During's Swedish Ladies' Quintette

              FIRST AMERICAN TOUR
 OF THE FAMOUS

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Düring's Swedish Ladies' Quintette
 EDW. DÜRING - Founder and Director 
The Finest Vocal Quintette in Europe




Exclusive Direction REDPATH LYCEUM BUREAU Boston and Chicago




Assisted by MR. CURTIS G. MORSE Humorist, and Acting Manager





The Famous Düring Swedish Ladies' Quintette.



W
E are seldom privileged to announce a company of such promise as DÜRING'S SWEDISH LADIES' QUINTETTE.  Organized and trained by Edw. Düring, a noted musician of Stockholm, this Quintette has, for the past ten years, been considered by the best critics to be as near absolute perfection as can be attained.  Especial stress is laid upon the high quality of the voices, the fine training and precision of their singing, the elegant execution and well-studied ensemble, and the surprising skill of their unaccompanied renditions.  As one critic says:  
In these song productions there lies, what is generally so rare, a pure artistic intuition and an especially wonderful discipline as a background, and they work in an artistic unity which is flawless and brilliant.
  Another critic calls them 
an art quintette which aims at beauty of tone, richness of sound and delicacy of shading.
  Another says 
They would be an ornament to any prominent philharmonic concert.
  Such praise is very rare and shows better than anything the artistic standing of the Quintette.




The ladies are personally of fine appearance, which is enhanced by their picturesque national costumes.  They sing in English, Swedish and German.




MR. CURTIS G. MORSE, the popular entertainer, humorist and impersonator, has been engaged to manage the Company, and will assist in the programme.





Letters and Press Dotices



From Mr. LARS P. NELSON, of Stockholm.

The only company of Swedish lady singers I know of, and who could successfully appear in the States, are the Düring Quintette, consisting of five ladies, and they will fill the bill as regards voices and ability that you require.  The voices are two 1st sopranos, one 2d soprano, one alto and one contralto, remarkably well trained, and their presentations are first-class.




From GUSTAVE THALBERG, a well-known manager.

This ladies' quintette is something really extra fine.  It is the best ladies' quintette in Europe, have a great name and fame here.  They are certainly the best I ever heard, and I am sure will create a sensation in America; are very refined, educated and ladylike, speak English and sing a number of English songs,
 etc.




STAATSBÜRGER-ZEITUNG.

BERLIN
, 3 Okt.


Die Perle der Perlen bleibt das Schwedische Damen-Quintett Düring und es ist hocherfreulich, diese kûnstlerische Glansnummer noch auf dem Programm vorzufinden.




THE ERA.

LONDON
, 22 Febr.


Towards the end of the programme Düring's celebrated Swedish Quintet sing in a most charming manner.  Their voices are beautiful, the tone produced is simply delicious, and the harmonies rich.  One of their number, with a delightful mezzo-soprano voice, sings a solo to what is technically known as a bouche fermée accompaniment by the other members of the combination.  We have never heard such absolutely perfect part singing by female voices, and these Swedish young ladies certainly maintain the reputation of the Norsewomen for vocal endowment.  Did not Scandinavia give us Christine Nilsson?  The Düring Quintet, who, by the way, look very pretty in their national costumes, are a distinct acquisition, and if they do not immediately become popular we shall be very much surprised.




THE MUSIC REVIEW.

LONDON
, 28 Febr.


National songs have an interest far beyond the confines of the country whose exploits they extol, and are interesting items in popular musical programmes.  The songs of the north, and those of Sweden in particular, have a wierd fascination, which renders them acceptable, both from their novelty and charm.  The Düring Quintette of ladies, now appearing at the Empire and the Royal, are vocalists of exceptional merit, and deservedly enjoy a reputation which they enhance every time they visit England.  They will shortly return to the Continent, but carry back with them several re-engagements, so that we shall again have the delight of listening to their characteristic melodies.






Press Notices Regarding the Düring Swedish Ladies' Quintet.


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Leipzig Daily Paper.

LEIPZIG
, April 6.


The recent appearances of the Düring Swedish Ladies' Quintet caused a genuine sensation with their charming contralto and the beautiful bell-like soprano.  There was something wonderfully fascinating in the singing of these ladies.  Their method gave evidence of an excellent training, as shown especially in the Waltz of Wahlin, 
Come, Beautiful Maiden,
 in the rhythmic, softly sustained, 
Freedman's Letter,
 by Bellman, and in the tender harmonious execution, dropping down to the softest piano, of 
Lilla Tjall.
  Tremendous applause recalled the northern mistresses of song to the stage for an encore.




