The Harmony Concert Company

              The HARMONY CONCERT COMPANY


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Miss Cogswell

THE HARMONY CONCERT CO.


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Mrs. McIntyre


THE HARMONY CONCERT COMPANY, already known to thousands of lyceum patrons, is in composition and merit the best we have ever offered under this name, whether considered in relation to the individual excellence of the artists or from the standpoint of the ensemble effect, the company will rank among the best of the standard concert companies.  We do not ascribe to it novelty, but ability and excellence.  The program will consist of soprano and tenor solos and duets, voices with violin and piano accompaniment, violin solos and readings, all presented by artists of brilliant achievements and success.




PEARL COLLINS-McINTYRE, Soprano


S. ARTHUR McINTYRE, Tenor


MYNN COGSWELL, Violinist


BESSIE LEIGH, Reader and Accompanist




H. D. Collard, Herington, Kan., Feb. 1, 1910.
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Miss Cogswell is the greatest violinist I ever heard, and I have heard some good ones.  Don't let her get away from you.




Larned Chronoscope, Larned, Kan., Jan. 27, 1910.
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Miss Cogswell, the violinist, was well received, and is a finished musician.




Ewing Herbert
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In my sincere judgment Miss Bessie Leigh is one of the best—if not the best—of the younger readers in America.  She has rare intelligence and sympathy.  There is nothing false about her, and she does not overdo or underdo her work.




M. W. Meyers, Cambridge School, Chicago.
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I class Miss Leigh with three of the best readers I have ever heard.




Victor Daily Times
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Concert—Mr. McIntyre was a great favorite, his fine tenor was displayed to great advantage in the beautiful selections he gave.  The audience showed high appreciation by applauding to the echo.




Colorado Springs Telegraph
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Philharmonic Concert—
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.
  Mr. McIntyre sang beautifully that magnificent tenor solo, 
On Away Awake
 in splendid voice.




Hutchinson, (Kas.) Independent
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May Festival—Pearl Collins-McIntyre, who delighted the festival people last year, was greeted warmly when she appeared.  She was in her best voice last night and easily surpassed her last year's efforts.  She responded to several encores.




Lawrence (Kas.) Journal
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Song Recital—Pearl Collins-McIntyre was very pleasing indeed to the audience, and won a hearty and merited applause.




Mt. Vernon (Ill.) Register, Jan. 14, 1910.
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Miss Mynn Cogswell's violin playing was a rare treat.  She is an artist to her finger tips, with a flawless technique, a purity of tone and a sympathetic interpretation of her themes that charms the audience.



Excelsior Springs, Mo., 1910.
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Miss Cogswell is a violinist of rare ability.  Some of her numbers were very classical and her technique and expression were uniformly good.



The Kansas Chief, Troy, Kansas
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Miss Bessie Leigh made a hit with the audience at the Chautauqua and received enthusiastic encores.  She is an artist who has a charming personality and a natural grace of manner, free from affectation.  Miss Leigh is one of the most popular readers in the West.



Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, Neb.
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Miss Leigh read 
Les Miserables
 before a large audience in the Normal Chapel.  Her dramatization of this wonderful story is a work of art, and her interpretation is so natural that she carried her hearers spellbound from the first scene to the last.


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Miss Leigh

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Hutchinson (Kas.) News
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Concert—Pearl Collins-McIntyre fascinated her audience with her voice of remarkable range and sweetness.  She was recalled a number of times.



Kansas City Star
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Song Recital—Pearl Collins-McIntyre is a soprano of wide range and power, she displayed marked ability in the waltz song from 
Romeo and Juliet
 and that great aria 
Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster,
 from Weber's 
Oberon.
  Her friends are warranted in predicting for her a grand opera career.



Leavenworth (Kas.) Times
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Concert—Pearl Collins-McIntyre's singing was certainly a great treat to Leavenworth music lovers.



Colorado Springs Gazette
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Stainer's Crucifixion
—Mr. McIntyre sang with fine expression and interpretation 
The Majesty of the Divine Humiliation
 and the various recitations that fell to his share.



Denver News
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Concert—Mr. S. Arthur McIntyre possesses a brilliant, clear and vibrant voice, absolutely even throughout its wide range.  His singing of Flotow's 
Ah, So Pure
 and Peccia's 
Love's Pleading
 was a rare treat to his audience.




