Opera Talks and Lecture-Recitals by Henriette Weber

              1917
1917–1918
OPERA TALKS AND LECTURE-RECITALS

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By
Henriette Weber
PIANIST AND LECTURER

Strikingly Successful
Informal
Entertaining
Educational
Authoritative
Address: Miss H. Weber
Tel. Superior 5790   8 East Elm St., Chicago




MISS WEBER IS DIRECTOR OF
The Sunday Evening Opera Concerts
AT THE ART INSTITUTE, CHICAGO
These concerts, uniquely educational in character, are becoming known throughout the United States by reason of their extreme popularity.



THE INDIVIDUAL
Opera Talks
as given by Miss Weber are vivid, graphic and dramatic descriptions of the operas, and a delightful and novel entertainment.  Almost a new art-form. says one critic.

The extensive repertoire includes not only the standard works, but all the important novelties.

Informal   Entertaining




Characteristic Comments

Plays with remarkably perfect execution.
New York Press


Has that coveted gift from the gods — temperament.
Musical Courier, N. Y.


Her interpretations of the operas mark another red letter in Chicago's musical history.
Chicago Evening Post


Miss Weber's opera talk educates while entertaining.  The musical illustrations are skillfully treated.
Chicago American (Herman DeVries)


A thorough artist.
Morristown, N.J., Daily Record


Has power, subtlety and fine technic.
Hamilton (Canada) Herald


Has a charming personality, talks well and plays beautifully.
Portsmouth (O.) Daily Times


Keeps her ideas rapidly developing before her audience.
Greencastle (Ind.) Banner


An easy and forceful speaker.
Columbus (O) Ohio State Journal

(Lecture-Recital, Music in America)


The program was devoted exclusively to the music of America's greatest composers, was well balanced, and of a merit which should tend to enhance the growing taste for the composition of
 American musicians.  Miss Weber's playing disclosed a tone of clear musical quality, an intonation very accurate, … a brilliant and highly developed technical equipment, and a sensitive feeling of tonal coloring.  There is much to admire in her playing; a genuinely musical feeling, an intense vitality, and a youthful freshness.
Gazette-Republican, Lima, O.


A woman splendidly equipped for her work. …  Her ability as a pianist made the opera talk intensely interesting. …  The attention of the audience was closely held until the finale.
Daily Independent Times, Streator, Ills.


Miss Weber's personality and manner invited attention immediately and held it throughout the entire talk.
She then gave the story of Aida, playing with much dramatic force the various themes for the solos, choruses and dances, and describing the action and scenery so vividly that her audience caught the thrill of the actual play in all its oriental splendor and setting.  Her ability in making one piano and one pair of hands give the effects of soloist and orchestra as well as full chorus and orchestra was a delight to the listeners.

Daily Free Press, Streator, Ills.

(Comment on a Series of Wagner Lectures)


Miss Weber is anything but dry — and, on the contrary, sparkles with animation and glows with enthusiasm while, instead of giving a lengthy discourse on her ponderous subjects she has — at great pains, eliminated everything except the vital points of the story and these she tells so convincingly and at the same time so ornaments with piano illustrations of the Wagner music that her work glows with beauty and is filled to repletion with authority.
Music News, Chicago

Educational   Authoritative




Subjects for Lecture-Recitals
(With Piano Illustrations)


Modern Tendencies in Music SIX LECTURES

1.
Precursors of Modernism in Music.
2.
The Music of Today in France.
3.
The Music of Today in Germany.
4.
The Music of Today in Italy and Russia.
5.
Music in America.
6.
The New Opera.

Entire series or two or three of these lectures may be given as one.



Richard Wagner SIX LECTURES

1.
Wagner's Music as a Standard of Art.
2.
How Wagner Uses Legends.
(Lohengrin and Tannhäuser)
3.
The Philosophy of the Nibelungen Ring.
4.
A Sarcastic Commentary.
(The Mastersingers)
5.
Wagner's Religion.
(Parsifal)
6.
A Great Love Story.
(Tristan and Isolde)




With Stereoptican Views THREE LECTURES

1.
The Origin of Music: Its Legendary Lore.
2.
Pictorial Inspirations.
3.
Modern Parallel Developments.



Miscellaneous*

1.
The Intimate Appeal of Music.
2.
Social Aspects of Music.
3.
Aesthetic Values in Music.
4.
The Place of Music in Religious Worship.
5.
The Dramatic Value of Music.
(History of Opera)
6.
Program Music.
7.
Dance Forms.
8.
Folk Music, and its Relation to Nationalism in Music.
9.
Poetic Inspirations.
10.
Music and the Man of Letters.  (Heine)*
11.
Music and the Man of Letters.
(A Group of French Poets)*
12.
Music and the Man of Letters.
(Browning and Shelley)*
13.
Shakespere in Music.*
14.
The Yule-tide in Song and Legend.*

*Requires Vocal Illustration.

These lectures can be arranged for singly, or in courses of three or more.

Address: Miss H. Weber
Tel. Superior 5790   8 East Elm St., Chicago





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