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HE VILLAGE SINGERS - Does the title mean anything to you?
A company of selected vocalists singing many of the OLD SONGS and singing them WELL. A MALE QUARTET and SOPRANO SOLIST in ensemble work, interspersed with readings, vocal solos, and the delightful musical and literary after-piece, "FIRELIGHT MEMORIES." For several seasons we have contemplated placing before our committees a company of ARTISTS capable of correctly interpreting the songs of long ago.
Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have heard the great and only "Patti," will remember the storm of applause that greeted her when she sang "Home, Sweet Home."
We have always claimed that it required greater art to render the familiar songs in English, than many of the Operatic selections in a foreign tongue. The individual members of the company have been selected with great care, they possess excellent voices and sympathetic natures, so essential in the ensemble work.
The Village Singers are so well known in all sections of the country that words of introduction are entirely unnecessary. They have returned year after year over some of the best Lyceum Courses. The personnel is unchanged.
The program this season will be stronger than before on account of the addition of Miss SMITH who is not only a fine reader but soprano as well. The famous sextette from Lucia has been arranged for the five voices and will be used on the program. A new sketch is being written to take the place of "Back From Erstwhile Lane" which made a pronounced hit the past season.
The Village Singers strive to make their work different from all other ogranizations and introduce many novel features which make it highly entertaining as well as instructive.
The program will be given in three parts, each with different costumes. ~ The Management.
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University of Iowa Libraries/digital.lib.uiowa.edu/tc
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2011.
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