Scott Prowell

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SCOTT PROWELL

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GRAND ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
Presenting the Greatest Music In the Most Delightful Manner

FOR TERMS AND DATE ADDRESS:
Waterloo Conservatory of Music, Waterloo, Iowa




Scott Prowell Grand Orchestra and Chorus
THE Scott Prowell Orchestra and Chorus is organized for the purpose of furnishing Music Festivals and Festival Concerts at Chautauquas and in cities where there is a desire for the very best in music.

The organization is unique, being the only combined orchestra and chorus before the public that is equipped for performances of the finest orchestral music and at the same time the great choruses from the best operas and oratorios.  The organization consists of twenty-five musicians, twenty instrumentalists, ten of which number are also finely trained singers and four special soloists.  The choruses are given by a splendid chorus of fourteen voices, accompanied by the orchestra of ten able instrumentalists.

The programs are selected with the greatest care and consideration.  Among the great masterworks of the music world many are found which are so filled with inspiration, and appeal so directly to all human emotion, that it has been possible for the director to make up his programs entirely from this class.  This insures rare enjoyment and inspiration to every listener throughout the entire program, and at the same time reaches the highest ideals of the cultured musician and those who look for the ennobling and sublime in musical art.

The programs contain the most splendid musical conceptions of human genius and divine inspiration, and to hear such music is to live in a more exalted sphere.  Every number has proven to be a popular favorite.

Miss Viola Knittle, the soprano soloist, is a singer of most sterling qualities, with a pure and beautiful soprano voice which she uses with consummate skill.  Miss Wilma Bashor, the violinist, possesses a tone of unusual beauty and warmth and is altogether charming in her interpretations.  These two soloists will prove a great feature of each program and are accompanied by the full orchestra.

Nothing can add to the success of a Chautauqua or lecture course, or to the artistic culture of a community more than such concerts as this organization gives.


One of the most wonderful and excellent musical treats ever presented to Waterloo people was the concert given by the Scott Prowell Orchestra and Chorus under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor Society of the First Congregational Church.  The large number of Waterloo music lovers were surprised with the wonderful achievements, and each number received a hearty encore.  The closing number, The March and Chorus from Tanhauser, by the chorus and orchestra was the grand achievement of the evening and was a revelation to our people, inasmuch as nothing of this kind has been done here before.  Mr. Prowell produced many delicate and brilliant musical effects with his orchestra.—
Waterloo Times-Tribune, April 28th, 1909


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The orchestral concert given last night at the First Congregational Church by the Scott Prowell Orchestra and Chorus, under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor Society was a marked success both from a musical and financial standpoint.  The orchestra under.  Mr. Prowell played in fine style, their harmony being perfect and the musical effects very beautiful.  The solo numbers were given by the several soloists with splendid effect and the march and chorus Hail Bright Abode from the opera Tanhauser, given by the chorus and orchestra, was a splendid finale to a program which was in every way one of the most finished and most artistic musical programs ever given in Waterloo.—
Waterloo Courier, April 28th, 1909.


A Symphony Program


Overture, Fingals Cave

Mendelssohn


Vocal Solo, Elsa's Dream

Wagner



MISS VIOLA KNITTLE



Symphony in B Minor

Schubert


Chorus, Hail Bright Abode

Wagner



(From Tanhauser)



Andante for String Orchestra

Tschaikowsky


Forozetta

Arditi


Violin Solo, Walther's Prize Song

Wagner-Wylhelmj



MISS WILMA BASHOR



Suite, Peer Gynt

Grieg


Chorus, Inflamatus from Stabet Mater,

Rossini



With Soprano Solo by Miss Knittle






A Popular Program


Grand Selection, Mignon

Thomas


Sunlight Song

Harriet Ware



MISS VIOLA KNITTLE



Heart's Message

Santleman



With Bell Solo



Grand March, Pomp and Circumstance

Elgar


Violin Solo, Canzonetta

Godard



MISS BASHOR



Traumerei

Schumann


Argonaise

Massenet


Elizabeth's Prayer

Wagner



MISS KNITTLE



Sextette from Lucia

Donizetti


Quartette from Rigoletto

Verdi


Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore

Verdi



With Chorus






A Glee Club Program
The Chorus also gives the most splendid glee club concert either complete or as a prelude to our regular concerts.  A specimen program follows:



Spring Song

Pinsutti


Love's Greeting

Elgar



For Violin, 'Cello and Piano



The Lost Chord

Sullivan


The Violet and Bees

Caldicot


Violin Solo

Selected


The Bells

Foote



With Accompaniment of Orchestral Bells



String Quartette from Peer Gynt




The Merry Miller

De Koven



With Soprano Solo by Miss Knittle



The Parting Kiss

Pinsuti


The Stars and Stripes Forever

Sousa








Miss Viola Knittle, Soprano



ONE OF THE NATIVE sons of Iowa who has so greatly distinguished himself in the world of art that his name is widely known on both sides of the Atlantic is Scott Prowell, the talented violinist, who is to have charge of the violin and orchestral department of our new Northwestern Conservatory.  Mr. Prowell is a thorough, broadly educated musician, whose choice of the violin as his life work was made with a full knowledge of the capabilities of all instruments for interpretation, combined with a careful testing of his own temperament and musical bent.  That his choice should have fallen on the queen of instruments will be understood, it is believed, by all who have the opportunity of hearing this artist of whom teachers, critics and musical people generally speak in terms of enthusiastic praise.
Mr. Prowell completed his musical studies in the famous Royal Academy of Music in London and under the personal instruction of several very famous artists and teachers.  His technique, marvelous as it is, is only the means to an end, that of presenting a correct interpretation of the violin literature of all ages.—

Cyril Stores, Musical Editor, in Minneapolis Tribune


The Choral club did its duty last night.  It gave a fine concert and director Scott Prowell could not have selected better or more popular choruses and those who missed the concert last night missed a rare treat.  Mr. Prowell is a thorough musician and great conductor.—
Daily Press, Ashland, Wisconsin, December 11th, 1904.


Director Scott Prowell deserves great praise for the excellent manner in which the chorus rendered the various numbers, which were sung with musical taste and precision and received well merited applause from the audience.—
News, Washburn, Wisconsin, January 20th, 1903.


The chorus and orchestra under the direction of Scott Prowell did most excellent work, their numbers being pleasing and effective.—
Charles City Intelligencer, May 24th, 1906.


A large and representative audience of Waterloo's most musically cultured people greeted Scott Prowell and his aids at the Waterloo Theatre last night.  The concert was of superior merit and was greatly enjoyed.  The old joke, that music is meant for a cover for conversation, had no application here.  The audience was held in the closest and most earnest attention from beginning to end of the program.  All those who appeared were enthusiastically received and many encores were called for.—
Waterloo Reporter, January 15th, 1909.


Miss Wilma Bashor, Violinist