The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-07
IN The DOMAIN OF MUSIC
BASED ON THE LEGEND OF
THE OJIBWAYS
SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS
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drama also based on the legend by the
Ojibway Indians at the Canadian village
of Desbarats a few weeks ago. The dra-
matte representation was doubtless pic
turesque, and the speeches of Longfel-
lows mythical personages no doubt were
ringing and sonorous as they fell from
the lips of the Ojibways. 1t seems
bit pitiful, however, that Messrs. L. o.
Armstrong, of Montreal, and Francis
West, of Boston, who planned the per-
Torrance, did not take the trouble TO in
form the public that neither the historical
nor the mythicaf Hiawatha ever had
anything to do with the Ojibways. The
Hiawatha story and the Hiawatha myth
are both Iroquoian, while the congerins
of legends which Longfellow we've to-
sether to make his Song of Hiawatha''
are Algonkin.
1t is not as well or as widely known
as it ought to be that the Hiawatha of
Longfellow's poem is the mythical evolu-
ton of historical parsonage. There
once was an Indian named Hiawatha,
but the entire contribution which he
made to the beautiful poem which has
carried his name to the ends of the civil
lied world was his name. The rest is s
version of Indian legends, some belonging
to Hiawatha's people, but the majority
to the Indians who live in the locality
which the poet chose as the theater of
the incidents described by him. The veri-
table Hiawatha was an Onondaga chief.
who lived in what is now Central New
York 0he state, not the city,, and VINO,
II not the actual founder of the Iroquois
league, was at least largely instrumental
In bringing 1t about In fact, if the con-
customs of the late Horatio Hale
ph1lologist, are correct, 1t was Hiawa tina
who conceived that remarkable political
organization for a purpose as lofty as
any that ever inspired the soul of
statesman or philanthropist, his aim, Mr..
Hole thought, being to introduce univer-
sal peace among mankind. The Hiawa-
tina OF Longfellow is a supernatural be-
ing of the Ojibways, a sort of Indian
Osiris, and the stories are those which
relate chiefly to the Ojibway Manabozho
and his comrades. Thus" saws Mr.
Hale in his ''Iroquois Book of Rites "by
an extraordinary fortune a grave Iroquois
lawgiver of the fifteenth century has be-
come, in modern literature an Ojibway
demi-god, son of the West wind, and
companion Of the tricky Paupukkeewis,
the boastful Iagoo, and the strong Kwa-
sind. If Chinese traveller during the
and religion Of the Western nations, had
COMPOUNDED King Alfred with King Ar
thur and both with Odin, he would not
nave made q more preposterous confu-
sion of names and characters than that
which has hitherto disguised the genu-
inc personality Of the great Onondaga
reformer."
Nine: sembrioh, during the coming sea-
~. h0 hnQ Ard In 1oJ
In New York, the date of which has been
set for Tuesday afternoon Dec f. and
during the month of December she will
appear, in all, in eight recitals in different
cities. The company which Mr.. Graf has
engaged to support Nine Sembrich on
the opera tour will arrive about the mid
ole OF December, and rehearsals will then
two weeks. Orchestral rehearsals and
chorus rehearsals will be held by Signor
BeVignanl, who arrives on Nov 80. and
VIII pegln immedia tely after his arrival.
Charles L. Young, who last season ex-
plotted the tour of Nine Emma Nevada
throughout the United States and Mexico,
certs introducing home talent exclusively,
has just concluded arrangements for q
tour throughout America and Australia.
beginning in December, with Jean Ger
that he has secured Carl Heinzen, the
Vioiin1st. He also has the assurance that
should Nine. Patti decide to visit this
country again it will be under his man
agement.
The season opens with bright pros
poets for the National Fedora ton of Mus
ical clubs. In October the board IF man
agement will meet in Cleveland, where
the biennial convention will be held next
spring. to arrange preliminaries for that
event. Requests and suggestions from all
federated clubs to the general and sec
tional officers will be presented to the
board at that time and receive careful
consideration.
Miss Lulu CHASER, the prina donna So
prano, Will have new comic opera writ
ten for her by Edgar Smith and Louis
DeLange' music by. W. H. Neidlinger
The first appearance of Nine Gadski
In America this. season will be as Eliza
p beth IN "Iannhauser, with the Grau
company oi1aE,a IN san FRANCISCO, This is GER
tal1ly one of Nine. Gadskfs best roles.
ana one In which she is a great favor
lite with the. San Francisco public The
last time she sang Elizabeth in San
when there with Mr.. CRAFTS concert com,
pany. Wh1ch included Walter Damrosch
and David Bispham.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is said to he en-
gagged In composing an elegy on the death
of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha which
is to have its first performance at Gotha.
Fraulein Aus der Ohe, who made such
brilliant success in concert a few years
ago, and is well remembered here has
Deen engaged as one of the soloists with
the Boston Symphony orchestra this sea
son. 90
-, The The book Of Johann Strauss posthu-
NOUS operetta, Wiener Blut," is in the
hands of Glen Macdonald for translat ton
and adaptation for the American stage.
Ben Teal will stage, and Max Gabrjei
Will conduct the operetta Miss Amelia
Stone, an American girl, who, three wears
ago, was member of Hoyt & Mckee's
London company, and who has since won
favor with audiences in Paris. Rerlin
Vienna, Buda-Pesth, Dresden Munich
hamburg and Copenhagen, has been en-,
Eage9 10 play the part Of a Vienna dane
ing girl IN the opera.
The London critics are somewhat mora
sparing of their praise of Prof Horatio
G M park Pra1r new s Choral work "A Wan
month. than they were of his "Hors
Novissima" last year.
Give Us Just Another Lincoln" is the
title of new popular song FURNISHED hv
Hawley, .Haviland & Co, Chicago any
New York. 1t is the composition Of pail
Dresser, author of 1.-THE Blue and tha
Stray, and has the same eatchiness that
n ITS predecessor. so popular The
chorus has rythmical swing and the
words are stirringly patriotic.
s. Miss s. 6 Gertrude ra Jacobson, formerly of
Opera company in New York ''''
Miss. Julia Donovan, contralto. of Du-
luth, has accepted position with the
G tba n,a eh Or Miss Donovan takes
has gone to New York to study. VIZ