The Ernest Gamble Concert Company

              The
 ERNEST GAMBLE CONCERT COMPANY

PERSONNEL:



Mr. ERNEST GAMBLE, Basso.


Mme. CECILIA E. BAILEY. Soprano.


MISS RUTH ANDERSON. Violinist.


Mr. EDWIN M. SHONERT, Pianist.




SEASON 1900–1901




Under Exclusive Control of 
The Central Lyceum
 Bureau, Rochester, N. Y. Cleveland, O. Chicago, Ill. Kansas, City, Mo.






Announcement

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MR. ERNEST GAMBLE


WE have organized THE ERNEST GAMBLE CONCERT COMPANY this year instead of 
The Central Grand,
 and we present this group of individual artists with satisfaction.  We have selected each member of the Company with careful discrimination as to the needs of committees having the responsibility of arranging talent for the largest courses.  We are confident that THE GAMBLE COMPANY will be wanted on a large number of the high-grade Lyceum Courses, and that they will bring to their patrons such a variety of talent as to please the most exacting
.




Neither have we forgotten the complaint of many of these course patrons against the too rigidly classical program which is usually rendered in some foreign language.  We sympathize with the masses in this criticism, and shall see to it that the vocalists in this Company render nearly all of their music in King's English
.




We find an increasing number of musical societies and clubs who desire to avail themselves of the services of special artists.  With this Company we can accommodate them, as well as the Lyceums
.




Mr. Ernest Gamble

has given most of his time for the past three years to Song Recitals, with the aid of a Pianist, giving the whole programme
.


Mme, Cecilia G. Bailed

has for a number of years made a specialty of her Recital work, being well-known in the West, South, and Southeast
.


Miss Ruth Anderson

has appeared many times before musical clubs as the Violin Soloist in their series of Special Artist Recitals
.


Mr. Edwin M. Shonert

has been so many years before the music-loving public in both Concerts and Recitals, that nothing need be said of him
.




These four people are all individually strong artists, and each has been frequently called upon to give recitals where their work was the only feature of the program
.




Where it is especially desired the Company can be divided.  Mr. Gamble and Mr. Shonert giving an evening of song and piano, while Mme. Bailey and Miss Anderson will give an equally desirable recital of song and violin
.




In our extensive experience with concert companies and committees, we have never brought the two together where the result has been more satisfactory than it will be in this instance
.




Central Lyceum Bureau






Ernest Gamble



Has a prominent place among the vocalists of the country.  His voice is a 
basso profundo
 of beautiful quality and unusual range, handled with the greatest ease and consumate [sicconsummate]art.  Critics and public everywhere commend MR. GAMBLE'S singing.




G
IFTED with a remarkable voice, he early attracted the attention of musical friends, and by their advice he took advantage of the best opportunities for cultivating nature's gift.  MR. GAMBLE spent several years in London and Paris, studying not only voice, but other branches of the musical art, and taking advantage of every opportunity to hear the best in music, before returning to this country to engage in recital work.  The result was that his success was immediate, and succeeding years have but added to his popularity.




He has appeared under such noted conductors as the late Anton Seidl, of the Seidl Orchestra; Signor Bevignani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London; H. R. Palmer, Dean of Music, Chautauqua; Henry J. Wood, Queen's Hall Symphony Orchestra, London; W. R. Chapman, Conductor of the Maine Festival and Apollo and Rubinstein Clubs, New York.




MR. GAMBLE has been soloist two seasons at Chautauqua, N. Y., and was selected as solo bass at Trinity Church, New York.  He has appeared in the leading Astoria Musicales and Metropolitan Opera House Concerts.




H
E has sung either in recitals of his own, or with distinguished associates, in nearly every city of importance in the United States and Canada.  This season alone he has given recitals from New York to Chicago, in Canada, in every large city between Chicago and San Antonio, Texas, and many Southern cities, including Memphis, Nashville, Louisville and Cincinnati.




