Bertha Beeman

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Chicago Recital
October 6, 1916

PROGRAM


Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur
Beethoven


Der Tod und das Madchen
Schubert


Das Madchen und der Schmetterling
d'Albert


Auf dem Kirchhofe
Brahms


Der Schmied
Brahms


Aria from Amadis, Bois Epais
Lully


Aria from Partenope, Furibondo
Handel


Les Heures,
L' Heure d' Or,
L' Heure de Pourpre,
L' Heure d' Azur
Augusta Holmes


Zueignung
Strauss


Ein Schwan
Grieg


Eros
Grieg


The Women of Inver
Raymond Loughborough


The Leaves and the Wind
Franco Leoni


Once at the Angelus
Arthur Foote


My Heart is a Lute
Huntington Woodman


The Retreat
Frank La Forge


The Year's at the Spring
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach





Program Number 2


O Cessate
Scarlatti


Come Raggio di Sol
Caldara


Caro Mio Ben
Giordani


Er der Herrlichste
Schumann


Der Wegweiser
Schubert


Schlagende Herzen
Strauss


Traume
Wagner


Er Ists
Wolf


Aria from Jeanne d' Arc Adieu Forets
Tschaikowsky


I Came with a Song
Frank LaForge


Forest of Oaks
Alexander MacFadyen


I hear a Thrush at Eve
Charles Cadman


Crossing the Bar
Isidore Luckstone


Bird of the Wilderness
Edward Horsmann



Programmes Sung in English if Desired.

SPECIMEN PROGRAMS




The Standard Dratoring

Arias


Prepare ThyselfSion (Christmas Oratorio)
Bach


My Heart ever Faithful (Pentecost Cantata)
Bach


Verdi Prati (Alcina)
Handel


Ombra Mai Fu (Serses)
Handel


Ah Rendimi (Mitrane)
Rossi


Che faro senza Euridici (Orfeo)
Gluck


O Mio Fernando (La Favorita)
Donietti


Connais-tu le pays (Mignon)
Thomas


Habanera (Carmen)
Bizet


Adieu Forets (Jeanne d' Are)
Tschaikowsky


Mon coeur s' ouvre a ta voix
Printemps que Commence
Amourl Viens Aidet (Samson et Delilah)
Saint-Saens





Old Italian


Oh Cessate di Piagarmi
Scarlatti


Caro Mio Ben
Giordani


Come Raggio di Sol
Caldara





German Lieder


Bitten
An die Hoffmung
In Questa Tomba
Busslied
Beethoven


Die Allmacht
Wohin
Der Wegweiser
Ave Maria
Schubert


Widmung
Talismane
Mondnacht
Er der Herrlichste von Allen
Schumann


Traume
Schmerzen
Im Treibhaus
Wagner


In Waldeinsamkeit
Sapphische Ode
Meine Liebe ist Gruen
Der Tod, das ist die kuehle Nacht
Die Mainacht
Brahms


Zueignung
Schlagende Herzen
Wiegenlied
Traum durch die Dammerung
Mit deinen blauen Augen
Strauss



Hugo Wolf, Robert Franz, Hugo Kaun, Robert Kahn, Holdach, Humperdinck, Grieg.




French Songs Saint-Saens, Massenet, Faure, Debussy, Lalo, Duparc, Chaminade.
Italian Songs Tosti, Wolf, Ferrari, Brozi.
Bussian Songs Rubinstein, Tschaikowsky, Rachmaninoff
The Best English and American Songs

REPERTOIRE





Miss Beeman created an immediate impression through a potent and winning personality.  She gave one of the best performances I have ever heard of Schubert's Death and the Maiden, and went through all the exceedingly difficult passages of Furibondo, a furious affair of runs roulades and enormous breath control, with flying colors.—
Edward C. Moore, Chicago Daily Journal


Miss Beeman's voice is a phenomenal one—a luscious contralto of great range and power.  She is an artist to her finger tips.  From operatic aria to simple folk song she held her audience enthralled; and her hearers left feeling they had been given something vital and permanent to take away with them.—
Journal Standard, Freeport, Ill.


Miss Beeman is possessed of musical feeling and good taste.  To her songs evidently are not mere pegs upon which to hang meretricious qualities of effect.—
Felix Borowski, Chicago Herald


Miss Bertha Beeman has a contralto voice of wide range and ample volume and she has her vocal means under good control.  She has a wide range of dynamic values from pianissimo to fortissimo.  She has depth of feeling and the singing was earnest and sincere, always with fine appreciation governed by refined taste.—
Karleton Hackett, Chicago Evening Post.


Miss Beeman's understanding of her art is that of the trained and intelligent musician, to whom singing means more than mere tone or the superficial beauty of timbre unadorned.  She has discretion, brains, sincerity, breadth of interpretative vision and kindred attributes artistic.—
Herman De Vries, Chicago American


Miss Beeman has a very unusual voice; it is one of large proportion, well handled and of appealing quality.—
New York Musical Courier


Miss Beeman's voice is a powerful one of rare beauty and a wealth of tone color unusual in a contralto; yet her charm as a singer is due to her magnetic personality and a musicianly and powerful dramatic interpretation as much as to mere vocal beauty.—
Ripon Press, Wis.


The appearance of Miss Beeman must be recorded as an occurance of distinct artistic significance.  She possesses an exquisite contralto voice which she uses faultlessly.—
Chicago Abendpost


Miss Beeman's tonal quality was beautiful at all times.  Her musical sense is a very accurate and refined one.—
Music News, Chicago, Ill.


Miss Beeman's voice is one of most unusual quality, strength, beauty and sonorousness, and the art of the singer is shown in all she undertakes.—
Musical Leader, Chicago, Ill.


Miss Beeman's success was unqualified.  She is a singer who can sing big things in a big way.  One of her greatest gifts is the power to put an emotional mood across the footlights to the audience.—
Evanston Daily News, Evanston, Ill.


Miss Beeman possesses a rich and dramatic contralto voice, a pleasing personality and a gracious manner.—
San Diego Union, San Diego, Cal.

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