Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-22
sANGERFORBUND AT OssIAN.
Grand Concert to be Given at Ossian
Next Tuesday by Norwegian
Singers of the County.

The Winneshiek county Sangerfor-
bund will give a concert at Ossian
next Tuesday, evening which will in
all probability attract large crowd
from all over the southeastern part
of the county. Prof. Sperati and his
splendid chorus, assisted by well
known soloists will offer the follow
ing:
Selected Orchestra
(a) Naar Fjordene Blaaner $50. !.
...... ...... Alfred Paulsen
(b) Held dig init. Norge c. Arnold
w. C. N. Sangerforbund
Pride of the Ball.. =.
(a) Solveig's Song. :. Greig
OBJ Cheerfulness, Waltz Rondo.
........... ........ Gumbert
Ladies Double Quartette
VaFde ....... ........ Haarklou
w. c. n. Sangerforbund
LandkJending .............. Greig
Sangerforbund and Orchestra
Intermission.
selected ....... orchestra
(a) Brudefaerden ....... Kjerulf
OBJ Hor os Svea -. Wennerberg
w. c. y. Sangerforbund
(a) Hailing-Norsk Folketone-.
(Solo by Emil Johansen)
to) Saeterjentens Sondag. %. Bull
(Solo by Mrs. DR.. o. Boe)
'Luren" Singing Society
(a) Heaven Henry Smart
OBJ Peasants Wedding March. -.
....... ...... .Sodermann
Ladies Double Quartette
Kinder-Symphone Chwatal
(Piano and the following toy in
struments: trumpets, drum, tri-
angle, bells, cuckoo, nightingale,
quail, rattles, castanets and
wood sprites). Played by mem
bers of the "Luren."
ta) ia vi elsker. Nordraak
OBJ Star Spangled Banner Key
w. c. y. Sangerforbund
''Landkjending" is one of those
numbers which on account of the
complex mechanism required to exc
cute it properly, is comparatively
seldom heard in a concert program.
In the first place it requires a consid-
eratly larger chorus than any single
society can furnish, competent solo
voice and an orchestra TO do justice
to the requirements of the compost
ton. Norwegian history relates how
internal discussions and unrest rend-
cred conditions in the country un-
safe; how Astrid with her infant son,
Olav Trygvasan fled to Gardarike,
(Russia), where Olav grew up, and
how he later became a resident of
ireland. By his education he was
thoroughly yersed in all arts of war.
and eXcelled in all sports. 1t was
while he was in Ireland that he
espoused Christianity, whose cham
pion he became fcrevermore.
Then it happened that tidings
came to Norway, where the ancient
heather gods still held full sway, of
Prince CLAWS whereabouts, with the
real intention of subsequently put
ting him out of the way. which plan
however. And thus it
transpired that he came again into
his own country and was eventually
chosen king.
He thus became Norways first
Christian king. Jealous in his found
faith, he was unremitting in his la
Dor of introducing the new religion
and diffusing il throughout the land
The arrival of Olav Trygvascn on
soil is, fer these reasons,
an epochal event in Norwegian his
tory Founded on these facts, Bjorn-
stjerne Bjornson wrote his poem, to
the words of which Greig has set the
glorious musical composition. 1t con-
Germs CLAWS voyage to Norway-his
fatherland-the land which he had
not seen since he fed from it as
babe and which he at the age of 81
oh - h1H
actually for the first time behold.