Franz Rainer's Tyrolean Alpine Singers

              Franz Rainer's 
Tyrolean Alpine Singers

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Exclusive Management Coit Lyceum Bureau, Cleveland




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A Beautifully Costumed Company



CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The very newest spark of novelty and interest in a charming combination of the picturesque and romantic in music was offered last night in the Auditorium by the Tyrolean Alpine Singers, under the direction of Franz Rainer.  Clad in their native costumes, these artists bring home to the audience the music of the mountain, pulsating with life and throbbing with human sympathy. The ensemble maintained in the choruses was captivatingly perfect—a delightful proportion being maintained and the tone quality fresh and musical.  The scene enacted on the stage was like a reproduction of a chapter from Alpine life and scenery, so vivid and realistic was it in every detail.  One of the most enjoyable features was the solo work.  That exquisite form of mountain singing which reverberates in echoes from cliff to cliff and is known the wide world over as 
yodling,
 found a fascinating exponent in Marie Leitner, a high soprano of most remarkable range of voice.  Other soloists were presented, and their selections were full of that individual chic and humor of which the Tyrolese Alpine Singers alone seem to be capable—


Inquirer
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The Tyrolean Alpine Singers and Yodlers


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The Only Genuine Tyrolean Singers and Yodlers Touring the United States




THE TYROLEAN ALPINE SINGERS AND YODLERS come to America from the Zillerthal, especially for our audiences and under our exclusive management.  We have arranged with Franz Rainer for this company which will be the only genuine Tyrolean organization touring this country in Lyceum and Chautauqua work.  Franz Rainer first brought this company to America under the auspices of the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, where they scored a tremendous success.




From their Alpine homes these singers and instrumentalists have been carefully selected by their famous director, Franz Rainer, are trained and rehearsed in their world-famous folk and inimitable yodel and warbling songs.  They appear in the picturesque national costume of their people, the most attractive in all Europe.




Since their first tour in this country, they have added to their repertoire many of the favorite national and popular songs of America.  Their program is replete with variety, the company presenting instrumental music, as well as vocal, using the unique instruments of their native land.




The press notices used in this circular were selected because of their description of the evening's entertainment.  Read them!



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Instrumental Music With Tyrolese Instruments



ST. LOUIS, MO.—The Tyrolean Alpine Singers broke all attendance records Monday night, upon their first appearance.  What constant singing together will do for any choir has been done for them through their long association.  St. Louisians have probably never heard such a blending of naturally beautiful voices as from this company.  The soloists could not be duplicated in even a first-class musical company.  Not only two or three times did the soprano strike the high 
E,
 but often during the evening, and she holds it with a force and clarity that call for repeated cries of admiration on the part of the audience.—


Post-Dispatch
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PEORIA, ILL.—Never before has a company of Tyroleans sung in Peoria which does such artistic work.  It is not only popular, but so musical as to attract the most critical musician.  The 
Star Spangled Banner,
 which they sang last night after giving their own national song, 
Under the Double Eagle,
 made a great hit with the audience, and when they all produced small American flags, waving them in the chorus, enthusiasm ran high.  
Swanee River
 was also one of the favorites last night.—


Transcript
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The Tyrolean Alpine Singers



CORA GENEVIEVE RAMSDEN is a reader of genuine ability with several years' experience before Lyceum audiences.  She studied at the California School of Expression in San Francisco, and later as a pupil of Leland T. Powers.  Her selections are well chosen from bright, fresh material and she will please any audience.  We reprint a few notices concerning some recent appearances before Lyceum audiences.




MOORHEAD, MINN. — Miss Ramsden more than pleased her audience, she captivated it.—


Daily News
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MINNEAPOLIS. — An unusually talented reader.—


Tribune
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FARGO.—I have heard Miss Ramsden read with great personal pleasure, and she brings to her work rare intelligence and fine discrimination.—


Herbert G. Leonard, Pastor First M. E. Church
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MISS CORA G. RAMSDEN



A Few American Notices About the Tyroleans



NEW YORK, N. Y.—At the Union League Club there was an irresistible freshness and charm about the first concert last night of the Tyrolean Alpine Singers, introducing the Zillerthal Gesellschaft from the mountainsides of the Tyrolese Alps.  The stage, with its native costumes, looked like a transformation scene from the Alps, with the same piquancy of life and exuberance of song.  It was surprising how much genuine music and real art these lads and lassies from the Tyrol put into a beautifully diversified program.  The ensemble was so perfect that the best trained Festival chorus might have had cause to envy it.  The shading was subtle, the crescendos were convincing and the naturalness of the native atmosphere seemed to pervade their every effort.  In the echoes of 
The Beautiful Nightingale,
 Miss Leitner proved a high soprano voice of exquisite purity.  The yodel solo by Miss Hauser was a revelation of characteristic mountain singing.  Each member was encored.—


Sun
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MILWAUKEE, WIS.—It is a thoroughly unique and altogether delightful entertainment which is presented by the Tyrolean Alpine singers.  Dressed in the picturesque native costume, and with a fine representation of Tyrolean Alpine scenery as a background, they constitute an atmosphere that is like a real breath from the air of the mountains.  There must be something in that air which is conducive to vocal development of a high order, too, for these Alpine singers are all endowed with magnificent voices.  Throughout a delightful program, which was entirely out of the ordinary channel of entertainment and in which there was not a moment of monotony or dullness, a large audience was kept thoroughly amused and entertained.  The simplicity and native air of the mountain folk is maintained without any perceptive artificiality, and they sing and warble and echo their national songs with all evident enjoyment and zest which it is a pleasure to see and hear.—


Sentinel
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THE BRITTON PRINTING CO., CLEVELAND, O.