Frederick Wheeler and Reed Miller

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The Well-known Concert Baritone and Tenor
Frederick Wheeler and Reed Miller


THE Oratorio Artists who will appear on the Redpath program this year is a company composed of four artists who are known as well for their individual ability in concert and recital work as for their quartet work.  Each of the four has won an enviable reputation in all of the principal cities of the country.  One of the interesting features is that Messrs.  Wheeler and Miller are making records for the Victor.

Mr. Reed Miller, tenor, is acknowledged by all critics to be one of the best, if not the best concert enor of the day.  His voice is clear and fresh, of fine lyric tone.  He is noted for the beauty of his diction and phrasing.  Mr. Miller has studied music with untiring zeal from his boyhood days in Anderson County, South Carolina, till the present moment.  The industry with which he applied himself, coupled with the great qualities of his voice, have gained for him his present high position.  When he first came to New York twelve years ago, he was sufficiently capable to secure a first engagement with the New York Symphony Orchestra.  Since then he has appeared on numerous occasions with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra.  He has appeared with other leading musical organizations of the country, including The Apollo Club of Chicago and The Philharmonic Club of Minneapolis, as well as at many of the leading festivals.  His performances have entitled him to be considered one of the leading oratoric and concert tenors of this country.

Mr. Frederick Wheeler, bass, has been prominently identified with the concert and oratorio work of this country for a number of years.

He has appeared successfully no less than five times with the New York Oratorio Society and the People's Choral Union of New York under direction of Mr. Frank Damrosch, and has made several concert tours throughout the United States, the last one being with Mr. Victor Herbert and his orchestra.  Mr. Wheeler's repertoire includes all of the standard and modern oratorios, a fine list of arias suitable for orchestral concerts, and choice recital programmes.

Unlike many contraltos, the voice of Nevada Van Der Veer charms first of all, because the registers are so beautifully blended.  It is a voice of rare, natural beauty, distinctive quality with 'cello-like opulence and warmth.  It is a voice controlled by feeling and intelligence, and that accounts for the singer's unabated popularity as a concert and oratorio artist.

During her first sojourn in Europe, Madame Van Der Veer studied with Victor Beigel, in London, and Madame Marie Rose, in Paris.  The young American singer with the rich voice and the delightful stage presence, attracted the notice of connoisseurs and she was at once engaged to sing at public concerts and private musicales.  She particularly distinguished herself in a series of historical concerts in London, appearing with Mark Hambourg, the pianist, and his brother, Jan Hambourg, the violinist.  Madame Van Der Veer has sung for royalty, and at the residence of many distinguished personages, who entertain during the season in the British metropolis.

Madame Van Der Veer has made two tours with the New York Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Walter Damrosch, and one tour with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, of Chicago, under the direction of Frederick Stock.

Myrtle Thornburg, soprano, is the possessor of a fresh, even, dramatic soprano voice of much charm and color.  She has appeared with great success in the title role of Madam Butterfly and other operas.  The New York Tribune says of her: The singing of Myrtle Thornburg is always delightful.  She has a voice of great volume, yet at all times the tone is of very fine quality.

Mr. Frank Braun will be the accompanist.  He has appeared with artists of the highest type both en tour and in New York at the Sunday night concerts of the Metropolitan Opera House.




Oratorio Artists

PROGRAM

Part One


1.
Quartet—Greeting to Spring

Straus


2.
Piano Solo—A Study

MacDowell


3.
Baritone Solo—The Trumpeter

Dix




or





When the Boys Come Home
Speaks


4.
Duet—Tenor and Baritone






The Passage Birds Farewell
Hildach




or





The Two Volly Beggars (Old English)
Wilson


5.
Soprano Solo—Chanson Provencale

Dell' Acqua




or





Suicidio Aria (from La Gioconda)
Ponchielli


6.
Quartet—Spinning Wheel Quartet (from Martha)

Flotow





Part Two


1.
Duet—Soprano and Contralto






Love is Meant to Make us Glad
German




or





Flower Song (from Madame Butterfly)
Puccini


2.
Tenor Solo—Three Shadows

Burleigh




or





All Erin is Calling
O'Hara


3.
Trio—Soprano, Tenor and Baritone






Praise Ye (from Attila)
Verdi




or





Trio (from Faust)
Gounod


4.
Contralto Solo—My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice






(from Samson and Delilah)
St. Saëns




or





Wind and Lyre
Rogers


5.
Quartet—Lost Chord

Sullivan








Reed Miller and Frederick Wheeler Make Records for the Victor
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Victor Records by Reed Miller



No.
Size



A That I Ask of You is Love and You are the Ideal of My Dreams Dixon
16977
10
$ .75


Bohemian Girl—Fair Land of Poland (Balfe) and Song of Turnkey Glenn
17383
10
.75


Dah's Gwineter beer Lan'slide and Exhortation (Negro Sermons) Miller
17695
10
.75


Flow Gently Swe t Afton (Spillman) and Auld Plaid Shawl Henry Burr
17386
10
.75


For Klhand You and If This Rose Told You All it Knows Dixon
17007
10
.75


Friend to the End (Laughing Husband) and You're Here Kline-Mac
17555
10
.75


Holy City—My Soul is Athirst for God and Eye Hath Not Seen Baker
35455
12
1.25


In the Garden of My Heart and My Wild Irish Rose Hayden Quartet
16741
10
.75


Lord is My Shepherd (Smart) Duet with Reinald Werrenrath and I've Found a Friend Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler
16869
10
.75


Love, Here is My Heart and If the World Should End To-morrow Wheeler
17916
10
.75


Love Will Find the Way and A Picture of Dear Old Ireland C. Harrison
18234
10
.75


Maid of the Mill (Adams) and Her Bright Smile Haunts Me—Van Brunt-Bieling
16970
10
.75


Molly O!  (Scanlan) and Kilkenny (Irish Song) Charles Harrison
17958
10
.75


Roses in June (Bingham-German) and Annie Laur (Old Scotch) Turner
16675
10
.75


Santa Lucia—Neapolitan Song English and Watch on the Rhne—Werrenrath
16882
10
.75


Sweet Inniscarra (Olcott) and Macushla (MacMurrough) Charles Harrison
17676
10
.75


Sweetest Story Ever Told (Stults) and Marguerite (White) Wm. Wheeler
17165
10
.75


There are Birds in the Valley and Little Grey Home Harrison
17522
10
.75





Victor Records by Frederick Wheeler


Do You Remember and When It's Moonlight on the Alamo Peerless Quartet
17591
10
.75


Drummer Boy and Keep the Home-Fire Burning 'Till the Boys Come Home
17881
10
.75


Flee as a Bird (Dana) and Nearer My God to Thee (Mason) Dixon
17029
10
.75


Hour of Love (Weymann) and When I Lost You Henry Burr
17275
10
.75


If the World Should End To-morrow and Love Here Is My Heart Miller
17916
10
.75


In Old Madrid (Bingham-Trotere) and Bedouin Love Song Alan Turner
17473
10
.75


Only Waiting—Sacred Song and Asleep in Jesus (Unacc.) Lyric Quartet
17389
10
.75


On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling-Speaks) and Danny Deever Werrenrath
35476
12
1.25


Outlaw's Song (Prince Ananias) and On Road to Mandalay Cartwright
17098
10
.75


Wake Up, America! and Are You Half the Man Your Mother Thought You'd Be? Macdonough
17991
10
.75





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