The Lyceum Grand Concert Company

              The Lyceum Grand Concert Company
Madame Alice Myron

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AMERICAN LYCEUM UNION
S. B. Hershey
Pres't & Gen't Mgr.
ROCHESTER, N.Y.

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Suite 415 Orchestra Bld., Chicago, Ill.
FRED PELHAM, Manager.



MISS PALMA ANDERSON
MISS ANDERSON has spent several years in Europe, and since her return to this country has met with unusual success both as pianist and teacher.  She has been widely heard in concert and recital, and is able to please and interest the most critical audiences.  Miss Anderson is a representative of the Leschetizky method, having studied with Mme. Varette Stepanoff, who thus endorses her: Berlin, May, 1905—I certify hereby that Miss Palma Anderson has studied with me for two seasons with great interest and energy, and has thoroughly learned the Leschetizky piano method.  She is a very talented and musical pianist and very successful both as a teacher and before the public.


Miss Anderson proved herself an acquisition to the musicians of the city.  Her numbers were happily selected to show the lace-like quality of her wonderful technique, as well as the strength and eloquence that assured her hearers of the breadth of her capabilities.  She was heartily encored and responded with Schumann's Night Song.—
The Minneapolis Tribune, Nov. 4, 1905.


The recital given by Miss Palma Anderson developed into an enthusiastic ovation.  Many who were present at the recital declare that Miss Anderson is little less than a prodigy of musical talent and ability.—
Soo Falls Press, Soo Falls, S. D.


Miss Palma Anderson was heard in two selections, an impromptu by Chopin and Rhapsodia Hongroise by Liszt.  Both of these selections require a thorough technique and a knowledge of tone production that only is acquired by careful study under competent instructors.  Miss Anderson was equal to the requirements in both numbers and showed a most careful attention to detail in both execution and interpretation.—
Chicago Scandinavian.



MADAME ALICE MYRON
MADAME ALICE MYRON, Contralto, is an artist with a reputation in Great Britain and America, and one of the most successful exponents of the wonderful art of the great teacher Georg Henschel.  She has sung at the Symphony Concerts and the ballad concerts in London, and was also soloist for the tour of the Scottish Orchestra, and critics everywhere have sustained the enthusiastic verdict of the London press.  During the past two seasons she has devoted her art to oratorio concerts in America, and has made herself a favorite everywhere she has appeared.  Madame Myron's voice is of unusual beauty, power and sympathy.  She is versatile, and sings with equal charm an aria from grand opera, a simple ballad, and the daintier music demanded in a popular program.


Madame Alice Myron sang in a most artistic manner the beautiful Aria from Verdi's Don Carlos, Oh!  don Fatale, a lovely and quaint song by Henschel.  There was an Ancient King, and two little songs in German, one by Grieg and the other by Brahms.—
Edinburgh Dispatch.


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Miss Anderson, a highly talented pianist, played a number of selections, showing by her wonderful execution the power of a true musician.—
Waukegan (Ill.) Press.


Miss Palma Anderson demonstrated the fact that she is a pianist of no ordinary ability.  Her playing was the more enjoyable because of her unassuming manner, simplicity itself being the most prominent feature.  As a performer she certainly is conscientious, and which is indicative of unusual talent.—
Parker (S. D.) Leader.


Miss Anderson played exquisitely and with the greatest ease.  It would be difficult to say which selection was most enjoyable, as each one was so beautifully rendered.  The tone coloring which she displayed was grand.  Many remarks were overheard about the last selection on the program, La Campanella, by Paganini Liszt, in which there occurs near the end a long trill, and which no one but a great musician could have handled more artistically than did Miss Anderson.—
Soo Falls (Ia.) Argus-Leader.


Mme. Myron won the hearts of her audience with her first song.  Her voice is wonderfully rich and sweet, and of an unusually sympathetic quality.  Added to this was a strangely attractive personality which took the audience by storm.  After her second appearance, she was recalled three times, and even then her audience was loth to permit the gifted vocalist to give way to the other performers.—
Jacksonville Daily Journal.


