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LOUIS GRAVEURE
His Unprecedented Conquest!
TEN PROGRAMS
By
LOUIS GRAVEURE
<l|Mr. Graveure’s T en Programs used for his tours during the present season have been printed in a brochure which will be mailed to anyone on request.
perfection singing may be brought.”—Allegemeine Musikzeitung.
“Whoever has an ear for song, must in truth call Graveure the Ideal Singer!”—Tageblatt.
“Graveure is one of the most interesting and artistically fascinating personalities of the concert world. What we can all learn from this man!”— Morgenpost.
“Graveure met yesterday an uncomfortably filled hall. He was showered with applause and demands for repetitions. How happy the audience seemed once more to hear such a universal artist. One whose singing knows no dividing line of country— a modern troubadour, who proves that this world is only one land, in which man everywhere understands the language of feeling—the language of music.”— Tageblatt.
VIENNA:
“Louis Graveure-German classics!”—
-a master in the interpretation of ■Neues Wiener Tageblatt.
. “Louis Graveure's success was extraordinary. With his unusually beautiful voice, his comprehensive technique, our German classics were all presented with consummate art.”—Journal.
MUNICH:
“Graveure’s second recital ;!gain proved him peer of Lieder singers.”—Neues-Munchener Tageblatt.
“Graveure is undeniably a master! His breath control and tone placement could be used as a model for all singers.”—Augsburger Zeitung. '
“Graveure’s is a song-art not met with every day —with a taste so immaculate that spurns all blatant and cheap means, yet does he make vocal effects of the most astounding range and ever-changing color.”
—Augsburger Abendzeitung.
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the German classics so deeply that he interprets them as few can. Not in years have we heard such singing culture 1”—B. Z. am Mittag.
“Graveure! The name is become famous over night in Berlin. And we can understand the enthusiasm he arouses.”—Morgenpost.
“The sensation caused by Graveure’s art is well deserved. Ye friends of the Art of Song, I can only say: Go and hear, astonished, this phenomenal voice technic, this model of German diction and interpretive art!”—Konzert Rundschau.
“Seldom in my life have*! heard better or more beautiful singing than Graveure’s! And how grateful not to feel apologetic for his German, but instead, to be surprised by an understanding and a coloring of every syllable in a manner which ninety-nine of our own native singers might envy.”—Allgemeine Musikzeitwng.
“Louis Graveure drew so many hearers to his second concert that it was hardly possible in the overfilled hall, to find, standing room, even in the critic’s ‘ancestral corner.’ He is truly a modern Orpheus.” —Germania.
■	“Graveure is a veritable
Pied Piper. One wants to sit hours long, with open cars, and marvel exultantly at the wonder of his voice, his faultless enunciation, his manly insight into songs and his superlative voice culture.”—V orvarts.
“W hat a wonderfully drawn line of style he gives to his Schubert reading. How many German singers have we (unfortunately), who so understand how to sing Schubert into our very hearts?”—Morgenpost.
“Graveure! The Master of Song Interpretation.”— Bor sen Zeitung.
“Graveure came, saw, and conquered. His is an original conquest. He came absolutely unknown to us— without any tra-ra, and suddenly a new star shone in the Firmament of Song! Since Battistini and Mess-chaert at their earliest best, we have heard nothing comparable to this.”—Die Zeit.
“One confesses, openly a feeling of shame that out of New York must first come a singer to show us to what
MR. Graveure entered Berlin last April unheralded and gave his first recital. The story of its sweeping and sensational success is now well known. Within the space of one month he gave four recitals in Berlin alone, to sold out houses, repeating the same success in Dresden, Munich and Vienna. It was an achievement unique for an American.
BERLIN:
“Louis Graveure has created a veritable sensation with his finished and superb art.”—Reichsbote.
“Louis Graveure has achieved a success of such quick and sweeping intensity as has seldom been experienced in the annals of Berlin concert life. At his fourth concert, even though late in May, he filled the great Philharmonic Hall to overflowing with an enraptured audience.”—Morgenpost.
“Graveure upsets the tradition that ‘no one can sing German Lieder like a German.’ He has absorbed