The sun., 1910-05-15
SWEDISH SINGERS COMING
ANtTION a. FESTIVAL or Nj SIC
RFRE rms MONTH.

su,lru &C. send = Pickrtl Chorus oG Fiftg
members 10 New IOFk The Festival
r, Wr the seventh Held IN America
urcrris IA Carnegie HaIl.
o.. '..a oHicc near the top of a build.
v. . Para row they are making plans
49,. ..rar festival OF music Tor the Amer
,.r .ru uf swedish singers 10 be held
,.. t.t tour dayp of this month. II Il
r.. r,. of Charles X. Johansen. pub
...r .. tho NordsjCrHaH tho North
sa.. ..trman Of the executive com.
r,r. 100 rharge Of the arrangements.
|..-a Nrr only four cities in sweden
,Irr. more SNedes live than can be
t.rI I..r. and vet tho number is only
,.ss ur approximately per cent Of the
trf, nrnI'ation.
7a festival which these transplantad
cr.u'r,myn are arranging for their
t-u.l,.- n tho eastern part OG the United
Srsi,s , the seventh which the union
las rrH Tho organization was formed
III isgc 90 the time that the old Soandi-
LAhlaA ''hh'le " AAiNttNa Nos ufeuAluk
ur
They had the first festival in Chicago
IN I,r 80 the time Of the three Official
swedish days AZ the worlds fair. The
ss.nni Vas held four years later in Car
pss.a Hal m this city, there thst the
ccnrc-'snf the present festival will he.
They rerm,tted lapse Of four years
between the first and second meetings.
o. that after the concerts in New York
a picked chorus Of iifty-fOur men could
r. bar. to sweden to attend the scandi-
havau Industrial and Art Exposition az
stockholm IN King Oscars Jubilee year.
series Of concerts was given on a tour
urrlrh sweden az that time.
ltr whole organization was divided
ia. year INTO two groups. the Fast and
he West and in isaa the Eastern half
met l' Worcester. Mass and the Western
a. Rockford m. Two years later was
a JOINT meeting az jamestown. n. Y.
vtn an additional concert at Chautauaua
In is9 he Eastern group went 10 Boston
and the Western to Minneapolis. In
1915 al he Joint festival IN Chicago. IL
Va, ar-s~i 10 hold the next joint festival
IL Nrv lnrs
Wien 'he separate divisions met az
pr0yftanos and Moline IN 1871 II was
1arrd.d t0 send another chorus 20 sweden
'a laa .It the general strike Of almost
ersrv Ah6- interest in sweden last year
made o. sem advisable to postpone the
t,.r and The Joint concerts as well until
IN. yssr The chorus has been selected.
snd - -oon as the programme here is
m ,H-i The dity picked singers will sail
from New York
The pN3Hu-as ~ coming Ia New Yo TX
s-' uorur by the delegates themselves.
1rsv are going 20 live Ia four or fve
krreIs UPTOWN within easy reach Of Carne-
g. iaI The concerts will he on the
rgt's Of May ~ and % and on the other
dsys will ~ automobile rides. trips 70
Places ~ 1fnusemeni. and on he last mi ght
scl-1erng az some outdoor place
There are In New York more than
fsgouiv-fve Swedish clubs and orEaniza-
irons NJ Masonic. athletic. musical and
ruHucal nature. The oldest 10 the
swedish Society of New York. which was
founded seventy-four years ago. Forty
n. 'Ue-e organizations are members OF
'-r United Swedish Societies ~ New York
sfi vicinity.
The American Society Of Swedish
tg Engineers and the swedish Amer
aaH Athletic Club own their own club
Nrsss The only Swedish Chamber of
l.HlerCe IN the United States is IN New
N.r. The Swedish AID Society, main
susd hv voluntary contributions. aims I
lind employment free ~ charge FOR /.
nD0'y arrived S~andinnvians and 20 give
sesIce and encouragement 70 Scandina-
wan immigrants
The society has an agent az the Free
'gnor Bureau Iu the Barge Ofioe at the
Battery In the scandinavian lmmi- .
.rant Home, at q GreeuwiCh street, and
The swedish Lutheran Immigrant Home, /
Water street many Of the newcomers
ere received Ia Brooklyn ~ the Swedish
Hospital and the kallman Orphanage
There ~ also the Auglsiana Home Tor
Aged Swedes iu BROOKLYN.
There arr thrre singing societies mem
hers Of the American Union " Swedish
singers, IN New N0rk The Glee Club of
Brooklyn has held regular meetings for
ne last thirty years. The Lvran Club
% New York. the largest % the three is
'weuty-one years old The third ~ the
~ypl Club Cf New York