Tour
After Boston, Nielsen began a series of popular Chautauqua tours. These outdoor concert took place under a big tent, moving from town-to-town by rail. The circuit ranged from Florida to Chicago. Nielsen was the highest-paid performer on the circuit. The week-long Redpath Chautauqua series closed in each town with "Alice Nielsen Day."
During the 1910s, Nielsen sang in joint concerts with John McCormack and other artists at Carnegie Hall and in national tours. Her concerts consisted of art songs and arias, followed by dozens of encores of popular Celtic and parlor songs. A typical program was,
- "Two Japanese Songs" - Cadman
- "Lullaby" - Cyril Scott
- "Will o’ the Wisp" - Charles Gilbert Spross
- "Salvator Rosa" - Carlos Gomez
- "Pouquoi" - Saint-Saëns
- "Mandoline" - Debussy
- "Tu Nous Souriais" - Andre Caplet
- "A Toi" - Bamberg
- "Down In The Forest" - Landon Ronald
- "But Lately In Dance" - Arensky
- "Oh! Haunting Memory" - Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- "Love Has Wings" - James Hotchkiss Rogers
- "Botschaft" and "Vergehliches Standchen" - Brahms
- "Solvejgs Leid" and "Ein Traum" - Grieg
- "La Tosca" - Puccini
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