorary and active member of the National Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority, League of American Pen Women, National Camp Fire Girls, and the American Legion.  There are twelve Music Clubs throughout the country named for her, and she is an honorary or active member of twenty-two Music Clubs.  Government officials have recognized her as the finest example of the successful Indian girl in public work, and she is the only Indian woman invited by the Secretary of the Interior, Hubert Work, to serve on an advisory council investigating Indian affairs.

Tsianina has sung with unqualified success in hundreds of American cities, including every state, and most of the larger cities in Europe.  She has been praised by the leading critics of America and Europe, and while abroad was entertained by nobility and showered with high honors as befits royalty.  Melba said of her, she puts more soul into her songs than any other singer, and Schumann-Heink said, she is indeed wonderful, both personally and in her songs.  Tsianina has appeared as soloist for most of the largest musical festivals, leading clubs, and symphony orchestras, including the New York Symphony, Damrosch, Conductor; Minncapolis Symphony, Oberhofer, Conductor; Russian Symphony, Altschuller, Conductor; and numerous others.  She is the inspiration and original of the American opera Shanewis (The Robin Woman).  Cadman wrote the opera for Tsianina, and she furnished the sketch of the story for the opera from incidents in her own life.  She is the only living person whose biography has been made the subject of an opera produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company.  Her glorious voice, radiant personality, and wonderful interpretation of the Opera Shanewis, is never forgotten by those who hear her.

RECENTLY the Music Editor of the New York Mail wrote in part: If there is any composer in America who can write and who has written music for us Americans it is Charles Wakefield Cadman.  He has proved his ability to write popular music of a very high class; he has proved his ability to write real grand opera, opera that has had a real success; he has proved his ability to write chamber music in the real American idiom; he has proved his ability to write splendid orchestra music which delights real American audiences.  There is no Amerikanski about Cadman.  Critics throughout the world refer to him as the greatest living American composer, the successor to Edward McDowell, and rightfully so.

Cadman has more than 300 published works to his credit, from the simplest teaching pieces for piano, to grand opera and include song cycles, piano music of all grades, organ, violin and cello numbers (arrangements and transcriptions), part songs for mixed voices, choral compositions and scores of beautiful songs.  He has written four operas, Daoma, The Garden of Mystery, A Witch of Salem and Shanewis.  The last named has the distinction of being the first American opera produced for two consecutive seasons by the Mctropolitan Opera Company.  The orchestra arrangements from his Thunderbird Suite, Oriental Rhapsody, Omar Khayyam Suite and Hollywood Suite, have been played by the leading symphony orchestras in American and Europe.

He is more fortunate than most composers in that it is possible for him to adequately present his compositions in concert.  He has a vigorous style and technique, and a convincing and colorful tone production.  He has appeared with most of the famous singers of the world today, but has found no one who interprets his songs so gratifyingly as Tsianina.




PRESS COMMENTS

NEW YORK CITY: A real musical treat.  Cadman the most distinguished living American composer; a capable pianist with a vigorous style and technique.  Tsianina's wonderful voice of great range, beauty and power; took overflowing audience by storm—
Henry Finck, Post.


CHICAGO: Fascinating program.  Cadman too well-known to require criticism.  Tsianina the equal of any concert singer appearing before the public; captivated one of the largest audiences.—
Herman Devries, American.


BOSTON: Seldom has a Boston audience been given such a rare treat.  Cadman the successor of Edward McDowell.  Composers would do wisely to secure Tsianina to show the world how to sing their songs; voice of unusually beautiful quality, warm, rich, individual; sings in tune with perfect enunciation; won an ovation from the large audience.—
Boston Herald.


PHILADELPHIA: Delightful and charming concert.  Tsianina's voice captivating; most powerful and pleasing.  Cadman at his best, and his interpretive ability most noteworthy.—
Philadelphia Record.


DETROIT: These artists give to the world something quite outside the beaten path in music; fascinating and enlightening program.  Tsianina's singing more compelling than any other concert singer; gave an insight into the pride and pathos of her people as never before been given in this city.—
Detroit News.


PITTSBURG: Captivate largest audience of season.  Cadman's compositions rippling, invigorating and fascinating.  Tsianina altogether compelling; pure voice, ample and warm.  The sincerity and strength in her work made it a relief after a season of more or less neurasthenic sopranos.—
Harvey Gaul, Post.


ST. LOUIS: Fascinating and engrossing concert.  Cadman an effective pianist and wonderful accompanist.  Tsianina's voice beautiful, the low notes have the reasonance of a deep contralto, and the unusually brilliant and appealing high notes the purity of a lyric soprano.  Not another mezzo-soprano heard in St. Louis this season has a voice rivaling hers in sweetness or in intense appeal.—
Ernest Colvin, Star.


MINNEAPOLIS: Concert surpasses in instructive, entertaining and musical quality.  Tsianina won every heart; freshness of youth and voice add alluring charms; delicate pianissimo effect; effortless tone production; perfect breathing; smooth velvety legato and easily sustained power.—
Victor Nillson, Journal.



NEW ORLEANS: Delight capacity audience.  Cadman most effective; plays with taste and feeling.  Tsianina's gracious personal charm and wonderful voice literally captivate; she sings with intelligence and sincere feeling.  She is a genuine artist.—
T. J. Hill, States.


GALVESTON: Cadman and Tsianina captivate overflowing audience.  Cadman has the touch of a master, and he gives something entirely new in the realm of music.  Tsianina is a revelation; her wonderful voice reaches the heart with a wistful appeal; perfect diction; dramatic ability is that of the born artist—
Galveston News.


EL PASO: Tsianina literally captures capacity audience; perfect enunciation; perfectly trained, rich, colorful, ardent voice was a joy to hear; quality of tone that seems to express that indefinable something for which every soul blindly yearns; she made one happier to have heard and added to one's memory treasure house.  A few more Cadmans, and America will not need any Puccini to cross the Atlantic and write its operas.—
R. M. Augur, Times.


SALT LAKE CITY: A program that was wholly good.  Tsianina sings with taste, grace and broad intelligence; quality of voice, clarity of diction, and interpretative work, for general excellence served as an example for many more heralded singers who fall far short of the Indian maiden artistry, for Tsianina has beauty of tone, accuracy of pitch, knowledge of music and brains to interpret with spirit and understanding.—
J. Miller, Tribune.


PORTLAND: Delightful and interesting concert.  Cadman a genius.  Tsianina sang and acted exquisitely; voice of lovely quality with fine dramatic effect; they were given veritable ovations.—
C. Hilton-Turvey, Oregonian.


LOS ANGELES: Charming concert; audience of more than 2000.  Cadman an ideal pianist and accompanist.  Tsianina's voice thrills with its beauty; rich cello quality; perfect enunciation; fine production; ease of range and beauty of tone; superb legato singing; beautifully interpreted.—
Florence Reed, Express


SAN FRANCISCO: The performance demonstrated that there is American music and it showed it is good music.  Cadman a pathbreaker in his way.  Tsianina sings with rare candor and expressiveness; one of the most brilliant musical events in the history of the festival.—
Redfern Mason, Examiner.


SANTA BARBARA: Tsianina and Cadman thrill; auditorium was crowded to the doors.  Cadman a positive genius for interpretation.  Tsianina's voice remarkable for pure quality of tone and interpretation; peculiar liquid quality, and a warmth and depth of tone that would do credit to many accomplished concert singers.  In person the singer would do credit to any recital, even if she did not utter a note.—
Fred Law. Press.