The Lucy Lee Concert Company

              The Lucy Lee Concert Company

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Ella Schroeder, Piano and Violin

Saginaw Courier-Herald:
Miss Ella Schroeder at once won a place in the hearts of those present.  She is able to render very difficult passages with much ease and grace, and her selections were al given with high artistic expression.


Concert-Goer, Detroit:
Miss Ella Schroeder is a violiniste of rare talent and rendered several selections in a manner to captivate her auditors.  She is a girl who has a great future in store for her.


Toledo Blade:
Of Miss Ella Schroeder's violin interpretation too much cannot be said in the way of praise.  Whether it was the weird and plaintive strains characteristic of the 'Gypsy Melodies'—Sarasate—or the compositions expressive of the noisy demonstrations of nature, the young violiniste displayed the same intelligent understanding of the composer's theme, and the best compliment that can be paid is to say that she pleased the audience beyond measure.  She was recalled time after time.


Toledo Times:
Miss Ella Schroeder, pupil of Prof. Wm. Yunck, was never heard to better advantage.  She held her audience enraptured and was compelled to respond to several encores.


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Burton Thatcher, The Basso

Grand Junction, (Col.) Daily Sentinel:
Burton Thatcher, the basso, added great strength to the brilliant program by his superb solos.  He has a rich, pleasing and remarkably well trained voice and every offering was a rare treat.  The audience was not slow in showing hearty appreciation of his fine voice.


Fort Collins, (Col.) Evening Courier:
The work of Mr. Thatcher, the baritone, was exceptionally good.


Salt Lake, (Utah) Tribune:
Burton Thatcher, basso, holds his fine voice under splendid control.  His performance throughout was very creditable, showing conscientious work, and his rendition of Song of Hybrias and King Duncan's Daughters is deserving special mention.


Salt Lake, (Utah) Evening Telegram:
Burton Thatcher sang.  He held his deep full voice under wonderful control and brought applause.


Idaho Daily Statesman, (Boise City):
The soloist Mr. Thatcher, has a rich (bass) voice which had nothing of harshness or unpleasantness.  He showed a great fluency of expression and a clear enunciation which made his selections most pleasing to the large audience.


Montrose, (Col.) Press:
Mr. Thatcher was liberal with his baritone songs.  His voice is musical, round and full and skillfully handled.  They were all so good it is difficult to speak of them separately.


Morning Press, (Bloomsburg, Pa.):
No soloist was ever more enthusiastically received by a Bloomsburg audience than was Mr. Thatcher, the soloist of the evening.  Possessing a magnificent voice he was compelled to respond no less than three times at the conclusion of each of his solos.  He took the house by storm.


Middletown, (Ohio) Journal:
Mr. Thatcher in his solos delighted the audience.  His voice is like a bell in its purity and its wide range gives him an opportunity to reveal its wonderful beauty and sweetness.





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Gaylord Yost, Violin

Geneva Anzeiger:
—Gaylord Yost demonstrated last night before he had finished his first number that he is an artist of no ordinary ability.  Throughout the program his playing was characterized by a beautiful large tone, style, and clean technic.  After the Saint-Saens Concerto he was forced to respond to a double encore.


Mannheim Volks-Zeitung:
—Gaylord Yost, the soloist, played Saint-Saens third Concerto, also a group of smaller numbers including one of his own compositions, Reverie.  Yost is a musician of sound intellect.  Saint-Saens was played with great finish, delicacy of shading and purity of tone.  The group including Elegie slave, (Schutt), Mazurek, (Aulin), and Reverie, (Yost) were given in exquisite style.  Especially worthy of mention was the young artist's Reverie, which is of a sad and melancholy character and showed that he too has something to say.  He was recalled again and again.


