The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-26
CITY CHORUS TO K.C.
FALLS CITY WILL HAVE A FINE
MIXED CHORUS
Six Choral Societies Representing
Four-hundred Voices and
Three States

The Women's Chorus met Mon
day night with Mrs Banks to
take up the study of The Four
Winds, Carl Busch's prize canta-
ia. This meeting was a very en-
t%huslastic one, being the last
meeting the women would meet
alone. as the male voices will be
added at the next meeting, Tues
day night, March 2nd.
The books had just come and
although the Chorus had not ex-
Iected to do much with the new
work, the Cantata, but arrange
parts etc, the temptation was too
great to taste of this new wine of
western inspiration and get a
breath of The -Four Winds,
they were delighted and were
loath to go home. The conductor
was more than pleased at the man.
lei in which the Chorus took up
this work. The Chorus expects
to get down to regular serious
work as soon as the gentlemen
come in and be ready to take their
part in the musical event of the
season, in Kansas City in May.
The Chorus feel that it is a genu-
inc compliment to be asked to
participate in such an event, in a
city of size and culture and by the
composer himself, and our citj-
zens should take pride in an or
g%anization that is theirs, and give
it the encouragement it deserves.
A clipping from the Kansas
City Star of Sunday, February
21st explains itself:
Six choral societies represent.
ing 400 voices and three states
will unite in singing Carl Busch s
cantata, The Four Wiuds,' in
Convention hall next May. The
Four Winds won the $500 prize
offered by Strawbridge & Clothier
of Philadelphia. The cantata
had its FIRST performance in Phi
ladelphia, i'll November, 1907, and
IA the most important feature of
Joplin's music festival last May.
Now Kansas City is to hear the
work under favorable auspices.
The Chicago Symphony orches-
ira will be augmented to seventy
members expressly for the oCca-
sion. The soloists will be John
b. Miller of Chicago, who sang
the tenor part in Joplin, and Aida
Hemmi, a young dramatic soprano
of New York City. The choral
societies which will take part are:
The Philharmonic society and the
Walno chorus, both of Kansas
City; the Fort Scott, Kas,, Cho-
raj Union, Verne Powell, conduc-
tor; the Falls CITY. Neb.. chorus.
Mrs. Charles Z. Banks. conduc-
tor, and choruseS from Clay Cen
ter and Bonner Springs
In 1907 Strawbridge & Clothier
of Philadelphia offered a prize of
$500 for the best composition
musical composition-that would
be purely American, that would
be so characteristic OF our coun-
try, that one would feel instantly
on hearing the music the fresh
ness, the newneSs, the genuine.
ness and the freedom of this, our
country. OF course It was ex-
pected to be different from all
other nations music.
Carl Busch took the second part
of Longfellow's Hiawatha for his
theme, which tells of the origin
of the four winds and he tells the
story in Longfellow's words, with
a music 81 we'll adapted to their
meaning, that the freshness and
originality is at once inspiring
and he called his composition
The Four Winds and submitted
it to the Judges.
Out of twenty other produc-
tons by eminent composers The
-Four Winds was chosen as the
best and our western musician and
composer won the prize of $500,
for which we, who live this side
'fhn hin cna urnfArN AI.cn.n--