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The rarest of all voices
A Really Beautiful
CONTRALTO
APPEARED IN
RECITAL
Boston, February 23, 1922 Chicago, March 5, 1922 Cleveland, March 7, 1922
Photo by Mishkin, N. V.
And received the following Press Encomiums:
Her voice is of true contralto quality, rich, rather sombre, a voice of extended range. Her intonation was pure and her enunciation distinct. As an interpreter, she interested the hearer. She evidently felt the music she sang intelligently, not because she had been coached into a semblance of emotional feeling. We shall not soon forget Miss Bonner’s singing of Haydn’s “Spirit Song,” Lalo’s “L’Esclave” and the songs by Fourdrain and Gretchaninov.
—■Philip Hale, Boston Herald, February 24.
Miss Elizabeth Bonner gave a recital yesterday afternoon in Jordan Hall. She presented a programme interesting and valuable in its contents, and she displayed marked intelligence and individuality in a number of her interpretations. The voice is rich and expressive in its quality. Miss Bonnpr has imagination and her phrasing was that of a musician.
—Olin Downes, Boston Post, February 24.
She rejoices in the possession of a genuine contralto voice, a type about as rare as a genuine basso. She has dramatic instinct and knows how to pronounce English.	—Edwin Moore, Chicago Tribune, March 4.
Elizabeth Bonner has a contralto voice of good quality and volume, full in the lower notes and under good control. She sings understandingly.	*	—Maurice Rosenfeld, Chicago Daily News, March 4.
Her voice is a contralto of remarkable volume and of great beauty, particularly in the medium and lower range. It is a contralto too of purest type with no admixture of soprano quality in any part of its compass. Miss Bonner’s upper notes are extremely effective and her low tones have the richness and warmth of organ diapasons. There is a real thrill in them. And there is persuasive loveliness in the tones of the medium compass. Miss Bonner is a song interpreter of intelligence and skill.	—James H. Rogers, Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 8.
Elizabeth Bonner Is Available for Concerts, Recitals and Oratorios
This SPRING and SEASON 1922-23
Mason and Hamlin Piano
RAOUL BIAIS,
Metropolitan Opera House, New York City.
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