The Ernest Gamble Concert Party

              Tournee of the celebrated Ernest Gamble Concert Party

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A Transcendent Company of Artists




Touring under the Personal Supervision of Mr. Charles Wilson Gamble East End. Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania



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The Ernest Gamble Concert Party was formed in the belief that there is always a sufficient number of discriminating people interested in hearing good music delightfully and attractively presented, to support a high-class and expensive attraction.




The fact that this is the twelfth consecutive and successful season is eloquent testimony that The Gamble Party is a great favorite with music lovers.  There is no other musical organization that has been so continuously before the public as this one and it stands today facile princeps
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Its work lies on a lofty plane of artistic endeavor, its selections are from the standard classics, its elaborately arranged de luxe programs stimulate its listeners.  The artists of the Party are more than 
entertainers,
 they are educators in that their concerts uplift and cultivate a taste for better things and that too without performing over the heads of their audience
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This is why talent of this calibre is so much more valuable to a community than the average concert company.  The Gamble concerts make an audience grow individually and collectively.  Each member of the Party is young and is chosen for his individual merit and for his artistic value to the program as a whole.  The program is shared equally, there being no star and no inferior supporting members.  Each artist is the product of the greatest European masters
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The combination of voice, piano and violin is ideal.  The Party is small numerically but big artistically.  It takes but one David Bispham to give a full recital, or a single Russell Conwell to deliver 
Acres of Diamonds,
 and so this small but select company gives better satisfaction than many larger companies.  Paul Pearson of Swarthmore College said the Party's programs were 
not so popular as to be musically cheap, and not so severely classical as not to be popular,
 while another critic described their concerts as 
the acute accentuation of merit.





Mr. Ernest Gamble, the distinguished basso cantante, has achieved a position among the foremost concert singers.  His career closely approaches the marvelous, and he has filled over two thousand bona-fide appointments.  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 moves multitudes.  With him each selection becomes a miniature drama which he treats with consummate art and rare shill.  His versatility is positively unique while his enunciation is itself a special gift
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With these excellent qualities for a foundation, Mr. Gamble has added a splendid style and a true polish which give him musically and intellectually a masterful command and enable him to give free and unhampered interpretations.  In Paris he was a pupil of the great Sbriglia, teacher of the De Reszki brothers, Mme.  Nordica and Pol Plancon; in London with Alfred Blume and Henry Wood; and in Berlin with Georg Ferguson
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Mr. Gamble was solo bass at Trinity Church.  New York; at the mammoth Chautauqua.  New York, three seasons; has sung under such conductors as Anton Seidl, Sig.  Bevignani, Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, London; Henry Wood, Queen's Hall Symphony Orchestra; W. R. Chapman, Conductor Maine Festivals and Apollo Clubs; and he has toured with such really great artists as Pugno, Gerardy and Ysaye
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Miss Elizabeth Rindsfoos is certainly the very foremost of the younger women pianists of the day.  Her musical education was received almost entirely in Berlin, where she was for two years a pupil of Heinrich Barth of the Royal Hochschule, and for five years with the celebrated Mme.  Teresa Carenno, probably the world's greatest woman pianist.  Miss Rindsfoos enjoyed an intimate friendship with Mme.  Carreno and was chosen by her as Vorbereiter (assistant) during the last four years of her residence in Berlin
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Her playing is marked by great virility and brilliancy, her readings are authoritative and musicianly and her style is characterized by splendid qualities of poetic sentiment and breadth.  She has a lovely touch, phrases delicately as well as artistically, and has a beautiful singing tone.  Her selections have been aptly described as tone pictures
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Miss Verna Leone Page, concert violiniste of The Gamble Concert Party, is one of the few women violinists who has achieved a great popularity with the public.  Her playing has a charm and sympathy that reaches the heart, and it is this personal note in her work that is the secret of her invariable success.  She comes before her audience as a well-bred, cultured young lady with a charmingly modest manner which immediately wins her hearers.  Miss Page depends upon a broad sympathic tone of exquisite purity, genuine artistry and intelligent interpretations, rather than on technical display.  She attended college at
Figure Oxford, Ohio, and at Ferry Hall, Lake Forest Chicago.  Her violin studies were with Jacobsohn of Chicago, Max Bendix and Michael Banner of New York, and with the great maestro, Carl Halir of Berlin.  Miss Page possesses a rarely precious old Cremona violin made by the master workman, Januarius Gagliano, in the year Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-six.  This violin has a marvelously rich and sympathetic tone
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Januarius Gagliano Filius Alexandri fecit Neap.1786.




FACSIMILE OF THE LABEL IN MISS PAGE'S VIOLIN




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