Among the hundreds of press notices which MR. GAMBLE has received he prizes especially one which was written on the occasion of a concert in which he appeared in company with three of the greatest instrumentalists of the day, Ysaye, Gerardy and Pugno.  The critic said:  
MR. GAMBLE captured the audience from the very first, and apparently won their hearts as completely as any of his more famous companions,
 and then proceeded to eulogize his work in detail.





Press Condensations



New York Press


His diction is uncommonly exalted and his intonation felicitously true.




Indianapolis Sentinel


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




Essex (Eng.) Times


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




Pittsburg Dispatch


His easy method, his presence, and the little action he put into his work to aid his expression were all superb.




Washington Supper Table


What a rich and flexible voice!  What refinement and dignity of bearing!   What attention to every minute detail of vocal art!




Erie, (Pa.) Times


The most humble admirer will remember the delightful singer and his songs are a delight to to every sense of the beautiful and artistic.




News-Press Poughkeepsie, N. Y.


The Rubinstein Club had the assistance of 
ERNEST GAMBLE
, whose voice is full of surprises and who posseses[sicpossesses] the rare and precious gift of expression.




Detroit Free Press


MR. GAMBLE'S
 deep, tuneful and finely modulated voice well deserves the many encomiums it has won, and it charmed its hearers last evening so, that the singer was recalled even after the close of the program.




London (Eng.) Morning Post


The feature of the concert was the singing of 
ERNEST GAMBLE
.




Herald, Ft. Wayne, Ind


He has a rich mellow voice, which he uses with ease and with fine effect.




Chronicle, La Crosse, Wis.


Of 
MR. GAMBLE
, to much cannot be said.  He sings in a most artistic and finished manner.




Wiesbadener, (Germany) Tageblatt


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




Morning News, Dalas[sicDallas], Texas


MR. GAMBLE
, the basso, by a beautiful enunciation and a generous response to encores, quickly became a favorite.




Des Moines State Register


MR. GAMBLE
 has a rich and well-balanced voice, and handles it with ease, and with a simple and direct manner, which is very effective.




The Stage, New York


At the grand operatic concert at the Metropolitan, Mr. 
GAMBLE
 sang an aria by Mozart, which was a delightful piece of vocalism and tone work.




Harrisburg Telegraph


It is very rare to find a man with a voice having a sweep of two octaves and more, with such evenness of tone and magnificient [sicmagnificent]power of expression.





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MME. CECILIA E. BAILEY


Sample Programme




Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 12

Liszt
MR. SHONERT.



1st Movement of E Major Concerto

Vieuxtemps

MISS ANDERSON.




Polonaise from 
Mignon

Ambroise Thomas

MADAME BAILEY.




[
a
] 
Early one Morning


Old English Air



[
b
] 
Stand to your Horses

Maude Valerie White
[
Cavalier Song
]
MR. GAMBLE.




Second Part





[
a
] 
The Witches' Dance


MacDowell




[
b
] 
Trot de Cavalerie

Rubenstein

MR. SHONERT.




Duo Don Pasquale, or Still as the Night

Donizetti, Goetz

MME. BAILEY AND MR. GAMBLE.





Romance

Rubenstein-Wieniawski

MISS ANDERSON.





[
a
] 
Lullaby





[
b
] 
Spring Song

Mendelssohn

MADAME BAILEY.





[
a
] 
Honour and Arms from 
Samson


Handel




[
b
] 
The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

Old Scotch Melody

MR. GAMBLE.





Selected

En Semble Number

MME. BAILEY, MISS ANDERSON, MR. GAMBLE. MR. SHONERT.





