The Bohemian Girl

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The Davenny Festival Quintette in The Bohemian Girl

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MR. HOLLIS EDISON DAVENNY, Baritone


THE DAVENNY FESTIVAL QUINTETTE is a musical organization which fills a unique place on the Concert platform.  They give programs ranging from Old Folk Songs to Grand Opera, including Irish, Negro and Scotch folk songs, Famous Song Cycles, excerpts from Oratorios, and Duets, Trios and Quartets from such Operas as Faust, Martha, Rigoletto, Norma, Lohengrin, Mignon and Lucia, presenting many which are seldom heard.  Violin obligatos by Mr. Davenny, formerly a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are an added feature.  For the present season this organization will give The Bohemian Girl, in Costume.  This splendid Opera needs no introduction to the public as it is one

MRS. HOLLIS EDISON DAVENNY, Soprano
 of the great Grand Operas that has stood the test of time.  In addition to the Operatic numbers, a short Miscellaneous program will always be given.

Hollis Edison Davenny, Baritone, is a finished soloist.  He has appeared with such artists as Christine Miller, Alice Neilsen and Charles Wakefield Cadman.  He is not only a singer of unusual ability, but a violinist whose work adds charm to a concert program of exceptional attractiveness.

Mrs. Hollis Edison Davenny has a clear soprano voice of rare sweetness and flexibility.  In individual appearances, and in joint recitals with Mr.

MISS EDITH LATTIMER, Contralto
 Davenny she has captivated many critical audiences.  A thorough knowledge of the singer's art, a pleasing personality and natural ability combine to make her an exceptional artist.

Miss Edith Lattimer, Contralto, is one of the best known Pittsburgh contraltos, having been soloist at the Fourth U. P. church, North Side, Pittsburgh, and appearing with the famous Jiles Ladies Quartet.  She is a favorite soloist before the most critical Pittsburgh audiences.  Her voice has unusual range for a contralto.



MR. JOHN SIEFERT, Tenor


Mr. John Siefert, Tenor, but recently returned from three years study and concert work in Europe, is considered by musical critics to be one of the leading tenors on the entire concert stage.  He has made many appearances with such organizations as the Russian Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Miss Marion Faville, the Pianist, with the Davenny Quintette, is not only an accompanist of rare ability, but is a soloist of note.  For the past few years she has enjoyed a reputation in both capacities that is enviable, to say the least.




A Few Press and Personal Commendations of the Company and Individual Artists

Pleased Cleveland Audience
THE Davenny Festival Quintet, of Pittsburgh, was assigned to us for our open date in the Lecture Course at Glenville High School, February 25th.  To put it in the mildest possible form, our patrons as well as the entire committee were very greatly pleased with this concert.  From the first number to the last there was not a dull moment in the program.  Every member was encored again and again — to which the members of the company responded cheerfully.  They readily discovered that the large audience was not slow to recognize the superior merits of their work, and naturally enough this was readily reciprocated by every member of the company.  They offered their very best and in turn called the highest appreciation from those who were fortunate to hear them.  We should be glad to have the Davenny Quintet come again.  They would crowd our auditorium to its utmost limit.—H. H. Cully, Cleveland, O., February 26, 1915.