As for Madame Myron, the town is hers.  She has a most marvelous, deep and rich contralto voice, full of tears.—
Norfolk News.





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Mr. Arthur Braunberger is certainly one of the best equipped persons who ever undertook his line of work.  Aside from the keen comprehension he expresses in his singing, he has the magnificent voice—a voice so mellow, deep and musical that, without any apparent effort on his part, he moves his audience at will.  There is a charm about his singing that is irresistable, and he exhibits fine musical talent and good taste in his work.—
Galveston News, Dec. 12, 1907.


Mme. Alice Myron is a singer whose work deserves high praise.  In such a song as Walthew's May Day her contralto has an appealing delicacy and refinement, an appeal which is universal and not confined to musical scholars and classicists.  It was in the particularly tender Oh, that we two were Maying, by Nevin, that the rich, mellow voice of the singer was at its natural level, and used there it revealed sweetness and smoothness, with power under reserve, and a display of trained effectiveness that were quite satisfying.  Mme. Myron's attractive personality added much to the sympathy in which she found her audience after her first number.—
Saginaw (Mich.) Courier.


Among the vocalists who took part in yesterday's concert was Madame Alice Myron, a mezzo soprano, whose artistic and graceful rendering of Shiras' beautiful Sognai was fully appreciated.—
London (England) Telegraph.


Madame Alice Myron was easily the distinguished feature of the evening, and her magnificent contralto was heard to good advantage in the role assigned to her.  She is a musician of much emotion, and she uses her voice with skill.—
Omaha Bee.



MR. ARTHUR BRAUNBERGER
MR. ARTHUR BRAUNBERGER is certainly one of the best equipped persons who ever undertook his line of work.  Aside from the keen comprehension he expresses in his singing, he has the magnificent voice—a voice so mellow, deep and musical that, without any apparent effort on his part, he moves his audience at will.  There is a charm about his singing that is irresistible, and he exhibits fine musical talent and good taste in his work.


Mr. Arthur Braunberger is a young singer of more than ordinary abilities.  He has an exceptionally fine baritone voice and uses it well.  He has a good stage presence, and should make a splendid success in the concert field, as he has all the necessary qualifications.—
Wendell Heighton Editor The Western Musical Herald, Des Moines, Iowa.

I take great pleasure in endorsing Mr. Arthur Braunberger, a young baritone who has all the necessary qualifications of a great singer—a voice of power, rich in quality, and behind it a character which makes for the best in the singing world.  Too much cannot be said in praise for this young gentleman, inasmuch as he possesses everything with which to make a marked success in his chosen profession, and to give each auditor a profound pleasure.  It is indeed fortunate for one to meet and hear this wonderful young man; an opportunity which should be afforded everybody.  He will make good in every sense of the word.— Arthur Middleton (Basso), Chicago.


Arthur Braunberger was as usual most effective, and sustained his reputation as a baritone of great force and with a voice that is so musical that it charms always.  The young man has a bright future without question.
Arthur Braunberger, a son of John Braunberger, a prominent member of the Hawkeye Natives Association, of this city, is winning fame with his splendid baritone voice.  He expects to go to New York in a short time to perfect himself in his art.
Keokuk music lovers are indebted to the P. E. O. Society for the fine recital of song given by Mme. Alice Myron of Creston, Iowa.  Mme. Myron's beautiful, resonant contralto voice was never heard to better advantage.  Her well chosen program was greatly appreciated and she was compelled to answer numerous encores, which she did very graciously.  The splendid control of her voice and its great range were displayed in the Meyerbeer number Nobil Signor.  Her interpretation of the Schubert Erl King was faultless, the three voices being brought out: the fright and terror of the child, the comforting words of the father, and the coaxing of the Erl King being so vividly portrayed in the voice that the audience was carried along by the spirit of the song, which showed to the fullest extent the dramatic qualities of the singer.  The sweet little lullaby by Henschel, the characteristic Love Lyrics, by Finden, as well as the remainder of the program, were all deserving of high praise.
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Keokuk (Ia.) Times.


