The Bertha Farner Company

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THE BERTHA FARNER COMPANY


Miss Martha Alexander VIOLINIST
Miss Martha Alexander, violinist, is an artist who has mastered her chosen instrument in a most wonderful manner.  She plays with dramatic power and fluent technique.  Her artistry has won for her a permanent place in the hearts of concert goers from coast to coast.  Miss Alexander's extensive experience has earned the right to the prominent place we give her in this company.



Miss Ethel Murray 'CELLIST
Miss Ethel Murray is a most competent musician.  She began her musical studies at the age of seven, and graduated on the piano from the Royal Academy, London.  Afterward she took up the study of the 'cello in Berlin under the famous teacher, Joseph Malkin.  She has filled concert engagements both in Europe and America and has won the plaudits of the critics and also the general public.  Her playing will do much to increase the number of those who pronounce the 'cello their favorite instrument.



Mr. Frederick Schauwacker PIANIST
Mr. Frederick Schauwacker, is one of the most accomplished pianists before the public.  As an accompanist he is an artist to his finger tips.  During the past winter he has served as official accompanist to the American Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, of which Glenn Dillard Gunn is conductor.  His playing will contribute much to the artistic finish of this high-class concert program.




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MISS FARNER


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MISS BERTHA FARNER




MISS MARTHA ALEXANDER


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MISS ETHEL MURRAY


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MR. FREDERICK SCHAUWACKER



MISS FARNER

The Bertha Farner Company
THE Affiliated Lyceum Bureaus feel a justified sense of pride in having perfected the organization now presented to the Lyceum under the name of THE BERTHA FARNER COMPANY.  Of capable artists there are many, but it is seldom possible to combine in one company in superlative degree the qualities of musicianship and personality evidenced in this organization.

Bertha Farner, soprano, is one of America's most gifted singers.  Her musical debut was made at the age of seventeen, with the Tivoli Opera Company, of San Francisco, in the same theater in which Alice Neilson and Tetrazzini made their initial appearances.

During her musical career she has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, with the Mancini Opera Company of New York, the English Grand Opera Company, the San Carlo Grand Opera Company and other famous organizations.

Abroad she appeared with the opera company of Nimes, France, and in concert in Paris, London, Brussels and other musical centers.  She sang the part of Manon before Massenet himself, and was warmly commended by that great master for the sweet, persuasive voice with which she sang the church scene.

Her training has been with such masters of vocal art as Jean de Reszke, Elie Tequi of Paris, Shakespeare of London, and Piccoli of Milan.

Miss Farner is a young woman of exceptional personal charm.  She has a sweet and modest demeanor which wins her audiences, and a boundless ambition which permits of her making no appearance unworthy.





COMMENDATIONS BY THE PRESS

EVENING HERALD, Los Angeles, Cal.
—With the horror of war haunting her eyes and bringing heart breaking tales of the suffering in France, Miss Bertha Farner, beautiful prima donna and former Los Angeles girl, has arrived in this city.  Miss Farner, who is widely known here, was in Paris when the European war broke out.  From that time until a few months ago she was a voluntary prisoner in the war zone, working as a nurse to save the wounded and dying soldiers in the war hospitals at Mons.  During that time her own father and one of her brothers died in this country, but she could not leave the hospitals.  Last October, giving way to grief over the deaths in her own family and the horrors daily surrounding her, she collapsed and was forced to return to America.


THE TAMPA DAILY TIMES, Tampa, Fla.
—Miss Farner sang the part of Thais and her strong clear soprano pleased her audience.  Miss Farner is well cast for the part, both her dramatic ability and her voice being used to good advantage.  Tampa will hope to hear Miss Farner in other seasons for the singer has made many friends here.


MUSICAL COURIER, New York.
—The Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra gave a brilliant popular concert at Trinity Auditorium on Saturday evening, April 8.  The soloist of the evening was Bertha Farner, dramatic soprano, who sang the Jewel Song from Faust and the prayer from Tosca displaying a voice of pleasing quality, musical understanding and attractive personality.


THE VANCOUVER WORLD, Vancouver, B. C.
—Unheralded and without any brilliant setting to her act Miss Farner sings her way into the hearts of the audience and has to take recall after recall.  With a voice of singular purity and marvelous power, coupled with a range which is unique, the talented vocalist couples a personality which is most attractive.  She has a repertoire which is chosen with exceptionally good taste, her offerings ranging from operatic selections to the auld Scotch songs which warm the heart.


THE MORNING OREGONIAN, Portland, Ore.
—Bertha Farner has a rare voice, a beautiful soprano, high soaring and true in every sweet note.  She is lovely to look upon too, and has chosen her programme with an evident desire to please.


PACIFIC COAST MUSICIAN, Seattle, Wash.
—The vocal soloist of the program was Miss Bertha Farner, a young American artist who recently returned to Los Angeles from a sojourn of several years abroad.  Miss Farner is a singer of attractive personal as well as musical qualities and she made an excellent impression on her hearers in Gounod's Jewel Song from Faust, Puccini's Prayer from Tosca and Rimsky-Korsakoff's Song of India, the last named as an encore number.


LOS ANGELES TRIBUNE, Los Angeles, Cal.
—The soloists presented by Director Tandler for this final program were Miss Bertha Farner, soprano and Jay Plowe, flutist.  Miss Farner received an ovation following her singing of the jewel aria from Faust and Tosca's prayer from the Puccini opera.


LOS ANGELES HERALD, Los Angeles, Cal.
—The possessor of a soprano voice of rare power and sweetness, and a woman of exquisite personal charm.


MUSICAL AMERICA.
—Miss Farner has a delightfully large and true soprano voice which she uses with excellent taste.


MISS MURRAY played the Variations Symphoniques of Boellman with all the dash and aplomb which characterize the playing of the most finished virtuosi of the day.  She has had the advantage of a liberal education in French and German conservatories and shows dignified, authoritative musicianship and fine musical insight.—
St. Paul Dispatch.


MISS ETHEL MURRAY, the distinguished English cellist, studied under Josef Malkin in Berlin after having completed a thorough course in cello and solfeggio at the French Conservatoire.  Miss Murray is descended from a long line of musicians, her father having been a celebrated London organist, and her grandfather the inventor of the metal frame in pianos.  Miss Murray has toured the United States, playing in all the principal cities with great success as soloist and in numerous concert companies.—
Town Crier.


NEWARK DAILY ADVERTISER.
—The violin solos of Miss Alexander were decidely fine.


LOS ANGELES HERALD
—An artist, who has mastered the violin in a wonderful manner.


NEW YORK HERALD
—Miss Alexander played with dramatic power and fluent technique.


SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN
—In this full season, which ended last night, the Martha Alexander Concert is spoken of as among the best.

I have no hesitancy in recommending the Martha Alexander Company to any person who might want a first class concert—

H. BALLANTYNE, Educational Director, Toronto Y. M. C. A.


CEDAR RAPIDS EVENING TIMES.
—Frederick Schauwacker's entire list of numbers were of a classical nature, four of them his own compositions, and he not only played without the manuscript, but also played them faultlessly and with brilliant technique.  In addition he possesses a pleasing appearance and personality, and it was small wonder that he was able to captivate and charm his hearers.