The Boynton Company

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Miss Boynton Reader
The Boynton Company

Personnel

Miss Juanita Boynton
Reader
Mr. Ward Baker
Violin Virtuoso
Miss Ruby Harkness
Lyric Soprano
Miss Annie Lewis Vivian
Concert Pianiste and Accompaniste



EXCLUSIVE DIRECTION

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ASSOCIATE MEMBER
AMERICAN LYCEUM UNION

S.B. Mershey
Pres't & Gen't Mgr
ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Central Lyceum Bureau
FRED PELHAM, Manager
415–420 Orchestra Bldg., 165–169 Michigan Ave. CHICAGO, ILL.

Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Western Department
863 Monadnock Block, CHICAGO, ILL.


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Announcement
MISS JUANITA BOYNTON at the head of a company for the season of 1905–6 announces a worthy compliment to a deserving artiste.  The management is proud of the record Miss Boynton has made in the six years of faithful and capable service with their different companies.  During the last two years she has been with the popular Wesleyan Male Quartet, and she has done her work to the entire satisfaction of the audiences.  Few readers, or entertainers, have such pleasing combination of dramatic ability and naturalness of manner.  What she is by nature has not been marred by contact with artificial instructors.  This favorite artiste, in the interpretation of literature, is to be surrounded with people who are worthy of her.


Miss Boynton


MR. WARD BAKER, a virtuoso on the violin.  Competent judges have called him great.  There are many others who are as skillful in technique and as impressive in the volume of tone product, but only rarely is found his equal in the quality of tone that he brings forth, and of the perceptible soul-power that he puts into his instrument.  It is music from the soul and he makes it reach the soul of his audience.  He illustrates his own definition that Music is God's voice heard in a language without words.


Miss Vivian, Pianiste


MISS RUBY HARKNESS is a musician of unusual attainments.  Her voice has been trained by the best teachers in this country and she is now in England for additional vocal culture.  She has a high soprano voice and the upper tones are clear and bell-like.  Miss Harkness' solo work will be heard to good advantage in this company and in combination with violin and piano will make an attractive feature.  Although young, she is an artiste of high rank and with a voice remarkable for sweetness as well as breadth and fullness of tone.  Miss Harkness will make a strong feature in this excellent company.

MISS ANNIE LEWIS VIVIAN is a pianiste of rare ability.  Her remarkable technique combined with an unusually artistic temperament enables her to give with equal ease and effect the classical works of the old masters and the later works of the romantic school.  It is seldom we find a soloist who can accompany so beautifully as she.  Of her accompanying it has been said, she is a genius, and with her at the piano one cannot help singing.

The Management





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Miss Harkness
Soprano
Miss Ruby Katharine Harkness is at present studying in London, England, under Shakespeare, and after a further course of study in Paris under Bouhy and Jean de Reszké, will return to the United States to accept engagements.



Sample Comments
I heard Miss Juanita Boynton recite in a program with the Wesleyan Quartet.  She read with spirit and understanding, which are the underlying factors in all art.  She knew what she was talking about, and she made all of her audience know what she knew before she left the platform.  She edits well, knows what to leave out and what to retain, and she has original power to interpret.  In a word, she is an artiste, whose work satisfies.  There can be no higher praise.

WM. H. SMITH,
Peoria, Ill., December 8, 1903.


The concert given by Miss Ruby Harkness was a brilliant affair.  Her voice was delightfully artistic.  Her selections were in good taste.  There was no apparent effort, and yet her tones were delivered perfectly, and always true to the pitch.  It is rare to hear a voice under more perfect control.  The concert as a whole has been highly complimented by those who heard it.—
Detroit Free Press.

TO PROF. S. W. BAKER.  Dear Sir:—I expected to hear a good violinist, but I did not expect to hear a genius.  If your son keeps his health and ambition, he will be heard from as one of the great violinists of America, and possibly of the world.

Sincerely yours,
W. N. FERRIS,
Principal of Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich.

It gives me pleasure to add my testimony to the merit of Miss Annie Vivian as a pianiste and teacher of music.  I have been associated with her both as pupil and teacher, and can truthfully say she exhibits fine musical talent, good taste in her work, and plays beautifully.  She is a rare accompaniste for the most difficult vocal music.  I recommend her most cheerfully.  She has succeeded in the Potter College.

ALICE J. GLASEOCK, M. A.
Lady Principal Potter College, Nashville, Tenn.





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Mr. Baker

Is an artist of exceptional talent, impressive temperament and interpretative power that more than justifies the term genius in connection with his name.—
The Management.

Music is God's voice heard in a language without words


MR. BAKER is certainly a genius with the violin and is recognized as one of the great ones of America.  He holds his audience intently and the rare sweetness of his tone delights the most critical as well as the masses.
Milwaukee Journal.


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