Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — Concert. [ARTICLE]

Concert.

Emma Warde Hoffman, the talented pianiste, will give a concert at the Rensseker Opera House Oct. 19 th. She is a graduate of the College of Music of Cincinnati, where she won the gold medal for her piano playing. She has a fine technique, and this coupled with talent of a high order makes her a musician of unusual ability, and she has won golden opinions wherever she has appeared in concert. She will be assisted by the gifted young violinist, Bert Shepherd, of Chicago, and Mr. Frank Hardy, basso. Mr. Shepherd delights his audiences by his masterly playing upon that most difficult of instruments, the violin. He plays with great expression, and during a concert tour last winter and spring through the large cities of the west was given the warmest praises by the press. Mr. Hardy possesses a bass voice of great compass and wonderful power and sweetness which has received the most careful training under the famous grand opera singer and teacher, Sig Vettorio Carpi of the Chicago Conservatory. Mr. Hardy’s voice has not only won praises from so great a teacher, but it has also won for him the warmest applause from his audiences.