The Bostonia Sextette Club

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The Bostonia
Sextette Club
C.L. Staats Director


C. L. Staats - Director

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The Bostonia Sextette Club
Louise Reynolds - Soprano


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The Bostonia Sextette Club

MR C. L. STAATS Clarinet Soloist and Director


This celebrated chamber musical organization has been continuously before the public since its foundation in 1898 by Mr. C. L. Staats.  Its record of hundreds of appearances throughout the country is one of enviable distinction.  In the great concert halls of the large cities, from its home center of Boston straight across the country to the Pacific slope, its annually recurring tours have been triumphs, both with the musicianly informed and with lay auditors comprising their audiences.

In the fall of 1906, the occasion of the Club's first appearance in Chicago, the press awarded them the distinction of comparison not only with the Kneisels, but the world-famous Flonzaleys, as well.  No finer music criticisms have ever been printed than were elicited by this gala appearance.

The Club's programs are invariably of high artistic merit: not strictly classical nor yet trashy or cheap.  They appeal alike to musician and layman, tuneful and worth-while from beginning to end.

No piano is used by the Club, and reliance is placed upon the artistry of its personnel, each a recognized artist in his own right.  Programs are built with the idea of pleasing all the diverse elements of a community and a concert by the Bostonias will prove an event of first importance in every center.

Assisting, during the forthcoming tour, will be a brilliant soprano soloist, whose work is elsewhere described in this circular.  On the page following will be found some expressions by competent authorities.

Mr. Staats is beyond question America's best known clarinetist.  His career has been a distinguished one, commencing in a little Conn. village as a member of the village band and covering distinguished service as leading player with the most noted musical organizations of both America and Europe.  He was the first native American to go to Paris to study the clarinet and the first to introduce the French school for the instrument to the American public.

Mr. Staats has the endorsements of the most notable orchestral conductors of the time.  He has filled the responsible positions of first clarinetist of the Royal Italian Opera; of Her Majesty's Theatre, London; of the Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris; at the great Casino, in Ostend, with Sousa's Band, and for years a prominent member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The solos and obligatos of Mr. Staats are magnificently rendered and form a unique and artistic portion of the program.

For more than twenty years, Mr. Staats' great work has been the direction of his Sextette Club and this Club is now the only HIGH GRADE organization touring the country that has in its membership a full quintette of strings and also a solo clarinet.

Miss Reynolds' beautiful voice has won for her a place among the singers of first rank in America.  Gifted by nature with a fine musical sense and a clear and pure voice, her training has rounded out her ability.  Her benefits have been many, including advantages with the finest instructors of Boston, her home city.  Her public appearances have been frequent and her success, the past two years, as soprano soloist with the Club, has been so great that the management is indeed fortunate in being able to present her as permanent soloist with the Bostonias.


MISS LOUISE REYNOLDS Soprano





The Bostonia Sextette Club

A Few Appreciations

Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch: 
There has not been a small string ensemble in Columbus in recent years, save the Flonzaleys, that compared in preciseness and general artistic balance with the Bostonia Sextette.


Saratoga (N. Y.) Sun: 
Seldom, if ever, has a Saratoga audience had the pleasure of listening to more finished musicians.


Sacramento (Cal.) Bee: 
Unusually demonstrative audience.  C. L. Staats displayed splendid technique.


Holland (Mich.) Telegram: 
Miss Reynolds, vivacious and attractive, showed thorough coloratura training.  Her tones are round and pure.


Boston (Mass.) Transcript: 
Mr. Staats showed himself a clarinetist like few.  His tone is exceedingly beautiful throughout the compass of his instrument.


Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer: 
It may be safely ranked as one of the finest musical organizations in the country.


Frederic (Md.) News: 
One of the best concerts ever heard here.  The ensemble music was exquisite.


Mankato (Minn.) Review: 
An unusually well rendered program.


London (Ontario) Free Press: 
Has an international reputation.  Each member a master of his instrument.


St. John (New Brunswick) Globe: 
One of the most delightful concerts ever given here.


Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald: 
Their work was dainty, exceedingly tuneful, and the musical standard was high.


Saginaw (Mich.) News: 
The club's work was of a finished and artistic nature that was a revelation to the audience.


Herkimer (N. Y.) Telegram: 
Tone shading of such daintiness is seldom heard from any combination of instruments.


Wichita (Kan.) Eagle: 
Every member musician of ability Ensemble fine as ever heard.