Sang Leading Parts in Handel's Messiah

HANDEL'S Messiah was the work presented by the New Brighton Choral Society, E. W. van Guelpen, director, in the last concert of the present season.  The chorus was assisted by the Davenny Festival Quartet, including Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Edison Davenny, Miss Edith Lattimer, and Mr. John Siefert.  Mr. Siefert, in the tenor part, gave a splendid account of himself.  It is a real pleasure to hear a tenor who displays such musical ease in his upper register, which combines both beauty and power.  He displayed in The Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart all the sympathy and feeling necessary for the interpretation of this number, while he rose to a splendid climax in the aria, Thou Shalt Break Them.  Miss Lattimer, the contralto, possesses a voice well adapted to oratorio work.  It is resonant, rich in quality, and of good range.  Splendid appreciation was shown in her rendition of the two well-known arias, He Shall Feed His Flock and He Was Despised.  Mrs. Davenny's voice is a typical oratorio voice, pure in quality, and of wide range, a feature very necessary in this work.  Her singing of Rejoice Greatly, with its technical difficulties, contrasted splendidly with the more Legato in I Know That My Redeemer Liveth.  This was Mr. Davenny's second appearance with the chorus, he having appeared a year ago in the Crusaders, and The Rose Maiden.  His masterly reading of the difficult arias of the Messiah was a pleasure to all music lovers.  His voice is fine, resonant, and of unusual range.  All in all these four singers known as the Davenny Festival Quartet will be warmly welcomed at any future appearance in Beaver Valley.—
New Brighton (Pa.) News, May 19, 1915.


Worthy of special mention were the soprano solos by Mrs. Hollis Edison Davenny.  She has a pure clear Lyric Soprano of unusual range power, sweetness and flexibility.  Mrs. Davenny sings with unusual dramatic power, and her rendition of some of the old favorite songs was a feature of the entire Chautauqua.—
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times.


Mr. Davenny possesses a voice of remarkable quality and charmed the members of the select Neighborhood Club.  He is a pupil of that well known teacher James Stephen Martin, and in addition is a skilled violinist.  Possessing a baritone voice, he ranges at times into tenor; but at all times has complete mastery of his voice.—
Brooklyn Eagle.


The highly complimentary adjudication made upon Mr. Siefert's singing of Celestè Aida by the famous New York Tribune critic, H. E. Krehbiel, accentuated the tenor's victory over thirty competitors.  Mr. Siefert is said to have the highest range of all Pittsburgh singers, being able to sing in full voice without difficulty F above high C.  His voice begins with middle C.  Voice teachers have pronounced his voice phenomenal.—
The Pittsburgh Sun.


Miss Edith Lattimer, contralto, easily ranks with the leading soloists of the city.  She is one of the most popular singers ever appearing in Pittsburgh.—
Pittsburgh (Pa.) Sun






MISS MARION FAVILLE, Pianist




Best in Pittsburgh

DISTANCE lends enchantment to the view.  The writer permits himself to doubt that so full an audience as that present at the Westside auditorium last night would have turned out or that the efforts of the artists would have been received with such sustained and sympathetic enthusiasm had it been announced that the Davenny Quintette is a Pittsburgh organization.
But there's a reason.  Pittsburgh pays the highest salaries of any city in the United States to church soloists, and it is from the ranks of these the Davenny Quintette has been recruited.  None of the members, excepting Miss Marian Faville, has ever appeared in Washington before.  When Miss Faville was here last June, The Observer took occasion to speak in terms highly commendatory of her ability, and now congratulates her on her reappearance and reception under more favorable circumstances.  Her piano solo, Moszowski's Waltz of Love, was splendidly rendered, and the Japanese selection she gave in response to applause delighted the audience immensely.
The vocalists are Mr. Davenny, baritone; Mrs. Davenny, soprano; Mr. Siefert, tenor; and Miss Lattimer, contralto.
The Quintette had the audience with it from the start and, although the program was half an hour longer than usual, the interest never flagged and enthusiasm grew rather than diminished.
Deserving of especial mention was Mr. Siefert's rendering of the Berceuse from Jocelyn, Mr. and Mrs. Davenny's duet, The Pitcher, and Mr. Davenny's violin solo, Handel's Largo, with the never old, ever delicious Irish melody, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, as an encore.
Repeatedly in frequent years organizations making far greater pretensions have offered work of much less merit for the approval of the Washington public.
The writer congratulates the management of the institute on its discernment and the courage of its convictions in engaging the Davenny Quintette, and hopes he may have an early opportunity of hearing it again.—

Washington Observer, Washington, Pa.





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