The Program for The Harmony Company will be made up of some of these NumbersSoprano Solos



Silent Night, Holy Night


Gruber




Drink to me only with thine eyes





Slave Song


Del Riego




For This


DeKoven




I love you sweet


Bartlett




Angels Serenade


Braga




Fiddle and I


Goodwe




Carissima


Penn




Roberts, Otuche Adore (Roberts Il Diavola)


Meyerbeer




Ocean, thou mighty Monster (Oberon)


Weber




Dearest Night


Bachelet




Caro Nome (Rigoletto)


Verdi





Tenor Solos





Thou art so like a Flower


Chadwick




Beggar Maid


Barnby




The Secret


Scott




Bid me to love


D' Anwerque




On away awake, Beloved


Taylor




Spirits gentil (La Favorita)


Ponizetti




Ah so pure (Marttea)


Flotow




Bedowin Love Song


Chadwick




Love's Pleading


Peccia




Love me if I live


Foote




Cara Mia


Barnard




Evening Star


Wagner






Duets for Soprano and Tenor





On the Sea


Moderati




Tell me


Keiser




Go pretty Rose


Marzials




Oh Maritana


Wallace




Miserere (Il Trovatore)


Verdi




Heaven's open Canopy (Rigolette)


Verdi and Ottens






Violin Solos





Ballade et Polonaise


Vieuxstamps




Fantasie, 
I'Lombardi


Vieuxstamps




Legende


Wiengiwski




Obertass, Mazurka


Wiengiwski




Salterella


Papani




Schuberte Serenade, Arr


Papani




Hedjre Kati


Hubay




Berceuse


Tschetschulen




Brindisi


Alard




Holy City


Wm. Henley






Readings



Animal Stories from Kipling and Thompson-Seaton


Stories from Brunner


Stories from Gillette Burgess


Selections from 
Les Miserables
 and 
Sunny Brook Farm


And varied Miscellaneous Selections





PEARL COLLINS-McINTYRE



Kansas City Journal
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Concert—Kansas City is to contribute another Parkina or Nielson to the ranks of grand opera in the person of Miss Pearl Collins, whose very interesting concert at the Casino on Friday evening was a revelation of broadened powers prophesied by infrequent previous appearances.  Miss Collins sang a very choice program, of which the two operatic numbers were the distinct features.  These were the exacting florid aria, 
Ah, fors e lui
 from 
La Traviata,
 and the mad scene from 
Hamlet.
 So far as memory recalls, the latter has never been sung here, certainly not by a local singer.  The two served admirably to bring out the bell-like beauty of Miss Collins' pure soprano, which has a really remarkable range.  In both the arias she took high D with ease and clarity.  In oratorio singing Miss Collins has also shown her capacity and her 
Let the Bright Seraphim
 from Handel's 
Samson
 was an excellent example.  Other numbers were Bischoff's 
Love Sings the Lark,
 Salter's 
Come to the Garden, Love,
 Brooks' 
The Vision,
 Bacholet's 
Dearest Night,
 Gounod's 
The Spring,
 Tipton's 
Tho' You Forget,
 Aylward's 
One Summer Morning,
 Chadwin's 
Thou Art So Like a Flower
 and Lehma's 
Come Dance the Romaika.




Kansas City Post
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Concert—Pearl Collins-McIntyre, soprano, certainly gave great pleasure to those who assembled to hear her at the New Casino last night.  Her program was made up of a number of arias from standard opera and groups of short songs culled from the compositions of the best modern composers.  Her entire program showed careful study and was given an intelligent interpretation.  This added to a very beautiful voice, a voice capable of producing the beauties of the most difficult creations, prepared an evening of pleasure to those whose good fortune it was to be present at her concert.





S. ARTHUR McINTYRE
Formerly of New York City.

Brooklyn Eagle
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Song Recital—Mr. McIntyre sang his numbers with pure tenor quality and understanding.  He received several encores.



Philadelphia North American
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Song Recital—Mr. McIntyre sang two of Nevin's songs and received warranted applause.



Pueblo Chieftain
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Concert—Mr. McIntyre sang in a manner that calls for great praise.



Hutchinson News
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May Festival—Mr. McIntyre is a tenor who makes good.  He has a pleasing voice and easy manner on the platform.




MISS MYNN COGSWELL



Hutchinson News, Hutchinson, Kan., 1910.
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Miss Cogswell has not only technical skill and command of her instrument, but has an artist's conception of the beauty of the composition and was able to make her audience share her sympathetic appreciation of its delicate harmonies.




Hiawatha, Kan.
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Miss Cogswell's selections on the violin have never been equaled on our platform, and when she gave a severely classical number in the 
Scene de Beriot
 the audience applauded enthusiastically, to which she replied in a beautiful selection, 
Humoresko.




Supt. L. A. Guthridge, Galena, Kan., Feb. 10, 1910.
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Miss Cogswell, the violinist, deserves much praise.  Her selections were those that contain sweet music rather than those that give the performer an opportunity to show technical skill.




Mt. Vernon (Ill.) Daily News, Jan. 14, 1910.
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Many present considered the violin work of Miss Cogswell the finest ever heard in this city.





MISS BESSIE LEIGH



Miss Bessie Leigh
—as reader and pianist—brings to the company a very high order of talent in two widely different roles.  As pianist and accompanist she shows the self-effacing labor of the artist whose work underlies the success of all the other parts, but is most successful when it is least in evidence.  But it is in her work as a reader that Miss Leigh's chief claim to distinction lies.  Trained in the best schools of Boston, she began teaching expression and doing platform work at the age of eighteen.  And she has recently given up a teaching position in one of the state institutions of the Middle West in order to give her full time to the platform.




Aside from her work in the Harmony Company, Miss Leigh is also available for full program as reader and monologue artist.