Chicago Church Choir Company: under the direction of Tina Mae Haines

              Chicago Church Choir Company

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Under the Direction of
Tina Mae Haines

A SLAYTON ATTRACTION



Chicago Church Choir Company

MISS TINA MAE HAINES Accompanist and Director
EDNA SANDS DUNHAM, Soprano
HEDWIG NURNBERGER, Contralto
FRANK BARNARD, Tenor
ALBERT BORROFF, Bass


MISS EDNA SANDS DUNHAM



MISS HEDWIG NURNBERGER


MISS DUNHAM, though known as one of the younger choir singers of the city, has had experience covering a period of years filled full of success, both as a choir singer and as a recitalist.  Her voice is a pure, clear soprano, exceptional range, and delightfully fresh in quality.  She excels particularly in coloratura work.

MISS NURNBERGER is the possessor of a real contralto voice — so rarely heard now-days — rich, velvety and sympathetic.  She is withal an excellent musician, artistic and convincing in her delivery.  She has been singing for a number of years in Sinai Temple, one of the largest and most important, musically speaking, of the city churches.

MR. FRANK BARNARD ranks with the best Chicago tenors.  He has held a number of important church positions, having been most recently connected with the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, noted for its fine music.  His voice is a lyric tenor of beautiful quality, easily produced, and lending itself to dramatic delivery most brilliantly, while equally effective in lyric style.

MR. BORROFF has long been known as one of Chicago's most distinguished bassos.  He has appeared throughout the middle west with all the important oratorio societies, including the Apollo Club of Chicago.  He has also met with success in the East, as his press notices eloquently testify.  He has been basso soloist for many years at Sinai Temple, and is the choir master at Bnai Sholom Temple Israel.  His voice is of rich, resonant timbre, pliable and flexible and sympathetic.  He is a highly gifted, scholarly artist, constantly gaining recognition from critic, press and public.

MISS TINA MAE HAINES has been very closely identified with the musical life of Chicago for a number of years.  She has become widely known as concert organist, as accompanist, as a choir director, and as a lecturer on modern orchestral literature, and the appreciation of music.  For ten years she was the organist and director of the music in the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, where the excellence of the programs attracted more than local attention.  She has studied with Harrison Wild, Chicago, and Monsieur Alexandre Guilmant of Paris.  At present she presides at the organ at Plymouth Congregational Church of Chicago, the former pastorate of Dr. Frank Gunsaulus.



Specimen Program
PART I


1 On Away Awake Beloved

S. Coleridge-Taylor


Celeste Aida

Verdi


Proposal

Salter



MR. BARNARD



2 Du Ring An Meinem Finger

Schumann


Serenade

Brahms


Aria (Eurydice)

Gluck



MISS NURNBERGER



3 Col. Raggis Placido

Handel


Wie Melodien

Brahms


Invocation

Meyerbeer



MR. BOROFF



4 Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai

Wm. Hammond


Voce di Primavera

Strauss


A force e lui (Traviata)

Verdi



MISS DUNHAM



5 Quartet from Rigoletto

Verdi





PART II CYCLE REPERTOIRE


Persian Garden
Liza Lehmann


The Golden Threshold
Liza Lehmann


Floriana
Arthur Whiting


The Pagoda of Flowers
or
Amy Woodforde-Binden



An Act from Faust, Martha, Il Trovatore, or any of the standard operas.




Chicago Musical Leader and Concert Goer
—Last Sunday morning Miss Edna Sands Dunham was heard at California Avenue Congregational Church in Schnecker's intensely beautiful Still, Still with Thee, and proved easily that she is the possessor of a charming voice, a very good presence and a very considerable musicianship.  Her tone quality was good, pronunciation very much beyond the average, and her use of shade and climax thoroughly convincing.


Milwaukee (Wis.) Free Press
—Miss Hedwig Nurnberger, a new Chicago singer, was given a reception of which any balladiste might feel proud (coming from an audience as chary of applause as the A Cappella Chor patrons traditionally are), a recognition which the sympathetic contralto and her reading of Gluck's aria, Euridice, Schubert's Frühlingssehnsucht, and, of course, Hugo Wolf's Heimweh, fully deserved.

Mr. Harrison M. Wild, Director of Apollo Club—Miss Haines is a first-class organist, both in church and concert work.


Chicago Concert Goer
—Mr. Barnard's clear tenor voice was heard to excellent advantage in Celeste Aida.  His voice is a pure lyric tenor of lovely quality.  He sings with commendable ease and admirable delivery.


The Musical Leader
—Albert Borroff, who has been heard to advantage several times this year, completed and strengthened the quartet.  Technical equipment he possesses abundantly as well as temperament, while the style with which he sings shows that he has had the most exceptional training.  Naturally well endowed musically, his singing was marked for its scholarly musicianship and sonority of tone as well as intelligent manner of phrasing.  Instant recognition was accorded the admirable singing done by Mr. Borroff.


MR. FRANK BARNARD



MR. ALBERT BORROFF





Chicago Church Choir Company Comments

Saturday Evening Herald, Chicago
—Miss Hedwig Nurnberger gave a recital in Cable Hall on Tuesday evening, and once more proved that she is one of the greatest among the younger contraltos, and that her art is a rapid maturing one.  Beside having a voice of unusual power, breadth and exquisite quality, Miss Nurnberger has also a thoroughly commanding presence and a concert poise which is unmistakably good.  She has further a most correct and musical intuition, and not only are her songs chosen with unfailing good taste, but they are invariably delivered in a way to prove that she is a thorough student and is filled with artistic feeling.


