The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-12
FINE CONCERT
NEXT TUESDAY
CoLLEGIANS OF THE CITY ANxl-
ouSLY WAITING TO HEAR UNI.
VERSiTY OF MINNESOTA GLEE
CLUB IN CONCERT NEXT
TUESDAY.

When the University of Minnesota
Glee club appears in Fargo next Tues
day evening at Stones auditorium. it
Will be composed of the best singers
or the state institution. Never before
has the club contained SO many ex-
cellent voices. Every man Is in HIM
self an accomplished singer. The eff
rect or their combined talent Is Of the
highest order. Glee clubs representing
the university in former years have
met with success, but they are not to
be compared with the organization
which is touring the west this winter.
From a possible 100 applicants for
membership to the club, all of whom
were good, Prof. Carlyle Scott, director
of the glee club. picked thirty-two men.
These men were to form the glee club
proper and We're. as it were, a working
fund Of singing material for. future use.
This corps OF thirty-two singers, has
been working assiduously all fall for
the attainment Of a perfect standard,
both for themselves and for the club.
From these men Mr.. Scott chose twen-
ty who r to represent the university
on its western tour. This new group
OF men, as they will be seen en- route,
are the pick of the picked, the very
pest that Minnesota offers. Following
the second elimination, the chosen
BODY set to work to perfect the con-
cert programme selected for the
are the order of the director, and their
effect has already been noted. A few
more trial concerts given in private
and the glee club will have completed
it's preparatory work.
Beginning Tuesday morning. Dec. 16,
the University of Minnesota Glee club
will start upon its western tour The
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lowed by one at Grand Forks, Devils
Lake, Minot and Williston. The con-
certs at these five cities will start the
three weeks journey of the club which
will carr ythem through Minnesota,
North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wash
ington and into Oregon. The Great
Northern railway furnishes the line Of
travel both ways.
The personnel of the glee club con-
sists Of several prominent men, who
have been engaged in musical work
for a number Of years. Among these
are Ingolf Grindeland, Earle Balch,
Oscar Jerde, Victor Lundberg, Rus
sci Webster, and Earnest Golden. Mr..
GrindeAand has been justly termed the
"Caruso" Of Minnesota university. His
powerful resonant, lyric voice, togeth-
er with his robust physique, has won
him this comparison to the great tenor.
He has been connected with the club
Tor three years, as well as with other
local and state musical organizations.
Earle Balch. president of the club, is a
musician through and through. Be
ing an excellent pianist as well as
basso, he has been in great demand in
the twin cities. He was soloist with
an orchestra on one of the leading
lyceum bureaus this last summer.
Oscar Jerde is an excellent basso.
having a big, round, full voice, which
forms a solid base for the glee clubs
work. He has been identified with the
Lutheran College chorus of DEBORAH,
Ia, and with several other prominent
musical societies.
Russell Webster, at once a member
of the club and its manager, has fig
ured very prominently in musical
work at the university for the last
three years. I He is a. member of~the
Mu Phi Delta the honorary musical
fraternity of the university. He was
president Of last years club, and was
instrumental in securing the extensive
tours Of both last year and this.
Victor Lundberg Is a new member
of the club, having joined this fall.
Although a young man, he possesses
g. beautiful rich voice. He will appear
as one of the ~soloists OF the western
tour, singing with glee club accom-
paniment. Earnest Golden is a genius.
Starting his musical career in the
east as a boy soprano, where he traV-
eled extensively as a s~oloist, he has
passed through a truly wonderful
career. The piano has been his great
est acquisition. For years he has
studied with Professor Scott, and at
his recital last spring drew forth very
favorable comment from musical crit
les of the twin cities. In his teens he
was director Of a light opera com
pany. He Is a composer Of note, hav-
ing written several operas, one OF
which vas presented by the senior
class of last year. He has composed
a special pianologue for this tour of
the west, which is at once artistic and
comic. He has also arranged several
popular melodies for the glee club
for the club.
Under the direction of Prof. Car
lyle Scott, head of the. department of
music and director of the gle club,
the singers have made rapid progress.
Mr.. Scott has had charge of this club
for three years, during which time he
has raised the standard Of the organ
zation to a high level. He has sue
ceeded in gathering about him an ex-
cellent group of men. and has then
moulded them into a. musical unit of
true excellence.
The University Of Minnesota Glee
club just finished a short but success
full tour of central Minnesota. The
singers were enthusiastically received
everywhere they sang. At Owatonno,
Mimi, the club received an ovation,
the people declaring that no organiza-
ton of a like character had ever been
sung so well there. The trip was
taken for the purpose Of polishing the
work of the club for its western tour.