Horner Institute of Fine Arts

Mr. Roland R. Witte.

Last September Mr. Witte, the New York baritone, was engaged as a teacher in the voice department. At the very beginning of his work in Kansas City Mr. Witte gave promise of being one of the most interesting artistic personalities in the city and he ahs decidedly fulfilled that promise, both in his teaching and singing.

MR. ROLAND R. WITTE

Mr. Witte is a pupil of Charles N. Granville, New York, of Frans Prochowsky, Berlin, and of Eduoard de Reszke, Paris. For several years he headed the voice department in the Montgomery, Alabama, Conservatory of Music, later moving to New York, where he was a soloist at Rabbi Wise's Free Temple, Carnegie Hall and very popular as teacher and concert singer.
   Mr. Witte was known extensively as a light opera tenor before joining the ranks of the serious concert artists. While retaining much of the tenor's ringing top voice he has found his real field as a baritone and is doing the most artistic work of his career.
   Mr. Witte's first public appearance in Kansas City was as soloist at the first Popular Concert of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra

in Convention Hall, where he scored an instant success with the audience of eight thousand persons. He strengthened this earlier good impression at his subsequent recital at the Muehlebach Hotel. Mr. Witte likewise has the honor of being the soloist to open the series of Popular Concerts by the Shostac Quartette. He has been very successful in his teaching at the Horner Institute of Fine Arts. His schedule has been a large one from the beginning of the school year. In his class are many prominent singers from Kansas City and the Middle West. Mr. Witte is soloist and choir director at the Calvary Baptist Church, one of the most coveted positions in the city.