Mme. Cecilia E. Bailey Concert, Oratorio and Operatic Soprano



THE
 past season has added immeasurably to the artistic triumphs of Mme. Bailey.  The lady is not only a great vocalist, but a successful teacher, and an accomplished pianiste, actress and linguist.  She has received diplomas, prize gold medals, and certificates from musical conservatories, and the highest recommendations from professional authorities and the press.  Mme. Bailey, the Southern Nightingale, is well-known to the musical world; she has a soprano voice of wide range and beautiful quality, which she has thoroughly cultivated at home and abroad, and which has won her a distinguished position in the oratorio, operatic and concert world.  She is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Music, winning the Springer Prize Gold Medal for superior ability, and has filled engagements with famous musical organizations.  She is equally successful and popular in concert, oratorio and opera.  Her concert repertory is large and ranges from the 
Jewel Song
 from Faust and 
Polonaise
 from Mignon, to the simplist [sicsimplest]ballads, which she sings with the phrasing of an artist who combines voice and brain.  Her range is nearly three octaves, and of even calibre, from b-flat to d.




State Journal Topeka


In her ballad selections she is dainty and delicious.  The classic gems she sings with free execution, emotional embellishments and dramatic force.




Cincinnati Dolksblat


This gifted and beautiful lady created a marked impression for her extraordinary musical talent, aside from her magnificent voice; she has an unusual conception and fine feeling for the beautiful.




Frankfort Roundabout


MME. CECILIA EPPINGHOUSEN BAILEY
 sang 
Hear Ye Israel,
 from Elijah.  Her beautiful voice is splendidly cultivated, and her rendition of the song completely entranced the congregation.




Constitution Atlanta


Her vocalization is artistic in the highest degree and her taste is irreproachable.  She is endowed with the artist temperament and feels intensely all she sings.  This is the secret of the amazing power she exerts over her audience.




Democrat Chronicle Rochester


MME. CECILIA EPPINGHOUSEN BAILEY
, prima donna soprano, was easily the favorite of the evening.  She possesses a clear, well cultivated soprano voice of good range.  Her manner is pleasing and unaffected.  Her best number of the evening was Tosti's mournful 
Good Bye,
 sung with exquisite feeling and beautiful enunciation.




New York Daily Tribune


Chautauqua, N. Y., has one of its favorite entertainers, this season, the soprano, 
MME. CECILIA EPPINGHOUSEN BAILEY
.  At Saturday's concert, after singing the 
Shadow Song
 she received the most flattering ovation; when the immense audience had expressed their appreciation by applauding for fully five minutes, Dr. Palmer invited the audience to give 
MME. BAILEY
 the Chautauqua salute, an honor only given to those who merit great reward.




Herald No. Adams Mass


MME. BAILEY
, the leading artist, is a soprano of exceptional ability, having a voice of excellent quality which has been thoroughly trained and an effective stage appearance, both of which were in pleasing evidence in her opening selection, 
Jewel Song
 from Faust.  She received an ovation and in response rendered 
Long Ago.
  
MME. BAILEY
 further displayed her range of repertoire in her selection of 
The Sun Kissed the Clover
 and the classical 
Good Bye
 by Tosti.  Her pleasing personality and emotional recitations were best shown in the spinning quartette from the opera Martha, and in the final trio Faust.




Omaha Daily Bee


MME. BAILEY
 has a delightful, pure soprano voice.  Her phrasing is excellent and execution brilliant.  In addition to this she has the faculty of making her audience feel kindly toward her by her gracious smiles and pleasing manners.




Talent, New York


MME. BAILEY
 has a charming personality and a voice of rare sweetness, handled in an artistic and effective manner.  
MME. BAILEY
 sang her way to the hearts of her hearers as no other singer has done since the appearance of Adelina Patti.




Quincy Herald


MME. BAILEY
 appeared in the solo parts in Rossini's 
Stabat Mater.
  In the 
Inflamatus
 her magnificent, rich, high voice was distinctly heard soaring above the harmonious swell of the immense chorous [sicchorus]and orchestra, attacking the crowning notes with the melody and clearness of a bell.