Munchen Allgemeine Zeitung:
—In spite of the bad weather an unusually large crowd greeted the young violinist.  Mr. Yost's first number Moment Musical (Beutel), En Bateau (Debussy), and one of Arthur Hartmann's Hungarian Rhapsodies.  Yost has a singing tone combined with a very sympathetic touch and finished style.  His technic of both right and left hands is good.


Staatsburger Zeitung:
In the first part of the program Mr. Yost and Mr. Beutel played the Max Reger sonate for violin and piano.  This is one of Reger's earlier compositions and is in some ways a little tiresome, but in the hands of Yost and Beutel it received a dignified reading and both artists were recalled.  Yost played LaFolia of Corelli.  He has a singing tone of beautiful quality and gave a very distinguished interpretation.  He was received with great enthusiasm.



Lucy Lee, Reader

Moscow Mirror, Idaho:
—Miss Lucy Lee is a charming entertainer, and has an ease of naturalness which never fails to please.


Evening News, Petoskey, Mich.:
—The reader, Miss Lee, was the queen.  She was right, and knew it, and captured the audience from the start.  She was easy and natural.  Didn't paw the air nor rant, but told her little stories as real people would have said them.


Intelligencer, Lexington, Mo.:
—Miss Lucy Lee, the reader, who accompanies the quartette, delighted the audience with several selections, mostly of a humorous nature.  In which latter she appears at her best.  She has a pleasant, graceful manner, that wins the favor of the audience at once, and she was given an appreciative and flattering reception.


Daily Journal, Rapid City, S. D.:
—The program was made up of quartettes and solos, with Miss Lee in her excellent and charmingly given selections.  Touch Hands was very true to life, and everyone felt a satisfaction in that way of spending Christmas.


Fort Wayne, Indiana:
—Miss Lucy Lee was very capable as a reader, equally effective in pathetic and humorous sketches.  She gave an excellent example of the extent to which the flexibility of the feminine tongue can be developed.


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THE LUCY LEE CONCERT COMPANY is composed of four fine artists.  The company is and is not of the usual type of concert companies.  While there are four people in the company, there is more than one artist.

Miss Lee, sister of Katharine Ridgeway, heads her own company on the merits of her work and her ability to entertain an audience.  She is a joyous reader.  That fire and snap and abandonment of self in a complete surrender to the demands both of the characters she represents and the audience she is reading to coupled with a strong physical, frame and a knowledge of what material will entertain, combine to make her and her work a distinct addition to the lyceum world.  Great as reader with the famous Temple Male Quartette, great as an individual artist, and great as a woman, the Redpath Bureau confidently introduces Miss Lee to the lyceum public.

Associated with Miss Lee are three people who have been selected both because they are artists and because they are willing to adapt their work to lyceum audiences.

Mr. Burton Thatcher is a baritone of rare strength and power.  He sings and singing thrills his hearers.  No better comment could be made on his work than a quotation from a comment of one committee last year: If the audience had its way he would be singing yet.  Mr. Thatcher has all the fine qualities of the artist and that fine sense of the fitness of things which develops into success as an entertaining baritone singer.

Mr. Gaylord Yost, late of Berlin, is equal to the best of lyceum violinists.  It is with the keenest of satisfaction to his managers that he has been retained on the Redpath list for another season.  While considering Mr. Yost let us suggest that you keep his name in mind for the future.  His violin work is to be known in America some day as Kubelik and McMillan and others are today.  Surely the committee that secures Mr. Yost for its constituency will secure one who shall satisfy the most fastidious music lovers and please all.

Accompanying Mr. Yost, Ella Schroeder, violinist and accompanist, will delight her hearers with her duet work with Mr. Yost.  So unusual is this double first violin work that as a novelty it takes first rank as an entertaining number and as a piece of artistic work is unequalled.  Miss Schroeder is a charming violinist and accompanist.  Her training is manifested in her work, and her work is the test of her ability.

The Lucy Lee Concert Company is an unusual company.  Any audience may look forward with pleasure to the time when this attraction shall appear.



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