The John Eberly Concert Party

              THE JOHN EBERLY CONCERT PARTY


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THE COIT LYCEUM BUREAU, CITIZENS BUILDING, CLEVELAND, OHIO





The
 John Eberly Concert Party



MR. JOHN EBERLY, 
Baritone





MR. JOHN EBERLY, who appears at the head of this superb company of artists for the fifth consecutive season, possesses a natural baritone voice of unusual quality and power.  The phenomenal character of his voice was discovered a few years ago while attending an Eastern university.  He immediately directed his time and energy to its cultivation.  After several years of study and some experience in Chautauqua, Recital and Concert work, he assisted Miss Mabel McKinley in a recital in the city of Canton, Ohio, and was heard and discovered by a manager who induced him to take up concert work professionally.  He has the distinction of being the only American baritone ever featured on The Keith International Circuit.  Success crowned his efforts from the first.  Possessed of a powerful voice of good breadth, and a sympathetic quality peculiar to itself, combining perfect enunciation, and an excellent stage presence, Mr. Eberly effectively interprets the most difficult operatic and oratorio selections, as well as the lighter ballads and folk songs, to the delight of any audience.  He has appeared in all the principal cities of the United States and Canada, and is conceded by musical critics to be one of the leading American baritones.




M
ISS MOLLY JANE REED more than fulfilled our claims of the past season.  When we announced having secured her management we were positive her work would be highly successful, but we did not expect quite such enthusiasm, or the sensation her readings created wherever she appeared.  Especially were we surprised to receive such high praise for her serious work.  We felt that her greatest success would lie in her ability as a comedienne, so we were delighted with the reports on her dramatic rendition of the unusual story, 
How One Man Loved.
  It brought forth more comments than any one reading used in Lyceum work during our experience and requests by the score for the story came to the Bureau office.  Miss Reed's chief charm lies in her perfectly natural manner.  There is no visible effort, no striving for effect, no stage tricks, and no exaggeration.  She is a natural artist who has not been spoiled by the mechanical training that shows in the work of most readers.  The beauty of her womanhood ever pervades her work and she holds her audiences sympathetic and responsive.




M
ISS ALICE CAREY, violinist and pianist, began her musical studies when a child.  Later she spent several years in Paris studying with Messrs.  Brenne and Reing, well known teachers of the Paris Conservatory.  Upon her return to America, three years were spent in concert work at the head of the Alice Carey Concert Company.  After two years further study she returns to concert work.  Miss Carey plays in a masterly way and with a fine sympathetic tone and ample technic.  These qualities and a charming stage presence always make her numbers an attractive feature.




M
ISS ELIZABETH WEEDMAN has a beautiful clear soprano voice, noted for its flexibility and power.  She uses it in the most difficult selections with perfect ease.  Her stage presence is splendid, for she is a beautiful, queenly young woman, and her personality shines through all the work she does.  She is a finished artist with several seasons' experience in Lyceum work.





MISS MOLLY JANE REED, 
Reader




Harrisburg.
—Miss Carey's playing is pleasing and her selections were inspiring, and to these desirable qualities is added her charming personal appearance and pleasing manner.—


Independent
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Reading.
—For naturalness of manner and sweet personality Miss Reed has earned a reputation that places her among the best readers who have visited our city.—


News
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Canton. O.
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There is a power possessed by certain individuals which enables them to capture and hold the interest of an audience.  This power is inborn and peculiar.  Anyone who has ever heard Miss Molly Jane Reed, will recognize and testify that she possesses this gift to a remarkable degree.  Moreover, the beauty of her womanhood pervades her art and after captivating her audience she holds them sympathetic and responsive.  Her art is first of all natural.  There is no visible effort, no striving for effect, no stage tricks, no exaggeration.  Her sense of humor is keen, her sympathies are tender and her interpretation of character is simple, direct and sincere.  Her touch is fine and true and her natural powers of delineation have been developed by pains-taking labor.  With these qualities of mind and heart applied to a wide reportoire we can readily account for Miss Reed's enviable success.
—
P. H. Welshimer, Pastor First Christian Church
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Boston.
—It was not the most advertised features, nor the latest novelties that provoked the warmest and longest applause last night.  It was old acquaintances like J. K. Murry and Clara Lane and John Eberly, a newcomer, who gave much pleasure in four solos Mr. Eberly possesses a large robust baritone voice of excellent quality.—


