The Dixie Chorus

              THE DIXIE CHORUS

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SONG AND CANTILATION IN A VISION OF 300 YEARS

The Dixie Chorus in The Epic of the Negro
IN the evening's entertainment called The Epic of the Negro, in the pleasing form of song and cantilation, one is given a vision of three hundred years of God's Providence with one of the races of the earth Much of humor and light sentiment is woven into the stately movement, because even the lash and shackles were never able to hush the laughter of the Negro's heart.  ¶ The Epic is presented as an evening of legitimate Lyceum entertainment — an effort to do justice without extravagance and to voice an appreciation of the heroic efforts of that Moses of his race — Booker T. Washington, and the Tuskegee Institute, which has become the Palestine to which he is leading a Singing Race.  ¶ This production was conceived and is produced under the personal direction of our special company organizer Mr. Ralph Dunbar.  ¶ Mr. Dunbar is well known throughout the country, not only as a company organizer, but also as a member of the famous Dunbar Quartet and Bell Ringers.



A Few of Many Enthusiastic Comments on The Dixie Tour of 1911–1912
R. E. Jossman, Clarkston, Mich., wrote on Nov. 30th, 1911: Our house was crowded to over-flowing and it was the best we have ever had in the way of an entertainment, and we can heartily recommend them to anybody.

H. H. Frost writing from Onarga, Ill., Oct. 27th 1911, says: The Dixie Chorus was well received and much enjoyed last evening.

A. H. Pontius writing from Ashtabula, Ohio, on Nov. 29th says: The Dixies made a big hit here.  They drew the biggest door sale of single admission tickets that we have ever had.  They gave a unique program that pleased our people immensely.

C. B. Stanley of New London, Wis., writes October 17th: The Dixie Co. appeared here last night as the first number on our program, and to say that they made a hit would be putting it mildly.  It was nearer a home run.  Every feature of the program was the best one.

William Rainey Bennett, Darlington, Wis., writing October 11th to Mr. Harrison, says: The Dixies were here last night, and was by far the biggest and best entertainment we have ever put on, and further is the biggest show on the Lyceum platform to-day.  All the other bureaus will imitate you next year as far as it is possible for them to do.  The old 'Jubilee' stunt is done forever.  The conception is immense, and the men you have selected are able to carry out the idea to perfection.  They are fine both individually and collectively.  They can sing.  Their specialties are great.  The dress-suit part of the program is in itself bigger and better than any other colored company's program all told.  This, of course, is only the last third of it all.

I want to congratulate you and Dunbar for the great success of the Dixies.  These people will make good in the most fastidious courses, and in the biggest cities.  You can put my word for the Dixies in big type any time you want to, and I'll stand back of it.  We had a bumper house—the biggest we have ever had.  All our knockers are put to sleep.




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THE DIXIE CHORUS IN THE EPIC OF THE NEGRO
A Lecture Recital produced by Ralph Dunbar


Lines of Voice Character by
Henry F. Coleman


Staged by
Hamilton Coleman


Scenery by
Richard Gotham


Costumes by
New York Costume Co.





PERSONNEL


HENRY F. COLEMAN
Lecturer and Manager


EDWARD GOODBAR
Tenor


HORACE GEORGE
Concertina


EDWARD WILLIAMS
Banjo


FRANK WOODS
Violin


SCHILLER EMERSON
Pianist


LOUIS JOHNSON
Reader


JOHN TURNER
Bass


WILLIAM S. BROWN
Electrician





PROGRAMME

PART ONE
Time — 1600 A. D.   Place — In Jungles of Africa

Scenes {The Hunt, Prayer for Rain, Offering of First Fruits, Selling Slave to Malay Chief, Initiation of Youth to Manhood



PART TWO
Time—1850 A. D.   Place—Mississippi

Scenes {In the Cotton Field, In the Prayer Meeting*

*During this scene the audience is respectfully asked to refrain from applause.  There may be much that will appeal to one's sense of humor, but it is presented in a reverential spirit, is not exaggerated and any portrayal of the old time darky before the war would be incomplete without a view of him during his religious devotions.



ENTRE ACT
At this time Mr. Coleman will deliver his famous oration on the race problem, that won him first place in the Iowa State Oratorical Contest at Cedar Rapids on March 4, 1910, and second place in the Inter-Collegiate Contest at Omaha, May 18, 1910.



PART THREE
Time—To-day   Place—The Lyceum Platform

Scene—Representative of the Deveopment of the American Negro of to-day.



Solo and Chorus—
A Man's a Man
Stewart



MR. LOUIS JOHNSON AND COMPANY



Banjo Solo—
March of the Dixie's
Williams



MR. EDWARD WILLIAMS



Tenor Solo—
Good-bye
Tausti



MR. EDWARD GOODBAR



Violin Solo—
Hungarian Airs
Hauser



MR. FRANK WOODS



Chorus—
The Sandman
Protheroe



THE DIXIE CHORUS



Readings from Paul Lawrence Dunbar





MR. LOUIS JOHNSON



Bass Solo—
Clang for the forge
DeKoven



THE JOHN TURNER



Concertina Solo—
Intermezzo
Tobani


Chorus—
Comrades in Arms
Adams



THE DIXIE CHORUS







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