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CHICAGO Mr. Holboll, who is by trade a building contractor, disclosed a tenor voice of appealing quality and a method of using it which, if it is not perfect, could, nevertheless, be envied by a professional singer. He presented a Norwegian folksong with adm irable effec­ tiveness. It rem ains only to add that a qu artet by Lange-Miiller and a Ju tland dance folksong for qu artet were sung to the rap tu rous enjoy­ ment of the listeners. F e lix B o v o w s k i . A d o l f B r u ñ e i T h e I n te r O c ea n , Chicago: The enthusiastic welcome which greeted the Danish student singers from the Royal university of Copenhagen Sunday afternoon at O rchestra hall was repeated last night; every offering of the chorus met w ith the most cordial reception; repetitions were demanded and given after each number. The uniform excellence of the singing deserves all the enco­ miums bestowed on it. The attack and the endings are both faultlessly done; there was never any uncertainty as to pilch and the rhythm ic precision was throughout adm irable. The lone quality was always good and healthy, though a bit h ard at times, but the unknown language may have made it seem so. That the softer tones are not beyond th eir power was proven by some exquisite pianissimos and by the finished execution of the hummed accompaniment to the solos of Helge Nissen and Olaf Holboll. Mr. Nissen proved again last night that the must be counted with the best barytones we have heard this w inter. He sang a »Minstrel’s- Prayer«,by F. A. Reissiger. His beautiful, virile singing is imbued with the dee pest sentiment, and it was right that the audience should insist on hearing him again. Olaf Holboll sang a folk song by P. E. Lange- Miiller; he, too, had to give an encore. The singing of the solo-quartet found, however, the greatest measure of appreciation; two encores were granted by them and still the audience demanded more. . . . A d o l f B v u n e . I C h ic a g o D a i ly T r ib u n e skriver G len n D illa r d Gu n n : The chorus attains a unity and beauty of tone that can only result when the severest ideals of ensemble obtain. This tone m ain ­ tains its expressiveness and sympathy through all dynamic inflec­ tions, and these im portant interpretative means are developed w ith a flexibility and responsiveness almost orchestral. Especially effec­ tive is the nuance of the sudden crescendo which Conductor Levy- sohn frequently employs in the closing cadence, quite in the o r­ chestral manner. The mezza voce effects were no less adm irable. Between these two poles the perform ance moved with a precision that accomplished wide variety of effect, yet retained the feeling of spontaneity and of genuine pleasure in song that is fundamental in all simpler forms of art. The program was devoted to Scandinavian composers, Denmark, Norway and Sweden being impartially represented. Remarkable fo r its delicate pianissimo was the Danish folksong, »Agnete and the Mer­ man.« It had to be repeated. The audience found sim ilar pleasure in