Des Moines (Ia.) Register and Leader
—Miss Dunham possesses a voice of wide range and of remarkable power and purity which promises much for the future.  Already she has attracted the favorable attention of some of the leading musicians of Chicago.


Des Moines (Ia.) Daily News
—Miss Dunham, who is prominent in the musical circles of Chicago, is the possessor of a fine soprano voice, and during the evening gave several selections.


Evanston Press
—Miss Tina Haines is always a favorite with an Evanston audience.  Into her playing she infuses the subtle charm called heart and soul.


Wheaton Illinoisan
—Miss Haines is an artist of the highest order, and succeeded in pleasing the audience with every number rendered.  She showed remarkable knowledge of a pipe organ, and every number rendered, no matter how complex, was perfectly executed.


Chicago Musical Leader and Concert Goer
—* * * At the concert given Friday evening, February 5, at the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, unusual interest was felt in the program, as it was Miss Tina Haines' first concert appearance since her return from study with Guilmant in Paris.  This famous teacher pronounced her one of the most talented pupils he has ever had, and certainly her musicianly grasp of the instrument Friday evening convinced her hearers that Miss Haines is destined to take front rank in the list of American organists.  She combines quickness of perception with unusual breadth in interpretation, and these, added to a naturally musical temperament, make her an artist in the true sense of the word.


Chicago Musical Leader
—Miss Haines is a virile, forceful player.

Monsieur Alexandre Guilmant, of Paris, France—I am charmed to learn that you are going to be heard in your country, where the organ is much admired.  I am convinced tha a great success awaits you.  Your fine talent will be very much appreciated by connoisseurs and by the public, which loves noble music.  I was very much interested in giving you my counsels, and I applaud your future success with all my heart.  (Translation.)


Mr. J. C. Shaffer, President of Chicago Evening Post
—The organ recitals of Miss Tina M. Haines always bring together a large audience of musicians and lovers of classic music.  Miss Haines' selections are apropos to the occasion, and her execution is faultless.  She ranks among the best organists in Chicago.

Mrs. Isabel Garghill Beecher—I have had the privilege of hearing much of Miss Haines' organ playing, and have listened with increasing enthusiasm and delight.  In analyzing the sources of my perfect satisfaction and pleasure, I find they come from that rare balance in her work of accurate, brilliant technique, an illuminating temperament and unerring taste.

Professor Saidee Knowland Coe, Northwestern University School of Music—For Miss Haines' work I have not only hearty admiration but very deep respect, for she always stands for the highest and best in her art.

Judge Charles G. Neely—I have always greatly enjoyed Miss Haines' playing.  She seems to me to have mastered the organ.


Michigan City, Ind.
—Seldom does one hear such a pure tenor as Mr. Barnard possesses.  His singing was a real treat.


Memphis, Tenn.
—Mr. Frank Barnard, the soloist of the evening, immediately established himself as a favorite.  His voice, tho light, easily carried above the full orchestra.  He was enthusiastically recalled.


Des Moines, Ia.
—Mr. Frank Barnard won enthusiastic recognition for his beautiful singing in the parts assigned to him.  He has one of the best tenor voices heard here in recent years.


Chicago American
—Albert Borroff, the bass, sang with readiness and breadth of style.  His voice is even to an unusual degree and of velvety musical character.


Chicago Chronicle
—Mr. Borroff took the bass recitatives finely.  His enunciation of words is admirable and he achieves this excellence without variance in quality of tone on differing sounds.


Chicago Evening Post
—Mr. Borroff, the basso, easily shared the honors.  He has sincerity and finish in phrasing.


Chicago Tribune
—The bass solos were sung by Albert Borroff and he acquitted himself not only with credit but gave promise of achieving still finer results as his powers develop.  His voice is rich and sympathetic.  The Why Do the Nations was given with the needed suggestion of dramatic intensity.


Chicago Tribune
—Mr. Borroff sang Brander's trying song unusually well, with good volume and admirable spirit.


Evanston Index
—Mr. Borroff, the basso, created a favorable impression and received a generous round of applause after all his numbers.  He sings with confidence and aplomb, with agreeable tone quality and clearness in passage work.


Benton Harbor Palladium
—The role of Mephistopheles was sung by Albert Borroff with an expression and a dramatic spirit that instantly won the favor of the audience and gave him the lion's share of the evening's honors.


Hutchinson (Kan.) News)
—Mr. Borroff was exceptionally fine, the bass solos giving him his first opportunity to be heard by most of the audience.  He sang with great spirit and in splendid voice and was fully up to expectations.


Jersey City Journal
—Mr. Borroff sang as his first number, Si la rigeur, by Halevy, a composition which showed alike the flexibility and great range of his voice.  He was liked better, however, in the short selections which he gave in the second part of the programme.


Rockford (Ill.) Republic
—Mr. Borroff proved to be a singer with a very flexible bass voice of unusual range and dramatic power.


Rockford (Ill.) Morning Star
—Mr. Borroff's first appearance in Rockford was highly successful.  His voice is a distinctive bass of magnificent proportions, much power and resonance and much more brilliance than is usual in bassos.

The Slayton Lyceum Bureau, Steinway Hall, Chicago

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