Cagesanzeiger für Liban
. (Daily Advertiser for Liban.) 
LIBAN
, July 24.


There will be in the principal hotel this evening a second concert by the Düring Ladies' Quintet, whose visit as especially noted was so warmly received.  The first concert of day before yesterday has evidently charmed the large audience.  One knew, from previous summers here, that the Swedish ladies sing with marvellous beauty together, but nothing is so excellent that it cannot become more so—the ladies day before yesterday demonstrated that they had improved not a little over previous years. They sang the love songs familiar from Swedish singers and songstresses, partly Swedish, partly German, national airs 
a capella,
 that is to say, without instrumental accompaniment, and they sang these so clearly, with such beautiful harmony, that one under the fresh influence of their singing seemed never to have heard anything sweeter or more beautiful.




Düna Zeitung
. (Düna Journal.) 
RIGA
, Aug. 5.


The Swedish Ladies' Quintet gave a concert Sunday evening and Monday in the Imperial Garden before a large attendance of the public.  Each song aroused a storm of applause, which forced the amiable songstresses to repeated encores.  While they, with elegant execution, know how to combine a well-studied ensemble, their songs never fail to thrill the listener.  We hope that some time again these extraordinary delights for the ears, and—we dare betray ourselves—of the eyes also, will be presented.



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Berliner Lokal=Anzeiger
. (Berlin Local Advertiser.) 
BERLIN
, Sept. 14.


A quintet of Swedish songstresses made, some evenings since, an extraordinary sensation in the Apollo Theatre.  The 'Five Dürings,' as the ladies call themselves, in their second appearance, sing Swedish and German quartets and quintets, original melodies, in a manner most suggestive of home.  But what especially distinguishes the ladies, and places them far above the best of similar organizations which Styrian Russia and other countries send to us in recent years, is the academic training and precision of their singing, the modesty of the distinguished form, which avoids all coarse or sensual means.  Finally the classical shading of tone in the single voices, which without particularly conveying the impression of being high, seek and find their strength in the delicate texture of the 
toute ensemble
, so that soprano and contralto, in finest accuracy, serve as a foil to each other.  So we hear the bell-like chord, over all a distinct organic, entirely pure, artistic uniformity.  The five Dürings would be an ornament to any prominent philharmonic concert.  In the sentimental numbers sounds an emotional tenderness—in the comic, a dramatic power.  In these song productions there lies—what is generally so rare—a pure artistic intuition and an especially wonderful discipline as a background, and they work in an artistic unity which is flawless and brilliant.



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Düsseldorfer Volksblatt
. (Düsseldorf People's Journal.) 
D
Ü
SSELDORF
, May 2.


In the Apollo Theater was given yesterday a complete change of programme and performers.  The new programme contains many numbers which belong to the most beautiful and effective that the fastidious management of the Apollo Theater has produced for us in this connection.  Of first importance might we put the modest and unassuming appearance of the Düring Quintet, a Swedish ladies' vocal troupe, in national costume.  One can go far and have heard many beautiful voices and yet seldom meet with such choice and brilliant voice material and tuneful flexibility.  Each one of the five, carefully dressed in her Swedish costume and of fine presence, is an artist, and together they are an art quintet which aims at beauty of tone, richness of sound, and delicacy of shading.  In voice-method, system of breathing, dynamic control, every one of the voices is simply exemplary.  Their songs, attractively combining the Swedish characteristics with a coloring of foreign harmony, exercise a melancholy charm on their hearers.



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Münchener Fremdenblatt
. (München Foreign Sheet.) 
M
Ü
NCHEN
, Aug. 2.


Of first importance was the Düring Swedish Ladies' Quintet, which charmed the public with their national songs.  With their rare clearness, accuracy and warmth, the ladies so presented their charming, homely airs to their hearers, that the applause would not subside and the songstresses were obliged to respond with repeated encores.




Zeitung für Stadt und Land
. (Journal for Town and Country.) 
RIGA
, Aug 5.


Their 
a capella
 singing is clear as crystal, of wonderful harmony, and nowhere forces a voice, but rather blends all together in the whole.  Whether melancholy or merry, always tuneful, whatever they contributed, charming.




Staatsbürger=Zeitung
. (Citizens' Journal.) 
BERLIN
, Oct. 3.


The Düring Swedish Ladies' Quintet remains the pearl of pearls, and it is with the greatest pleasure that one finds this brilliant artistic combination on the programme.



