The Old Home Singers

              Redpath

Figure


Figure

The Old Home Singers



Figure



Figure




Figure



Figure




Figure



Figure



Figure






Figure

THE OLD HOME SINGERS
If the Old Home Singers ever return to Poplar Bluff with the intention of repeating the entertainment they gave last night, standing room in the Fraternal Opera House will be at a premium.  Never since Poplar Bluff people have been favored with Lyceum entertainments, have a troupe of singers so completely captivated their audience as did those who appeared Friday evening.  From the opening number until the final curtain the Old Home Singers had Poplar Bluff people at their feet, and their visit will never be forgotten by those who heard them.

Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Redpath Lyceum Bureau, Kansas City, Mo.

Falun, Kans., Nov. 10, 1914.

Gentlemen:—In the past we have had several excellent entertainments from the different bureaus, but without a single exception we take off our hats to the Old Home Singers.  It is the best number we have had here, and we don't see how it could be made better.  The voices are all excellent and well balanced.  It sure is an excellent advertisement for our course here and you as well.

Very truly yours,
(Signed) E. T. JOHNSON.

Closing with a magnificent rendition of Home, Sweet Home, the Old Home Singers gave to Gainesville last evening one of the greatest concerts ever witnessed—great by reason of the fact that the songs sung, and the costumes worn, depicted the Olden Times.

The house was filled, and the enthusiasm with which the concert was received shows very plainly that the Olden Songs still live—and always will live.  They will occupy a place peculiarly their own with us all.  They will bring back the memories of the past as nothing else ever will, and the Old Home Singers, a quartet comprised of two superb male and female voices will have played its part insofar as Gainesville's memory of the Old Songs is concerned.

Gainesville, Texas.




The Old Home Singers

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection recalls them to view,
The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood,
And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

HOW memory takes us back to those cherished scenes.  Most often it is when we hear one of the old songs.  These songs of our old home, hummed at our work, or sung by the greatest of singers, are the best loved and most beautiful of all music.  They are so much more than music to us.

The program of The Old Home Singers is a journey into the Days of Yesterday—an evening of reminiscence, with the happy association of the past.

We have chosen five young artists who, in voice and manner, are especially suited to sing and present the program.  Each is a soloist of pleasing quality, capable of singing the heart songs.  They form a mixed quartet, capable of superb ensemble work, as is evidenced by their artistic rendering of the quartette from Rigoletto.  That they meet the requirements of the program perfectly is shown in the many reports we have received from the committees, and the heartfelt appreciation of their audiences.

At the opening of the program the five young people have just returned from a musical, where a song composed by one of the young men has proven to be the hit of the season.

Following the congratulations, a discussion starts regarding the music of today.  By way of illustration they sing selections from grand opera, oratorio music, sentimental ballads, rag time, topical songs, novelty songs—the different types which are now sung and enjoyed.  Especially clever and pleasing is the original Lullaby Rag, sung by the tenor.  Also the Rio Grande Rag, introducing the Mexican flavor which has crept into our American music.

These young artists agree that the most beautiful and best loved of all are the heart songs, which are endeared to us through past association.  They plan an evening of the old songs.

The men appear in the costume of 1850 and in a very mirth provoking fashion are trying to accustom themselves to the clothes of their grandfathers.  The girls have been rummaging in the attic and enter beautiful in the quaint dresses of that time, with sixty yards of lace on the ruffles, as grandmother had said.

The costuming and staging carry us, in fancy, back to the days of long ago.  The serious songs, the sentimental, the humorous, the songs we nearly have forgotten, the songs mother used to sing, all come back to give us a variety of program seldom heard today.

Among those which we will name as suggestive, are, Sweet Genevieve, The Old Oaken Bucket, When You And I Were Young, Maggie, Ben Bolt, Pop Goes the Weazel, Captain Jinks, and many songs sung with games such as Old Dan Tucker and King William was King James' Son.

The Old Home Singers please universally.  People know so many of their songs, and the singing of them is extremely effective when thus presented and costumed.  Every Lyceum committee should secure this program by The Old Home Singers.




Figure


JAMES REDPATH Founder of the Lyceum

ESTABLISHED SINCE 1868