Helen Julie Keller: pianist

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HELEN JULE KELLER, Pianist
14 E. Division St. Ch'go. Phone-Superior 4836


Helen Jule Keller, pianist, is a student of Henriette Weber and William H. Sherwood.  Afterward, working under the instruction of Wager Swayne and Harold Bauer, Paris, France, she had a number of appearances in the French Capital.  Since returning to America, she has coached at intervals with Glenn Dillard Gunn, eminent pianist and pedagogue of Chicago.  Miss Keller has toured the United States from coast to coast, and has played through a large portion of Canada, appearing both as soloist and accompanist on programs with artists of international reputation.

Available for concerts, recitals, essemble.  A few press excerpts:


Because she played the accompaniments for violinists and vocalists, in addition to giving four or five piano solos, Miss Keller proved the most important member of the trio The piano solos last night were not accepted on sufferance, but proved very interesting indeed and the audience clamored for more each time the artist left the instrument.  As a technician, Miss Keller is superb, and her crystal clear notes in passages full of brilliant and difficult figures, were enchanting.  In numbers admitting of sparkling, fluent, liquid effects the pianiste was heard to splendid advantage.—
Saskatoon Phoenex, Saskatoon, Saskatchawan, Canada.


M'lle. Keller with her graceful introductions and her pleasing smile, no less than her merit as a pianist, won much applause.—
Norfolk Daily News, Norfolk, Neb.


Miss Keller is certainly a mistress of the piano.  Her wonderful solos and faultless accompaniments to the difficult music of the violinist were highly appreciated.  Miss Keller is another instance of the cultured art that the Buckeye State produces.—
Plymouth (Md.) Daily Democrat.


Miss Keller's technique is masterly and her opening number, a Concert Study by Rubinstein, showed ample proof of this.  Its enormous difficulties were surmounted with the greatest facility and no apparent effort, though months of application must have been necessary in the preparation of such a work for concert use.
Miss Keller accompanies with fine understanding and sympathy, and of course, her great technical ability makes real gems of her accompaniments.—

Sycamore (Ill.) Tribune.


M'lle Helen Keller the accompanist, announced each number and herself gave a piano selection that demanded an encore.  In a wonderful way did she handle the keys and many thought this one of the best features of the evening.—
Biddeford (Me.) Daily Journal.


Miss Keller is without question one of the finest pianists who ever appeared before a Bellevue audience.  To a musical temperament she had added years of study.  She plays with exquisite skill and gave a number of difficult selections, one of the most pleasing being.  The Hungarian Rhapsodie which commanded the admiration of the audience.  As an accompanist she is also unexcelled.—
Bellevue Gazette, Jan. 28, '14.


Mlle. Keller played cleverly and beautifully showing admirable technique.  She is guided by great comprehensive and musical instinct.—
Daily Mail, Galesburg, Ill.



Many persons can play the piano, but few become great pianists.  Miss Keller, a former Lancasterian, several years age went abroad for further advancement in the divine art, and she can certainly be termed cosmopolitan.  Her strength, technique and conception, are rare as they are wonderful, in woman-kind, and in her recital Thursday evening at the auditorium she was given a hearty welcome by her Lancaster admirers.  The audience consisted of the representative Lancaster people, who enjoyed every number to the very utmost and demonstrated their appreciation by frequent and warm applause—
Lancaster (Ohio) Daily Eagle.


Miss Keller is a most satisfying player.  I heard her play a recital last week.  She gave a most interesting program, which included selections from Schumann, Chopin, Saint-Saens, etc. Miss Keller's playing on this occasion was most admirable.  She has an exceptionally well-grounded technique and the tone she gets from the instrument is a big one—much more sonorous than most women players get—Miss Keller's playing is genuinely musical—an item that goes a great way in making music enjoyable, whether vocal or instrumental.—
Oley Speaks in Ohio State Journal.


M'lle. Keller's work had a finish that only long study under good training makes possible.  Her selections demanded strength as well as delicacy of touch, clear staccato, together with the smoothest of legato, and she, met fully the requirements of each.  Her accompaniments showed a sympathy and control seldom found in a piano soloist.—
Sycamore Ill., True Republican.


M'lle. Keller, Theobaldi's accompanist, delighted the audience with her piano numbers.  Although possessing the rare power of infinite expression, she sacrificed nothing of brilliance of execution or the requirements of technique to convey her message.—
Billings (Mont.) Gazette.


There was a unanimity of opinion that Miss Helen Keller, pianist, was a finished artist, easily the star of the company.  Her numbers were especially pleasing to the audience, whose admiration for her touch and technique was unbounded.—
Concordia, Kans., Daily Blade, Feb. 6th.


Helen Keller is one of the greatest pianists ever appearing in the city.  The oftener she appeared the better she was liked.  Lightness of touch and delicacy of expression won for her a great name by those who had any ability at all to judge.  Not only did she handle the heavy compositions of the masters with an ease that was remarkable but she lightly tripped over the keys with beautiful s'mplicity in the lighter selections.  She also showed to a wonderful advantage in the very difficult, we might say most difficult, accompaniments.—
Belleville (Kans) Times.


Miss Keller plays with great feeling and her work as accompanist and soloist was equally pleasing.  She is gifted with unusual strength for a woman, but she plays the delicate shadings with as much expression as the heavy numbers.—
The Albany (Mo.) Ledger.



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