Ernest Gamble, Basso, Verna Page, Violiniste: concerts artistiques

              Ernest Gamble BASSO Verna Page VIOLINISTE



CONCERTS ARTISTIQUES






Ernest Gamble






Mr. Ernest Gamble

RESUMÈ



I
T MAY be truthfully said that no American singer has ever attained in so short a time a more enviable position than Mr. Gamble.  His career closely approaches the marvelous.  Eight years ago Ernest Gamble, an unknown young man, just out of his teens, sang a solo in one of the concerts at the New York Chautauqua.  To-day his name is a household word in the land, and the best musicians in Europe as well as in our own country, unite in placing him at the very head of American bassos.




MR. ERNEST GAMBLE has set at defiance all precedents governing the career of artists.  In seven seasons he has filled more than thirteen hundred engagements exclusive of the time spent abroad in study, and yet with all this severe and exacting work, his voice to-day is as fresh and flawless as when he set the great audience wild with enthusiasm at the Chautauqua eight years ago.  Nature has been more than kind to this young singer.  To a voice of wonderful depth and richness, he adds a charm of manner and a
 magnetism that must be felt to be appreciated, a versatility which is positively unique, and a perfect enunciation, which is itself an especial gift, and a constant joy to his auditors.




MR. GAMBLE'S programs are so arranged as to please both musicians and laymen, the lovers of the classic, and the large majority which finds its chief pleasure in ballads and folk songs.  Ancient and rarely heard music also obtains a place in his work, as well as oratorio and operatic selections.




MR. GAMBLE was solo bass in the up-town Trinity church, New York, and has sung in the leading Waldorf-Astoria Musicales and Metropolitan Opera House concerts.  He has been soloist at the mammoth Chautauqua, N. Y., three seasons, and has sung under such conductors as Anton Seidl, Signor Bevignani, Royal Italian Opera, Convent Garden, London; Henry Wood, Queen's Hall Symphony Orchestra, London; Dr. H. R. Palmer, Dean of Music, Chautauqua, N. Y.; W. R. Chapman, Conductor Maine Festival and Apollo and Rubinstein Clubs, New York; C. C. Case, Musical Festival director, as well as touring with such artists as Ysaye, Pugno, Gerardy, Verlet, Bloodgood, etc.





Oratorio Societies



will find in MR. GAMBLE an ideal oratorio singer.  His voice being a big one, was the broad, bravura style necessary for oratorio work.  Such works as 
The Creation,
 
The Messiah,
 
The Crucifixion,
 
The Last Judgment,
 
The
 Redemption.
 
Samson,
 
Judas Maccabaeus,
 and 
St. Paul
 are especially congenial to MR. GAMBLE.





Music Clubs



will find MR. GAMBLE'S recitals most delightful in variety and interest.  As a maker and arranger of programs he is unexcelled.  He has appeared with most of the leading clubs of the country.





Chautauquas



MR. GAMBLE has been solo-bass at Chautauqua, N. Y., three seasons, and at Bay View, Mich.  His voice, being a big one, is especially suited for the largest auditoriums.





May Festivals



MR. GAMBLE'S name on the list of artists of a May Festival will prove a strong attraction, as he is so widely and favorably known.





Concerts



We can arrange for MR. GAMBLE'S appearance in miscellaneous concerts in any part of the United States.





Musicales



Not only as a singer of heavier things, but also as a ballad, folk-song and chanson singer is MR. GAMBLE successful.  For drawing-rooms he has a most delightful and appropriate repertoire.





Miss Verna Page






Miss Verna Page

CONCERT VIOLINISTE



D
URING her initial season before the public, Miss Page has played one hundred and twenty-five concerts in twenty-four states, her tour extending from Massachusetts to California.




Miss Page has had a remarkable and unqualified success gained purely upon the merits of her artistic and finished playing.  The characteristics of her work are great musical temperament, showing in the warmth and feeling of her playing and in the quality of her tone.  The violin in her hands becomes a pulsating and vitalized entity sending forth a living message.




Miss Page is a pupil of Max Bendix, Jacobsohn and of the great 
maestro
.  Karl Halir, in Berlin.






Smarthmore College Concert, Philadelphia, Pa. Nov. 9, 1904



In the hands of Miss Verna Page the violin becomes much more than a fiddle.  Her modest, graceful manner is as charming as it is indescribable and her numbers on the program are a constant delight.  Her playing of itself would win her enthusiastic recognition with any audience, but when added to that is the winning deportment of the platform, it is no wonder that the audience demands frequent encores.  She comes before her audience as any well bred young woman would meet strangers in her home, not with boldness and show of self-confidence and superiority, but with modesty, with an easy confidence bespeaking courtesy and refinement.


