The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-19
FAMOUS MEN ON
CHORUS ROSTER
CHRISTIANIA. STUDENT SINGERS
NOTABLE HISTORY.
Organization Has Taken Lead in Choral
Music Of Norway for Sixty Years
Kjerulf It's First. Director-Inspired
Poets and Composers-Record Of
Events in Which It Has Participated.

A glorious history lies behind the
chorus of the students of the University
oils May rs. Founded by J. D. Beh-
rens and Haitian Kjerulf, it was the
first chorus organized in Norway, and
since 1915 it has been intimately asso-
ciated with all the musicians and com
posers of Norway, great and small: Its
FIRST public appearance was at the tuner
al of Henrik Wergeland, the great poet
cert inspired Ole Bull to compose his
Immortal Saeterbesoeget. The stu
Welhaven. They inspired Halfdan
Kierulf and Behrens, Grieg, Nordraak,
tReissiger and Groendahl to weave mu-
sic; Biornson and Ibsen to write songs
which they popularized in Norway and
made known to the entire world.
They took the lead in choral music
In Norway and by numerous concert
tours abroad enhanced the fame of Nor
ways composers and acquired high
name for themselves. Among its active
members have been Ulrik Y. Koren, now
synod in America; Tartvig Lassen, the
journalist; Hand GUIDE, the famous
painter; Frederik Beckvold, the popu-
lar barytone; Thorwald hammers, Q. A.
,Groendahl, the composer and conductor;
Fritz Thaulow, the distinguished land
scape artist; Rolf Hammer and Johannes
Berg Hansen, the opera singers, who
now accompany the students as soloists.
Upsala organized its famous chorus
in 1927, Lund followed in 1881, Copen-
hagen in 1889, but it was not until lS45
that the students of the University of
Christiania formally organized their ia
NOUS chorus. incidentally, it is now
being July 10, when the laws were
adopted. Previous to it's organization
there had been maintained for two
wears a students quartet founded by
Behrens, and which was the true birth
of the chorus. At their first sanger
fest the students did not sing at all,
because the Upsala boys sang, so we'll
inevitable comparison. They achieved
ia reputation for the power they put into
their hurrahs, which was the forerun-
tner of the college yell, and their "hur-
!rah'' caused almost as much comment
as the Upsala songs.
The first public concert, Jan. l3, 1916,
were Jorgen Moe, Welhaven, Monrad,
Kierulf and Behrens. Kjerulf was the
first director, but left the students in
i1849 when he went to foreign lands, and
then Behrens took the baton, which he
welded for forty years, handing it over
an 1869 to his worthy successor, the
DT6SouG CUuuuCGUl, ". ~ VI OCAANctAA'
In 1851 the students Joined those of
lund and Copenhagen at Christiania,
and the next year the Upsala singers
came to Christiania and carried all be-
fore them.
81. Among the most notable events in
which the chorus has participated are
the following: +1>1A - 34&,1
1s53-Sangarfest at Horton. VIZ r.<..y..~rrq
8; 1S55-Tenth anniversary festival.
1s55-Visit to Upsala and sangarfest at
Frerikshald.
1S59-Sangarfest at Arendal.
1S62-Students' meetings at Lund and
Copenhagen.
1S63-Sangarfest at Bergen.
1864-Great scandinavian fest, Chris
tiania.
1S66-Sangarfest Christiania.
1S70-Silver jubilee.
1S75-Scandinavian sangarfest at Stock
holm.
1S7S-Concert at Trocadero, Paris ex-
position.
1SSO-Thrty- years jubilee.
1SS3-Sangarfest at Throndhjem.
1SS5-Forty years jubilee.
lSSS-Northern Sangarfest at Copen-
hagen. *rH
. 1SS9-Triumph at Paris exposition.
19O0-Paris exposition. ~
19O2-Grand tour Of Norway.
19OS-Students' meeting at Upsala.
1904-Minneapolis and other American
Cities