The Galveston Daily News


When 
MME. BAILEY
 made her dainty bow after her exquisite rendition of Arditi's Waltz Song the applause was spontaneous, deafening, and continued until this truly great artist reappeared and the piano began the accompaniment to 
Could I,
 the well-known love song.  Everything 
MME. BAILEY
 did last night was ideal.  Her voice is under the most perfect control.  It is soft and sweet, is has strength and its capabilities seem unlimited.  What a Marguerite she would make!  It is doubtful if any singer has pleased Galveston more than 
MME. BAILEY
.  Her acting was equal to her singing.  She was the impersonation of innocence, of purity, of awakening desires, of the woman around whom Goethe centers the greatest passion poem of classic literature, and she interpreted the music of Gounod with an insight into the character that showed her to be a student of the part.  Her versatility was shown in Grieg's 
Die Prinzessin,
 Schubert's 
Hark, The Lark,
 and in the 
Lullaby.
  In the lullaby song she almost carried her notes into dreamland, so soft and sweet and soothing were they as she lingered upon the finale.




The Times Democrat, New Orleans


The concert given by 
MME. CECILIA EPPINGHOUSEN BAILEY
 and company drew a large house.  The most attractive feature of the concert was the singing of 
MME. BAILEY
, who possesses a beautiful soprano voice of rare sweetness.  She never failed of an encore.  The audience was highly pleased with the entertainment.





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MISS RUTH ANDERSON


Miss Ruth Anderson Concert Violinist




She is not a sentimentalist.  The slow passages expressive of gentle emotions are beautifully given, but it is in those long, brilliant runs, filled with passion and action that indicate the really great.  She bowed with remarkable dexterity, bringing to her listeners a brilliantly vivacious example of the broad Belgian school.




The Progress, Minneapolis.




Pittsburg (Pa.) Press


She played with the grace and charm of a master.




Deutsches Blatt, Brussels


MISS ANDERSON
 played with great dash and fire—she is a virtuoso.




Minneapolis Tribune


Her selection was received with an ovation and compelled response to three encores.




Burlington (la.) Hawkeye


MISS RUTH ANDERSON'S
 violin playing won for her many admirers from the first stroke of her bow.




The Western Chorus, Guthrie Oklahoma


She plays as if the violin were a part of herself and seems to pour forth her very soul from her instrument.




Gettysburgian, Pennsylvania


She realizes in a high degree the wonderful capabilities of this most difficult, yet most sympathetic and beautiful of instruments.




Casselton (N.D.) Reporter


MISS ANDERSON
 is a violinist whose artistic interpretation of her selections and ease of execution made her every number a season of rare enjoyment to hearers.




Olean (N. Y.) Times


Especially would we mention the violin solo E major Concerto, Vieuxtemps, by Miss 
RUTH ANDERSON
.  She has an exceedingly large tone and clean technique.  Her style is first-class and her single bow stuccato [sicstaccato]passages were excellent.




Oil City Blizzard


She made a decided impression upon all lovers of good music.




Montezuma (la.) News


MISS ANDERSON
 handles the violin with the cleverness of an artist.




St. Paul Morning Call


RUTH ANDERSON
 took the house by storm by her violin numbers.




Lewiston (III.) Record


MISS RUTH ANDERSON
 was a favorite and her work appealed strongly to the most critical.




Monroe (Wis.) Evening Times


MISS ANDERSON
 gave some delightful selections on the violin and was encored after each of her numbers.




Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.


The violin solos of 
MISS ANDERSON
 were entertaining features of the program and were warmly applauded.




Bloomington (III.) Pantagraph


She rendered two solos that will never be forgotten by those who heard them; she is one of the finest lady violinist now before the American public.




Buffalo News


MISS RUTH ANDERSON
 was a great favorite in her violin solo performances.  Bishop Walker expressed his pleasure of the fine rendition of this accomplished musician, and Arch-deacon Bragdon thanked in person.





Edwin M. Shonert



Stands to-day in the very foreground of America's great pianists.  Mr. Shonert has been traveling as solo pianist for the past six years with some of the best concert organizations that have appeared in this country, and his success has always been pronounced and instantaneous.  He is certainly the best pianist that this management could secure.  Mr. Shonert will play some new and difficult compositions this season which will surely be looked forward to with much pleasure by his many admirers throughout the country.  In confirmation, read the accompanying sentence clippings from the representative press of this country.






