The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-07-27
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A GREAT SUCCESS.

Singers of the Recent Fest Went
Home Greatly Pleased.
By this time every lusty throat
which sang at the sangerfest of the
Northwestern Singers association has
beer restored to its normal condition,
and the owners are pursuing their
wonted vocations. They had q jolly
good time, else they were hard to
please, for it is difficult to point to any
thing in which the st. Paul committee
was remiss. If anything, the hospi-
tally was too liberal. Such men.as L.
II. Hobe, Harold Lohrbauer and 9th.
ers. and especially President Floan and
Chief Boomer Harry Randall, were I'M
remitting In their attentions, and one
and all deserve a special vote of
thanks The sangerfest was fine sue,
cess. The association is soon likely to
rival the lamcnted United Scandinavia.
ain Singers of America in size and the
excellence of it's muscal festival.
Two years hence the association will
hold its sixth annual sangerfest at
Sioux Falls, and the members of Min.
nehaha Mandskor say, with much as
surance, that it will surpass any of its
predecessors. Mi2nehaha Mandskor is
the chief musical organization in Sioux
Falls and will have the heartiest sup
port of every citizen of that city in any
movement which may be undertaken.
The work, by the way, is already on,
the preliminary plans being laid by the
singers on the train which carried the
singers home. President Hildale, man.
ager of the Sioux Falls Press, is a
Western hustler, and, with the aid Of
MIR. MunsOn and other leading men,
bers will set a pace that it will not be
easy for other cities to follow. The as
ISOLATION is still very much a Norwe.
gjan affair. but it is to be hoped that
several we'll known Swedish societies
in the Northwest will be enrolled as
members ere the sangerfest is reality.
Some kind words should be said for
Niels Juul of Chicago, who came to the
fest although no Chicago society is
represented in the association. He has
ever been most eager to advance Scan.
dlDavian music and song in America.
and he was the most welcome visitor
at the st. Paul fest. Mr. JUL is a SEN
atOr in the state legislature of Illinois,
and is one of the most influential Scan
dir avians in the big Western metropo-
lis.
The work of some of the visiting soci.
cites was surprisingly good, and de.
cided Improvement was noted along the
whole line. Many of them did not feel
sufficient confidence to ask for places
on the programme, but the work of the
grand chorus plainly revealed that the
voices were there. Grieg's mastery
composition. "Landkjending." and "Si-
gurd Jcrsalfor'' We're rendered with
especial effect. Here are two chorus
numbers which the Apollo club or any
other musical organization could use
with much advantage at some of the
festivals. With large male chorus and
the accompaniment of capable orches-
ira and a pipe organ. no grander cho-
ruses are to he found.
1t was gratifying to see that major
ity of the societies which appeared at
the concerts confined themselves to Sc
lections we'll within their range and ca
liabilities. The result was that the rem
ditions were uniformly pleasing Min
Hehaha Mandskor, the permanent own
er of the prize banner. acquitted itself
with much grace and developed bal
ancc of voices. harmony and dis
tinctness which might well be cnvied.
NCrdrOen of Superior; LION of Fergus
Falls: Warden and Viking of Ainneapo-
lis. and Fran of st. Paul. chose the
HSilei coHlpoSltlOHS. anu tnelr cOntlI-
buttons to the programme brought
them much applause. The somewhat
difficult chorus, "Brudefacrlen Har-
danger was neatly sung by the Gries
society of Canton, s. d.
The solcists were not behind the so
cieties in general excellence, and car
ried away bountiful share of ap.
plause for every effort. Criticisms
might be offered here and there, but
the fest is now of the past. and they
have no place in this reminiscent arti.
Gle.