The soloist was Madame Alice Myron, a mezzo singer of excellent voice and method.  She won the enthusiastic approval of her hearers and on her last appearance was honored with many recalls.—
Edinburgh Scottsman.


Madame Myron's rich contralto voice is wonderful in its resonance and sweetness.  Only too poorly can words do honor to such a voice as she possesses, for it has that quality that finds the shortest road to the heart.—
Creston Daily Advertiser.




MR. KARL SMITH
KARL SMITH, the Young American Violoncellist, scarcely needs any introduction here, since he is already so widely and favorably known throughout a large portion of the United States, both as a soloist par excellence and as an orchestra and quartette player of distinguished ability.

If nature ever manifests specific designs in the creation of the genus homo, she certainly would seem to have intended him for a rare exponent of the Violoncello, and he has not disappointed her.  In the hands of the amateur, this instrument is at once ponderous, unwieldy, impossible—we might almost add, clownish and ridiculous.  But with fingers of steel and of marvelous dexterity, he has conquered its difficult stops, and with his bow he has whipped and lashed it into submission until in his hands, like a thing of life, it sings, laughs, or weeps at his will.

In the divine art of music it may well be said that many are called, but few are chosen.  That he is one of the latter few has never been disputed by critics or the public.  At the early age of fourteen he astonished musicians and critics alike by his wonderful execution, and created a furore by playing the concerto for the 'Cello in A minor, by Goltermann, with the orchestra.

A technic adequate for every difficulty, a tone at once pure, sympathetic, warm, broad, and so powerful as to be properly characterized as prodigious, and a style withal, that instantly stamps him as a musician—these are some of the essential qualities in his playing that ever serve to distinguish the artist from the amateur.

He was a member of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Adolph Rosenbecker, Conductor, touring in the United States and Canada; First 'Cellist of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Carl Busch, Conductor; 'Cellist with The Elsa von Moltke String Quartette of New York, and of various other concert organizations.

He has been heard in many of the principal cities of the United States and Canada, including: New York, Boston, Toronto, Can., Ottawa, Can., Seattle, Omaha, Lincoln, Kansas City, Dallas, Rochester, Albany, Harrisburg, Providence, Newport, and many others.


Mr. Smith, though yet in early manhood, is one of the best 'cello players it has been our pleasure to listen to.  The violin has been termed the King of musical instruments, and Mr. Smith demonstrated clearly last night that the 'cello is the King's big brother.  The tones that were drawn from the magical strings touched the whole gamut of poetic feeling.—
Dixon (Ill.) Evening Telegram.

Dear Mr. Smith: I want to thank you on behalf of the Music Committee and of the members of this Club for your delightful playing here at the recent musicale.  You scored a great success, and I heard nothing but praise of your beautiful playing and splendid tone.  You should make a great success, for you have the personality that is necessary, as well as the musical gifts.—Wade Chance, Chairman Music Committee, National Arts Club, New York.


Mr. Karl Smith, 'cellist, charmed the audience with his graceful and artistic playing, leaving many admirers behind him.—
Fort Worth (Texas) Record.


He played as a master and genius.  He was awarded an ovation and compelled to respond to a triple encore.—
Dallas (Texas) Morning News.


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Karl Smith was master of himself, his 'cello and his audience.  His breadth of tone is remarkable.  His temperament is artistic and undoubtedly a bright future awaits him.—
Lincoln (Neb.) Evening Call.


Mr. Karl Smith entertained his many friends generously with his finely modulated playing, and the instrument found ideal treatment in his sensitive interpretation.—
Kansas City Journal.


He handled the difficult instrument with a confidence that can only belong to a genius.—
Omaha World-Herald.


Karl Smith captivated the audience by his masterly playing.  He is an artist to his finger-tips.  His tones are pure and sweet, his style broad and dignified, his technique astonishingly brilliant and too much praise can not be given him.—
Rochester (New York) Democrat and Chronicle.


Madame Alice Myron captured the house completely, held it in willing captivity and could have the people there still if she could have continued to sing with that wonderful voice of hers.—
Alton Telegraph.

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