Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-06-22
|CHAUTAUQUA
NOW UNDER WAY
Management Secures Most Inter
esting Features For Third
Annual Assembly

The third annual assembly of tn
Idaho State Chautauqua Association
will be held in the Pinney Theatre a
Boise, beginning Wednesday evening
June 18th. This chautauqua promise
to be the largest and best held in Id
aho, and also to be one of the best il
the entire northwest. The Idaho Stat
Chautauqua is becoming very favor
ably known throughout the State, an
this year it is expected that visitors
will be present from all parts of the
southern part of Idaho, to take ad
vantage OF the many opportunities of
| fered by this seasons Chautauqua
One of the most talked of attrac
tions is the Chicago operate Comp
any. This company will appear dur
ing the latter part of the Chautauqua
On June Goth, 9th and 2Sth. On the
evening of Thursday, June 9th, this
company assisted by the Boise Chor
al society will render Handel's eli
jah.' This will be without doubt the
strongest single meeting to be held
during the Chautauqua. No feature
of last years program gave more de.
light than the talented Chicago Oper.
attic Company. 1t is no stranger to
Chautauqua audiences, nor indeed to
the musincal world. The individual
and collective merits of the artists
are unquestioned, and no company no
in this country has gained such a not
able comments from musical critics
Aside from the brilliance of the en-
semble each of the artists has achieve
40 small degree of personal promin-
ence on the concert stage. Arthur
Middleton, the leading basso in ora
torio, concert and grand opera work
throughout the country is well known
to our people. He brings with him
into this great company a decided
prestige as we'll as high musical ex-
cellence. Mr. Glenn Dillard Gum,
one of Chicago's leading musical
critics, recently wrote of him; "Of
the soloists the most satisfactory
was the basso, Mr. Middleton. In
deed, satisfactory is an entirely in
adequate word with which to describ
his share of the performance, which
was Vocally sonorous and beautifully
controlled and musical!y authlrita-
tive and convincing in the highest
degree. 1t was marked by fine
appreciation of dramatic values, by
nicely calculated nuance and by
sincere and Straightforward musical
feeling"
Mr.. John B. Miller has for the
past five years been one of the
leading American tenors; he has an
extended repertoire and his work
has been highly praised by the lead
ing critics. His extended expert
ence and universal success in opera,
oratorio and concert are abundant
proof of his exceptional fitness.
a singer of unusual artistic merit, en-
dowed with a rich, pure and deeply
sympathetic contralto voice, trained
for operatic singing in some of our
leading schools. Leonore Allen has
a very high and pure soprano voice
of remarkable sympathetic quality.
she is the younger generation OF
singers, she has had valuable ex-
perience both in grand opera and
The Chicago Record Her
aid, in careful review of her more
recent work says: Her tone,
and range prove her unusual
gifts for opera work.
Edgar A. Nelson Is the pianist of
the company. Few of the younger
pianists hold so conspicuous place.
As student he enjoyed the privi-
ege of studying with Harold Won
the great Finnish pianist,
and with Madame Julie Rive King,
with whom he is now associated in
he piano department of the Bush
Temple Conservatory. Mr.. Nelson is
perhaps equally gifted as an organlst,
and is the head of the organ depart
nent of the BushTempleCons2
md organist of the Oak Park Presby'
.erian Church. In operate and con-
cert programs before Chautauqua and
Iyceum audiences, Mr.. Nelson has
made for himself a name that will
lot be forgotten by the thousands who
lave heard him.
The Boise Choral Society, which
will assist the Chicago operate Com
,any on the evening o! June l7th.,
8 under the leadership of Mr. Arthur
J. Westbrook, instructor of music in
he Boise High School, and consists
# one hundred voices.
The solo parts of Elijah" will be
ung by members of the Chicago Op-