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Stettiner General=Anzeiger
. (Stettin General Advertiser.) 
STETTIN
, Sept. 30.


The Central Halls opened yesterday evening at their new time with a programme the special feature of which is the Düring Swedish Song Quintet.  We have known this admirable quintet for four years, and we are delighted to meet them again.  There is scarcely anything new to say in praise of them.  As always one is forced to wonder at the even tone and the earnest ensemble work of the lovely voices, the tender piano and the finished rendering of the solo stars.  We cannot praise the ladies better than when we say that they will confer a grace on every concert hall of importance.  The public was indefatigable last evening in applause and demands for encores, to which the ladies good naturedly responded.  We would gladly have listened longer indeed, and so on that account willingly miss many other things.






CURTIS G. MORSE Impersonator and Humorist

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M
R. MORSE has been on the platform ever since he was big enough to speak his little piece in Sunday School (that is, at intervals).  He has had the advantage of excellent and thorough training and years of good hard experience.  He is perfectly at ease in his work, and immediately transmits this feeling to his audience.  In other words he is a natural entertainer.  Possibly his greatest success has been made in humorous and eccentric character work, and yet he is equally well fitted for the more legitimate, and whatever straight work he does is marked with a depth and quiet simplicity and naturalness which is surprising to those who have heard him only in comedy; and this versatility has won him golden opinions as an all-round, refined, artistic entertainer.




In his work he covers a range of characters from those of Shakespeare to David Harum and Mr. Dooley, and after he has told all he knows, he can still sit down at the piano and play and sing until the lights go out.



Press Notices



The chief entertainment of the evening was furnished by Curtis G. Morse, of Boston, whose droll stories and character impersonations kept the diners in the best of humor.  * * * The audience could not have laughed more than at the dialect and otherwise humorous recitations of Mr. Morse.—


Boston Globe.





Mr. Morse was, as a reader and humorist, a whole show by himself.  It is quite within the bounds of truth that many a man, this morning, found it necessary to call for help in replacing buttons which were exploded from their proper place by the bursts of laughter that greeted Mr. Morse's humorous sallies.  Along this line he was simply inimitable; no funnier man probably ever appeared in Alton.  Fun was not his only power.  Pathetic pieces, such as the scene in which David Harum and the Widow Cullom figured, were as effective on the audience as the jollier ones.  He will be long remembered here as a genius in elocution.—


Alton
 (Ill.) 
Evening Telegram.





Mr. Morse was received with great warmth, his selections being of a humorous character, and given in such a comical style, that the audience could seem to show their appreciation in no better way than to call him back some two or three times to each selection.  He is a comical artist.—


Marion
 (Ohio) 
Daily Star.





Curtis G. Morse, the humorist, was delightfully entertaining, and was recalled over and over again.  Mr. Morse seems to be the humorist pre-eminent.  He does not declaim, but furnishes an excellent objective definition of what humor is.  If you wish to laugh and have a pleasant taste in your mouth for days afterwards, be sure to hear Mr. Morse.—


Fitchburg
 (Mass.) 
Evening Star.





The humorous readings and impersonations of Mr. Morse made the hit of the evening.—


Richmond
 (Va.) 
Dispatch.





Mr. Curtis G. Morse was announced as entertainer.  Such he surely was. His readings were given with excellent expression, and even his jokes were above the average platform witticism.—


Kendallville
 (Ind.) 
Daily Sun.





Mr. Morse is a humorist of unquestionable talent, and his work last evening brought him numerous recalls.  In all his recitations he was pleasingly natural.  His reading, 'The Fight in the Wilderness,' by Penney, was admirable character acting, and earned for him a hearty recall.  He also recited with much feeling, 'The Old Man and Jim,' by James Whitcomb Riley.—


Lowell
 (Mass.) 
Morning Citizen.





Curtis G. Morse, of Boston, appeared in several impersonations and humorous sketches, which caused hearty laughter and applause.—


Nashua
 (N. H.) 
Press.




The readings by Mr. Morse were finely rendered and won much applause.—


Boston Herald.





Curtis G. Morse, the humorist, is an artist in his line, and his comic selections kept the audience in a continual uproar.  His readings were especially well rendered and pleasing to the audience, and his jokes were gotten off in a manner that threw the audience in convulsions of laughter.  He was recalled to the stage many times during the evening.—


Forest
 (Ohio) 
Review.





Mr. Morse has a keen sense of humor, and knows exactly how to bring out the point of a story so that the laughs will come in the proper places.—


New York Dramatic Mirror.





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