Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-28
THE SINGERS.


The Second Day of the Minnesota State
Ssengerfese-The Procession in the Morn
ing Election of Officers-The Trial Sing
ing-Address by Hon. Albert Wolff The
Programme for To-day.
The Sengerfest was continued yesterday &C.
cording to programme. Notwithstanding the
decision of the central committee to dispense
with public procession in view of the criti-
cal condition of the President, there was a
the sort, and accordingly at about IL O'Clock
the societies were mustered and paraded the
streets to the music of martial bands They
presented a fine appearance.
In the evening a business meeting of the
bund was held at the Athenaum, at which
there was full representation of all the So
cieties. 1t was decided, after much discus
sion, to hold the next biennial festival at Still
water, the date to be determined by the local
society, and to hold next years business meet
ing at Faribault, the date also to be left to the
local society. The following officers were
elected:
Presidential Friedrich.
Secretary-B. Jassoy.
Treasurer-E. Kruger.
In the evening large audience was present
to listen to the trial singing. Previous to the
musical programme Capt. Otto Dreher intro
duced Mr.. Albert Wolff, who delivered an elo-
Quent address, of which the following is
summary:
Singers and We Friends of Song.
In olden times, when Minnesota was State
looked for by hard working pioneers, and in
habited by men only who had to fight soil,
natives and elements, the German singer
founded the SSngerbund
Certainly, the first Sengerfest we old Mime
sofa pioneers held was not such one as we
are celebrating to-day. Time and men and
habits have changed, and we expect now
more than We did when we celebrated the first
Sengerfest, twenty-one years ago, in our beau
tiful city.
it has had and always will have a cultivating
upon mankind. Aud especially we Germans
are Influenced by music and song, perhaps
more than any other nationality. Is it not the
goddess of music that keeps US German-Amer-
leans here in our new fatherland together?
Wherever a German song is heard you will
see hundreds gathering together, and even
out here, in the Far West, We see to-day
citizens, from all parts of the State, joining
in the cult9re of music.
1t is the German song that keeps us Ger
man-American citizens together, that helps
us to still maintain and cultivate German hab-
its, German usages, German thoughts.
Different were our professions, our Occupa-
tions, and different they are still. Hard were
the struggles, not easy our ways of Western
life. And yet we German-Americans have ad-
hered to our localities; yes, we taught our ma
tive American fellow citizens to cultivate, to
love our most beloved art.
It is a fact that we Germans soon become
hon
any other nationality, the clothes made and
woven by national habits and usages; we
learn to enjoy and partake of American tastes
and habits, and We have the right of being
proud of this power of assimilation pos
sessed by the Germans.
But there is one thing no German ever will
forget, might he be as far away from his old
Fatherland as he may! Wherever you find a
German, you find German songs.
Mr.. Wolff then spoke at some length about
the power of music, the cultivating influence
especially of the German songs.
Wherever In the United States singing fes-
tival takes place, not only the German Amer
leans, all Americans, may they be of English,
1rishs Seadinayian, or any other descent-yes,
even the native American, the Indian they
all join in the festival and enjoy the German
song.
Naming some of the most prominent Ger
his most elaborate speech, which cannot be
given in the English language in the same i'm
pressiFe manner as it was delivered in the
German language, with few verses.
The programme for to-day will be as fol-
lows:
A grand picnic and concert at Union park
during the afternoon.
In the evening at s o'clock the visiting
societies give a concert at the Atheneum,
with the following programme:
l. Overture. .............O Orchestra.
2. "Spring song". Observation-Disclosures. Abt.
Pioneer Mannerchor Young America.
3. students Night Song". ........ Fisher.
Harmonic, Minneapolis.
4. "The Prayer in the Grove" ...... Abt.
Saltwater M3nnerchor.
5. "Good Night ye Flowers" .....W. H.
Falrbault Harmonic.
6. 1.-THE Trumpeter at the Katfbach"..
Observation-Disclosures. Mohring.
Frohsime, Minneapolis.
T. 1.-THE Long" Hermes.
Minneapolis M@nnerchor.
s. "My Love-. ....
Mankato Liedertapl.
The concert will be followed by a Minnesota
old fashioned jolly social and minst rel enter
tainment.