“Talent.”




Miss Page endeared herself to the audience by her soulful playing and charming manner.  She proved herself a mistress of her art in the execution of the difficult Wieniawski 
Romance and Rondo
 and in the beautiful Schumann 
Abendlied


Omaha World-Herald, Jan. 3, 1905.




Miss Page charmed and delighted the vast audience with her splendid violin playing.  She is a true artist with an abundance of temperament.


Meadville, Pa., Tribune-Republican.




The tone she brought from her instrument and the rare feeling with which she played proclaimed the artist.  A more entertaining violinist than Miss Page has never been heard in the Tabernacle.


Salt Lake City, “Deseret News,” Jan. 10, '05.




She has a beautiful tone, sympathetic and delicate, perfect intonation and a decidedly poetic style of interpretation.


Vincennes, Ind., Commercial, Dec. 22, 1904.




Miss Page captured the hearts of her hearers and evinced a beautiful tone and technique.


Henderson, Ky., Journal, Dec. 21, 1904.




Graceful yet soulful, and playing with smoothness and ease, Miss Page was a delight to listen to, and her rendition of some of the standard selections of violin literature will not soon be forgotten.


New Castle, Pa., News.






Partial List of Musical Organizations with which Mr. Gamble has appeared





Seidl Orchestra,


Metropolitan Opera House.




St. George's Choral Society,


London, Eng.




Drei Klang Verein,


Wiesbaden, Germany.




Bagby Musicales,


Waldorf-Astoria, N. Y.




Rubinstein Club,


New York City.




Mammoth Chorus,


Chautauqua, N. Y.




Rubinstein Club,


Binghamton, N. Y.




Festival Choral Club,


Binghamton, N. Y.




Mozart Club,


Jamestown, N. Y.




Clothos Society,


Jamestown, N. Y.




Men's Club,


Dunkirk, N. Y.




Amateur Musical Club,


Chicago, Ill.




Choral Union,


Springfield, Ill.




Handel Society,


Decatur, Ill.




Woman's Musical Club,


Decatur, Ill.




Arion Society,


(twice) Columbus, O.




Mozart Club,


Dayton, O.




Oratorio Society,


Painesville, O.




Music Club,


Portsmouth, O.




Orpheus Club,


Zanesville, O.




Choral Society,


Galion, O.




Wednesday Musicale,


Tiffin, O.




Ladies Musical,


Steubenville, O.




Cecilian Society,


Findlay, O.




Clara Schumann Society,


Findlay, O.




Music Club,


Cadiz, O.




Tuesday Afternoon,


Akron, O.




Woman's Musical Club,


Fremont, O.




Music Club,


Piqua, O.




Derthic Club,


Kenton, O.




Beethoven Club,


Mt. Vernon, O.




The Monday Musical Club


Pueblo, Col.




St. Cecilias,


(twice) Grand Rapids, Mich.




Matinee Musical,


(twice) Lansing, Mich.




Congregational Society,


(3 times) Lansing, Mich.




Tuesday Musical,


Kalamazoo, Mich.




Bay View Assembly,


Bay View, Mich.




St. Cecelia,


Flint, Mich.




Polyhymnia,


Saginaw, Mich.




Mozart Club,


(twice) Pittsburg, Pa.




Oratorio Society,


Williamsport, Pa.




Mozart Club,


(twice) Shamokin, Pa.




Fortnightly Club,


(twice) Johnstown, Pa.





Schumann Club,


Wilkesbarre, Pa.




Choral Union,


Tyrone, Pa.




Philomel Society,


Warren, Pa.




Choral Union,


New Castle, Pa.




Woman's Club,


New Castle, Pa.




Oratorio Society,


Blairsville, Pa.




Ladies Musical,


Bradford, Pa.




Quartette Club,


(twice) Galveston, Tex.




Quartette Club,


Dallas, Tex.




St. Cecelia,


Dallas, Tex.




Schubert Club,


Dallas, Tex.




Quartette Club,


Houston, Tex.




Derthic Club,


Houston, Tex.




Ladies Chorus,


San Antonio, Tex.




Derthic Club,


Dennison, Tex.




Derthic Club,


Ft. Worth, Tex.




Euterpean Club,


Ft. Worth, Tex.




Derthic Club,


(twice) Bonham, Tex.




College Music,


(twice) Sherman, Tex.




College Music,


Waco, Tex.




College Music,


Belton, Tex.




Rommel Club,


Mt. Pleasant, Ia.




Woman's Musical,


Boone, Ia.




Music Club,


Brazil, Ind.




