Weber Male Quartette

              1915
Weber Male Quartette

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Weber male Quartette
THE WEBER MALE QUARTETTE is in every sense a high class organization, composed of four of the well-known concert and church soloists of New York City.  An association of several years in successful concert and phonograph work has resulted in the beautiful blending, the clearness of enunciation, and the artistic distinction which are the essentials of a really satisfactory quartette.  The Weber Male Quartette is progressive in adding to its repertory, and by its versatility and genial bearing has been unfailingly successful wherever it has appeared.

Few quartettes, we venture to say, have appeared before such widely varying audiences.  The critical assemblage of the metropolis, so often including people of social prominence or of artistic celebrity; the great gathering from the east side settlements, whose eagerness and appreciation for the best are nothing short of a revelation; the church society, with its definite requirements for a distinctly refined entertainment; the club, where geniality and gentlemanly good fellowship are essentials; the Lyceum which has the cultured support of the very best people; the Chautauqua with its wide appeal to all classes; all these, whether in city or village, have received the Weber Male Quartette with that hearty responsiveness which is the artist's richest reward.

This quartette appeared before the Pennsylvania State Educational Association in December, 1914, and aroused such enthusiasm as became practically a sensation.  The repertory of the Weber Male Quartette is as varied as its audiences.  The old favorites, sometimes in a new garb, are not forgotten, but this quartette is unwearied in its search for interesting novelties.  Many of the numbers on its programs are entirely new and unique, and some have never been presented by any other organization.

The personnel of the Weber Quartette is likewise unique, in that each man is a musician as well as a singer.  The quartette is sufficient in itself for the presentation of an entire entertainment, and requires no outside assistance for accompaniments or obligatos.




Weber male Quartette

APPRECIATIONS

Plainfield Daily Press.
—Mr. Barnes, the soloist of the evening, proved most acceptable.


Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
—The music was of a high order, being a number of selections by the Weber Quartette.


Musical America, N. Y.
—The Weber Male Quartette, in four splendidly sung numbers, ended a musical evening that evoked great enthusiasm.


N. Y. Evening Post.
—Special mention should be made of the beautiful singing of the baritone recitative (Beethoven Ninth Symphony) by Frederic Thomas.


New York Morning Telegraph.
—The Weber Male Quartette sang four numbers unaccompanied, and the rafters of the banquet hall are no doubt still trembling from the salvos which greeted them.


Atlanta Constitution.
—Mr. Armour has a glorious voice, and his coming to Atlanta is a distinct event in the musical world.  He sang four numbers, and took his audience by storm.  His voice is sweet and clear as a bell, and yet has a strength and volume that is remarkable.


Asbury Park Press.
—Mr. Marlowe-Jones exhibited a tenor voice of pronounced lyric type, very pleasing in quality.  Responding to encores was scarcely enough to satisfy the audience, who would gladly have heard more from this young singer.—(Ocean Grove Concert.)


Meriden (Conn.) Journal.
—The Weber Male Quartette proved themselves one of the finest aggregations of singers that Meriden has heard in some time.  The program was such as to allow their vocal abilities a wide scope, and they were equally pleasing in the delightful old English ballad, Drink to Me Only, and Chaffin's difficult Shores of Sighing, as in Bullard's rollicking Winter Song. Their rendering of Van de Water's beautiful Sunset was particularly fine.


Altoona, Pa.
—The Weber Quartette is O. K.  We never had a musical organization at our State Educational meeting that pleased us better than the Weber Quartette.  I have heard nothing but praise for the quartette, and am sure that you will receive many calls for their services.  I am not a musical critic, but I know enough about music to know that I thoroughly enjoyed the Weber Quartette.—H. H. BAISH, President Pennsylvania State Educational Association.


Asbury Park (N. J.) Press.
—The Weber Quartette of New York is composed of four well-known soloists.  Their work last night was strictly high class, and it is doubtful if a better male quartette can be found today on the concert platform.  Their singing of Dudley Buck's On the Sea won instant favor, and Annie Laurie was splendidly given.  Sunset was a gem, but the one that caught the audience was a negro song, Swing Along, which had to be repeated in response to the persistent applause.


Burlington (Vt.) Free Press.
—The Weber Male Quartette of New York proved a first class attraction at the college gymnasium last night, when they appeared under the Summer School auspices.  A large audience heard the singing with great appreciation and called for encores for every number, and some numbers more than once.  The program was well balanced between light and serious, popular and classic, and was carried through with a decided snap.—(Concert at University of Vermont, Summer School.)


Greensburg, Pa.
—I am sure I am expressing the feeling of every member of the Pennsylvania State Education Association present at our meeting at Harrisburg, December 29-31, 1914, when I thank you for the rare treat we enjoyed in the services of the Weber Male Quartette of New York.  In their choices of appropriate selections, rendition of different types of programs, versatility in arrangement of programs, stage appearance, and ability to please a popular audience they surpass any other combination of musicians I have ever had the privilege of hearing.  They are artists in every possible sense.  We feel deeply indebted to your bureau and to Mr. Geo. S. Boyd particularly for the excellent judgment used in furnishing the Weber Quartette.—ROBERT C. SHAW, Former President.


Plainfield (N. J.) Press.
—A large audience of music lovers greeted the Weber Quartette last night, and hearty and continued applause after each number attested the pleasure the artists' offerings afforded.  The quartette numbers were excellent selections, even to the encores sung after each in response to the appreciative applause.  The solo numbers by the members of the quartette were of the kind that carried enjoyment.  Their perfect phrasing and diction were a delight.





Weber Male Quartette

ROBERT ARMOUR, First Tenor



MARLOWE JONES, Second Tenor



MALCOLM BARNES, First Bass



FREDERIC THOMAS, Second Bass