Ripon (Wis.) Commonwealth: 
Kept the listeners in rapt admiration.


Decorah (Ia.) Republican: 
A feast of good things musical.  A program of delightful melodic beauty.


Selma (Ala.) Journal: 
A musical treat.


Reading (Pa.) Times: 
Ensemble playing of the first order.  Brilliant and artistic.


Duluth (Minn.) Herald: 
Enthusiastic audience.  Staats a master.


Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: 
Marvelous musical organization Never fails to draw the house of the season.


Portland (Ore.) Oregonian: 
The artistic Bostonia Sextette Club held a large audience spelbound.  Seldom one so well pleased.


Greensboro (N. C.) Telegram: 
A rare treat: Concerted pieces very fine.


Salt Lake City (Utah) Herald: 
One of the most artistic programs ever rendered in the city.



Partial list of Colleges at which the Sextette has appeared

State Normal, Geneseo, N. Y. (3)
State Normal, Cortland, N. Y. (2)
State Normal, Oneonta, N. Y. (2)
State Normal, Potsdam, N. Y.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Lawrenceville, N. J., School (3)
State Normal, West Chester, Pa.
State Normal, Bloomsburg, Pa.
State Normal, Kutztown, Pa.
State Normal, East Stroudsburg, Pa.
State Normal, Millersville, Pa.
State Normal, Indiana, Pa.
Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio.
Heidleburg University, Tiffin, Ohio.
Denison University, Granville, Ohio.
Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio.
Notre Dame University, South Bend Ind. (6)
St. Mary's College, South Bend, Ind. (3)
Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. (2)
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
Hope College, Holland, Mich.
State Normal, Kalamazoo, Mich.
State Normal, Mankato, Minn. (2)
State Normal, Moorhead, Minn.
Carlton College, Northfield, Minn.
State Normal, Whitewater, Wis.
State Normal, Stevens Point, Wis.
Penn College, Gettysburg, Pa.
Juinata College, Huntington, Pa.
Penn Hall School, Chambersburg, Pa.
Hood College, Frederick, Md. (2)
Normal University, Normal, Ill.
Hedding College, Abingdon, Ill. (2)
Carthage College, Carthage, Ill.
Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.
Monmouth College, Monmouth, Ill.
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ill.
Agustana College, Rock Island, Ill.
University of Ill., Urbana, Ill.
University of W. Va., Morgantown, W. Va.
Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va.
State Normal, Valley City, N. D.
State Normal, Ellendale, N. D.
State Normal, Mayville, N. D.
University of N. D., Grand Forks, N. D.
State College, Ames, Iowa (2)
State College, Cedar Falls, Iowa (2)
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa
State University, Iowa City, Iowa
Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa
University of S. D., Vermillion, S. D.
University of Neb., Lincoln, Neb.
State Normal, Warrensburg, Mo. (2)
State Normal, Cape Girardeau, Mo. (2)
Baker University, Baldwin, Kan.
State Normal, Emporia, Kan.
State College, Manhattan, Kan. (2)
Friends University, Wichita, Kan.
University of Okla., Norman, Okla.
Okla. Agr. College, Stillwater, Okla.
State Normal, Huntsville, Texas (2)
State Normal, San Marcos, Texas
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
State University, Baton Rouge, La. (3)
State Normal, Natchitoches, La.
Silliman Institute, Clinton, La.
Agr. College, Agr. College, Miss.
Miss. Agr. College, Columbus, Miss. (2)
Normal College, Hattiesburg, Miss.
Womans College, Meridian, Miss.
Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala.
Judson Institute, Marion, Ala.
University of Ark., Fayetteville, Ark.
Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Ark.
Lagrange College, Lagrange, Ga. (2)
State Normal, Milledgeville, Ga.
Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, Ga.
Agr. College, Clemson College, S. C.
Winthrop Normal, Rock Hill, S. C. (3)
Furman University, Greenville, S. C. (2)
Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C.
University of N. C., Chapel Hill, N. C.
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C. (2)
State Normal, Greensboro, N. C. (2)
Academy and College, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Womans College, Abdingdon, Va.
Randolph-Macon Womans College, Lynchburg, Va.
State Normal, Harrisonburg, Va.
Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.
Whitman College, Walla-Walla, Wash.
Willamette University, Salem, Ore.
University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.
Mt. Allison University, Sackville, N. B. (4)
Acadian College, Wolfville, N. S. (5)
Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind.
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Mount du Chantal Academy, Wheeling, W. Va. (2)



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