Amateur Society,


Wabash, Ind.




Musical Art Club,


(twice) Attica, Ind.




Men's Evening Club,


Richmond, Ind.




Woman's Club,


Peru, Ind.




Woman's Club


(twice) Goshen, Ind.




Tennessee Club,


Memphis, Tenn.




Beethoven Club,


Memphis Tenn.




Music Club,


(twice) Clarksville, Tenn.




Woman's Club,


Lexington, Ky.




Choral Society,


Henderson, Ky.




Schumann Club,


(twice) Mobile, Ala.




Athenaeum Club,


New Orleans, La.




Apollo Club,


Wheeling, W. Va.




Oratorio Society,


Buckhannon, W. Va.




Ladies Musical Club,


Martinsburg, W. Va.




Ladies Art Society,


Kansas City, Mo.




Choral Society,


St. Joseph, Mo.




Apollo Club,


Oklahoma City, O. T.




Woman's Musical Club,


Wausau, Wis.




Music Club,


London, Ont.




Choral Club,


Wichita, Kan.




Tabernacle Choir,


Salt Lake City.




Choral Symphony Society,


Washington.








Metropolitan Opera House
 NEW YORK GRAND OPERATIC CONCERT BY SEIDL ORCHESTRA



Madame Antoinette Trebelli, Soprano


Mlle. Alice Verlet, Soprano


Mme, Katherine Bloodgood, Contralto


Mr. Evan Williams, Tenor


MR. ERNEST GAMBLE, Basso


Mons. Edward Remenyi, Violinist





PROGRAMME





Overture 
Meistersinger


ANTON SEIDL AND ORCHESTRA


Wagner




Aria 
Magic Flute


MR. ERNEST GAMBLE


Mozart




Aria 
Fille du Regiment


MLLE. VERLET


Donizetti




Allegro Vivace 
Concerto Romantique

M. 
REMENYI


Godard




Aria 
Samson and Delilah


MME. BLOODGOOD


Saint-Saens




Dream Pantomime 
Haensel and Gretel


MR. SEIDL AND ORCHESTRA


Humperdink




Aria 
Prize Song
 Meistersinger

MR. EVAN WILLIAMS


Wagner




Polonaise from 
Mignon


MME. TREBELLI


Thomas








THE NEW YORK PRESS
 DECEMBER 3, 1897 
THE STAGE



O
N Saturday night, at the Metropolitan Opera House, at a certain part of the program, there came forward on the platform and stood alongside of authorative Anton Seidl, leader of the orchestra, a young and unpretentious looking man, and presently he began to sing.  He had proceeded but a few moments, when he became unusually interesting and the balance of the audience pricked up its ears.




Looking at the program, we found the singer's name to be 
ERNEST GAMBLE.
  He was unknown to ourself in name as well as in person, but we nevertheless recognized that a TONE was resounding throughout the house such as has long been pronounced 
golden
 by dilettanti all over the world; and that this tone was delivered classically, and more:  constancy of intonation was maintained throughout with an exquisite exactness that was delightful to listen to, as it vibrated through and filled the amplitude of space comprising the splendid auditorium of the Metropolitan Opera House, and fell upon the ear rich and mellow, like an organ tone.




The hearty applause brought him out again, and his happy versatility showed him to be well abreast of the distinguished array of vocalists.




Therefore, we predict that this very man will win the cordial approval of the most critical, and of the best educated lovers of inspired song, together with general popular applause.






PHENOMENAL ALL-STAR COMBINATION





M. Eugene Ysaye,


The Wonderful Violinist




M. Raoul Pugno,


The Great French Pianist




M. Jean Gerardy,


The Celebrated 'Cellist




Mlle. Alice Verdel,


Prima Donna Soprano




MR. ERNEST GAMBLE,


The Famous Basso Sig. Carlos Sobrino and Mlle. Irma Nordkyn, Piano Under sole direction of Victor Thrane, New York.







PROGRAMME





Trio in D Minor
MM. 
YSAYE, PUGNO AND GERARDY


Mendelssohn




Aria 
Le Tambour Major


MR. ERNEST GAMBLE


Amb. Thomas




Aria in D Major
M. 
GERARDY


Bach




Shadow Song 
Dinorah


MLLE. VERLET


Meyerbeer




Polonaise in A Flat
M. 
PUGNO


Chopin




Honour and Arms
 Samson

MR. ERNEST GAMBLE


Handel




Preislied 
Meistersinger

M. 
YSAYE


Wagner




Rhapsodie Hongroise
MM. 
YSAYE AND PUGNO


Liszt-Joachim








OHIO STATE JOURNAL COLUMBUS, OHIO MONDAY, FEB. 14, 1898



A CLORIOUS MUSICAL TREAT
 YSAYE-PUGNO-GERARDY-GAMBLE Concert at the Auditorium a Grand Success





