Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — ALBERT LINDOUEST TENOR, COMING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ALBERT LINDOUEST TENOR, COMING

One of th? bigeest sensations in Chi- j cago music circles at the present time , is Albert Lindquest. the twenty-five- j year-old tenor. In 1911, while Lindquest was studying law in the University of Chicago, the celebrated Italian 1 tenor. Allessapdrg Bypci, gave a recital 1 at the university. That night Lindquest was singing on the porchof a fraternity house. Bonci heard him and '-immediately hunted die singer up and ■ said, “You have the most promising I tenor voice I have heard in Agierit-a.’’ That befctuniSjp Lindquest gS?S up the studj- of law and turned his attention tg the study of voice. At the time the European war broke out he was studying in Berlin. In trying to leave the country he was arrested as a spy. but finally succeeded in making his way back home. Mr. Lindquest has sung in the large cities of America, at the Panama Ex-

position, with the St Paul Symphony Orchestra and has toured the country ithree times as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the most prominent orchestra in the United States. The Minneapolis Tribune recently said this about “Mr. Lindquest api>eared for the third time as soloist with the orchestra and created a sensat on.' He has a gloriously pure, thrillimg voice." A short time ago he gave a recital in Orchestral Hall. Chicago. The admission price was 52.50. Mr. Lindquest comes the last day of the Chautauqua with the Lindquest-Allen-Van Vliet Company.