Evening Transcript
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Van Wert, O.
—What can be said to have been the finest and most successful number of any lecture course given in Van Wert, was when The John Eberly Concert party filled their engagement.  The company consists of four artists, each distinctly classed and nearly equal in their respective line of work.  For distinguished personality and power to please an audience, they have not been equalled as a company.  John Eberly, baritone, sang with a full resonant voice and splendid enunciation.  His singing of 
My Rosary
 by Nevin, was beautiful.  Miss Reed as an interpreter created a great desire among our people to hear her again.  She displays great intelligence and with a fine womanly poise, wins her audience from the first.  She showed great versatility which is the distinguishing characteristic of an artist.  Taking the evening as a whole, and considering that each artist responded to an encore each time, although the time in giving the program was over two hours, it was too brief—


Daily Times
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MISS ELIZABETH WEEDMAN, 
Soprano






MISS ALICE CAREY, 
Violiniste





New York.
—A pleasing baritone soloist.—


World
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Nashville.
—More than 4000 persons were present at the Tabernacle to receive the third offering of the Lyceum Course.  Miss Reed's work was particularly attractive because of her splendid stage presence and her versatility.  She was enthusiastically received and scored such an individual hit as made an encore always imperative and several times double encores.—


Times
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Bufflao, N.Y.
—Mme. Montelli of the Metropolitan Opera Company, was warmly received.  John Eberly also sang well and received several hearty recalls.  Mr. Eberly possesses a good, rich baritone voice.  His phrasing and enunciation are especially commendable.—


Commercial
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Warren.
—No concert company that has appeared upon a Warren lecture course for some time has so delighted as did The John Eberly Concert Party at the First Baptist Church.  The large audience was never more enthusiastic and every number and every encore were most warmly applanded.  The program was both 
classic and classy
 and proved the Eberly company to be one of the best balanced that has ever visited this city.  Mr. Eberly possesses a baritone voice of unusual smoothness.  It shows rare cultivation and he sings with great case.  He gives one the impression of possessing much reserve force.  His is decidedly one of the best baritones ever heard in Warren.  Miss Reed, the reader of the Eberly party of entertainers, not only duplicated, but added to her triumph formerly secured in this city.  Miss Reed is one of the cleverest readers doing public work.  She has all the graces of good looks and naturalness and a genius for interpretation rarely equalled.  Either Warren audiences like readers or they are unusually fond of Miss Reed.—


Tribune
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Redwing, Minn.
—Miss Carey handled the violin in an easy, unaffected manner, and through all her work there ran a finish and a beanty of execution which betokened thorough training and great love for her art.—


Daily Republican
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Sycamore, Ill.
—Miss Alice Carey made her first appearance here with the violin and her Mendelssohn Concerto showed her possessed of a fine knowledge of the resources of her instrument.  She produces a tone warm and sympathetic.  The young lady is unusually endowed with temperament and her playing is full of life and fire.  These qualities were strongly felt in her interpretation of the pieces she presented, which showed intelligent understanding.  Miss Carey has everything in her favor.—


Republican
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Canton, O.
—In its report of the concert given by Miss Mabel McKinley at Canton the 
Repository
 gave the following:  John Eberly, baritone, captured the audience from the start.  His voice is powerful and well under control.  His expression and stage presence are excellent and his enunciation wonderfully clear.  He was compelled to respond again and again.—


Repository
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Colorado Springs.
—The playing of Miss Alice Carey was a treat.  She possesses admirable technique, deep sympathy and delicate touch.  The inspiration of her music, her charming personal appearance and manner greatly pleased the audience.—


Gazette
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New York.
—John Eberly, the splendid baritone vocalist, is one of the best entertainers the current season has thus far produced.—


Keith's News
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