ALL-STAR CONCERT



Five thousand people assembled in the mammoth auditorium last night to listen to the great all-star concert.  The audience must have been inspiring for the musicians.  The musicians in their turn certainly inspired the audience.  MR. ERNEST GAMBLE, the basso, caught the people from the very first and apparently won their hearts as completely as any of his famous companions.  His enunciation of the words was such that every one could be understood in all parts of the vast building without effort.  His tones were beautiful, forceful and extremely melodious.  His manner was charming and modest, and his performance was, indeed, one of the most delightful vocal treats heard here in many a day.






Press Condensations



MR. GAMBLE has one of the most powerful and musical voices on the stage to-day.


Indianapolis Sentinel.




Seldom have we heard a style of singing so admirable.


Mobile Register.




The concert by MR. ERNEST GAMBLE in Festival Music Hall was one of the best this season.  MR. GAMBLE has an unusually fine voice and is in all respects a finished artist.


Cincinnati, Enquirer, April 16, 1902.




MR. GAMBLE has an expressive voice under perfect control.  His soul is in his song and his enunciation is distinct, adding not a little to the pleasure of his listeners.


Ottawa, Canada, Citizen, October 17, 1901.




In flawless enunciation and in finished technique, we seek his equal; every note being weighed in the balances and tossed off beautifully rounded, aye, well nigh perfect.


Pittsburg Post, December 18, 1901.




The pure, full, golden tone of ERNEST GAMBLE'S voice and the charm of his manner give him a magnetic power which one cannot resist.


Houston, Texas, Post, March 25, 1902.




ERNEST GAMBLE delighted everyone with his artistic singing.


London, England, Musical Courier.




His diction is uncommonly exalted and his intonation felicitously true.


New York Press.





He sang with a breadth and cantabile beautiful beyond words.


New Orleans Times-Democrat.




We are not sure whether it was his cultured style or his low D's that roused his hearers most.


Essex, England, Times.




The work of HERR ERNEST GAMBLE, the soloist with the Drei-Klang Society, was most artistic.


Wiesbadener, Germany, Tageblatt.




His voice is one of much depth, resonant, and of fine range.


Chicago Times-Herald.




MR. GAMBLE has a magnificent and melodious voice and a splendid enunciation.


Duluth Herald, February 20, 1902.




Sure in his work, wonderful in his range, conscientious in his efforts, pleasingly varied in his numbers, easy in his stage presence and full of virile youth, his appearance here will rank with the most pleasing musical treats that have fallen to our lot.


South Bend Times, January 25, 1902.




MR. GAMBLE is an artist, a great artist.  Compass, volume, distinct enunciation, purity of intonation, richness and flexibility, and all that goes to make a voice perfect, are distinctly in evidence in his singing.


El Reno, O. T., Bell, April 1, 1902.




MR. GAMBLE is a young man with an excellent bass voice which he uses well, and with a stage presence that lends effectiveness to his singing.


Detroit Free Press.





MR. GAMBLE sang an oratorio selection by Handel with immense success.  His soulful voice is such that makes this style of music go straight to the heart, and as its exponent, MR. GAMBLE stands on the top rung of success to-day.


Toledo Blade.




MR. GAMBLE'S voice is rich and sweet, and he sings with appreciation and intelligence.


Cleveland Leader.




A most interesting singer.  His voice is large, rich and has a wide range.  He is versatile, too, being equally effective in simple ballads and in dramatic interpretations.


Kansas City Journal.




We say a 'cello has the sound of the human voice.  MR. GAMBLE has the quality of a fine 'cello in his voice; it is deep, resonant and clear.


Galveston Saturday Review.




His singing is distinguished by a nobility of tone and a breadth and dignity that establish him as a basso of eminent ability.


Binghamton Leader.




MR. GAMBLE knows how to sing, which, after all, is the great secret.


Memphis Commercial Appeal.




His voice is smooth, flexible and of abundant range, and he has as great charm of manner as splendid vocal gifts.


Lincoln, Neb., State Journal.




It was one of the most delightful evenings of song ever experienced in this city.


Erie Times, May 30, 1902.




Other selections showed his range and ability, as well as the expressive sweetness of his voice, but in the ballads this was marked and never was more melodious intonation heard.


Cumberland, Md., News.




The audience heard with delight his glorious voice flexible and mellow.


Minneapolis Tribune.







CONCERT DIRECTION Charles W. Gamble EAST END Pittsburgh, Pa.




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