Norfolk Virginian


He almost immediately won the audience by his beautiful and effective work.




Pittsburg Dispatch


MR. SHONERT'S
 performance has rarely been equalled.




Washington Post


MR. SHONERT'S
 work was notable for its intelligence and capability.




Augusta, Chronicle


His perfect mastery of the most difficult passages and brilliant runs, proved to us again, this artists' high standard among the solo pianists of America.




Boston Advertiser


MR. SHONERT
, the pianist of the evening was well received; and the Liszt 
Rigoletto
 was rendered with that fire and vigor which it demands.




Seattle Journal


MR. EDWIN M. SHONERT
 is a pianist of undoubted genius and ability, and his rendering of Chopin's difficult Polonaise was a masterpiece which called forth the heartiest applause.




Boston Post


The piano playing of 
MR. SHONERT
 was excellent.  His selections were of a brilliant order, and were very pleasing.  Encores were demanded for nearly all the numbers.




Portland Oregonian


MR. SHONERT
 played with an easy command of the instrument.  His execution was artistic and his phrasing was perfect.  He shows a technique that is evidently the result of diligent and careful study.




Omaha Mercury


EDWIN M. SHONERT
 rendered two numbers with a skill of a master.  The first with great brilliancy of expression, and the second displaying unusual technical development.  Both were followed by storms of applause.




Toronto Empire


MR. EDWIN M. SHONERT
 has been heard before in Toronto, and the warmth with which he was greeted as he took his seat at the piano to open the program must have convinced him that he was welcome.




Minneapolis Journal


MR. EDWIN M. SHONERT
, the pianist, proved himself, first of all, a very fine artist.  His number showed him to be a master of technique, and he played with a precision and a delicacy that were charming, his runs and trills being deliciously clear and limpid.




Cleveland Town Topics


The artistic hit of the evening was made by 
MR. EDWIN M. SHONERT
, the pianist.  He has a touch that in its strength and sweetness recalls the hand of steel in the glove of velvet.  His technique leaves nothing to cavil at; and in the 6th 
Rhapsodie
 he gave as brilliant an exhibition of octave playing as has been heard here for many a day.




New York Times


MR. SHONERT
 made a pronounced hit.




Oakland Times


A piano solo from 
MR. SHONERT
 was a delightful surprise and he was persistently encored.




San Francisco Chronicle


MR. SHONERT
 played the novelty caprice of Arthur Korthener.  It was given as an encore and was very cleverly played.




Detroit Free Press


MR. SHONERT
 played Liszt's 
Rhapsodie
 No. 6 and 
Polonaise
 a-major, by Chopin, and showed himself to be an artist of great merit.



The Eminent Pianist

Figure

EDWIN M. SHONERT




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MR. ERNEST GAMBLE


UNDER EXCLUSIVE CONTROL OF

The Central Lyceum Bureau



MANAGEMENT:

H. H. RICH, Rochester, N. Y.

S. B. HERSHEY,
Cleveland, O.


FRED. PELHAM, Western Department, Chicago, Ill.




A. E. PALMER, So. Western Department Kansas City, Mo.




REPRESENTATIVES:





New York,


K. M. WHITE, Rochester, N. Y.




New England,


E. W. REW, Springfield, Mass.




Penna., Del., N. J., Maryland, and Virginia,


J. S. ARNOLD, Harrisburg, Pa




Eastern Ohio and West Virginia,


C. M. PARKER, Cleveland, O.




Western Ohio and Indiana,


G. W. HENNEBERGER, Indianapolis, Ina.




Michigan,


CHAS. T. MAINES, Flint, Mich.




Ontario, Canada,


C. W. HARTMAN, Toronto, Ont






CENTRAL BUREAU PRESS, ROCHESTER, N. Y.