The sun., 1904-07-18
SWEDEN'S STUDENT SINGERS.
LUND UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONS
IN CONCERT HERE.
Great Crowd Greets Them 1t Carnegie
Hall-Camc 70 et. Louis Falf-PrO.
ceeds Of This Trip 70 Go 70 AugustanA
College, an Illinois Institution.

HAM-Camc 70 9t. Louis Falf-PfOs
ceeds Of This Trip TO Go 70 AugustanA
College, an Illinois Institution.
Carnegie Hall was filled yesterday when
ffty-fve students or former students Of
Lund University, Sweden. sang. The emen are
a sturdy lot of Norsemen, with deep strong
bass and clear tenor voices Their singing is
far and away better than that OF the Ameri-
can college glee club. though that may be
explained partly by the fact that the
Swedish student singers were recruited not
only from the ranks OF the undergraduate
body but from former students who are
now out in the world as doctors, lawyers
and Government officials.
They won their title to the worlds cham
pionship twice at Paris expositions. With
them they had Mr.. John Forsell, bary-
tone soloist OF the Royal Opera at Stock
holm.
The chorus has been in America month,
coming over primarily to take part in the
festivities on Sweden's day, June "a. at
the st. Louis exposition.
in Carnegie Hall on June 10 and since then
have sung at twenty-four concerts, going
as far west as Denver and sin ging in Chicago,
Minneapolis. Philadelphia, Boston. Pitts-
burg and many other cities.
business manager Of the tour, estimates
that the gross receipts are $50 900. After
the expenses, little more than half this
amount. have been taken out, the entire
proceeds go to the establishment OF King
oscar II. scholarship at Augustana College.
Rock Island, ILL.,, Swedish institution.
The tour is under the patronage Of the
Crown Prince OF Sweden and Norway. The
leader is Or. Alfred Berg. Of the Univer.ity
faculty. Prof. o. Tobias Westlin Of New
York gave two organ solos at the concert.
The concert room was draped with
American and Swedish flags and banners.
The students made picturesque appear
ance carrying their white student caps with
their badge on the front. During the
the Young women with whom they have
become acquainted and completed con-
quests by distributing miniature REPRO
ductions Of the caps they+wore.
The programme was entirely In Swedish
The numbers were largely the simple folk
songs Of Sweden and ballads Of love and
the ancient wars of the country The
number which provoked the greatest APP
plause was simple descriptive ditty.
which according 70 the programme yas
poral Bomon's grave" 1t is one OF 'Fred-
It seems that Charles Michael Bellmon,
who lived in the period Of the American
Revolution, improyised spd sung me-; :" the the
which concerned his immediate friends,
in whose presence the songs were pro
dued tone, describes funeral. Each
participant receives few words.
The tone grows louder. as the procession
passes and then dies down, as at the end,
the sexton, tipsy and keeping time to the
music with his shovel full Of earth. passes.
AS an. encore to this the chorus sang a
Spring Song composed by Prince GustAf.
who was a brother Of tha present King.
Another characteristic song was SThe
Peasants Wedding joviM and noisy
composition.
After the regular programme the stu
dents sang q Steamboat Song waving
their caps in farewell at the end. Then
hey came back and with caps on their
Leeds gave q genuine students gong
They sail to.morrow TO on mt the S Kaiser VII
cert at Malmo, Sweden. Others that
had been planned must be abandoned
because the Government officials on tho
tour must get back to duty